Say hello... ...to the slippery slope!

My favourite bit of the linked article...

The upper right area of Gnome Shellâ(TM)s top panel contained four separate items with their corresponding menus used for configuring sound, internet connections, power and user settings. This was bloated, fragmented and space consuming especially in the case of using extensions that need space on the right.

A new status menu that unifies all the above individual settings in one was imperative and we got it on 3.10!

...directly above a screenshot showing the top panel in question - which is 80% empty space.

Seems you can justify anything in UI design if you include the magic words "bloated, fragmented and space consuming" in your rationale.

Or a policeman having to commandeer a vehicle to stop a crime?

What?

If that's a serious concern then forget speed limits - we need to install a Yakety Sax button on every dash.

It was in an 86pt font.

"catty calling the cattle black"

Whaaaaaat.....?

This has to win an award for the most mis-heard idiom ever.

Going to show my age here. But when we went on long holiday trips with my mum as kids (from the UK down to the south of France over a couple of days) she kept us entertained by giving us a couple of pillow cases with random entertainments in it - board games, card games, i-spy quiz things, books, anything. Every hour or so we'd take out something new and that shut us up for a while. Looking now it's a 32hr round-trip managed with 2 stops (one on a Ferry for an hour) each way - and she was doing this by herself with just me and my brother for company.

In-car AV entertainment is easier - but it's by no means essential.

I had a similar problem with a bank account with the Royal Bank of Scotland. They lock you out of your bank account after 3 failed attempts to enter the correct password for a given customer number. Unfortunately because this number was similar to one for another account I kept mistaking the last few digits when typing it in. A few tries using my correct password and it'd lock up and tell me to phone customer services (up to a 15 minute phone call) to find out my account wasn't locked at all. I asked but (understandably) they wouldn't unlock the other account at my request.

I must have done that at least 5 or 6 times. How annoying must that have been for whoever that account belonged to?

...now, if only I could figure out which of the 9 randomly linked words in the summary actually points to it.

If Rob Pegoraro is this bad at getting traffic perhaps he should have been fired.

Thanks for posting that third link - I hadn't seen that image before. As you say, words can't do it justice. Incredible.

You're quite right! If you look closely in the second half of the video you can clearly see the smoke is traveling backwards into the engine. I'm surprised nobody else has noticed that yet!

Also, why the hell would you want to make things more comfortable in a shelter? You do NOT want to give people a reason to stay longer.

I know, right!

I heard that back where those refugees came from there are loads of free bullets. Why can't they eat them?! You don't even have bend down to pick them up, they're flying right around in the air at head height!!

But I guess that's not good enough for them. That's why they're coming over here into the middle of desert, stealing our barren landscape.

So selfish.

Excuse me while I go buy a new iPad.

It is telling that an (apparent) opponent of Snowden would hold up extrajudicial killing as an example of 'justice'.

So, I download the latest Hollywood blockbuster, re-title it giving it an absurd name, removing credits/publisher marks and maybe blurring/replacing the lead's face. Then I re-upload 'Deep Groat: Sub-Prime Deposit' (a.k.a Catwoman -it's a modern classic) on the Pirate Bay.

Our good UK subject comes along, downloads it and thinks 'Never heard of this!?' No idea who made it, no way of finding out.

That 'film' is now in the public domain?

They should have just taken some grainy photos of the disc and let Reddit sort it out.

[Seriously though, this is awesome.]

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