Thanks for the possible solution to my pet dilemma, but who would I get to take care of them when I'm overseas? No different from having a cat, in that regard.

Haha, if you're going to use a *nix system, you might as well go with one that you actually control.

I didn't like Ted even in the 70s when it was cool to like Ted.

And here I was, hoping you were introducing a new Steely Dan concert clip... ah, well.

(Dunno if you intended it, but your intro sounds just like the MC's intro to the live version of "Bodhisattva".)

"Your country -- Norway" inspires confidence, definitely.

(In case you don't get the joke, I live in Stockholm.)

Hi, kids! It's time once again for that old Slashdot favourite, Meme #537, "[citation needed]".

A casual Google search for "crime rate new york city vs london" yields indicators that NYC has about 4 times the rate of homicides and other violent crime than London, as of last year.

The TL;DR version: "I think you're making stuff up."

Where I work, you don't do anything with company-owned data unless it's on the corporate VPN.

It's one of the world's 5 largest software companies, does billions in business in the PRC annually, and it's not Microsoft or Apple.

I do not think when I visit China next month that I will find the corporate VPN blocked. It certainly isn't being blocked right now for my colleagues who live there.

The term "50-centers" is of wide enough currency in the English-language popular media that I don't think we need it explained to us, but thanks for playing.

And it's wumaodang if you want to get pedantic about it

+1.

XChat would like to have a talk with you.

Yours is a world I'd prefer not to live in.

23 of them, motherfucker.

I dunno, mon... Why do idiots mod down Interesting/Insightful comments?

Having made many, many calls from Australia (and other places) to my mom in the US, she's probably in there, too.

And this will make them cease being idiots and racists... how, exactly?