How does Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" square with your theory, then?
Blatantly Christian flick does well. So there is clearly money to be made. Yet there is both a vacuum of capitalism on the Hollywood end, and, back to my original point, not much going on from the "Precambrian effluent" side of things, if I understood your term correctly.

"But--oh, what a bastard to clean."

FTP is a stupid protocol and needs to die. Please use something else (such as SFTP).

No need to wait for a TCP connection to time out. As soon as the page has finished loading, all connections are closed. HTTP is a stateless protocol; just because you have a web page open in front of you doesn't mean there's any connection to the server right now.

If you're not using cookies, you can use query strings to track state. For every link on the page, you add a query string to the URL containing a session ID number, so when the user clicks any link, the session ID is passed in the query string. But that looks ugly, so you should just use cookies.

To summarize, it's a stream of Postmodern effluent.

see 'prefbar' plugin for firefox. turn off animation, flash, cookies, clear-cache, etc. configurable. been using prefbar for years and my installs always include this plugin.

And you, Sir|Ma'am|Fido, could stand to improve your vocabulary.

I liked Jodie in Nell.

Again, "corrosive for the mind".

Yuck.

I suppose that as long as you're happy, that's OK.
I can't go to the theater without being distracted by arguments with which I disagree that turn the fantasy into something nightmarish.

There are those that build, and those that tear down. One has more admiration for the former category, though the near-term profits of the latter are undeniable.

Until you move to a new market, don't mention the old failures, and try again. With that nice union vouching for your supposed competence, you can't not be hired.

Executives that make major failures can't hide in obscurity. A string of two or three failures is the end of their career as an executive, and they'll have to be coasting on that golden parachute through retirement... Working in finance, I've actually seen a few clients in exactly that situation. They're unemployable as executives because their last few ventures failed, and they're now working low-level management jobs trying to cover the ongoing expenses they have from their earlier lifestyle.

I'm not saying they deserve a 300x salary, or even 50x, but just that the higher the rank, the more the risk of failure becomes personal.

Exclusive contracts are par for the union course. Most unions forbid their members from working in non-union shops without special arrangement, so a company must either deal with the union or hire all non-union employees... but the non-union hiring pool is pretty shallow indeed, since most places are exclusive union shops. It's a chicken-or-egg problem, and once a particular labor market has joined exclusive unions, there's no course for return to a non-union market. So much for that level playing field.

This is the big issue behind the "right to work" laws that force separation between employment eligibility and union membership. Ideally, employees could get offers from employers, and perhaps have different (maybe better) offers if they're union members. The employee gets to pick what's best for their situation, so rather than an adversarial power struggle, the employers and unions compete to have control over the employees, inflating conditions steadily over time.

For ketchup, they should get John Kerry. Given that MS is jacked up, and Kerry himself is a total jack-up artist, the resulting double negative will certainly have Redmond conquering the market, STAT.
For OS/2 applications.