http://dilbert.com/strip/1998-...

And garage, beef, mutton, RSVP, et al are French words (et al is Latin), except when they're so commonly used in English that they become English. Burro is one of those words, although a case can be made for calling it Spanglish, since it's only commonly used in the southwest.

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary." - James Nicoll

Yes, that's the joke.

The end of the Ebola Outbreak is in the eye of the beholder.

In 2020, installing Windows will include having to download 500GB of patches requiring several reboots. Windows 8.1 currently requires downloading tons of patches, and there is still no service pack for Windows 7, the most widely used version of Windows.

"Do more with less, and with fewer coworkers with less experience. You have four weeks of paid vacation, but no backup (fewer coworkers, less experience), so if there's a problem, you need to fix it on vacation, so your vacation needs to be a stay-cation." -New corporate management motto.

morale = morale - 4

On an extremely minor scale, I was at a fast food restaurant the other day, and when I asked for a 30oz cup, the guy at the register rung up the 44oz. So I grabbed a 44oz, and he gave me the stink-eye. I wonder how many people he overcharges every day.
Thankfully there is no "miscellaneous" charge at fast food places, unless you count chicken nuggets.

Anyone non-anonymous willing to verify this?

According to the manual, you're supposed to apply thermal grease and a heat pipe to your wrist before wearing the watch.

I always thought it was the IT operations of many big companies that precipitated "Patch Tuesday"

The "water" was found to consist of nearly 100% of the fracking material, dihydrogen monoxide.

That makes me wonder if there might be a dry-run executable that gives read only and fake write access to a process to let you watch what it might do.

Yep, and it's so easy too. You can have the exact idea of what you want to do, but a typo sneaks in anyway. The example I always tell people is when trying to type /bin/rm -r /Data/ and they use the right-shift to capitalize the D, it's so easy to miss and press enter. Then your command is /bin/rm -r / (even typing that in this textbox is giving me pause). Even just /bin/rm -r /home/Bob or /bin/rm -r /usr/local/Foo could cause significant pain with this style of mistyping.
So I tell people that whenever they plan on doing a recursive delete or recursive anything, type the target first (/Data), then return to the beginning of the command line and type the executable and other parameters. That way, it's less likely a mis-key will result in disaster.

I dislike using sudo because I type in so many commands that I get into the habit of typing my password after every one, then I'm on a system where sudo caches the credentials, and I start typing my password on the command line.

I wasn't aware of this, because when I played, there were actual turns. Not concurrent movement. I would take my turn, then I would have to wait a long time for the others to take their turns. My guess is that you're remembering a later version of Freeciv. All I know is that they changed a great turn-based game into a "My connection to the server is faster than yours" game for no good reason.

Crazy does not necessarily imply incompetent. Anyway, in your example, Iran is better represented by an enemy soldier or a man with avowed criminal intent.