Wow, it works! I'm wondering why I don't get invited to more parties.

Your bias is showing, too. You can only give his water-walking holiness a pass by saying "he can't fix it all in one term" by conveniently ignoring that he and his administration are actually making negative progress, by continuing and even expanding the same abuses that have been going on for the past 30 years.

Isn't Nokia also bound to release Qt (albeit, maybe not Qt Creator, I'm not sure) under a BSD-like license if they stop supporting it? IIRC, that condition was there to protect from just that eventuality.

No, my statement was that the PROBLEM in question is that it IS considered "evidence" (in the legal sense) even when there is a clear conflict of interest. And since you bring it up, you should take a look around. In several jurisdictions, it IS grounds for convictions, or at least for extrajudicial punishment. For example, any state (such as Florida) that requires, BY LAW, a man accused of abuse to be removed from the house and a restraining order issued.

And I ignored that because it is 1) A strawman, completely irrelevant to the matter at hand. We're talking about a woman being able to drop the A-bomb for a slam dunk in court, whether or not there's any other evidence.
2) Also fucking wrong. Just look at slashdot everytime some slow news day has a "Geek fights traffic ticket with physics/gadget/portal gun". Plenty of people take issue with the inherent trust the police get, even in traffic court.

Then ask them if a lawyer they've had to deal with/oppose in court (since I'm sure that, like you, they are absolute paragons and would never do such a thing) has ever recommended to a woman that she should make complaints of abuse to strengthen her case.

Um.. yeah. Everyone knows slashdotters don't have girlfriends, remember?

But you're clearly illiterate. I'm not defending abusers, I'm defending those falsely accused of being abusers. I had thought I'd made that clear from the beginning. Maybe I used too many big words.

But that little quote right there pretty much gives lie to any of your claims of logic being on your side.

You're saying that a man complaining about his soon-to-be-ex-wife lying about abuse should be given less credibility than the accuser, based on the fact that he's being accused of being abusive.

So not only can't you grasp the flaw in your reasoning, you clearly have no grasp of human nature or the inherent scumminess of family law.

Oh, wait. I'm criticising family law. That must make me an abuser!

Simpleton.

I don't think you need to go back so far as the 50s.

Hell, look at every big 80s franchise that's been rebooted in the past 5 years. Pretty sure all of them started out as 20-minute animated commercials. ;)

I assume you mean 32GB. 32MB isn't even enough for one CD using quality settings that would make Beethoven's teeth grind. :)

I'm honestly surprised that people still put up with the 25-minutes-per-hour of radio ads these days. Even my mom has a little 4GB Sansa that connects into the car stereo.

I'd go nuts without my iPod (the only HDD based mp3 player I can find anymore) and my Discworld audiobooks.

Read this and go away.

Idiot.

One of our HOA board members at my parents' place works for the California DMV, and illegally looks up the license plates of people parked in our visitor parking spots.

Since my old car was given to me by my parents, I kept getting nasty letters from them, claiming that I was a resident illegally parking in visitor's spots.

I wrote back saying that I was sure that the DMV would be interested in finding out who it was that was illegally conducting these searches, and I never heard from them again.

The window Z-layering is frequently idiotic. I don't care one way or another how anyone feels about "click to focus" vs. "focus follows mouse" but I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that if the DM is raising a window to the to top, it should, maybe, give it focus, and if it's going to raise it behind other windows, it shouldn't.

Of course, the apparent decision making between which it chooses seems to border on the non-deterministic. And, for added lulz, the windows "stick". Alt-tabbing or clicking on another overlapped window will give it focus, but NOT raise it. The fix I've found is to have to minimize it and re-raise it.

Total PITA. I would have thought it was my PC, but it happens on both mine and my machine at work.