Actually, the reason why legal language is so complex is because it has to close loopholes that crazy pedantic intelligent people find.

It's the idea of "you have to be smarter to debug a piece of code than to write it."

This specifically comes to a head in that boilerplate contracts are automatically interpreted as opposing the interests of the drafter as the language allows.

You will all my internets for the day.

I imagine that you think Swedish, Norwegian and Danish are all different languages...

In spelling, Norwegian has two methods of writing: Nynorsk, and Bokmål... one is more like Swedish, the other is more like Danish, respectively...

But in the end, it's all just spelling the spelling, as they're all mutually intelligible. There is less different between the Scandinavian languages than Spanish and especially Arabic.

There is less difference between Romanian and Moldavian than there is between American and British English, yet some Moldavians insist that they speak a different language in order to create an "us vs them"

Linguists know that a language is just a dialect with an army.

Um... I didn't know metro still showed the taskbar and window decorations... oh wait, it doesn't.

Some of us pedants are aware of how non-grammar the "grammar" rules are, and actually champion wider usage!

Double negatives are totally awesome, and there's no reason to think they're bad. Split infinitives are totally ok too, because the "to" is not actually part of the real English infinitive! And ending sentences with a preposition is exactly what every Germanic language has, dones and always will do. Because it's not a preposition, it's a component of a complex verb.

I just checked it out... it doesn't go to metro... it goes to "everything is full screen unless you pull an app to the side for a split-screen effect.

Basically, it's like a tiling window manager, except you only have the choice of one or two windows at a time...

Indeed. Android allows you to swipe away a process from the "Running/Recent Tasks" list, which forces a program to shutdown...

"Always forever running, don't worry, when you come back it's there" is not really the best solution for everything... ESPECIALLY, if it continues to play audio...

Now, being able to tell an app like Pandora to keep playing after shutting down is entirely different...

I was reminded today, that very often a company will kill the golden goose for a kick ass deep-fried goose and have an awesome quarter...

In other news, the phone book has released hojillions of people's names, addresses and phone numbers.

It's not unreliability...

If it's not worth spending money to keep developers on the project, then better to shutter it, and have people move off than just let it sit abandoned indefinitely... right?

I mean, that's what makes sense in the real world...

https://what-if.xkcd.com/63/

It's common knowledge that Google has already been using consumer-grade drives for all of their servers. Because if a drive fails, "so what, we have another one over there holding the data..."

This is pretty much similar to what happened with GMail. They came out and said, "here, have a gigabyte for free!" and everyone was like, "yeah, right..."

Google has storage leaking out of its ears, and generates massive amounts of new data every day... sticking other people's data into the pile wouldn't even be a straw that breaks the camel's back... The camel is already hauling a hojillion ton rock, a straw isn't going to do shit.

DISCLAIMER: I worked for Google, this does not in any way reflect Google's official word on this news.

So, what's Mass Effect 4 going to do when the premise that Charon is actually a "mass relay" is no longer usable for suspension of disbelief? =^-^=