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  1. I already knew it.... on The Mystery Font That Took Over New York (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    As soon as I read the headline I was seeing the font in my head without even knowing what it had been called or even that is was associated with Asian businesses. I just knew.

  2. Re:1703 still works for me! on Microsoft Resumes Rollout of Windows 10 Version 1809, Promises Quality Changes (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I got the OOS experience with Windows XP and was happily going to upgrade to Win8 when that changed my mind. I figured if you going to make figure out a new OS I'll choose what I what to learn and switched to OSX. OSX has gone thru 8 or so revisions and yet my user experience has exactly been the same. Not so much like that for windows. I still needed a windows platform for a piece of critical software that I use that doesn't have a Mac equivalent so I'm started with 8.1 -> 10 (1703). Trying to update to 1709 caused my mouse to stop working and couldn't get anyone to help resolve the issue so back to 1703 and been there ever since. I neither have the time or patience to deal with being MS's babysitter.

    You'd think in this day and age you'd still be able to point and click with the mouse no matter what. Hell the keyboard and trackpad works. But the mouse, nah.

    Case in point. I run two Mac laptops, one stuck at Yosemite and the other running the latest and greatest. The Yosemite mouse died and so okay I'll just get another and it was the Magic Mouse 2. Ha, the MM2 fancier features work only with OSX after Yosemite but it still pointed and clicked with Yosemite which was okay until I was able to track down a used Magic Mouse 1. Minimum functions still had backwards compatibility.

  3. 1703 still works for me! on Microsoft Resumes Rollout of Windows 10 Version 1809, Promises Quality Changes (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    This is why I keep my version frozen at 1703. It works and I don't want to mess with problems as I've got plenty to do without being my own IT manager.

  4. Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.. on Crew of 'Soyuz' Spacecraft Establish Contact After Failed Launch (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Old aviator joke

  5. Siri should marry Watson on Siri Co-founder is Surprised By How Much Siri Still Can't Do (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    but she doesn't want any part of it.

  6. Re:Mr Steele on GOP Memo Criticizing FBI Surveillance is Released (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Another Trump troll.

  7. Re:FBI used unconfirmed hit piece to spy on citize on GOP Memo Criticizing FBI Surveillance is Released (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    But when Mr Steele went to the FBI, the FBI said we are already aware of your information, I don't believe Mr. Steele told them anything new, it just confirmed that both entities arrived at similar independent conclusions.

  8. Mr Steele on GOP Memo Criticizing FBI Surveillance is Released (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Except for an obvious omission, when Mr Steele went to the FBI about his concerns about Trump Russian connections, the FBI said, Yep we know about already.

  9. Flying out of Hong Kong on US Airlines No Longer Operate the Boeing 747 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Back in the late 90's I flew to Hong Kong several times with 747's out of MSP via Narita Japan. Two memorable trips: one was flying into the old Hong Kong Kaitek airport and leaving via the new Hong Kong on the first flight that Northwest Airlines (now Delta) had out of the new airport. The other was a non-stop of 16 hours from MSP to Hong Kong.

  10. I still use a HP 8100DN with the 2000 page pedestal that I salvaged from a former employer that was going to toss it. Still running strong after 10 years. Gotta believe in old 90's HP printer tech.

  11. Re:Solutions -- Won't Work on United Airlines on Airport Security Fails 17 Times Out of 18 In Minneapolis (fox9.com) · · Score: 1

    My inflight is very old-fashioned--books, the paper kind. I can usually finish a book or so on any flight to either coast. Usually books on philosophy or theoretical physics tho these days its hard to tell the difference..
     

  12. Re:Islands on Global Warming Exposes New Islands in the Arctic · · Score: 1

    Maybe we'll find a flying saucer that crashed there 10,000 years ago?

  13. Re:Nothing like working 80+ hours a week on Burnout and Depression Among IT Workers? · · Score: 1

    Then let us unionize. Companies really hate, look at Walmat slapping down any attempts to orginize. Just read that Walmat is trying to open some stores in China and they have to to allow trade unions there. Isn't that a kick, you can join a union in China, but here in the USA you can't.

  14. Re:Powerful incentives (and interests) on Hatch Pushes INDUCE Act · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Good for them on Energiya Pushes For A 6-Person Space Capsule · · Score: 1

    Yep I sure did...

    Persian Gulf
    Indian Ocean

    Better build more...

  16. Re:Good for them on Energiya Pushes For A 6-Person Space Capsule · · Score: 1

    Not really. We have about 12+ carrier groups. Perhaps 4 at any time are in port or in refit. Another 2 are in transit from port to operational areas. Leaves 6 for operations. How many ops areas are there?

    2 - East/West Coast USA
    2 - East/West Med Sea
    2 - East/Southeast Asia

    Did I miss any?

  17. Re:Readability? on US Govt Makes Times New Roman 14 Official Font · · Score: 1

    The answer is obvious, the government will publish the truth except it will be so ugly to read so nobody will.

  18. Re:Only in Texas? Not true.... on Jesus Castillo, Supreme Court, And Free Speech · · Score: 1

    As Molly Ivins sometimes says, Sometime the only good time about Texas is we're ahead of Alabama...

  19. Re:Remember nothing on The Disappearance of Saturday Morning · · Score: 1

    What? Still watching cartoons? On Saturday morning, and most other mornings as well, I wake up and boink my russian teen age wife!

  20. Re:Remember nothing on The Disappearance of Saturday Morning · · Score: 1

    What! Still watching cartoons? On Saturday morning, and everyother morning as well, I wake up and boink my teen age russian wife!

  21. Re:wow on U.S. Says Canada Cares Too Much About Liberties · · Score: 1

    "Sorry to piss on your little parrade", but I don't pay any way near 55% in taxes. Here:

    I have a two earned income ~100k/year

    Taxes:

    Federal 15k
    State 2k
    Fica 7.5k
    propery (house) 2k
    sales tax 2k
    gas tax .5k
    total 29k or about 29%. Still alot but less than 55%

    Sales tax = 30,000 x 6.5% ~2000. Not everything is sales taxed: mortgage payments, taxes, car payments, savings.

    Gas tax = 20,000 miles/year, 20 mpg = 1,000 gallons x .50 tax/gallon = .5k