The power of choice whether to accept systemd into our hearts, or to stop using Linux entirely.

Maybe it's not at that point yet, but it sounds like they're trying their darnedest to get there.

I think "us sycophants'" argument is that it has been this way for quite awhile now, and we're in fact passing the peak of the parabola.

Irreverent or irrelevant? Methinks the latter.

In a few more releases, it won't matter anymore because Firefox will *be* Chrome anyway.

Since basically their entire reason for existence is "we're like Google but not evil," yeah.

Or I suppose you could use some other search engine but that's just a rounding error.

Speaking of weird popups, I still don't understand why the hell that IE one exists.

I see you've got add-ons installed! Do you want to disable those?

_ Yes
_ No but keep annoying me about it every time I open the browser
_ Ha ha I bet you expected a "never ask me again" option here

So just move down the list. Jeez.

Ctrl+K to get to the search field, Ctrl+Down until Yahoo/Google/whatever is the one selected, type, and Enter.

I gave up using Yahoo Mail after (literally) 10 years when they stopped reliably delivering my emails. Kind of, y'know, an important function for an email service to have. I think after the third time that they started dropping all my incoming emails for 3 days at a time (and yes, I'm positive I should have been getting emails), and then they shat all over the interface, I called it quits.

Not that I have any faith in Gmail ethically, but at least it works technically :P

There is no way we should need an *extension* to do that. It's an integrated part of the product already!

I expect that if we were more informed about all the technical challenges space flight has to overcome, we'd be amazed that anything we've launched has ever worked at all.

There's a reason people include "rocket science" alongside "brain surgery" in the Really Hard Things vernacular.

Best wacky comparison I've seen in recent memory.

You know, all those people who are busy not getting killed by the incident.

And when the engineers explain that due to the design it's virtually impossible that would ever happen, *then* is when the hysteria gets blamed for the outsiders getting panicky anyway.

The Apollo 13 moon lander had an RTG in it. The lander burned/broke up in the atmosphere when they reentered; it was never intended to come back to Earth.

I believe the RTG is now sitting in a trench in the ocean somewhere, and they even swept the area with Geiger counters and said that the shielding appeared to be undamaged. So the component is built ridiculously strong.

So yeah...I'm not too worried about a (non-destructively aborted) failed rocket launch dropping an RTG on us and irradiating the area. Depending on speed, hitting water is pretty much the same as hitting land.

How many incidents/fatalities has the fossil fuel industry caused in its lifetime?

"Hey, sexy mama...wanna kill all humans?
"Oh, Fry! I was just having the most wonderful dream. You were in it!"