Scotland seems to want to stay in the EU:
https://twitter.com/jk_rowling...

Will the Kingdoms become Ununited, as Jasper Fforde shows:
http://www.jasperfforde.com/dr...

I see... so why should one have to wear anything at all?

If I were to decide to go to work wearing just my hat and a pair of sneakers, why shouldn't I be allowed to do so?

Is showing one's behind or one's front bad taste? Or why else is it banned?

Who decided that --as outer garment-- shorts and XXL T-shirts are OK at work, but tight speedos are not OK at work?

Why are man allowed to run on the street in shorts only, barechested, but women aren't?

(at least that's what I've observed in most anglophone countries... other places around the world seem to have other, quite varying, rules)

It' funny (but it's slashdot after all) how a comment ends up being exaggerated with wild misinterpretations such as "hate", "fainting", ... almost like in a Bernd episode: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=... Funny also how so many people don't realize that men wearing shorts are simply considered as in poor taste - in most of the world (but don't talk about that on /. -- the world outside anglophone countries may be too complex a concept to consider). Not to mention the even funnier idea that would have an average pair of shorts being any better for warm weather than summer/light cotton calanques-style pants.

as long as shorts are banned, it doesn't seem such a bad idea. I've yet to see a pair of male knees & calves that I wouldn't have preferred not to see. No offense ... but it's hard to find long pants that would look worse.

wait, what?
Yes, BBEdit and Emacs, side-to-side, one for its clean interface, multi-file search GUI, etc. and the other one for its macros and programmability.
Now if only Python had a good *native* GUI debugger on Mac OS X that'd be useful.

The article seems to mention Windows/Linux (or Linux/Window). What about OpenGL/GLES drivers on other platforms, such as Mac OS X, Android, iOS, ?

plenty?
I wish... I have yet to find one... I tried in Chicago, NYC, San Diego, Indianapolis, Portland, Atlanta, etc. not to mention in many small towns, while avoiding any chains and fastfood pizza places. Some of them were interesting, a few were quite good, but they weren't at all close to the real thing.

Very few restaurants baked them in a wood-fired oven (a necessary but not sufficient condition), pretty much none of them used real mozzarella (as in mozzarella), most of them added extra ingredients etc, etc.
But if anyone has any specific suggestions for finding real pizza in Northamerica, i.e. places / names / addresses, I'd welcome them!

PS: I don't like using wikipedia so much, but they got some of the explanation OK on this, e.g.:
the real thing: "pizza types" vs. "...quite a large number of regional forms of pizza, many bearing only a casual resemblance to the Italian original".

No.

What people sell in Northamerica, whether in fast foods or restaurants, is not pizza. It's a surrogate. It's a lookalike, made with different ingredients, different preparation methods, and ends up tasting quite differently from the real thing... I have yet to find one single place that tastes the way it should. Just change the name, it'd be the decent thing to do.

Try and go to any standard pizzeria in Italy or surroundings, and you should be able to taste the difference.
Or then again, maybe not - after all people call Budweiser "beer", even though it's made with 30% rice... but it's still less different from a pilsner than the so-called "american pizza" is far away from the real thing.

Would the so-called "american pizza" makers do the decent thing and change the name from "pizza" to something else, in order not to confuse the public with the real thing?

Anything will do, really. Changing just one vowel would be enough. Here are a few suggestions for alternative names, all much more fitting than "pizza" to what people eat in "american pizza" restaurants:
pAzza
pEzza
pOzza
pUzza

mod parent up :-)

This seems to be one of those anglocentric popular culture references - where most of the rest of the world knows, or cares, very little about.
But since most native anglophones seldom speak fluently any other language, it's not easy for them to figure out what is or isn't relevant outside of their countries.
As in "Foreign language education: if ‘scandalous’ in the 20th century, what will it be in the 21st century?" by Eeon E. Panetta.

Can anyone explain in plain non-legalese the difference between Apple's App Store and this Windows Marketplace, in terms of open source? Does either one allow GPL applications distributed? For a fee? IANAL and AFAIK, doesn't GPL 2 allow charging for distribution of executable code, as long as the source is available somewhere? Thanks---

Thank you for taking the time to reply to my comment.
Without counting the hypothesis presented in your last sentence, you guessed right on 3 out of 4 counts.

several machines, but no Windows on any of them, thank you so very much.

considering that in /.'s own country even the human body is censored under criminal penalty, it seems to me that the local population needs to get their facts straight about censorship first...