They are.

Google has job postings all over advertising looking for infrastructure architects with ARM experience and solid state drives, with an aim of reducing power consumption.

I'd have to guess that was a server play, though maybe it's a handheld one....

Sounds like an interesting sex toy!

I just looked and the Oxford dictionary recognizes it, and points to archived letters from Keats in 1813 using the word as a verb.

It was considered an "overly formal" usage for awhile, but I think the use in computer-speak has brought it back toward mainstream.

Because "the book" is thousands of pages and has massive internal contradictions, all of "what it says" is an interpretation.

Not to mention that we're actually talking about a middle-ages translation of an ancient text, combined with a collection of a number of after-the-fact letters written about events, which, in many cases, were third hand accounts of events where the original author likely was not even present, which were hand-selected hundreds of years later by a pseudo-political organization, likely modified during dictation and then subjected to multiple translations from several archaic languages.

Yeah "just what it says".

Derp

Doesn't manslaughter imply that the killing was accidental, but still your fault?

While I would agree with the assessment you made about drunk driving, I think it's at least worth pointing out that one is a passive activity and the other is active.

In other words, it's entirely possible that every single person in america has driven "over the limit" at least once in their life (I'm not saying they HAVE, just that it's possible), and a small fraction have gone on to crash and injure someone.

In fact, hasn't it been shown that driving whilst tired, or while staring at a phone, or while reading, are equally dangerous activities and (in most states) aren't regulated at all.

In fact, having anger control issues is probably a greater risk for accident than speeding in most cases. Driving a car with crap-ass suspension (while totally legal) is much more dangerous than a "california stop" at a stop sign with clear visibility of no other cars in the intersection (which is not legal) and being hopped up on "Rockstar" energy drinks must have at least as much effect as a 0.04 alcohol level toward being a danger toward others.

When does the small chance of killing someone warrant a steep punishment? After all, simply being a "bad driver" is apt to cause injury or death in some rare cases. Simply looking at the outcome of a single drunk driving accident yeilds an emotional response of "OH MY GOD THIS MUST BE STOPPED", but does it warrant what people do as a result?

Devils advocate. :-)

Canada humbly requests your permission to suck ass.

Get it right.

actually, Canada is pretty cool. :-P They're fun to tease. Like that Vancouver episode of simpsons.

Hiya! My name is Milhoose. I just about popped from laughing.

It's a compound word which in the local language basically means "Eyja Mountain Glacier". Eyjamountainglacier.

There pronounce that. :-)

Especially a high-pressure turbojet.

Frankly, the auto engine's filter will handle the worst of it...

Uhm, I think it has more to do with the jetstream, which spreads the ash cloud over Britain.

It's not intercontinental flights that are shut down. It's ALL air traffic over northwest Europe.

In some jurisdictions, a condition of being able to carry one is to have been shot by one once.

It's most definitely a requirement for most SWAT officers and certain military personnel.

Yes, and finer print "only tested indoors, on first-time meth user sheep, in perfect health, who were sedated". :-)

Lot of qualifiers there.

Sure, but not in XP. :-P

But it IS almost 9 years old already.

Sheesh. Seems like a lot of people are pretty critical given the situation...

I'm sorry, but I'd be royally pissed of MS was trying to remove third party software from a machine without asking me.

Malware or not.

It's not the right place. A very appropriate solution would be to prompt the user

"A root kit has been detected, please visit the following website for more information and a link to a tool to attempt to fix the issue. This update will not be installed until the issue has been resolved."

If I saw that message, I would be shocked and amazed at the appropriate response demonstrated. If that happened, I would say MS went above and beyond to accommodate the customer and the security best practice.

The taxation of property was deemed untenable and dubiously aristocratic by the revolutionaries around 225 years ago (dunno where 300 came from?)

But clearly, our government has changed its mind and the people have basically gone along with it.

But at the time, the government decided that certain colors of skin were perfectly fine to own as property and to execute without trial.

But then like 100 years ago, we decided that one gender should be able to have equal voting rights to the other gender. I'm sure that's an "unalienable right" but the government didn't recognize it until relatively recently.

Don't you see the absurdity of the concept "unalienable rights"?

All rights are granted by the government. You can surely argue that taking 40-50% of someone's income directly out of their paycheck is a crime. That's what the original US government said, when the Brits tried to come in and tax them, but they decided they were going to put an end to it and they did it with bullets.

The only way to overrule the government is to overthrow the government, especially when the government essentially perpetuates itself, rather than being an element of the people's discretion- as it is in a limited sense within the framework of the constitutional republic of the USA.

More nuanced discussion and a deeper consideration of a broad scope of political history and social anthropology might help the understanding of the topic.