Comment: Re:Cue the fanbois (Score 1) 427
Comment: Re:"Fair representation" (Score 1) 375
Also, no pay raise for any politician unless approved by 75% of the voting populace.
You seriously think any politician is in office for the paycheck?
Yup. But not the state paycheck, any and as many of the lobbyist paychecks as possible.
Comment: Re:The Illinois experience (Score 1) 375
Comment: Re:who cares if it uses mon or not (Score 1) 361
Comment: Re:A-level first year of study? (Score 2, Informative) 663
Comment: Re:Who cares? (Score 1) 306
3) What about all the things my newsreader does that Google Groups does not? Saving threads for reading off line, killfile, etc.
Don't really know if this would satisfy your requirement, but I've subscribed to Google Groups and through POP access I receive all the messages in my email client, for offline reading. And decent email clients should provide filtering matching killfile capabilities, I think. Can't recall using Usenet, so I may be wrong to think the two are comparable.
Comment: Re:Apply Selectively (Score 1) 69
Crowds elected George W. Bush. Twice.
Did they though?
Oooooh. Yeah, think about that one, my friend.
Comment: Re:Um why (Score 1) 221
I wonder how long before those packages are inspected.
Comment: 100Mbps sounds nice... (Score 1) 247
Broken promises for installation date, way way over what they estimated, with no communication about the delay. And when we wanted to cancel the service, we were put on hold for around 2 hours, at a pretty costly rate. Bully for you if your service gets installed without a hitch, I won't be taking that risk again.
Comment: Re:anti-patterns (Score 1) 293
Effective Java and Findbugs were the two things I was going to recommend. Findbugs, since it's an industry strength static analysis tool, often has its value for learning understated or overlooked.
Comment: In all seriousness... (Score 4, Funny) 262
Content deemed illegal by the U.K. includes videos of beheadings, messages that encourage racial or terrorist violence and chat forums revolving around hate crimes, according to information on Direct.co.uk.
(emphasis mine)
YouTube comments, anyone?
Comment: Re:Rules 1 through 7 of using a Cell Phone (Score 1) 585
Comment: Re:Let me get out my violin... (Score 5, Informative) 322
Dammit, we are tired of waiting for quick disappointment! We demand INSTANT disappointment!
I've been providing this to women for years!