"Anybody whose website failed to work in Lynx was derided as an idiot."

Only on /. and other like venues.

"It's not about precious CPU cycles,..."

This. It seems that the most frequent argument is "consuming cycles". That's bogus. Even my old XP spends most of its time waiting and waiting. Speed is a bogus argument bordering on the ridiculous.

I come from a time before "the web" and the Internet WAS applications. ... The folly is assuming that web pages have to be applications.

You don't see the contradiction in pining for the good old days where the Internet WAS the folly you abhor?

we still had search engines. We had email. We had message systems"

And they were crap. I was there. They were crap.

So the argument in favor of making javascript mandatory is so that people who click 'like' buttons won't be inconvenienced by a slower "web experience"? "

Who are you to complain? Your argument is javascript should disappear because some coders do stupid things you don't like with it.

Nice play on an old standard cliche, but not a true variant. One can write a quick, portable and reliable page/app. Been done many times, they're just small.

"People deserve better than petty kings like you. They deserve to be kings themselves, to master their own fate."

You mean like people telling them they should only develop their pages in such-and-such a manner?

Simply sounds like another form of petty dictatorship.

No, you're merely taking a condescending attitude towards those who want to enjoy the evening they paid for and addressing them as if it were somehow a failure on their part that those interruptions annoy them.

Dude, he's in a theater posting to /. *now*.

We have a volunteer fire dept here in So Mo. They don't all call each other when there's a fire. They rotate being available and are *there* at the station. Your friend's dept sucks, IMHO.

Believe it. I've seen it many times in a number of cities.

Dude, your keyboard/pad clicking skills *do not* translate to street fighting.

Actual tests show otherwise. They only think they're doing both. They're actually time-slicing and taking the resultant hit in performances.

None of which ameliorates their being assholes for doing it in a theater.

You can see this in the video. The subjects' heads and stomachs start glowing more brightly as the person dons the piece. The really buff guy's heat shifts to his face and arms almost immediately. So you have your program look for a shorter block with a beacon shining above it.

If facial detection programs that clip the hair off first aren't already out there, my guess is they're close at hand so I don't think the greasy twirls will do much for long.

The handbag gadget seemed functional though.

"Or that a skilled ..."

Nawh. One doesn't get to equate a hypothesis based on an abstraction with one based on empirical evidence from a variety of sources, said empirical data touching a number of fields.

Most literature (Kafka's included) is for the plot and entertainment. Much, if not all, 'insight' taught about Kafka and other's works is projection.

Enjoy the works or spend your life searching for the message between the lines, it's your call, but let's not elevate critics (which is what teachers of literature really are) into some deliverer of truth and insight, they ain't.

Ask Whoopie. I hear she's an expert on what is and isn't really "rape rape".