That wasn't editors, that was just people sick of "this site sucks I don't know what I am doing here" posts. It adds nothing useful, so should be voted down.

I've owned two Apple phones and a Samsung, and I've never used the headphone jack on any of them. So from my perspective, I was forced into having a feature that I never asked for.

I've had an iPhone 3Gs, an iPhone 4, and currently a Samsung Galaxy S4 Active. I have never used the headphone port on any of them. Good riddance!

If there's life there, what are the chances that the microbes that we send there will be better at living on their world than the nativre stuff is? Sure, some of the native life might die out, like when an invasive slug or fish or plant drives out an indiginous one, but ALL life? No way. Grey squirrels may have driven out the red squirrels here in the UK, but they aren't threatening any other life. Most likely the Earth life will cause some damage, and then crash and die out, and the native life will be back to normal in a few hundred thousand years.

I'm thinking, ff there's life there already, it's probably better suited to its environment than anything we could export there. And if it isn't, if it's so primitive and fragile that a few Earth bugs can wipe it out, well maybe that's tough. It played the game of life and it lost, like a quintillion species did on this planet. Now what would be a real shame is if Earth bugs wiped out the indigenous stuff, and then crashed and died out itself. But I guess there will always be something left behind that's still close enough to life to bootstrap itself.

...the wrong lizard might get in.

Obviously this is off topic for a story on comments in code.

I put in semicolons, curly braces, line breaks, and indentation if they make the code more maintainable and clearer to the human reader. For example Microsoft T/SQL doesn't need semicolons at the end of SQL statements, but I put them in anyway.

Assuming we do actually pull out, the referendum proves that we did have our sovereignty all along.

It's just a petition to get a parliamentary committee to discuss it. That's all. The petition system is not meant to achieve anything tangible.

No, only a simple majority was required.

No, he (a "leave" supporter) asked it back in March. Nigel Farrage, one of the prominent "leave" campaigners, said in an interview that a 52/48 vote to remain would be "unfinished business" and would require a second vote.

Censorship *****.

Right.

Hear, hear. I'm not surprised that Consider Phlebas is the Banks book on two of the three lists (shame, jameswallaceharris.com, shame), since it's the first, but in my opinion it's not the best. Player of Games and Use of Weapons are better. Likewise, the only Niven listed is Ringworld (plus Mote, co-authored), rather than Protector which in my opinion is his best.