Perhaps not anymore. The OP seems to be suggesting that they're moving to a cloud storage paradigm where you no longer have local access to the files, in which case you can't easily (or perhaps, eventually, at all) pass them to GIMP or whatever else.

For what it's worth, your post isn't a haiku either. Nor was the original "Linus Haiku". A haiku need not have a 5-7-5 syllable structure; and a 5-7-5 syllable structure does not make something a haiku. Haiku require a cutting word (kireji), and carry imagery of the natural world.

These are closer to senryu than haiku.

Horseshit. I know you want to cover for your bud, but they're both murderers.

For what we pay them, we're not going to get that kind of bravery.

As a country, we could pay cops a lot more money and get recruits who you'd actually *want* to be a cop. But as a country we value entertainment more than having competent police (or teachers), so we pay cops (and teachers) small money, and so those professions don't attract the best possible recruits.

. . .but never separated by only one other story.

But the implicit assumption you're making in this case is that all these flooded houses in Houston were likely to experience a flood like this. Likely over what sort of time scale? As others have noted multiple times, there is no historical precedent at all for what happened. It makes perfect sense to criticize re-building in a place that has repeatedly flooded. But we're talking about places that have never, ever flooded in recorded history. Any estimate of the likelihood of something like this happening would have been absurdly small -- non-zero, yes, but absurdly small. So if you're using the criterion that one shouldn't live in a place where the likelihood of a flood is non-zero, then the earlier complaint remains: the same argument can be made of every other type of disaster, and there's no place on the entire planet one can live.

Absolutely. The one I was quite frustrated about was when the VERY useful (for me, anyway) Usenet archive DejaNews got folded into Google Groups and then made useless. Searching for old Usenet posts now is harder than it was, and most old content appears to have gone unavailable.

I don't expect that Google will care one bit about the complaints of posters here; but it's a little bit of comfort to hear other people expressing the same feelings I have. I'm sure there are people out there who like these changes, but I cannot imagine why. What they describe as a "cleaner" interface is, for me, too homogenous. What they got rid of to make it "cleaner" was, for me, useful content. Scrolling around it now is actively unpleasant. Google News has been my homepage on all platforms for years. Now, I'm looking for a new site to use as my homepage.

In response to these events, WikiLeaks has tweeted "Trump's National Security Advisor Michael Flynn resigns after destabilization campaign by US spies, Democrats, press."

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...

Wow. WikiLeaks has become a completely, utterly, totally different animal from what they were when they started out.

Yeah, I read the summary and assumed they were women. Mea culpa. My point to the parent post stands, though.

Cool story, bro. But what it has to do with revealing the identities of two teenage Saudi rape victims, I don't know.

Yeah, that's definitely how it works in Saudi Arabia, where the women in question live.

"Third. What kind of idiot doesn't back up their stuff?"

What kind of idiot doesn't RTFA they're complaining about? He *did* back up his stuff; that's how he was able to recover his stuff. The blog post was informational, for folks who don't know about this issue.

You didn't read the article, did you? He *did* back up his shit; that's how he was able to recover from what Apple did. The blog post was informational, for people who might not have realized what could happen.

Yeah. I still buy CDs; and I rip them to FLACs for when I can't play the CDs any more.