" I guess I've met non-arrogant rich people who are super lovely and moral people."

A know a billionaire couple who are the nicest people you would ever want to meet. They own a closely held company whose name most of us in here would know. Fortunately my town doesn't play by "The Rules" I mentioned above.

Let the politically frantic stew in their own treasured assumptions.

Do you remember the paperbacks written for D&D?

They sucked, too.

The problem is the D&D universe is meant to be explored and played with. It places little emphasis on character development (as in personality), and even less on storylines. This has carried through to every attempt ever made to turn them into movies, whether for the big screen or for TV.

The biggest problem they face is that there are no "standard" characters that people are waiting to see, because there are so many characters from the various game packs, not one of which had a memorable personality to make them famous. So where something like "Lord of the Rings" had memorable characters like Gandalf that people were waiting to see brought to life, D&D has no such strengths.

I predict another 1-star flop.

They're testing this set of censorship techniques in case they are one day required to use them in the US and Europe.

"Does anyone remember when Bill Gates was evil?"

It's the rules. Every rich person who is not arrogant has to be guilt-ridden.

OR...maybe he's a nerd who, having more money than most of the other nerds, can indulge his geekly interests in a more world-changing way than installing the newest release of Debian and vainly looking for something useful to run on it.

Armature mistakes? I think you want the DC vs. AC thread, not the D&D thread...

Duh, you simply use your solar panels to run heaters to keep the snow off the panels!

Oh wait...

Photo print services are now a far cheaper-for-given-quality model for the average person, whether you want ordinary 4x6's of your vacation for that one relative who isn't on Facebook or a framed giclée wedding print.

The problem is if it goes away and gets replaced by something harder to block. Right now the Flash bottleneck is easy to control, even if it means I have to click to enable for a few things. If it gets replaced by something innate to browsers, rather than a plug-in, it could become harder to block.

On the other hand, that bottleneck is also a bad thing, in that when it's not blocked, it's a common source of vulnerabilities that everyone has. In other words, a monoculture.

A common misconception, but Australia doesn't have vegans. Vegemite is brewers' yeast that gets its unique flavor from workers who fall into the vats.

True, Nokia was in trouble well before the WinPho fiasco, but Symbian was just a sympton rather than the disease. Management had allowed the company to branch off into different product lines and encouraged competition between them with apparently little fiscal oversight and paying no attention to the third-party developer community. So, they had S40 engineers working on almost-smartphone handsets to challenge low-end S60/Symbian handsets, S60 engineers trying to widen their product range, and Maemo/MeeGo engineers trying and failing to prove that their otherwise unwanted bastard child was a much better platform. While the managers had their heads firmly esconced in their rectums, Elop took advantage of their indecision and gave them a false sense of hope. Or, maybe not. There's a theory out there that Nokia management knew that they had a shit sandwich on their hands before Elop came along, and sought a way to wipe the slate clean without taking the blame directly if things went wrong. Microsoft and Elop appeared at the right time with an offer that they would happily not refuse: take a large amount of money in exchange for them taking out the trash for you, money that you'll be able to use to restart your phone business from the ground up in a relatively short time frame.

"BUT, if you run the numbers, you will see that we NEED nukes. In particular, we need gen IV nukes since they can not meltdown."

Did Obama mention the N-word at all in his manifesto? If not, it wasn't a real climate platform.

I'm waiting for HitchBot5 because it'll be ALIVE! (and with a frickin' laser, too)

NO DISASSEMBLE!

Because that would require applying science, and we don't do that any more.

"As if private corporations do not require expense reports. "

I have to file expense reports too, and it's my company. Buchhaltern über alles

This should have been the neighborhood where the robot landed. It's near UPenn and has an Apple store, but it also hosts a significant population of Linux Orthodox. Either group would have given him shelter, fresh downloaded updates and a pint of RustOleum for the road. Instead he ended up in the Windows part of town. Had he looked around and seen the graffitoed blue screen stop codes all over the walls, he could still have taken a bus to safety with his remaining Bitcoin. Situational awareness, people!