Well, first, Something Bad happened. Then, everybody tried to figure out What Went Wrong, but nobody could, because anybody who could find their ass with both hands had been laid off and their jobs outsourced to a faraway land where everything has to be microscopically explained, perhaps starting with "Well, hydrogen is one proton and one electron" and build from there. Then, The Suits started screaming for blood, but nobody they were screaming at was even competent enough to come up with a cogent response beyond "We're looking into it". Then, the Uber-PHB said "It's not because we shipped all our jobs to the lowest bidder, and It's Not My Fault".
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" -- or a combination of stupidity and greed.
Think of an oared slave galley. The age of the guy pounding the drum to keep the tempo is irrelevant. It's still the young and strong who are chained to the oars.
But in the late Seventies, with no major wars, cancer cured and social welfare straightened out. the politicians needed a new cause and once again they turned toward the automobile.
Wow. And I thought the author of TFA was smoking crack...
Ah, but someone else (OK, everyone else) pays the externalized costs of my EOL'ed cubesat/space junk. Why do you hate capitalism? Why do you hate America?
Obama's "cutting and running out of Iraq ASAP" was the result of an agreement with the Iraqi government that George W. Bush's administration put into place. Obama could either "cut and run", or he could place US troops in Iraq under Iraqi liability for war crimes.
The "creation of the power vacuum" was actually the result of Donald Rumsfeld PERSONALLY and UNILATERALLY deciding to disband the Republican Guard, rather than turn them into local peacekeepers. THAT SINGLE ACTION was what created the Iraqi insurgency and ISIS.
What they meant to say is that 68% of the universe consists of physicists' simplifying assumptions, i.e.: space is uniformly flat everywhere and everywhen, the gravitational constant is the same everywhere and everywhen, etc.
Perhaps if they changed the name to "Accidental Parenthood" or (more accurately) "Forced Parenthood" it would make you knee-jerk conservatives happier. I absolutely do not understand this OBSESSION with fetuses, followed by the most callous treatment imaginable for the rest of their lives that conservatives espouse. If you're so goddam Christian, how about you fund Meals On Wheels for all those veterans you're so enamored of chest-thumping about? How about you fund some inner-city schools instead of starving their funding so you can promote corporate/religious/magnet schools in wealthy neighborhoods? How about walking some the walk you're so fond of talking the talk about?
/stands by for the inevitable deluge of hypocrisy.
Watch her in City Of Death saying "Bouillabaisse, yum yum" and you'll never take her seriously again. Besides, Mary Tamm was a MUCH better Romana. Now THERE was a girl who could run down a corridor.
That's actually a feature I tend to use quite often, especially when researching something - when I finally find the page that (best) tells me what I want to know, I can get rid of all the others that led me there. What exactly is the horrible horrible overhead that the maintainers have to put up with to keep these features in the main branch?
Meanwhile, another thing that drives me crazy is that Chrome will close a window with 19 active tabs without a single complaint. At least Firefox will ASK if you want to close a window with multiple tabs. But in Chrome, a single brainfart/mouso will cost you bigly.
Yaaaaayyyyyyyyy!!!!!! I, for one, cannot wait to load webpages with near-native busy-wait code written by some amateur to do really really useful shit, like
check every 7 seconds if there's been an update to their homepage (a la Huffington Post).
I know this sounds apocryphal, but it's true. I literally know a guy whose daughter was killed when another woman's GPS unit told her "turn left now" -- and she did -- and plowed into this acquaintance's daughter's car.
Ummmmmm, actually, PopeRatzo is a pretty well-known outspoken progressive around these parts. He describes himself on his Slashdot home page as a "left-wing extremist". But, as in all political discussions these days, don't let facts get in the way of your argument.
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I won't believe it's dying until Netcraft confirms it.
It's adorable they think Comcast isn't going to get their way.
Well, first, Something Bad happened. Then, everybody tried to figure out What Went Wrong, but nobody could, because anybody who could find their ass with both hands had been laid off and their jobs outsourced to a faraway land where everything has to be microscopically explained, perhaps starting with "Well, hydrogen is one proton and one electron" and build from there. Then, The Suits started screaming for blood, but nobody they were screaming at was even competent enough to come up with a cogent response beyond "We're looking into it". Then, the Uber-PHB said "It's not because we shipped all our jobs to the lowest bidder, and It's Not My Fault".
