Or the fun variation on this: Viacom. Every month or two I get a spammy mail from some TV channel owned by Viacom. Every time, I click the unsubscribe link which takes me to a page where I can unsub from that channel's spam and all the other Viacom ones. Or so it claims. Every time, I get a "this may take 10 days" and then in a ...

[quote user="morbiuswilters"][quote user="dkf"][quote user="morbiuswilters"]Yeah, but one day they're going to wake up and be irrelevant and there will be much bawling and cries of "How did this happen? Where did all the money go??"[/quote]You mean like Microsoft are getting very close to ...

[quote user="ArrivingRaptor"]Based on my experiences with offshore consultants, I almost want to say it's just some Indian college kid asking StackOverflow to do his homework for him.[/quote]   Absolutely that's the case, or else someone's still doing payroll by hand, because any decent payroll software will know ...

[quote user="Ragnax"][quote user="dhromed"]Then why doesn't Minecraft run faster?[/quote] Good compiler, bad developer.[/quote] As ably demonstrated by Optifine, for example.

[quote user="dhromed"][quote user="FrostCat"] The default Metal look and feel is deliberately different from any given OSes native lnf. It is a reasonable thing to think that some OS may not have "click on a label counts a a click on the button" so Java didn't include it in the installer...[/quote]  The ...

[quote user="TheRider"][quote user="FrostCat"][quote user="Ben L."][quote user="realmerlyn"]Actually, I overlooked the whole "for now". Maybe if I had just waited long enough, the message would have updated itself to be the real content.[/quote] Print it out first - I hear dead trees are good ...

[quote user="FrostCat"][quote user="morbiuswilters"] [quote user="Mason Wheeler"]If the facts and hard data favored the position that guns make you and your loved ones safer, I'd go out and get a gun and a concealed carry permit tomorrow.  But they don't; they favor the position that more guns causes ...

[quote user="morbiuswilters"] [quote user="Mason Wheeler"]If the facts and hard data favored the position that guns make you and your loved ones safer, I'd go out and get a gun and a concealed carry permit tomorrow.  But they don't; they favor the position that more guns causes more people to get shot, both on ...

[quote user="morbiuswilters"] And regards your tag about the police: isn't it funny that most police are strongly in favor of law-abiding citizens having guns? It's because they know we're not going around holding up liquor stores, but that having armed citizens helps them do their job keeping the peace.[/quote] Remember ...

[quote user="Mason Wheeler"]What the statistics actually show is that the loudly-repeated claim that "if you criminalize gun ownership, only the criminals will own guns," thus leaving law-abiding citizens at the mercy of armed criminals and leading to more violence, not less, is false.  Where gun ownership is strongly ...