The Evil Tax And Spend Democrats (tm) did, in fact, follow policies openly hostile to Detroit's business community for decades. These policies could have ameliorated or arrested Detroit's decline, but exercising political hate was considered more important than caring for the well-being of the people. School decline came later, as it must have. It was an effect of the Democratic policies, not the cause of Detroit's decline.

Reminds me of a cheesy pickup line I heard:

You remind me of my big toe, because I'm going to bang you on my couch soon.

Right, I'm saying that as a taxpayer I'm not going to get angry over that mistake because in the end NASA got a good deal.

Eh, I was ready to be outraged but after glancing through the OIG report it doesn't look that bad. Apparently the Google dudes paid a market rate for the hangar space, and let NASA use one of their planes for free (that would otherwise cost thousands of dollars per flight hour). I would suspect that even taking into account the discounted fuel NASA came out ahead.

Q: Why is starting a comment in the Subject: line incredibly irritating?

You really need to get it through your head that there are other people in the world, and these other people may occasionally disagree with what you think. Yes, even though you consider your political opinions blatantly obvious, people may hold other opinions - and it doesn't mean they're being paid off by the Emmanuel Goldstein or the bankers or the Jews or the Koch brothers or whoever this year's hate figure is.

So being tagged as a sex offender isn't bad enough, men need to be executed for offending your moral outrage sensibilities. Fuck assholes like you. I wish we had execution for moral crusaders.

So you're saying schools are horrible because of minorities? You racist piece of trash. Go to hell, I hope your house burns down and you die in a fire.

Ah, the good old days. Way back when, before Napster, I used to get on EFnet IRC #deaf and ask if anyone was trading MP3s. Good times.

Sheesh. The amount of lack-of-self-awareness in these types of posts never ceases to amaze me. People don't live in the suburbs because they want to drive an hour every day, they live there because the schools in the city are hellholes that can't even graduate kids who can read.

Entirely predicable and sad that this point of view has a hatred problem and greatly desires to see others suffer. Just...sad.

These sorts of announcements have the effect of freezing developers and keeping them from moving to superior technology.

Which developers are you talking about? I'd wager that the biggest money makers and users of these APIs (AAA game developers) already have good enough relationships with Microsoft, Sony, etc where under NDA they are able to offer feedback on existing and proposed API/platform directions and allow themselves to be in sync with where it is going.

Hm.

I predicted you would not give evidence.

You did not give evidence.

Given that you do not provide evidence, it is likely you have none.

Which part do you incorrectly think is a lie?

Predictable, and predicted: you supply no evidence, most likely because you have none.