I don't know why you need actual land to consider yourself a country.
A state is an entity which has an effective monopoly on force over some piece of territory.
If you can't make laws and compel people to obey them, you're not a state.
Schadenfreude is being updated by Merriam Webster as we speak.
... you have 20 seconds to comply.
Not saying it's not true, but I can't find a source for the "Apple pays Adobe" comment, can you help me out?
"In a culture that has adopted the ridiculous mantra “move fast and break things,” that type of arrogance can get a person far. But in the deep ocean, the price of admission is humility—and it’s nonnegotiable. The abyss doesn’t care if you went to Princeton, or that your ancestors signed the Declaration of Independence. If you want to go down into her world, she sets the rules."
For once a story that does what this site says on the tin, and the comments are all "so what", "not really running Linux", yada yada yada. Show us your repos if you're doing anything equally ingenious and joyfully useless. I for one welcome our beowulf cluster of these in a bowl of hot grits and Netcraft confirms it.
I was getting used to post-truth. Now I've got to embrace post-intelligence as well?
Half of content is AI-generated. The other half is critiques of AI posts, probably written by humans.
Just used up my mod points, can someone throw swillden a few Interesting and Insightfuls, please?
It can backfire though - they sent me a bottle of Omega 3 oil packed only in one of the bubble-wrap bags. It obviously smashed en route. Refund issued, I'll buy it elsewhere where the packaging is appropriate. So they paid to ship it, then for a customer service rep to talk to me (website said it was ineligible for return) then for some system to refund the money to my account. Kerching, or not
Each additional threat doesn't just add to the risk; it multiplies it.
Well, that is very good news indeed! All we need is one zero-cost threat to cancel out all the other threats!
the "Russia, Russia, Russia" conspiracy
The very same conspiracy that turned out to be false
Which Russia conspiracy turned out to be false? What are you even talking about?
"What we are trying to do with this is aid the officers to actually determine that you are who you say who you are,"
Weren't all the 9/11 hijackers fully identified before they boarded? How will more identity tracking keep us safer? What exactly is the TSA supposedly protecting us from?
Which form of energy supply is easy to defend against aggressors?
I think there's a world market for about five computers. -- attr. Thomas J. Watson (Chairman of the Board, IBM), 1943
