Wait, so you're telling me that Jesus flew down to Earth in the Heart of Gold?

Or alternatively, the old adage, Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

It's even worse when you notice that their tagline is "Innovation You Can Count On."

Well over half the Steam hardware survey's machines have 4GB or more. A 32-bit OS means you can't actually leverage that amount.

If your biggest concern is running 16-bit applications, then stick with XP. Don't drag everyone else down because you're stuck on antiquated software.

I have it on good authority that all houses have, usually very early in their history, crashed to the ground. Apparently most of them can't even be dislodged!

Sure, but only if I can get a tax credit for 50% the price of my next house. I mean, if the house was not sold, there wouldn't be any tax revenue.

America's response to that is: can I make money off it next quarter? No? Not interested.

And last but by no means least: the trend is set well enough that you don't want to be trailing behind. You want to be the one others depend on for their new tech, not the reverse.

As a general rule, I consider that if you're being criticized by all sides, you're pretty much spot on.

I was downvoted in the last comments section about this, but I'll say it again: this is exactly the sort of thing Harper was looking for. It's exactly the sort of incident which plays into his agenda and it'll give him leverage to instigate further draconian security measures, when the actual solution would be to invest in better mental health coverage.

A lot of people don't want to see this. You can see the assumption everywhere here: those displaced workers will just find another job! Well no, at some point they won't. Automation is well on its way to eliminate certain types of jobs entirely and not all of those people will be able to find new jobs elsewhere. Even if they were to educate themselves, they'd come into a job pool which is already too small for the number of applicants, so at best they'd cause wages to go down and conditions to worsen (since corporations can pick and choose). That's assuming they can, which, especially in the US, usually involves thousands and thousands of dollars on something with no guarantee of a return on investment.

We're headed straight into a wall where we'll have people without any skills we need and who are unable, financially or otherwise, to gain desirable skills, as well as higher unemployment across the board. We can't wish them away and they deserve decency as much as the next person.

I rarely go to McD's but a fairly recent improvement I saw was the addition of screens to show your current order in the drivethrough. Significantly reduces the probability of a bad order and most definitely didn't exist in the '50s.

Just as most programmers today wouldn't be able to work with punch cards and so on. They're specific, narrow skillsets. If you don't practice it, you don't have it. Doesn't reflect on the individual's capabilities or intelligence, merely on what they do most often.

Ebola is a gruesome disease, but it's only transmissible by contact with bodily fluids. That guy who coughed in his hand? Can't have transmitted it. That other one who farted? Nope. The one who touched you on the way out of the subway? Not enough either. You need to be in contact with someone who's symptomatic and whose bodily fluids come into close contact with you (often your hands, then you touching your eyes or something like that).

The obvious issue is that doctors are constantly in contact with infected bodily fluids. The last stages of the disease put out a lot of blood and other fluids. You only need one brief moment of inattention to get it when in those exceptional circumstances. Yet, only 16 cases have been reported among Doctors Without Borders. That's in spite of the absolutely horrendous sanitation and facilities available there. I'd say that on the contrary, those people are doing a splendid job and should be commended for actually going out there and trying to stop the problem at the source with the very real risk of dying from doing so.

Certainly beats sitting in one's basement calling them idiots.