How to get rid of bamboo

I hate you

The American Bamboo Society recommends a simple and repetitive approach to getting rid of bamboo: cutting. Since their specialty is bamboo, I would lend the most credence to their advice, which, in sum, runs as follows:

1- Cut the bamboo shoots down
2- Apply water to the area
3- Cut down the new crop of bamboo resulting from #2
4- Repeat the process until shoots stop coming up.

The idea behind doing all of this is to deplete the reserves of energy in the plants' rhizomes, after which they will not be capable of sending up new shoots. Those reserves are no longer being replaced because you are removing the plants' mechanism to do so (photosynthesis) by depriving them of vegetation. They can only hold out so long without being replenished.
As a concluding observation about using this method, the American Bamboo Society writes that, once you are done, "The rhizomes will be left behind, but will rot away." The reason that these old rhizomes will rot away is that they have been depleted of their energy reserves.

Although this can be done any time of year, I guess ideal time to do it is in spring. I could already now go and start cutting away whenever I have time though...