Well the tests keep showing the damn thing works! Maybe it's just magic. Works based on fairies flying out of an engineer's butt, or something. Hopefully it doesn't break the universe :-/

It turns out it was only actually torture about 39% of the time.

Real doctors take an oath to do no harm with the knowledge they've been granted. I guess that's why the CIA went with psychologists.

I seemed to gravitate to management where ever I went. I tried to do real work while organizing and directing the folks that worked for me. After almost 2 decades I finally got good enough at real work that they let me stop managing and just go back to working for a living. Much more enjoyable.

Then again maybe they realized I sucked as a manager.

Um, and that minor incident at the Bikini Island Atoll. Entire island nation loses their homes permanently and a bunch of people get cancer and die within a couple of years. But you know, you want to make an omelette, you need to break a few eggs. The USA and the USSR were doing open-air testing until nearly 1960, when the USA finally screwed the pooch hard in the south pacific. And then there was that time some jackass decided to detonate a nuclear bomb in the Van Allen Belt. That was in the mid 60's and for a year or so you couldn't launch anything without it being disabled by the trapped radiation. There was some concern that we'd ended space exploration permanently. But you know, minor little whoops there, no need to mention that in history class.

He never was the Libertarian messiah. Anyone who thought he was just wasn't paying attention. He has a marginally more interesting back-story than most congresscritters (Joker killed his parents and then he spent his teenage years spanking it to Ayn Rand novels,) but he's really only qualified to be a Fox News android.

The winning entry will be a heart warming story about a robot that kills all humans.

Of all the companies I've worked for, IBM was the one that by far knew how to do software development. IBM was also focused on delivering products that customers needed, backed with the reputation of a company that has been around for over a century. If IBM has a problem now, it's that the company has lost that focus. The impression is that they're aimlessly flailing about trying to find something new that can fill in the blank "IBM is a _____ company." It used to be hardware. They've tried to make "software" and "services" fit in that slot, but obviously that didn't work very well for them.

Find a word that fills that blank and really focus IBM on being that company. The agile process won't fix bad leadership at the top. The agile process never fixes bad leadership at the top.

If they sense that disaster is impending, they simply turn themselves off to prevent the driver from becoming overly distressed in his last moments! (Think Peril-sensitive shades for your car!)

Pandora's MAKING IT RAIN! Just do that dance 1000 more times and I'll give you a penny!

Can I play you for money. Whatever stakes you want (please be a billionaire, please be a billionaire)

The English Prime Minister never made it to Montecello's Pyramids, it was the Spanish under Francesco Bizarro that discovered them.

You have the pod attached to your ship. Then, when Darth Vader boards your ship you use it to send your roomba to safety.

Have you heard of my "method to present alternative possibiliies in a 'Scenario A: Scenario B: - structure" ??

But if you are in a place that has a couple shorter power outages every year and where thinking of getting a few more UPS-s and a standby generator, a large battery suddenly could be economical.

You only need 1 for the school. Think of it as a big game of evolutionary musical chairs.