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" -- or a combination of stupidity and greed.
Think of an oared slave galley. The age of the guy pounding the drum to keep the tempo is irrelevant. It's still the young and strong who are chained to the oars.
Wow. And I thought the author of TFA was smoking crack...
The difference is the Daleks admit they're evil.
Ah, but someone else (OK, everyone else) pays the externalized costs of my EOL'ed cubesat/space junk. Why do you hate capitalism? Why do you hate America?
Obama's "cutting and running out of Iraq ASAP" was the result of an agreement with the Iraqi government that George W. Bush's administration put into place. Obama could either "cut and run", or he could place US troops in Iraq under Iraqi liability for war crimes.
The "creation of the power vacuum" was actually the result of Donald Rumsfeld PERSONALLY and UNILATERALLY deciding to disband the Republican Guard, rather than turn them into local peacekeepers. THAT SINGLE ACTION was what created the Iraqi insurgency and ISIS.
Sorry to disturb your narrative with facts.
What they meant to say is that 68% of the universe consists of physicists' simplifying assumptions, i.e.: space is uniformly flat everywhere and everywhen, the gravitational constant is the same everywhere and everywhen, etc.
Perhaps if they changed the name to "Accidental Parenthood" or (more accurately) "Forced Parenthood" it would make you knee-jerk conservatives happier. I absolutely do not understand this OBSESSION with fetuses, followed by the most callous treatment imaginable for the rest of their lives that conservatives espouse. If you're so goddam Christian, how about you fund Meals On Wheels for all those veterans you're so enamored of chest-thumping about? How about you fund some inner-city schools instead of starving their funding so you can promote corporate/religious/magnet schools in wealthy neighborhoods? How about walking some the walk you're so fond of talking the talk about?
/stands by for the inevitable deluge of hypocrisy.
I don't think that's quite true. As alternatives, keelhauling and/or drawing and quartering spring to mind.
Watch her in City Of Death saying "Bouillabaisse, yum yum" and you'll never take her seriously again. Besides, Mary Tamm was a MUCH better Romana. Now THERE was a girl who could run down a corridor.
All the other Doctors are pale imitations of Tom Baker, and all the other Companions are pale imitations of Elisabeth Slayden.
Just put it in a jar - it worked for Nixon.
That's actually a feature I tend to use quite often, especially when researching something - when I finally find the page that (best) tells me what I want to know, I can get rid of all the others that led me there. What exactly is the horrible horrible overhead that the maintainers have to put up with to keep these features in the main branch?
Meanwhile, another thing that drives me crazy is that Chrome will close a window with 19 active tabs without a single complaint. At least Firefox will ASK if you want to close a window with multiple tabs. But in Chrome, a single brainfart/mouso will cost you bigly.
Yaaaaayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!
I, for one, cannot wait to load webpages with near-native busy-wait code written by some amateur to do really really useful shit, like check every 7 seconds if there's been an update to their homepage (a la Huffington Post).
He's still going to fill those warehouses with employees who are LITERALLY not allowed to talk to each other under pain of termination.
I know this sounds apocryphal, but it's true. I literally know a guy whose daughter was killed when another woman's GPS unit told her "turn left now" -- and she did -- and plowed into this acquaintance's daughter's car.
That's brilliant, but what if it hits a turtle?
You (and this Brianna Wu person) have caused me to waste a fair amount of delta-vee smacking my forehead.
IIRC, The Mote in God's Eye had Mote Prime covered with ancient craters from the same cause.
Serfdom is the natural state of the 99%. The "middle class" of the 40s to the 90s was an aberration. Think of this as a "return to normalcy".
Ummmmmm, actually, PopeRatzo is a pretty well-known outspoken progressive around these parts. He describes himself on his Slashdot home page as a "left-wing extremist". But, as in all political discussions these days, don't let facts get in the way of your argument.
Sure, but how do you date when it cooled?