It knows when you are sleeping
It knows when you're awake
It knows when you've been bad or good,
So be good for goodness sake...

Therefore, Big Data is Santa Claus.
I wouldn't have guessed; but the clues were there all along. He's a communist, which explains the red suit and giving away stuff that kids should be earning; but it still doesn't explain the flying reindeer. We're working on it though. We'll get back to you...

Retcon Midichlorians out of Star Wars. Shouldn't be too difficult to do.

"At one time, it was believed that the Force was the collective intelligence of microscopic organisms. Later, Jedi scientists discovered that they were merely attracted to the Force, not the creators of it".

As an added bonus, we'd get Jedi Scientists which sounds like it could be really cool if they didn't fu.... oh well, so much for that plan.

Now if you'll excuse me, duty at the Jedi Science Academy calls...

It's called "The Discovery Channel", but if they show us a man being eaten by a large snake, what is the discovery there?

The discovery is that if you try to do commercial educational programming on cable, this is what happens. I'm waiting to see if it ends up as 24hr pro wrestling. So the whole thing's gone meta. Don't watch the Discovery channel. Observe it.

I heard all kinds of stories about sand replenishment on beaches when I lived back east. The most interesting story involved dredging a few miles off-shore and dumping it on the beach. This had the unintended consequence of churning up the occasional sunken treasure. Visiting the beach shortly after such a replenishment operation, maybe you'll find a doubloon, but more likely an old nail or an interesting piece of sea-glass.

California doesn't seem to have this problem. I'll hazard a guess that it has something to do with the continuous seismic activity replenishing things. Also, young mountains bring silt down and many of the beaches are not sandy in the first place. So. The "nightmare scenario" of sand loss is a rocky shore with what we call "pocket beaches" of sand here and there. Strangely, I actually prefer this rugged shoreline. It's more interesting to me. If it comes to that on the East Coast, they'll adapt. I understand Home Sapiens is a highly adaptable species, even though it complains about change a lot.

So you're going to go mass-murdering cats and dogs too? (Intentionally using the wrong word between "murder" and kill", to follow your idols.)

The only shady thing here are claims by the pro-mutilation party that it somehow reduces the risk of transmitting AIDS. The only study that shown this result was Camp Orange, and it: 1. was ran by a group funded by MGM proponents, 2. has multiple claims of scientific misconduct pointed against it, 3. contradicts actually peer-reviewed studies, 4. included the time of recovery from the surgery within study time (a man with a penis in pain isn't exactly going to conduct in sexual contact), 5. gave sexual education to only one of the groups (during the surgery), and 6. destroyed the control group, making any further study on those people impossible.

I think you missed a memo. While it may be that most of the heat does go into the oceans, not enough of it has been going in there to explain the recent global warming 'pause' that climatologists are unable to explain.

lol. Says the moron who couldn't figure out Acrobat runs on neither ChromeOS or Linux.

You go ahead and take several screenshots of partial pages and then go into an image editor to stitch them together though. Hey, maybe you can even break out your iPhone and take pictures of your screen. That'll be even better, because you'll add an extra step or two between you and a final product.

I'll just print them, thanks.

LMGTFY: "bill gates genital mutilation"

llvmpipe is i386 amd64 only, though. In addition with Gnome's 3D not working with almost any graphics drivers other than Intel, Nvidia and Radeon, this means in practice that Gnome3 is x86-only after they dropped Fallback.

Actually it makes plenty of sense. The choice of whether or not to realize a capital loss should be his. If he pays BTC and gets refunded in cash, that complicates matters. My understanding of how the IRS would treat this is hazy, as I'm neither a tax expert nor a BTC user; but it's not totally out to lunch. He may have to write down the loss when he really wasn't looking to do a tax-loss sale. Even if the tax issue were not in play, the decision of when to convert should be his.

While the public facing human resources people may be clueless, the hiring process is anything but clueless. The hiring process select for candidates that are con artists. At a fundamental level this is because the people who are creating the hiring process are con artists.

Even his "charity" can be bloody and harmful. The guy put $50M for a campaign to promote genital mutilation.

Many states have locked PDF forms that can only be filled with Adobe Acrobat. The PDF can't even be saved once filled, so an electronic backup is out. The only backup available is a printed one. You're not going to be able to fill and print them on a Chromebook, even with Linux.

Sorry. I don't trust other people with my tax returns.