But then a small group of opposition would form, about the anemic size and weakness of today's Tea Party movement, protesting the regulation (laws will be banned by that point) that every barely boy and girl born be endowed with both genitals.

This movement's beliefs would be called "genderist", which would be understood by the majority to be bad without it ever being explained why. And the members of the movement would be called something that was a slur involving something vulgar, naturally.

Then after a while the government will step in yet again and do away with conventional genitals, and invent the "vapena", which will consist of a penis sticking out of a vagina. Then we will all be truly equal, as the foe known as gender will have been completely vanquished, and we'll have progressed from being completely interchangeable to actually needing no one but our own selfs to procreate.

As men continue to become more effeminate and women go on becoming more masculine, there'll be more and more cases of students insisting they're of the other sex and should get to use those facilities, until at some point the government will step in and end the whole thing by requiring all newborns to be surgical hermaphrodites.

Think of it. No more stigma for being gay or transgendered, when everyone's the same. Perfect equality. I challenge anyone (well, anyone that I can see here, that is) to demonstrate how this would not be for The Greater Good(TM). End gender segregation now!

It's amazing how clueless some people are. "They" would be a "he", who's well known in computer tech for having created that language (not originally called "JavaScript") and its first implementation. It was written in 10 days.

I guess if I Foe the creep, he "wins", or something.

At some point ya gotta stop caring about what other people think, esp. for certain select persons with whom too much time has passed and they've demonstrated for too long that if there's anything redeeming about them, they'll never show it here.

I can't even muster that interest.

And yet you write JE's about them. Only intelligent opposition can help you sharpen your arguments. And you can only trust the skepticism you've gained about your own side from those who are fair and honest.

I've always thought you suffered from the moderate Republican delusion that you're better off trying to be friends with the wicked. For your reputation and all. And make ambiguous gestures that they could perceive as being on their side.

Well you gotta do what you gotta do, but I've gotta say I'm *much* happier upon returning to /. with re-adjusted threshold settings on this system. Not only do I not see the comments of known trolls*, I don't even get notification that they've responded to my comments or JE's. Combine that with turning off moderation results notifications, and the only people who can get me to see any kind of reaction whatsoever of theirs are those whom I like or am neutral with.

*Excepting snippets you quote, which while I usually have no way of knowing from whom they were excreted, I will admit that it is a leak and that I do have to manually skip over reading that text. (But it's pretty obvious when you're in one of your frequent entanglements with trolls so I just skip reading the posts in those threads entirely.)

I.e. I could be harassed or not, but either way I'm blissfully unaware. And if the attempts at confusion and derision never reach their target, then I remain risk free of the cancer and it's only just so much second-hand smoke for you and anyone else who wants to breathe it in.

The good news is that after January 2017 we won't have to listen to Left call everyone opposing them racist anymore. The bad news is that for those following 8 years they'll be calling every dissident a sexist.

(And then in 2024 we'll elect America's first openly gay president, upon which the go-to epithet will change again.)

Microsoft's AjaxControlToolkit

That's for ASP.NET WebForms, so it won't work in ASP.NET MVC. The two are vastly differently levels of abstraction and philosophies towards development of web applications. MVC doesn't have "controls", which connotes a fair amount of meaning as far as fitting into and working with the WebForms framework.

There is no HTML 4/XHTML 1 DOM element that the browser renders as a combobox. The web has traditionally had much less GUI expressive power than the desktop, so expect to have to work harder.

It seems like it wouldn't be too hard to implement a kind of masked edit box with a text box and some client-side code to build a time enterer. (Although a dropdown clockface with hands that you could grab and move would be wicked! And a lot of dang work.)

To fake a combobox, I'd try to make the listbox part of it come and go and not the textbox.

Yeah like many things, not new, but new to me.

Well I agree with your take on unions at least.

using MVC on Microsoft tools means abandoning Ajax

I think you need to be more specific. We used ASP.NET MVC on our most recent major project at work, and while I'm just a junior guy there (grr!) so I didn't get much of a piece of it, I know they used plenty of AJAX in it.

We use jQuery UI there which has a date picker but no time editor, and no automatic handling of cascading dropdowns. But we use the other goodies in that library. Works fine in "Exploder" 7 on. Just stay away from jQuery 2.x, which dropped support for IE 8 and below.

But we don't do HTML 5 or CSS 3 or any other non-standard crap, so YMMV.

It's charities too, unfortunately. An uncle died a couple of years ago and my aunt suggested simple $25 dollar donations to the Mayo Clinic in his name. I'd never contributed to them before, it was clearly a one-time thing paying respects to a passing person, and they must've spent that several times over hounding me with mailings of all sorts of sizes and thicknesses. I guess the postage is free (for them; not us who subsidize it) but still to print and package all that stuff up has to add up.

Makes me feel good that I essentially just paid them to spam me. Same for other charities. The only good thing is I now have a lifetime supply of mailing address labels.

As the capitalist pig that I am, I say you laissez faire capitalist pigs really suck. Like as a limited government type I'd say to the anarchists.

And like I'd say to the animal rights wackos, what you're defending are not people. People were created in the image of God, people have souls, have innate rights, animals and corporations do not, and putting them on the same level is immoral.

Our system of government was set up to protect individual persons' rights. When individuals group together to form organizations, the newly created non-human entities become more powerful than your typical human entity. This is part of why we need protecting, and is along the same lines as the belief behind protecting the minority from the tyranny of the majority.

Powerful corporations engaging in wage-fixing is just as unfair as the unions engaging in it. The "Free Market" is not some progressive concept that we should be trying to progress to greater and greater purity of it. It is not some holy thing that we should serve at our expense, it exists to serve us, like our government. I don't worship either, I've already got a religion.

The only moral systems are to give individual humans the advantage. Competition in the private sector is like checks and balances in the public. Anti-competive behavior should be punished like other forms of corruption in our systems. Anything-goes is a denial of human beings special place in the order of things.

In short, we are not a democracy and we are not a laissez faire capitalist system. The amoral libertarian purist outlook is instead evil.

Oh you should definitely read one of those. Not as intricate as the two pieces of work I mentioned receiving, and I don't get them anymore even though I'm unfortunately still registered R, but they're beautiful, multi-colored print examples of what must be the old "simple contribution solication disguised as an extensive survey" scheme.

Pretty soon we won't want any reform. Things will be so hopeless we'll just be demanding our <whoever's president at the time>-bucks.