Simon

I think the author is being serious. - Simon

Simon, I think the author of the comment you just quoted, Comment 14, is satirizing a comment above, e.g., Comment 9. But the author of Comment 9 is being serious. - Ruchira S. Datta

I'm not so sure. Graphics geeks get really sensitive about this kind of stuff. Both #14 and #9 may be expressing their honest opinions. They only way to be sure is to troll them both and post a reply about the bug not being that important because the page still operates correctly with the sub-optimal rounded corners. Also, I can't repro it on the latest dev channel release of Chrome 4 on the Mac. - Bill Strathearn

I once filed a bug with IBM about a single pixel being the wrong shade of gray, but arguing for a P1 seems to go too far. - Amit Patel

I see crap like this on a fairly regular basis, and it doesn't appear to me that comment 14 is being satirical (or if it is, then the author is pretty bad at making satire clear). There seems to be no shortage of douchebags who will spam every bug that bothers them with "the sky is falling" comments, lambasting the individuals responsible with ad hominem attacks, and so forth. This is one of the things that makes working on open-source software for a large company less fun than it should be. - Joel Webber

Apparently the author of comment 14 is going to escalate the issue, so the Chromium team can just ignore it for now until the executive fixes the bug. - Matt Mastracci

How did this ever pass the "notoriety" editorial test? - Bill Strathearn

Was it a daikon radish? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Robert Felty

Oh my, that's crazy. - Amit Patel

"In continental Europe a big part of an estate (often around half) is reserved for the surviving children of the deceased and must be equally divided between them. ... Finally, “clawback” laws in many countries stop parents from dodging forced heirship by giving assets away while they are still alive. This applies to gifts made in the last years of life (two years in Austria, ten in Germany), or much longer: in some countries, no time limit applies." - Paul Buchheit

I bet the Europeans think it's crazy that we reserve half for the IRS :) - Private Sanjeev

I thought only millionaires had to reserve half for the IRS. - Gabe

As of 2009, it's 45% for estates valued at over $3.5MM, with exemptions for small businesses and farmers. It affects less than 1% of the US population at present. It's set to revert to $1M in 2011, but there's pretty much no chance that Congress will let that actually happen. - Joel Webber

@Sanjeev: In Europe the inheritance tax rates vary, but can be similar to the US, and the exemption limits are often much lower: "[2007] France if you are inheriting from a spouse you receive up to €76,000 tax free. Anything above this limit is taxed at between 5 and 40 per cent, depending on the size of the gift. But the rate for non-relatives is a hefty 60 per cent, with no... more... - Simon

I think it's also the only word in the English dictionary to start with "tm". - Simon

In-be-frikin-credible! - Paul Buchheit

I though "A-whole-nother" was really just a bastardization of "A whole other" - Gabe

Bah, real linguists call it infixation. - Stephen Mack