When people notice these, or the mannequin behind the wheels, the decoy cars have been known to get decorated with donuts . . .

hawk

So with any luck, it will stop the California Legislature from breeding?

Great news for the other 49 states! :)

hawk

> And I have read that once upon a time in 90-s the FreeBSD FTP site
> took world's first place in total download.

Err . . . having been around then . . . the current FreeBSD machine tended to hold the ftp data rate records.

This lasted for years, across many versions, and was generally not the latest & greatest hardware.

hawk

MS has a million servers.

This is equivalent to, what, 100k Linux servers, or 50k BSD servers?

hawk, who remembers the hotmail attempted conversion from FreeBSD to Windows when MS bought it

>classical quantum mechanics says it cannot.

"Classical quantum mechanics."

OK, with that phrase, my Physics degree is officially obsolete.

Now I wonder how much time my Ph.D. in Economics & Statistics has left on it . . .

hawk, fortunate that his J.D. won't expire . . .

That "they is plural" is correct.

However, absent context otherwise, "he" does *not* indicate gender; it is the correct word for both male and for unknown gender.

Women get their own words, while men get hand-me-downs.

hawk

Head out onto the street. Look around.

You will notice some people are shaped a little differently. They have a couple of bumps, and their hips stick out. Some even have longer hair than the system administrator in the back room.

These are called "girls", and can be an interesting way to spend your time . . . :)

hawk

I think you misspelled "Running Man" . . .

hawk

The taxi cartel and a billionaire . . .

You may have misidentified the underdog on this one.

hawk

Put that way, maybe Windows isn't quite so bad after all . . .

hawk

These are not the socialists you are looking for . . .

hawk, esq.

It was as if millions of cases suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced . . .

Oh, wait.

Just 400. :)

hawk, esq.

And which of these don't apply doubly or triply to Windows?

hawk

>Google often jumps into things without considering all of the details.

Yeah, that bit on taking on Digital, who didn't need to make money on their "web" search engine and only built altavista to show off the capabilities of their alpha processor was a disaster . . .

hawk

The conventional wisdom is indeed that most utilities are "natural monopolies," and for the reasons you cite.

But in Lubbock, TX, there are two competing electrical grids--and at least as of a few years ago, among the lowest electrical prices. I've spoken to other economists who have graphed electrical prices by distance from Lubbock.

Competition works even in places where we would expect it not to . . .

doc hawk