It's an improvement over suffering from diarrhea until you die, months later. And *a* cure for hemorrhoids actually does involve something like a soldering iron (laser). It's just a bit faster than 2 months, although recovery will be quite a few days. And incredibly painful if you're part of the unlucky 2% or so of the population who have nerve endings in the wrong place.

Hold it, you're disturbing the local house-psycho. Don't chase him away now, every self-respecting website has to have one!

I think it lasso'd us pretty good already :)

That's exactly the right way where I live. You start with a complaint, then escalate with a letter giving them a last chance to fix the issues. You give them a reasonable term, such as 30 days. After that, you terminate the contract and ask for your money back due to breach of contract.

You'll be much better off if you let a lawyer handle this sort of thing, by the way. But that goes for signing the contract in the first place, too.

Robotech was great. When I was in high school I tried to get my hair looking like the hair from the guy that comes back to save the Earth on RDF 3 (the expedition back to Earth that gets horribly mauled by the aliens). Ah, the things we do in puberty :)

I loved that - the double meanings in almost every sentence, the hilarious take on nationalism. Wow.

I also liked Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, and Transformers :)

I propose we immediately isolate the carriers of "fattening disease".

After all, it's infectious and it creates more casualties than ebola and the black plague combined! And since we don't know the vectors yet, other than "fat women", we should isolate anyone with a BMI over 25. In any case they shouldn't be allowed to travel. I mean, it might spread to Europe. Or even Africa, which has so far been mercifully untouched by "fattening disease"!

It's probably due to a horrible installation-image from her workplace. I'm using Windows 7 with 4GB, since 2 years ago, and I never had disktrashing. I regularly have Visual Studio, one or two databases (oracle, MSSQL), MS Word and numerous browser sessions open at the same time without running out of memory or slowing down my laptop noticeably.

Given the nature of the site, it's a bit risky to assume the sellers are fine, upstanding businessmen who would never ever dream of helping their reviews a bit...

It rather depends on what you get hooked on. If you get hooked on heroine or morphine (which is worse, I've understood), you're only going for the fix after a while, so unless you have a trust fund you will run out of cash due to lack of income.

If you come over to The Netherlands you can buy 'em right in the city center - leaves and everything on 'm. You can draw thea from the plant and use that. And due to all that nice agricultural expertise we even managed to increase the THC count to the level of a harddrug, so I'm pretty sure you're not going to have to concentrate it - it's going to be pretty dangerous if you do that to plants with 18 to 20% THC in the tips already.

The *know* it, but they don't *like* it. It's like stepping into a plane while the stewardess is reciting all the security stuff: nice, but I'd rather not hear it. And I especially wouldn't like to hear the list of unresolved issues with the plane, right before we lift off.

Buying customers can't back out, so you can list all the bugs in detail. Feel free. But I'd be careful with prospects. Especially non-technical purchasers.

That's already happening a bit. Vineyards are starting to return to Northern Europe, for instance. But if we take Norway as an example, the main problem isn't just the cold, it's also the lack of useful real estate. In Siberia it could be very different but you'd have to want to live under Putin.

Unfortunately, the size of the area under threat is rather larger than the area you could move to. And people would also have to move through inhabited areas that aren't really all that happy with the current influx of refugees. But I guess the Norwegians would be happy to have a bit warmer climate. Won't do much for the lack of light in the winter, though.

Very right. Every time I interview for a consulting assignment, it's exactly the same as applying for a job. If you're bad at getting your first job, you're going to be much worse at getting hired as a consultant. What experience do you bring to the table for dealing with the problems the customer can't solve with his own employees?

I can't find the reference right now, but if the average temperature of the planet increases by 4 degrees celsius, large swathes of this planet's real estate become uninhabitable. There's about 2 billion people living in that zone that have to get out, or die. Do you think an iron fence will stop them at the border? Not a chance.

And if the temperature rises enough to release the methane gas in the seas in the arctic, the whole process will accelerate beyond our power to control it.

Now, this may or may not happen. Chances are, if we do nothing it might not happen. The odds don't seem favorable though. In any case, gambling with the entire area of this solar system we can actually inhabit seems like a rather stupid proposition.