You'd be better of with Chaucer. He's surprisingly not too hard to parse with a little effort, mostly with spelling and some with vocabulary. You'd think the efficiencies derived from proper spelling would make the case for proper English.

It's natural!

Why take pictures of paintings

I generally agree, though a selfie (dread word) provides a different perspective association with a painting that memory can't - i.e. seeing yourself standing next to the painting as opposed to seeing it as it is.

With respect to buildings (or other, esp. outdoor images also available online) one might be looking for a unique composition involving lighting, perspective, &c. There's also the same perspective element as well.

With practice, one can keep face-to-face meetings on-track, mitigating the time-wasting factor

With practice one can write clearly enough to mitigate the "benefits of body-language and subtle queues to meaning." It works both ways and with email at least you've got a better record than memory. While I generally prefer email, a conversation is typically more efficient when you're trying to converge on some point of agreement.

Meetings are most effective when you can review written content in advance such that you have time for thoughtful review. Thus you can spend/limit the face time to addressing questions and issues that have some thought behind them.

It might be a parody because I've actually found this post close to readable!

Their Groups website has been useful for long tail applications where users can get help and exchange information. One advantage is the single website with the same UI. It's convenient to leave open/scroll through the latest updates from a few groups on the same page.

Alas some of the vendors/developers are setting up their own forums, so you now you've got to go to each website, login and deal with each UI. More effort so it's easier to skip. Too bad Yahoo's not put more effort into it.

Why the controversy regarding some bizarre conjunction of lighting and camera response? Match the color channel information with color test images and you're done.

Re:AKA... "don't reinvent the wheel"

...unless you have to redesign your car to make it fit.

I think the point of the article was that that's sometimes the case.

Budda also abandoned his wife and children to find "enlightenment".

And brought it back so to speak. His wife, Yasodhara, and son Rahula became Arhats.

The early technology "revolutions" shifted employment from manufacturing (incl. food) to services. We're now seeing technology not only making additional inroads into manufacturing but also into services and not just in the menial end. Can we keep coming up with services that technology can't replace that also keep pace with the increase in population? It's hard not to be pessimistic.

The question is, are there still things we need to do, but have not been able to afford? The answer to that is YES...but we simply don't have the manpower to do [them].

Is this an argument to raise the H-1B cap?

Mathematical case implies a relation to the probability of winning which is definitely not the case here. What's really meant is that there's a utilitarian case that, w/the usual hand waving, you can apply some dollar value to.

But you never made an actual argument as to why the long-form posts are bad

One issue is that it's only your long-form posts that seem to merit as a Slashdot story, and the process of determining your post's merit seems contrary to Slashdot's user moderation philosophy. Care to explain? Oh wait...

I'd also add that long form posts are also contrary to Slashdot's general format of summary with link(s) followed by concise comments. Yes you've got the occasional book review but they're few and far between. They're also by different submitters so there's some variety in topic and, critically in your case, style.