Just be aware that he has some strong views on JavaScript and it's foibles which you may find you need to disagree with.

Your post reads a lot like all those people who hate PHP. "It has all these things wrong with it!" Well, actually, no it doesn't - because most of them aren't a problem to the people busy using it effectively. JavaScript doesn't have 'inferior' abstractions: it has *different* ones.

I have programmed a lot over the decades in both strongly typed and weakly typed languages - too many to name. I've come to Java in the last few years after a much longer time in JavaScript and PHP (and others) and have experienced the reverse of the OP's problem. But it's only a problem if you let it be a problem. Solving problems in an untyped language has some fundamental differences to a typed language. Get over that and a lot of the perceived 'problems' Just Go Away.

There's a competition to build them at various Lego shows. This one is one of the better ones: except for one module, it cleanly and successfully moves all the balls. Others I've seen often have modules that have difficult reliably moving the balls around.

Pity that your FCC doesn't seem to have enough teeth.

In AU, our competition watchdog forced the monopoly telco (Telstra) to sell wholesale access to DSL services. This not only created a huge market for selling ADSL internet, but it set a precedent: when other suppliers started providing ADSL2+, they had to make it available, too, AFAIK.

It's about identity.

There is a reason I have multiple accounts on Google's services. And that is because my identity on Youtube is different from my identity on Blogspot and that's different from my identity on Google+. I don't need them merged. I don't want them merged. I made them separate and I want to keep them separate. Google has been showing signs for some years that it doesn't want to accept that. That's too bad: lots of people really want multiple accounts on Google's services and will bend-over backwards to do it.

Fortunately, many of them are corporate (i.e. *paying*) customers, which is posibly why they've done multiple-login. Which is technologically clever, though not documented well enough. But it needs much wider implementation (for example, on the G+ Android app).

There were some Minolta film scanners that had APS modules, though they were an extra purchase. My D'Image Scan Elite II could, and there were several others as well. Not having used APS myself, I never bought the extra module, but I know it was made. The software could scan a whole roll in one go, though it would take some time.

Finding one of those modules might be a difficult thing, however.

Wade.

The purchase of the movie ticket comes with certain obligations on the purchaser. In this cinema chain, one of those is no talking or texting.

An identical principal applies when I buy a train ticket. On Sydney's trains, you are not allowed to smoke or drink and by purchasing a ticket you agree to those obligations. Get caught and you get thrown off without a refund. In fact, you usually get fined as well.

There is no reason you should get a refund for not following the obligations attached to the ticket.

It should be "Let's *hear* it..."