Comment Re:R.I.P., Mr. Kordek. (Score 1) 89
TOASTY!
In Total Carnage, an evil Middle Eastern dictator named General Akhboob closes off his country to the rest of the world following a war in 1999. Hundreds of reporters flocked to the zone in hopes of getting a real scoop. Unfortunately for them, one of the reporters discovers that there's more than baby milk being made at the 'Baby Milk Factory'.
General Akhboob then captures the reporter, as well as all the remaining reporters in his country. It turns out that General Akhboob has been building an army of mutants and a stockpile of chemical weapons. He's also holding several American reporters and other civilians captive. It is up to the Doomsday Squad, composed of Captain Carnage (Player 1) and Major Mayhem (Player 2), to invade Akhboob's base, wipe out his forces, destroy the mutants, rescue all the hostages and capture Akhboob.
" When you go into the desert with a rifle, you have respect for the cacti. They stand tall and proud, some of them have been there for over 100 years. They're like the wise old men of the desert, you respect 'em. But jackrabbits, man, the motherfuckers are like flies. You can shoot 'em all day long. "
This tiny bit of hardware hidden under the shell shaped like a classic Soviet F1 hand grenade
Because only violent communists believe in the free flow of information.
But seriously, They'd probably be better off using a Picotux to forward traffic.
It's possible Google is just really incompetent over all these "oopsies", but they sure try to represent themselves as a company with above-average engineers. It has to be one or the other.
I'll be an annoying Philosophy 101 kid and state right off the bat that's a false dichotomy.
Anyway, anybody who's worked in the tech sector(or read enough Dilbert, or both) knows that even the "above-average" engineers are boneheads. I'll give you a few real-life examples I have encountered - an engineer who though it would be a good idea to couple zinc anodes to a titanium plate to be deployed under the sea, the engineer who didn't overdesign a power circuit which resulted in exploding power transistors, the engineer whose published programs are riddled with misspellings, the engineer who didn't design for standard industry sizes resulting in having to stretch gaskets to get them to fit, the multitude of engineers who don't comment their code except for their initials at the tops of the source files, and the list goes on and on.
"The medium is the massage." -- Crazy Nigel
