Yup it's true, King Arthur is waiting in Atlantis.
  He's pretty bored, the last bit of excitement was when Elvis arrived and gave Captain Nemo a wedgie.

Publicity for a great band, not much of a book if it is taken from the wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_Man_Half_Biscuit
Better off listening to the Trumpton Riots EP instead.

If you are personally homophobic then filter your own network, do not force your opinions on others.

As an admin type speaking for.. well, me. I find that all the blocking decisions are made by the management who choose to buy stupid filtering products.

Management generally ask for staff to report on the pros and cons of blocking software and then proceed to ignore the report and make a decision based on what is least likely to get them in trouble. Whether it is workable is not an issue until after it has been implemented...

On my campus this is a very common problem. Teachers cannot access resources to teach their subject. Students cannot access learning resources due to the heavy handed and uninformed blocking filters.

The irony is that the students work out how to get past the filters by talking to each other and setting up their own proxies but the poor old teachers are left filling out endless bureaucratic forms to request access to the needed resources (one at a time). I have not yet seen any of the lecturers on my campus succeed in getting a blocked resource unblocked.

Sadly the network I am referring to is the Australian goverments, NSW Department of Education

It's fashionable to release stimulus packages at the moment. Everyone is doing it, why shouldn't Microsoft jump on the bandwagon. Of course those of a more cynical nature may construe this as just a trick to try and get more customers on board... The cynics may have something there.

The game remains the same but the presentation changes.

are there OS's that do all the crazy things most people would like them to do without getting unstable?

and the irony is that if the police or gov did do something it would stuff it up for the majority leaving the scammers, spammers and hackers free to find new ways to break, annoy and work around stuff. Oh hang on they are already doing it...