"ready to send the basket-case maker more biznes"
No they aren't. Seems like "'pragmatic' Murican bizness collective mind" finally realizes it got taken to cleaners. Did you notice MS's stock price over last two years?
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This guy's ahead of his time! He's using quantum programming methods: in universes where invalid data is passed to this function, it does not return. Thus you are ensured that you will only have valid data after calling it. Optimally you'd destroy the universe on failure, but computers haven't quite advanced to that level yet.
-- [link|http://thedailywtf.com/archive/2004/10/26/2920.aspx|The] Daily WTF