FTFY.

And yeah, it's odd, but I can't think of any other explanation.

I ask because we just had this tax passed last year for implementation this year. I thought our brand of insanity was unique. Guess not.

I never said one should port to all platforms and architectures. There's a balance and that is mostly to do with the resources a software project or individual has. For example, I dropped Sparc64 support in MidnightBSD because I don't have the time to maintain it. It also took 2 weeks to build packages on my two sparc systems.

I would argue that things don't just compile on FreeBSD. In fact, if you change the uname to something else, many things don't work. There are a lot of FreeBSD specific hacks in source code from many popular projects.

I would know since I have to deal with it all the time in my BSD project.

Ironically, OpenBSD is one of the projects that supports a lot of crusty old architectures using the logic that it helps them find bugs.

This logic is often used by Linux people not to support *BSD. I don't agree with the crusty old platform argument.

Never heard of an abacus?

Idiot, he was referring to the documentary about the asteroid that they blew up with the nuke. You know, when Daredevil makes out with Arwen.

I'm guessing the investors expect Amazon to become and stay the Walmart of the internet (or perhaps the Sears and Roebuck from catalog days) and be be able to either ramp up margins or pay them at that level for a LONG time.

IIRC, the standard deduction this year was $6900 for single payers. Pretty easy to top that via mortgage interest.

Fellow MD resident?

Looks like the rest of your comment was truncated. Let me help:

"Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. "

"Then candidate Bush referred to this as what? Something d-o-o economics. Anyone? Anyone?"

It was actually wishful thinking rather than faith. I've seen the same things you describe. I've also seen where things like this are swept under the rug forever. Then, the root cause analysis comes back and people flip shit because nothing was done about it in the past. Well, nothing other than ignore the recomendations of us morlocks...

And the next day, he finds a pink slip waiting for him.

Sure, it's a wikipedia link, but it's trivial to verify.