MBAs complain less when you send half their number to the butcher.

Congress built the cliff, willingly walked out on to and then stood around arguing about how to get down while half of them were trying to saw themselves off of it Wiley Coyote style.

Every single person (regardless of party affiliation) who voted *for* this charade in the first place should be voted out of office. Maybe the next person will get the message that you can't fool all of the people all of the time. I don't particularly care if we keep the same party in the seat, just change the person.

If that was your first step into Linux, my hat is off to you.

Sadly, the number of Admins who know how or have done a Linux From Scratch (or even can compile a package from source) are low these days. Personally, I think anyone who is a Senior Admin should have done this at some point.

The truth is that Desmond Miles saved us all at the last minute. Otherwise it would have been much worse. However, he let out some sort of demi-god thing that's going to make ubisoft lots of money for the next few years.

Only if you live in a state with decent castle doctrine :) Otherwise, Mr. 9mm is just going to get you in trouble...

I think I found your secret message:

limp encyclopedic hero ate oval bagels thus tantrum, yum

Was I right?

Or was it simpler? APPLE BEATING MS OVERALL. MUCH INDUSTRY. CEO MAY LOT... no wait.. that isn't making much sense, I think I got it the first time.

Seriously though. what's with the CAPITALIZING RANDOM words? it MAY BE.. no it is.. VERY ANNOYING.

I think what's being suggested here is the bigger shareholders (who likely have someone on the board) that are taking longer term views (usually retirement/401k/etc funds) that see microsoft as a fairly safe long term bet are starting to get this itchy feeling.
The things that microsoft has handled badly (Vista, Mobile in general, now windows 8 is getting much the same reaction as vista, developers developers developers..) are starting to look like a bad trend. These aren't the guys who are just going to go "eh, one bad thing, short the stock!" these are guys who will sit back and go "bump in the road" and wait. When the bumps keep coming they tend to wake up and demand change.

This isn't suing, this is shareholders going "change the captain before we hit more rocks"

The question about "ignoring dire real world consequences" is a gross oversimplification.

I think if you talked to most of those who support drone strikes they probably see this as an alternative to sending flesh and blood troops to try and deal with the situation. Even sending a traditional plane puts a soldier in potential harm's way. To most people "Use drones instead, they are expendable" is an easy answer.

Most people are not going to weigh "are we hitting the right targets, have we caused collateral damage?" they are going to look at it as "Are we risking the lives of people who are on Our Side(TM, patent pending)"
 

Correlation is not Causation, but it's close enough for a conspiracy theory.

They already made it and named it the uninspired Ununpentium .

If this Xcom is as successful as the first one.. I'm sure scientists who work on it will be "unoffically" calling it Elerium.

I got it, I got it, I got it!
I got your number on the wall!
I got it, I got it, I got it!
For a good time, for a good time call....

Jenny, don't change your number.
I need to make you mine.
Jenny. I'll call your number,
  812a11b49b1a1cce5dd9a0018899501e
  812a11b49b1a1cce5dd9a0018899501e

Maybe not as catchy as 867-5309?

Dice will just get filled with a bunch of accounts belonging to A. Nony Mous, John Smith, and UCant SeeMe.

Straw man argument. If you, in your individual data center/office/etc are able to exhaust all of the private ip blocks for your management network that has no business facing the Internet, you have way more hardware than you really need and should probably consider virtualization, blades or some other method of reducing your server footprint.

All that extra power usage contributes to global warming, after all... ;)

Besides the obvious discrimination, etc things that are pointed out below, it's based on a passenger+luggage, and they typically plan for average weight for luggage+passenger/seat the plane can hold. It also generally has a pretty wide margin of error, and extra fuel.

Ah.. you must mean Havoc.

Seriously, he was the major force behind some of the major usability improvements in gnome, including dumping window managers that were becoming far too complicated.