It seemed pretty obvious at the time that if you made it easier for the masses to create web-pages without HTML coding, more will come. If that idea never crossed the minds of the top executives, then they truly were fools.

Let me reword it: "They didn't significantly improve it".

Note that this is Polk County, Florida. Out there they believe the earth is 6000 years old and that The Flintstones was a documentary.

(I live one jurisdiction West, in Manatee County. We win't brilliant here, but most of us understand evolution and stuff like that.)

"If Linux's foaming-at-the-mouth zealots harm the adoption of Linux, why don't leftism's zealots harm the adoption of leftism?"

They do.

$20 or less at Home Depot will buy you everything you need to make a .410 or 12 ga. shotgun. No machining required, either.

Why shouldn't you? You didn't take any vows or make any promises.

While you're busy looking up stuff the old timers lived through, you may want to check out an oldfag meme: "DOS/Windows (depending on the time frame) ain't done until Lotus won't run"

Thank you for that.

http://web.archive.org/web/20001219170800/http://slashdot.org/articles/98/11/11/1011216.shtml

"So IBM announces a 25 gig hard drive... does the world need this yet? Unless this is in a RAID, would you really want to trust 25 gigs on a single drive? What would you use this for?"

If your mother thinks CSI is real, she's got bigger issues than we can address here on slashdot.

http://www.masterlock.com/products/product_details/99DSPT = the kind of gun lock I have. Fits both pistols and rifles, almost any caliber.

Many companies make these locks, and they are available from almost all gun stores except possibly the Weapon Shops of Isher,

No, they'll want to emphasize the 1, so obviously 3.11.