Better cash in those BallmerBucks(tm) soon. They won't be worth much in a few months, and you'll have nothing to show for your shill posts except for a vaguely dirty feeling.

This. Ballmer had one job: don't fuck up Windows.

He failed at the modest task which was his charge.

In a great many cases, yes. Your point?

You had one job. Billg left you with one job. "Mind the store and don't fuck up Windows."

Well, I guess that was two jobs, technically. Either way, the results need no further elaboration.

Enjoy your retirement.

Is there any way they can both lose?

Sorry, but "life, liberty, and security of person" does not include the right to remain unoffended.

Threats are a different legal matter; separate 'hate speech' laws aren't needed to make physical threats illegal. They are as illegal here in the US as they are in Canada.

I see. Guess they're as bad as the government, then. Another childhood illusion lies in pieces...

Not true. The Mafia's code of conduct does not provide for attacks on family members or other unrelated parties.

This. Game development is something you should get involved with only if you can't imagine yourself doing anything else. It's almost more of a calling than a profession. Not something anyone should be pushed into.

BTW, what was this basic "human right" again? I can't seem to place it from what you're saying. You've just been yacking about "socialized health care".

Question: Do you believe that someone without insurance, or who otherwise has no ability to pay, who is suffering from an acute medical emergency, should be turned away from a hospital emergency room and left to die on the sidewalk?

If the answer is "Yes," then you're some kind of barbarian, and we're done here.

If the answer is "No," then I've got some even worse news for you: we already have "socialized medicine." The patient will, in fact, be treated, and you and I will, in fact, pick up the tab. It just costs us several times more than it would in any other civilized nation on Earth, because unlike those nations, we insist on kidding ourselves.

"In other news, something made by Google turns out to be a half-assed implementation of a good idea, unfavored by management and consequently determined to be a career-limiting move for Googlers unfortunate enough to be assigned to it. Consequently it is allowed to fall into disrepair, and will be scheduled for decommissioning at a time carefully calculated to maximize user inconvenience. Ric Romero has film at 11, so stay tuned for that."

(Shrug) Externalties, whatever. Your odds of dying on a commercial airline flight are approximately one in one billion. I don't think you're going to want to pay to raise those odds another 10x.

Yes, I, too, remember how I felt the first time I watched 2001.

Watch it again.

Forcing me to use an IDE is like forcing me to use a forklift to change a light bulb. I'll work for somebody else, thanks.

Well, the more important stories were hogging the lock.