*Some* very successful people. I do believe you're stating on opinion and mine is more centric.

When I'm speaking to someone, it is unacceptable for them to treat me with discourtesy, as I do not treat them in that manner. It is a delimitation, not an imposition. It is a statement that the *manner* in which they've chosen to present their argument is unacceptable, not the argument itself. No one has the unfettered right to abuse others in whatever manner they see fit.

Having a grand yell-out in no way guarantees peace afterward. Some of the biggest back-stabbers I've met were also yellers and screamers. They're simply abusive people who can't maintain boundaries.

Being a dick is a purposeful act. Simply don't be a dick and the uber thin skinned self-reveal.

his articles are copyrighted.

"most old people will ..."

You understand the description following that was one that applies to the general /. commenter audience, right?

"Considering the wide spread racism in the south of the US..."

You're pulling that out of your ass. I contracted all over during my career and I *never* saw such raw, unadulterated racial hatred as I experienced in the NE and Chicago. Never. Yet, every time, they would spout about southern hatred. Such self-blinded people.

Why? Humanity's sake? Pfft! He's a person with a proven proclivity for assassination. As such, you'd be an idiot to think that gun was the only thing on him. Take him out then and there.

Ahhhhh, shit - FINDING goto statements.

Oh hell, I'd rather have none than some I've seen.

Worst case was being flown in to summarize a system's functionality (don't know why, but staff was terminated en-mass) only to find the documentation was photocopy pages in boxes. That's it; no folders, no color coding or anything, just loose sheets. Top that with many of the copies being so faded as to require literally fifteen minutes or so each to figure out what things were. After a week and being shown the state of things, they decided to scrap and rewrite.

OK, I do know why the staff was shown the door.

"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.