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They don't have anything to do with the mockery of logic you are exhibiting in this thread. For those purposes, I'll cheerfully acknowledge 100% agreement with everyone offering rebuttals to your points.

I'm telling you, man, it is the mind control rays. There is just no other explanation.

While I disagree with Kallend on some things, I'd hardly call him uneducated. At least he understand the difference between fact and fiction. You could use some remedial effort on that, from what I've seen in your posts.

Screw that. Go for a masters and you can procrastinate and postwhore for another few years.

What he said. I care more about any of you skydivers and your relationships with your significant others (even if they are sheep, poodle or moose) than I do about some worthless loser celebrities.

I've seen and heard too many stories like what SpeedRacer described to give money out. Also, I don't want to reward that behavior, as it isn't really helping towards any long-term solution for the individual. I do give to charities that help the poor/homeless and volunteer some of my time to a local soup kitchen (DC's "So Others Might Eat"), which does a good job of getting food and shelter to those that need it without contributing to their problems, like giving them cash would. What really annoys me is supposedly reputable organizations that train people to be panhandlers. For example, local schools trying to raise money for some trip or program by sending kids out with cups and signs. I find it incredibly irritating. Is that what we want to teach in school? How about holding a bake sale, a car wash, or selling overpriced pizzas or something. At least there, they can offer a product or service of value and receive payment for it. I will never give to "organizational panhandlers". Personal pet peeve of mine.

Is this kind of like when they announce the track of a hurricane and everyone evacuates the area?

You can start by not calling them towel heads. After that, you can try learning some more about the issues before you begin spouting off incoherent babblings that only serve to insult others and show your incomplete comprehension. When you've mastered those, we'll work our way down the list.

If I was going to go to the other side, Remster would be last on the list anyway, even with a shower. Who wants to be sloppy seconds behind a moose?

Are you asking about what companies have the technical expertise, or what companies have an "in" at the White House?

Why don't I make a post there? Puisque je ne parle pas vraiment français, garçon d'orignaux! First you go mentioning my name in reference to Kevin's hottie question. Now you are talking about my ass. Je ne puis pas aller au forum français, parce que vous commencerez à essayer de me séduire, vous sly crétin! No means No, Remster!

He just goes to the other side of the wall. Perhaps it wasn't the mantle. Who can keep the details straight?

Kevin, Pay no mind to Remster. He is just bitter because his moose escaped from the house during hunting season. The poor moose was shot by a neighbor before he recognized it as belonging to Remster. Grief-stricken, the guy returned the moose. Remster had his lover stuffed and mounted above his mantle. The good part of the story and the silver lining in the tragedy? Now Remster can get head whenever he wants.

It is overrated anyway. Besides the rest of us have more fun without it.

Poodles and bunnies. Skreamer is such a slut.

As soon as he finishes the vacuuming and takes his apron off, he is going to kick your ass, Remster!

So, to add to our list for Endor-boy... Clay: Sheep Skreamer: Poodles Remster: Moose Ivan: Ewoks

An ad for the jewelry-making child-labor sweatshop. Don't you know anything, Remster?

To extend what Kevin said and add my own... First of all, they can. My workplace, like this website, is no damned democracy. That isn't saying they are ignorant about technology. They wouldn't even blink if I made changes and had a good reason for doing so. But I'd better have a good reason. I don't know how much my boss makes. But like Kevin's, I have to be cognizant of what I ask of him. Part of my job is to act as a technological bodyguard for him. Instead of pushing the technology at him and keeping him bleeding edge, I test and retest everything to maintain the status quo for as long as I can. I upgrade him when security issues force me to, or when an end-of-life product has a clear, stable and tested replacement. My boss doesn't care about what is cool on the computer. Neither do any of my salaried coworkers. Pretty much the only people that do are the hourly admin support staff, and frankly, their opinion doesn't count. Sounds harsh, but it is true. My job is not to cater to their whims. It is to provide the most stable, consistent, familiar and efficient computing platform I can that fulfills our needs with the least effort on the part of my users.

Andy, My comment was in the context of my workplace. I agree that coding to standard is better practice. But not everyone does, and due to our business, we have to work with some of them anyway. As you noted, there are also the places where the dominant browser doesn't function to standard. In some situations, it might be best to code within the standard, but omit the part of the legitimate realm of code that causes the most popular browser to glitch. That way, you are both within standard and friendly toward the masses, however misguided they may be.

You see it as a cause, where I see it as a business decision. To whom? If I go with non-compatible software, establish a convoluted and difficult to support system, what happens when things go wrong? Do I tell the boss that we are striking a blow back against Microsoft? It doesn't matter, because I'd be fired. Not fired for choosing or not choosing them, but for making a decision that isn't in the best interest of the company. Is it lazy, or is it smart? I could strike it up as an issue at my workplace and try to be the Linux posterboy. I would have to work longer hours to maintain two entirely different systems, convince my coworkers that they also need to work more, and guarantee that the changes will benefit the company. Personally, I work enough as it is. I want to go skydiving, or go spend time with my family. Linux as a cause is not worth that precious time. I'm not against it as an OS. Had our research shown it was a good choice for us, we would go with it. But it didn't, and it isn't fair or smart for me to try to force it.

They were a test. They failed. Running them as Linux was neither cheaper nor easier when the total cost was calculated. They weren't any more secure than a properly-configured and maintained Windows box either? So why make extra trouble? I'm not saying my results are applicable for every enterprise. They aren't. But for our situation, Linux didn't do the job as well as Windows. It was worth a shot to test them, but we are going to stick with Wintel. I know, geek heresy.

I have almost done that a number of time. Almost, but never actually hit the jackpot. Funny to hear someone did. She shoots, she scores! I would go with the dog ate it or something.

I guess it is partly a philisophical difference. You see the sites as having fixed "their" problems. I see it as Mozilla being the problem. In our business situation, we simply cannot afford to suffer through any of those issues at all. So we stick to what works on the biggest percentage of sites, and on the sites that are critical to our business. For us, that is IE. Personal use is different, where each person can make their own choice and live with the results.

My office is 100% IE, now that I've converted my Linux test boxes back over to Win2k Server. We use a proxy filter at work that blocks most of the pop-up junk. It is configurable, so we can set it not to kick on on sites where we need the pop-ups or other features that we would regularly block. It cuts my pop-ups down to virtually none. I have used the google toolbar for awhile, so I set it up to block pop-ups as well. It does let me allow specific ones if I want them. Between the two tools, I get no unwanted pop-ups. At my office, we have encountered a few problems with total pop-up blocking. Some websites use pop-ups to do web-enabled support chats. Some financial sites use them in different ways as well. I can't really address how Mozilla deals with these situations, since we don't use it. We used to have some Windows boxes with Netscape, in addition to the Linux test machines. No more. While I can understand departing from the mainstream (straight Wintel w/ IE) for personal use, I don't see any valid reasons to do so for desktop business boxes. There are so many compatibility issues with industry-specific applications and clients that it isn't worth even trying. We aren't here to have cool desktops or slick Linux kernels. We are here to work.