Sitting next to a table with used dishes makes you unhappy? If the restaurant has a host/hostess seating you, they generally aren't going to put you at a dirty table unless it's very busy and in that case usually quickly clear the table while you are sitting down. If it's a "seat yourself" situation, don't sit at a dirty table.

Source: 5-6 years as a cook and waiter

I'm having a hard time figuring out of you are talking about hacking groups or the executives of US healthcare companies.

If I only had mod points to vote this up Reddit administrators have been trying to gaslight the world about Aaron Swartz' role in the founding of the site for years now. They seem to think repeating the lie enough will make it true.

George Carlin had a raspy voice with remnants of a New York City accent. This has neither of those. I haven't listened to any real Carlin lately so can't really compare, but the pacing and tempo seemed way off as well.

If I heard this without the "this isn't George Carlin" intro, I would probably label it as a computer speech generator reading some Carlin inspired attempt at a comedy show.

I guess I'm old school too. I store objects in a hierarchy that I create and curate. If I lose track of an object, that's on me. In an automated system that tracks objects based on a externally, to me, applied set of metadata, I expect to lose track of more objects.

An old gnome email client, and Gmail, both try to do this with "tags" or whatever they call it this week. Leaving the tagging to me didn't seem any different than creating a tree of folders, other than being left with an enormous mess of an inbox. Now I'm supposed to believe a program that doesn't understand my thinking is going sort and tag things in a way that I understand?

[X] Doubt

In sports, just like the corporate world, it is often the case where a poor leader can be the cause of poor performance. Poor vision and strategy comes from the top. If you have poor strategy and a great team, you are probably not going to do well. It also tends to be difficult to fire the whole team and hire a new one.

Also In both cases, firing some middle level manager may or may not lead to a change in performance. They may not have a real say in the higher level strategy, and they aren't doing the actual work, so they're not able to have a large effect on overall performance.

>> the fact that LibGen can get new domains tomorrow

I would be surprised if they didn't already have alternative domains set up and ready for a switch in case the existing ones are seized somehow

Texas is second in size, has large, relatively unpopulated areas, and gets abundant wind and sunshine. It shouldn't be very complicated to see why they would be able to easily be leaders in generating renewable energy on a bulk basis

A person defrauds a company, and has to pay back 111% of what they stole. If Apple did this to consumers, why do I expect the fine would be more like 1% of the profit they made perpetuating the fraud?

>> Really? We still have people thinking Apple invented the mouse and GUI?

That isn't how I read the OP at all. There is a difference between saying Apple invented those things, and saying they were one of the first to put them in a product that targeted the general public instead of academia or some niche industry use.

And, to go further off topic, another theory is that Hayes had reduced mental capacity after having a stroke. According to his son, his management team, made up of scientologists, used this as an opportunity to quit for him. https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/news/a48603/south-park-isaac-hayes-scientology/

>> Promptly gets fired because they make more money than Stan, but Stan is good at brown nosing

Stan gets screwed too. He now has to do his job and yours, and since he didn't get a raise this year, he really got an 8% pay cut due to inflation.

Can you point me to any city, county, state, or federal government office that will take gold or silver for payment? It's been nearly 50 years since you could get the government to exchange those fancy green pictures of dead presidents for gold or silver.

A neutron walks into a bar and orders a beer. The bartender pours one, hands it to the neutron, and starts walking off. The neutron says "hey, how much for the beer?"

The bartender turns and says, "for you, no charge"

You certainly do pay a fee to use your debit card, it's just hidden from you. The merchant pays $.50+ a percentage of the transactions total value to visa/Mastercard/Amex. The merchant has to increase prices for so customers to cover that cost, so your purchase via debit card is actually being subsidized by cash customers.