Seriously. You know it's bad when even the sports league's network blacks out their own broadcasts so only the cable company can carry it.

That's not the answer I expected! Thanks for the info.

Agreed, although what MS seems to be saying is "I will pay ADDITIONAL taxes but only if you spend it a certain way." Subtle but important difference. More akin to a donation for a particular cause than a voluntary tax.

Bachelor's? Master's? Ph.D? All of them combined?

I think you may be confused, this is just a strict anti-microsoft bias (which is very common here) but I could see how in this case it looks like a socialist bias, especially to someone like you who probably thinks "socialist" is a swear word.

Recalculate for the case where one person makes 75k and the other makes 25k and you'll see what the GP is referring to. I'm not saying it's wrong, just clarifying.

True, but #1 he probably isn't actually the one who came up with the idea, and #2 as I said, wild ideas do make it, but rarely.

I mean I wouldn't expect a non-engineer to be coming up with great ideas for space travel, either. Wild ideas only rarely make it. We hear about stories where those wild ideas from people who have no skill do make it but the vast majority of those wild ideas fall flat.

All of us stoners have seen desperate times and desperate actions but frankly mate you've taken the biscuit

He did?! I was wondering where that last biscuit went.

I've actually done something similar to this in the workplace before and found it to be very effective. Basically I scheduled a meeting for the last hour or so of the workday Friday and invited the other developers to come jump on with me. I shared my screen, we had an open mic, but basically I talked through what I was doing and they had a chance to see how my thought process works and also to make suggestions or ask questions. It turned out to be a good chance for the more junior folks to learn from me and some of the other experienced developers and at the same time it made us think about what we were doing at a deeper level, which is something you can get complacent in after you've been doing it a while.

This is something I did for several weeks in a row, but the last time was at least two years ago -- and yet as recently as last month I've had some of the folks that participated bring it up and comment how much they learned from it. If you think about it, it's basically pair programming on steroids.

He said "We're all dicks" not "we all have dicks."

You might want to consider that the reason modern war doesn't involve air combat as much is specifically because one side of those wars has completely dominated in the air.

Also the F-4 Phantom famously didn't have a gun which made it much less useful than it really could have been. John Cheshire, who flew 197 missions in one, said this: "Bullets are cheap and tend to go where you aim them. I needed a gun, and I really wished I had one."

There is a book named En... ohhhhh..... I see what you did there.

I think the other folks replying to you missed your point -- it's shame that the current republican party is such a mess, because a strong republican party with reasonable positions on issues would not be a bad thing, but instead would be a good alternative to the current democratic party -- which is not what it could be either, let's face it.