Because the Emperor is not naked, dammit, and people like me shouldn't be encouraged to spread rumors that he is :) Fear not though - as someone with an entire

Because the Emperor is not naked, dammit, and people like me shouldn't be encouraged to spread rumors that he is :) Fear not though - as someone with an entire menagerie of unpopular opinions about programming, business and life in general, karma as a measure of agreement with the opinion is more useful to me than as a measure of people's opinion on the constructiveness of the comment. It's also feeding a spectacular persecution complex, which comes in handy when I discover I've been talking rubbish on a subject :)