Unfortunately, we can attempt no landing there.

Mink meat is really gamey. While it is, strictly speaking, edible, I can't see it being that popular even in Russia.

Last time we tried that, it didn't go that well.

And yes, they still recite it. There is a Supreme Court ruling that any school child has a Constitutional right to refuse to recite the Pledge, but not many kids are going to have the guts to invoke that right when the teacher is leading the whole class in reciting it.

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.". And yes, that was entirely from memory.

"It will take time, though"

Funny, I seem to recall Orange Jesus telling us the exact opposite before the election.

"I don't need citations, it's obvious" = "I need to hide the fact that I have no evidence."

"I don't think gondolas would work"

Flooding the streets *does* seem a little extreme.

I agree that it's a bit much for Microsoft to control the *.win TLD. But that means they need to be very careful using it. Have a domain name ending in something that's clearly them and less likely to be confused, like *.microsoft.win, and have *that* completely under their control. (It would probably be simpler to just have a TLD of *.microsoft, which I wouldn't have any trouble with them controlling)

Unlikely. If it proves to be a total disaster, they'll back out. It's happened before, as with their attempted complete rewrite of Word in 1991.

You are an incurable optimist. Things can *always* get worse.

Yep, first thing I thought of was Joel's diatribe against rewriting your codebase from scratch.

Of course they are. They've downloaded all the data, so now they're ex-stream-ists.

"Picture Avatar sequels stamping on a human face forever."
    --James Cameron

What the hell.is a "nit?" I assume we're not talking about lice eggs here...