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It's what any good driving school would teach. Let me google that for you...

Mentioned toward the end of the video...
https://www.geico.com/more/dri...

https://www.dmv.org/how-to-gui...

#6...
https://www.usatoday.com/story...

You might find a few minutes reading how car insurance works educational, as well as this from another company, just to have more than once source. Arguing from a position of factual error doesn't help your cause, and doesn't might you look bright.

You might also want to think through the likely consequences of removing the current serious financial penalties for being a bad driver. Or do you not care about any of that, and all you really want is government takeover of some industry, regardless of downsides? If that's your agenda, don't hide it behind distractions.

Oh great, now we're going to have robots trying to sell us car insurance?

Indeed. Perhaps I should have said "If one has a New York City office for their company...".

If one had an Albany office, why not use "nya.example.com" or some other descriptive text (like "albany.ny.example.com")?

My main point was that domains can trivially express organizational hierarchy. New TLDs are not required. Take, as an illustrative example, http://www.geico.jobs/ -- it re-directs to http://careers.geico.com/ . Is it really necessary to have an entire TLD for job-related sites (I'm assuming only the use of http in this example, rather than other services), when an organization could simply add a subdomain to their existing domain?

Microsoft is a company that cannot "let go" of anything. Take .NET for example -- it is a miserable failure that they won't let die.

A few web sites that use .NET technology:

Costco - http://www.costco.com/
Crate & Barrel - http://www.crateandbarrel.com/
Home Shopping Network - http://www.hsn.com/
Buy.com - http://www.buy.com/
Dell - http://www.dell.com/
Nasdaq - http://www.nasdaq.com/
Virgin - http://www.virgin.com/
7-Eleven - http://www.7-eleven.com/
Carnival Cruise Lines - http://www.carnival.com/
L'Oreal - http://www.loreal.com/
Remax - http://www.remax.com/
Monster Jobs - http://www.monster.com/
USA Today - http://www.usatoday.com/
ComputerJobs.com - http://computerjobs.com/
Match.com - http://www.match.com/
National Health Services (UK) - http://www.nhs.uk/
CarrerBuilder.com - http://www.careerbuilder.com/
Newegg http://newegg.com/
Geico http://geico.com/
Capital One http://capitalone.com/
Zecco http://zecco.com/

And that is just the tip of the iceberg.

Maybe you should tell all those sites that .NET is a miserable failure? Or if you were just (successfully) karmawhoring, I am sorry to interrupt the circle jerk on here.

I personally run/have run many huge enterprise apps on .NET. It's actually a pretty good platform if you know what you're doing.

Don't take my word for it, though.

When I googled for what you asked to google, I found this list of sites running ASP.NET.

Costco - http://www.costco.com/
Crate & Barrel - http://www.crateandbarrel.com/
Home Shopping Network - http://www.hsn.com/
Buy.com - http://www.buy.com/
Dell - http://www.dell.com/
Nasdaq - http://www.nasdaq.com/
Virgin - http://www.virgin.com/
7-Eleven - http://www.7-eleven.com/
Carnival Cruise Lines - http://www.carnival.com/
L'Oreal - http://www.loreal.com/
The White House - http://www.whitehouse.gov/
Remax - http://www.remax.com/
Monster Jobs - http://www.monster.com/
USA Today - http://www.usatoday.com/
ComputerJobs.com - http://computerjobs.com/
Match.com - http://www.match.com/
National Health Services (UK) - http://www.nhs.uk/
CarrerBuilder.com - http://www.careerbuilder.com/
Newegg http://newegg.com/
Geico http://geico.com/
Capital One http://capitalone.com/
Zecco http://zecco.com/

Maybe you should tell those sites that .NET is a unproven technology? Or will you try to argue that these are not huge enterprise apps? Just because you want something to be true(or maybe you were just karma whoring) doesn't make it true. C# is a better language than Java, though each one has it's strengths. And even conceding your point(I don't) that Java is faster, speed is not everything. Or we would all be coding in assembly or machine code.

I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to GEICO.

Meant to say VX30, and it's the SAME THING. Jeeze... there are half a dozen different GPL projects being ripped off here; I wonder how many companies have bought this software? Has anyone told Geico about this?

However, I don't believe the product compressed images very well without loss.

The LizardTech stuff is lossy. They charge you for compression by the byte with their so-called cartridges (a fancy name for a byte-counting license). Stay as far away from these people as you can. Now maybe if their mascot did the robot on their web site, they'd be cooler, but I don't think so.

Mensa can be a good organization to belong to. Even if you don't feel like associating with people, or getting involved in any way whatsoever, you get a discount on car insurance, amongst many others. Mensa partners with lots of different organizations.

Being a member of Mensa has saved me more than $300 over the past three years (cost of being a member for 3 years is around $115 or so), so from a strictly economical standpoint, it pays off -- the publications and interaction are just icing on the cake.

You know, you could have just gone to Geico and saved money on your car insurance.

I saw that freakin' gecko doing the robot on TV the other day. Little bastid seems to be everywhere these days, let him fix the Hubble.

well, the ESA did save a lot of money on their car insurance by switching to Geico!

*ducks*

Anyway, in the war on bugs (hehe), natures defense turned out to be the best defense in my experience. Especially the geckos

I just ask because I'm stuck with Netscape 4.7 on my Sun at work, and it loads lots of pages very slowly because its HTML rendering engine is super slow (and sucks especially with tables).

Have you tried Mozilla 0.9.6? Or is your filesystem quota set by a non-you, non-flexible administrator too small? Unlike Netscape 4.x and IE, Mozilla's Gecko engine renders pages incrementally; you can force Mozilla to render the part of a page that it has downloaded so far by right-clicking anywhere on the page.

This assumes you haven't tried IE for Solaris.