I am a Christian. I got a chuckle out of Tyson's post and I suspect many other Christians did as well. Good flamebait catches even those with a sense of humor.

More like a .NET / C# / C++ / C developer in a mostly .NET group. There is plenty of non-.NET code that we have to maintain and interface with. Most of the rest of the company does not use .NET at all -- yet.

My group began using .NET. Other groups have followed. Some groups are just now beginning to move to .NET. Not all will, depending on the products they develop. But not even the groups that do not use .NET talk about "weeding out" .NET.

Really? Weeded out? I've been developing in C# since .NET 1.0 showed up. Around .NET 2.0, we wrote our first full product in .NET. Our next new product uses .NET 4.5. So far I've heard nothing about .NET getting "weeded out" from anyone at my company.

hahahahaha!

We had developed an app for them (which didn't move very well, although it did win a Control Engineering award). A few months ago, we tossed everything as our cubes were being reformatted.

The host of the long-running Milwaukee Public TV show Outdoor Wisconsin is named Dan Small. On most shows, it sounds like he introduces himself with the line "Hi! I'm Damn Small." Once you've heard it that way, it's really hard to hear the "Dan" instead of "Damn".

This varies among the states. Some states treat it as a permanent bar, unless the offender is pardoned or otherwise forgiven.

I do. My grandfather.

Oh, and GET OFF MY LAWN!

My wife and I own the copyright to our wedding photos taken over 25 years ago and have the negatives. Nearly all of the photographers we talked to at the time were still in the old model where they owned the copyright -- especially the older ones. The younger ones were beginning to switch to the new model where the customer owns the copyright.

There are still numerous photographers that stick to the old model because they think it makes them more money. Kind of an interesting belief given the number of people who never have more prints made. Seems to me that you'd make more money just by charging extra for the negatives or digital files.

Marketing -- Make it work just like the xxxxx.

Developer -- But that feature never worked in the xxxxx.

Marketing -- That's OK. Our customers expect it to work that way.

The last time I bought alcohol, I happened to have my 17-year-old son with me. The cashier wanted to see his ID as well as mine. She wasn't going to sell to me because he was with me! Said it was the stores new policy. I asked to speak with the manager, who confirmed that it was the store policy. When I told him this policy was stupid, he backed down and sold me the alcohol. This "It's for the CHILDREN!" crap has got to stop!

One of my former managers asked how to contact my during deer hunting season one year. I told him, "Call my cousin at the feed mill. He won't know where I am, but he can leave a message for me at the hunting shack. I'll call you back the next day." He decided he didn't need to know the feed mill's telephone number after all.

Not necessarily. The device could easily be loaded with a unique certificate in manufacturing. A quick search shows that Atmel makes parts that would help enable this. I'm sure there are others. I expect the cost of this to continue dropping.

He had gotten away before he crashed. Either he didn't realize that or kept driving fast for the hell of it.

The founders of the US didn't say that anyone had the right to "personal happiness" -- just the right to pursue it. And no one can prevent you from pursuing happiness. The best they can do is make sure you never achieve it.