Apparently you've never asked friends to move a week ahead of time. Here's a rephrasing of the quote:

A friend is someone who will help you move a body. A real friend is someone who will help you move.

The keurig 2.0 pissed so many people off, that standard store clerks know about the keurig 2.0 and warn people away from it. I warned my stepmother about it before she went out to buy one as a present for someone, and then she got reminded again at the store. I was happy to know that they're actively pushing people away from an inferior product.

Also of note, I found something funny in one of their third party k-cup purchases at my parent's house. It came with something called a 'freedom clip.' It goes over the sensor and does something to the 2.0 machine, preventing all the tomfoolery.

While I find it funny too, apparently the Dota 2 yearly championship aired on either ESPN2 or ESPN3. Not bad for competitive gaming.

As people below have pointed out, its already happening. It also happens on some shipping terminals, a new one just opening up in Rotterdam this year.

A lot of people seem to think trucks house 3000hp engines and have the same level of acceleration as cars. Well..they're close to cars...when empty. Of course, a truck can weigh six to ten times heavier depending on its cargo, and the way you drive is singificantly different in these situations. Since a normal driver can't see the weight of the truck's cargo and truck signals give no indication of acceleration/stopping distance, this leads people to treat empty and full trucks the same way. I'm more observant of it because I work for a shipping company, but most people pay no mind.

My ex was from Canada, the waits are not a myth. It took 10 months to get an appointment for an gastroscopy and 8 months after that to have surgery on her esophagus. It took 3 different doctors and several months just to get the referral required for a gastroscopy because the doctors didn't give a damn and told her to 'deal with it.' She told me she had a far better experience here even paying full price at minute clinics, and that a lot of Canadians flock to US border states to get care because of the insane wait times

Honestly...probably not. We have the capability to put drop a tiny payload on Mars. Now figure out how to drop a payload with almost the size of the original launcher on mars in a controlled descent. It also has to land perfectly within close range of the rover, be able to re-launch, and probably have to retreive/compartmentalize the rover in order to not damage it during landing. Might as well just do a manned mission to Mars.

What an excellent description of faith. I'd mod you up if I could. I don't think I've ever seen it described more succintly.

OSS communities, by nature, don't lend themselves well to large top-down designs. Unfortunately, that's the most common way humans have been able to successfully organize authority, showing itself in government and business alike. The result resembles feudalism - a bunch of small OSS lords ruling their small fiefdoms with a tribal mentality for anything against their cause. It is a very caustic environment, and in my opinion, the number one reason Free Software remains marginal. Decisions around OSS are made on politics and ideals, not on pragmatism. Its hard to attract mindshare in that kind of environment.

Based on the name, this is a sugar alcohol? (-itol suffix like Maltitol). Sugar alcohols cause extremely negative intestinal and stomach reactions from many people. A lot of the protein meal replacement bars use sugar alcohols and a significant percentage of consumers can't eat them for that reason. See also sugar free life savers, which have been giving people fits for ages.

While it sounds good in theory, power plants and grids take years to expand, and the information needed to project power plant demand would be in the hands of the grid owners. It would be much harder to scale power generation smoothly with demand, and potentially increase the number of power company crashes due to the potential boom/bust introduction. This would allow the line owners to control the winners and losers in the power generation industry, and create a scenario similar to the way content producers like Netflix interact with Comcast.

While the potential for competition would be nice, the potential for boom/bust crashes of power generating companies could create instability and brownouts, something many deem unacceptable. In this case, I think industry stability > industry growth.

He was also the big push behind the neti pot fad. Some people died from it from contaminated water, if I recall.

Modders move quite slow due to the frustrating architecture. 1.6 required a major overhaul to most mods, and 1.8 is being avoided like the plague for the same reason. There's also little incentive to upgrade, since the amount of content in the mods is orders of magnitude higher than vanilla, no ones going to switch off 60 mods in a modpack to get some horses and a biome.

Argentina is in a bad place not because of the US or EU, but because of destruction from within by politics. It is a very dangerous place to do business in because the politics are volatile enough to turn a multi-year investment into a puff of smoke. As a result, ROI has to be really high to be worth the risk, and it creates a feedback loop that hurts Argentina in the long run.

Good post. When I read the summary, I thought it would have been snarky but somewhat truthful to revise the summary to reflect the true situation:

The EU selectively targets these large fines only at non-EU based companies, which I don't think is coincidence. I agree it was smart to investigate, but they haven't really produced much in terms of evidence to substantiate a $6bn fine. This isn't nearly as egregious as what MS pulled in the past, but its being treated as such.