Is there actually a way for US businesses to prevent themselves from hostile takeover? Like, can they be "private limited companies" and just refuse to merge? If so, I think these guys should tell EA to fuck off, on principle.

Speak for yourself, I was never part of such a consensus. We had a nice slow evolution of user interfaces going on and they came in and fucked everything up.

That overly buttery stuff that's so rich it makes me want to throw up from a mile away? Eww.

I prefer their nice pizza sauce.

Believe it or not some of us like the fatty cheesy goodness on Pizza Hut pizzas, and as for meat feast, ohh baby.

I can take or leave "authentic" Italian wafer-thin crispy bases with virtually no cheese and often uncooked ingredients. Overrated.

"Suicide" is not a verb.

Yes it is.

This stuff applies to the Firefox GUI rather than the underlying rendering engine. Use something that utilizes Gecko but without the crappy UI, like SeaMonkey or Pale Moon.

Every "ux expert" and "architect" seems to think they're god's own gift to mankind, and Mozilla is packed to the brim with those.

The main problem is that Mozilla is filled with project managers and senior devs who LISTEN to the UX 'experts' and let them drive the agenda. Why they do is beyond me. Perhaps it is a plot by Google or perhaps they are just morons.

Ditto. I was like WTF? It was 2 months ago in the UK.

Didn't realize the UK and US had different dates. The more you know...

That's great! I truly love the fact that MS has embraced git.

Now how do I get my company to make the switch over from their huge TFS repo? They all think git is too complicated. :-(

What about development though? You want to go through the PITA of setting up HTTPS for every development site? This also stops you using Wireshark for seeing what data is actually being transmitted.

If my website just serves up public data that I don't care about the government seeing, you're going to disable new features on it anyway? Seems a bit extreme.

Nah, they shouldn't be suppressed. They should just be reflexively demonized in the media and by the mainstream political class as racist, bigoted, xenophobic, and not worthy of consideration beyond summary dismissal.

It's gone this way for as long as it has because like everything else in the NHS, the budget has been cut to the bone.

How is this when NHS funding has been ring-fenced and gets increased every year? Are UKIP right about vast waste in middle management?

3. Consumption of unfiltered tap water, I'd say, is just about zero.

Interesting - that sounds like a regional thing. Over here in the UK it's not unheard of to filter your tap water but it's pretty rare.

Look at the kind of thing this is doing to our drinking water.

We have to get the message out about this! Fluoride and other pollutants are making our water look like unicorn piss.