You'd think so, wouldn't you?

You'd be mistaken

Not a flame, just figured most people would have migrated to something else by now.

Certainly not all of .NET -- as a whole it's anything but legacy and evolves at a fairly rapid pace -- but it also includes a lot of old cruft and a few poor design choices that affect even modern code.

Other legacy tech I'd love to get rid of: SSIS/SSRS -- terrible SQL Server drag-and-drop technologies that do a lot of stuff badly. 1D barcodes like Code 39 and Code 128 -- dead simple to implement but take up a lot of space and are prone to poor reads.

I have no recollection of being impressed enough to remember.

I guess these ideals have an acidic effect on Statism.

I was providing the URL you'd omitted, and reacted to a quote within your text. You're welcome.

So you're argument is Cruz might be an Obama of the right, roping in a lot of people and then carrying on as a progressive?
I'm confident that, were he to play it like that, he'd not win re-election.

Of course the idea is a mixed bag. As long as you're happy with 90lbs of crap from a federal senator more inclined to the ear of DC and his party than his state, it will seem better than 10lbs of crap from the same senator when the state flips and the term is up under a new governor.
I'm still not confident you've understood the systemic argument here.

What was your alternative, again?

> Akhenaten's wife (not Tutankhamun's mother) was Nefertiti, who's bust is one of the most iconic symbols of Egypt.

Probably the second most famous of their imagery, second only to the gold helmet they ripped off from Battlestar Galactica.

"Before I vote on this here law," drawled the Boston polit...sorry hold on.

"Before I vote on this heah law," Kennedied the Boston politician, "I'm goin-guh to need to see some of these so-called 'up her skirt' photo-garaffs to make shua they are a vile as suggested. Good. Ok thank you. I will be busy studying them at home. Hold my calls."

As a percent of pre-expenses salary, yes. As a fraction of New York's post-expenses 56k modem, er, salary compared to Austin's 100k+, no.

What you just said is, after all, exactly what the study was trying to figure out. Hell, an Austineer could make several trips a year to NY and elsewhere to pick up cultural goodies like plays and still come out way ahead.

Politicians leap into action!

Remember when that 11 year old girl crashed a plane on takeoff because her idiot dad had her take off in a storm? Congress wasted no time!

You say that in a context of police and prosecutors who deliberately abuse laws, pointing to words and technical violations, so they can pad their tough guy credentials?