J_Darnley

What's the difference? Both make this feature (and more general use of the archive) useless.

> the complexity of [...] two fields

If that is true the world is doomed. Giant Meteor 2016

Does this mean it only took Firefox some 10 years to integrate (part of) the Resurrect Pages extension?

You don't have to request anything. Just alter robots.txt and you can make the Wayback Machine memory hole your entire website.

Oh many reasons. It is the most colossal waste of money. It is a horrible IP abuser. Almost everything surrounding it is massively corrupt. Some sports don't deserve to be in because they are not about (or less about) individual athletic performance.

Even if you like the competition those seem like strong reasons not to watch.

I personally think that if you are going to allow finely engineered shoes, poles, javelins, boats, balls, bicycles, then you should allow finely engineered bodies.

Screw having an idea. Go play video games.

No. This place hates humour, hates fun, and hates anything that distracts from the serious discussion that happens. I'm sorry you had to find out the hard way.

> There are lots of professionals in other Olympic sports.

So then there is absolutely no point in watching. Well, not until they start the doping league. (Should we debate whether the current one is?)

Paying for travel to the games, maybe.

Amateurs, except for the tennis players, the football players, and the bicycle riders. All of which are the big name stars who get paid to compete in other dedicated tournaments. I'm sure there are others too but those are the most promoted sports.

I don't think the ones above get paid for the Olympics though.

> With a grant of up to €30,000, software developers [...] can write code and develop open source prototypes over a period of six months.

> You have 6 months to implement your idea from the first concept to a prototype.

Oh, it wants to fund new stuff and not fund a Firefox, Gimp, Linux kernel, whatever dev to work for 6 months.