Comment Re:Yes, but can it launch Waze (Score 1) 235
Yep, completely inflexible.
what does that have to do with the question being asked?
Everyone is mentioning Seattle, which is the city where the Space Needle is located. "Seattle" is a very wrong answer to the question, "Olympia" less so. I'm surprised you couldn't pick that up from the conversation.*
*Not really, you seem pretty inflexible.
Just impose an imperial units labeling tax
I can tell you don't work with the public much. Would you call it that, too? "The Imperial Units Labeling Tax"?
Water freezing at 0 and boiling at 100 is quite handy
In what way?
Metric isn't arbitrary... 1 litre of water occupies 10cm3.
What isn't arbitrary about the meter? Sorry, metre...
His schtick is that he thinks that the hosts file is the only way to block malware.
It's actually more odd than that: he "advocates" an installed program which curates the Hosts file. Seems too complicated for me; I just download a hosts from mvp or whereever.
Meanwhile the real root cause (human nature) is being almost completely ignored.
Yes, that sounds like a much easier problem to tackle, Comrade.
what term do we use for 'dystopian'?
"News for Nerds, Stuff That Matters" ?
Who is this jerk?
No, no, it's, "Oh yeah, if Neil deGrasse Tyson is so smart, why'd he bite that guy's ear off?"
ninja
One group where I work has started calling them "SEAL Teams"
consume the services of sites that run them
I made a request for some HTML from one domain.
why do you freeload?
I'm cheap. And paranoid.
If you like something you support it, right?
Not particularly financially, no. See above.
but still want it to be there tomorrow for them
I want a lot of things.
who do you think pays the bills on sites?
Obviously, self-evidently, I don't care about the financing of my diversions, or I'd have ads turned on. You're not very good at this.
Who do you think puts the work in?
H1B's? Am I close?
Do you get paid for doing YOUR job?
The website I develop for actually sells a product.
No man is an island if he's on at least one mailing list.
