Handbrake? Your distro comes with a wife?

I think you'll find that a disturbing amount of people think that agriculture is a hobby, whilst being completely ignorant of where their food comes from.

I constantly make stupid typos when posting, even after proof reading it. I put it down to seeing what I want to see, which is why I get somebody else to proof read something important. As I'm a pedant it really annoys me when I notice them after clicking submit.

To be fair I've always fancied building a cluster, but similarly have had no tasks to solve. However I wouldn't care if it took longer than my current machine because it would be learning about how to do cluster computing. I suppose I could open an old CFD textbook and cone up with a simulation and optimise it for clustered computing.

Strangely enough the Graun has more opening commenting than the Telegraph - I read both so I get to hear both sides of the news. If you avoid any of the Guardian US "journalists" then it's not quite so bad.

How is this insightful? Where do you get the idea that he doesn't want to find out "how dumb he is"? He's gone on the record saying "I doubt it will work, and I'm still studying for the exam". More likely he wanted to see what the reaction to the request and the reasoning for declining it.

As for Kirk, I thought the whole idea of the test was to analyse how people cope with a no-win situation - that is not faulty, as they do occur in life.

They're not, they're prohibiting discussing the purely discretionary bonus that the company awards to the employee in addition to their salary. (Semi-sarcasm, but it wouldn't surprise me if one was legal and the other was not). In the UK our [outsourced] HR lady specifically said that we didn't have to put our commission schemes in the [relevant] employee contracts, which fairly surprised me - I thought it would have to be documented.

1. Police brutality is a thing - it's debatable how endemic it is, but it does exist
2. Semi-hyperbole - however recording the police has been shown to get you in trouble, even if it is not illegal
3. Most of us have seen videos of people merely watching some unfortunate bastard getting beaten up/robbed, but noone steps in - again fortunately it doesn't happen often.
4. See two - some police do seem to believe that recording them is questioning their motives, and they are acting on behalf of the state
5. I don't know of any instances of this happening - it's possible this has happened - and in this case the man has been fired and is being charged with murder, so hyperbole
6. Even less likely than 5, so hyperbole
7. See 2

So, 5/7 are at least somewhat valid.

I used the biometric gates because it used to be a much shorter queue. Last time at Gatwick I was dismayed to see I actually had to queue, and most of my friends now have and use a biometric passport.

In my experience it's a minority, but nothing like 1 in 10,000. In the past couple of years the queues have gotten a lot busier.

Because there's been a lot of kick back from the aggressive tactics in the US, so they need to go further afield. The Australian government/judiciary has shown that they are willing to roll over, so it's a good target. They've learned to pick their battles and go for soft targets.

To be fair, I remember losing a day's worth of work when I started using CVS. It taught me an important lesson - archive the whole local tree before I try doing something for the first time. I think I thought that I committed all the work successfully, then decided to pull a branch, didn't read the message properly and overwrote all the uncommitted work - fuck me was I pissed off.

I also set up a couple of test projects when I started using Git, and played around with branching, tagging, merging, etc and testing what would happen when I got merge conflicts.

Out of interest, what on earth did you do to lose work? Any time I've tried doing something reckless it has given me a big warning saying "I won't do that - you have unstaged files, etc"

I use Git for Windows - it's pretty simple, but does everything you need, adds itself into Explorer so you have all the options right there in context menus. It also has a bash shell environment.

What muppet boots their particle accelerator without setting its BIOS to skip keyboard checks.

I get the idea that people don't elect politicians because they will stand for what you want. People elect politicians because they are less against what you want than the other guy. You're basically voting for the least worst person.

I heard an interesting interview with an Egyptian woman who was protesting against the Muslim Brotherhood. She said they voted for them (as did many of her peers) as they came across as being fairly progressive. It was only after they got into power that she realised what a mistake the country had made. They then looked at other countries where the MB had gained power and saw the the same pattern. She said if the country had realised what the MB actually were, they wouldn't have come to power. Basically, the MB are like every political group - they will lie through their teeth to get your support and then shit on you.

As an aside, since when are primaries a prerequisite for democracy? I can understand the electoral college system in the US - my understanding is that without it, people from rural areas would never adequate representation. But not many countries have it.