Or they were blinded by the fact that McCain/Palin would have been a complete fucking train wreck for this country after 8 years of Bush/Cheney.

Obama did drop the ball on many very important issues, which he specifically campaigned on. And for that, I can't really say that I am a happy customer with my votes. But when I think about how things would have gone with President McCain, holy fucking shit we dodged a bullet.

Wow. I really wish people would stop conflating "counts per minute" measurements of radiation exposure, with alpha and beta nucleide contamination. There's a lot of Cs137 and Sr90 contamination in the soil all over the place near Pripyat (and Fukushima), and just because you can walk through the area and get a few sieverts of decays on your skin, and no net harm, doesn't mean anyone can safely live there. Those contaminants get into dust, and you inhale it, or ingest it in your food, and they remain active inside your body for decades. It's not the same as either an x-ray, or eating a banana.

Yeah. Running Ubuntu? It was probably Amazon that notified Tesla that he was modding his car.

lol. I'm a VW owner, so my mods are just to keep the fucker running.

pretty much any developer (nowadays) is going to be running one or more development or test environments in a VM. VM's eat ram.

These guys have no problem accepting the validity of an economic theory based on an "Invisible Hand" - yet when it comes to actual solid science based on actual method and process (as opposed to expensive silk suits), they start looking for conspiracy theories to explain the results.

Not all depressions are alike, and not all sufferers are alike.

Some depressions are biological, some are caused by situation; (before diagnosing yourself as depressed, first determine whether or not you are in fact, surrounded by assholes - to paraphrase Twain, I think). Seeing a doctor can help, but sometimes, seeing the wrong kind of doctor can screw you up worse. Some doctors just want to push pills at you. And sometimes, it's the wrong kinds of pills, or sometimes, the problem isn't one that pills can fix. (like - being surrounded by assholes). (or. . . seasonal).

I'd say that if you see someone for help, and you're not getting any better with treatment after 6 weeks, definitely see someone else. I've seen CBT work fairly well for some people. And fail spectacularly for others. (and there are many incompetent therapists, as well).

When installing a security update for .NET takes 45 minutes, there is no pretending involved.

orion/sls is not a viable alternative.

It's a money-suck designed to perpetuate profits for contractors in utah. (particularly, ATK).

If the USA didn't want to be reliant upon the Russians for manned spaceflight, then they should have given NASA enough money to develop a proper new heavy-lift solution (ie. not orion/mars or whatever other ATK-based abomination the senators from Utah want).

I think that Russia sure as hell DID care.

Russia's ally, Syria, is currently in the midst of a civil war, partly due to the power-vacuum created when the US invaded Iraq. (Syrian salafists, who were previously a pain in the ass to Assad, but "kept down" - went into Iraq to fight the US. Those experienced veterans came back after the "awakening", and are now back in Syria, fighting to overthrow Assad. If Syria falls to jihadists/salafists, it is conceivable that access to the black sea is cut off.

lol; I saw the demo (halo 1) on on my dual G5 PPC. Talk about a disappointment.

As a developer, we're only "allowed" to run 8.x in a lab. Our IT dept doesn't want it on our desktop machines, but we need to run it to test our products, because we have to run the same environment as our users. (if any are even running it).

Building a payment infrastructure like the one Visa has costs many billions of dollars to build and more billions to operate on an ongoing basis.

. . . particularly with such high executive overhead.

They also eat a shitton of disk space.

Windows 7 SP1, set of windows updates, is nearly 1 gb.