So they're killing a useful and surprisingly well designed product because it doesn't fit their "philosophy"? What philosophy is that? Write C# for every little scripting job?

This is what Bill Gates meant to Microsoft, even towards the end. Microsoft is what it is because he could see what was coming. And he could move the whole company where it needed to go. (True, they were late on the internet,but what a pivot they made).I just don't see anybody else able to fill that role.

The technical stuff is all doable. Politics, management, etc. -- those are hard. Best part of the job is getting that stuff out of the way and designing/coding.

So we get to choose a candidate based upon which corporation has him or her in their pocket? Great.

So your first example of Jews "not living cooperatively" is when they objected to the Pharoah's slavery? Really?

Oh, of course. You know, it's not easy getting tomato plants and asparagus, etc. to grow in indoor conditions.
/they're growing food, right?
//or maybe some nice ornamentals

I agree. Sorry I have no thoughtful philosophical analysis to go with that statement.

Of course it will be used. Registrars will make ***loads of money as people like amazon and google buy up amazon.xxx and google.xxx just so someone WON'T put up a web site on them. Did you really think this was about anything but money?

Ben Affleck is a much better actor than Reeves. Of course, so's the guy who told me he needed $5 for gas so he could drive his car back home...
I seriously think Johnny Mnemonic would have been pretty good if we didn't have to watch Reeves trying to show emotion. That was painful.

Hackers have friends???

It was _way_ more effective than prohibiting online gambling. Or online prostitution, porn, file trading, yadda, yadda, yadda. Give up already.

Unable to board airplanes == imprisoned and executed? Really?

I hate to say this, but there is a set of people who should not be expected to use a computer. I don't know what we're going to do with them in 10 or 20 years, when absolutely everything is online.

It is really cool. Congratulations!

Just to set the record straight, in my case the A-level executives were idiots, causing the whole bloody company to go under.