Yup, and now we have higher pneumonia rates as a result. Better for the herd? Yup. For the individual patient? Well, maybe not quite as much.

It's a tricky problem - you don't want antibiotic-resistant strains proliferating, but you don't want patients to spread or die of easily treated diseases, either. Evolution, in this case, sucks.

Any reporter who has the words "National Security" or "Counterterrorism" in their title and who isn't actively investigating the wrongdoings of the national security apparatus, is in bed with the spooks. There's no way the security apparatchicks will grant someone looking into their interests a solid middle ground - you're either with them or against them. To think otherwise is foolish.

Any news organization that has one of these reporters are simply letting a snake into their newsroom. Dina Temple-Raston with NPR should be fired for her breathless and unquestioning reporting on high-tech gadgetry and "inside analysis" that's generated for her daily by the CIA, military intelligence, and the NSA. Fuck, from David Martin of CBS to Martha Raddatz of ABC to this print-press idiot, these people are worthless as reporters.

No-one has quite found the right solution for websites...

And they never will until folks get it through their heads that, separation of concerns notwithstanding, needing to learn more than two or three disparate languages to make any software system is a bad idea. Just because the concerns are separated doesn't mean syntax and computational models need to be. Right now, to write a reasonable web page, you need to know HTML, CSS, and Javascript at a minimum. Take that all the way to the backend and you're probably adding Java (or Clojure, or node.js - yes, that's still Javascript, sue me - if you want to be all "up to date") and SQL to the mix. And I haven't even finished adding in persistence and UI frameworks and templating languages.

Then you get the situation that there's such a proliferation of the ancillary technology that employers who see anything from their technology stack missing from your resume and assume that the H1B who's lied on his resume about it is better qualified. We are building our own coffins with these new tools.

Since assembly or C (or C++ for that matter) are the main languages used today that can give you buffer overflow if used incorrectly, why are people letting programmers who have "never seen them before" work in these languages? It would seem a modicum of training might be needed to fill in the gap. Shouldn't employers who are worried about such things provide training in these areas if they need it? Oh, I see... It's all the contrac... uh, I mean employee's responsibility.

Asshole or misogynist, it doesn't matter. The behavior should be viewed as unacceptable. Fuck, do you go around telling people on the street that you're going to kill or rape them? And trying to shade the issue because someone used one negative term rather than the other, when no one will know what the actual motivation was, just gives cover for this obnoxious behavior. You just shouldn't fucking do that shit, mmmkay?

Plus, idiots like these are driving us towards the day when anonymity on the internet goes away. Do you want that? Because that's what it's coming to, boys and girls. So either act like adults and figure out a way to police yourselves in a reasonable way, or get locked down - the internet is now too important to the "normal" function of our society to allow a bunch of misogynists, assholes, or whatever to disrupt it. And the powers that be certainly won't let that happen. Defense of anyone who acts like this for any reason only makes things worse.

Well, gosh... Weren't you fine young nerds smart enough to see through this charade and not play? I guess not. Sounds to me like someone got his dick bent out of shape and is just making his whine bigger. Man up, pussies.

Yes, but there is common sense, isn't there? If you like going around offending people just because you can, you will probably be seen as an asshole with all the rights and privileges that entails, freedom of speech notwithstanding.

Freedom of speech is a right, not a mandate. And that freedom doesn't mean your speech won't have consequences to you. For example, I can tell my hostess that her soup sucked. After that, I wouldn't expect to be invited back (sorry, Mom...).

Did somebody say ponies?

OMG!!!!11!!!

How can you guarantee that? You are a man who seems to ignore basic economics (i.e., no one can guarantee success in any market inherently driven by randomness - that's why they talk about both reward and risk) and the Dunning-Kruger effect. And before you try to escape with "I'll always be able to find work, due to my inherent hard work, hard-won abilities, and stunning personality developed over almost twenty-some years of steering toward perfection", I know that you're a precious little snowflake and all, and that there's always someone willing to pay someone extraordinary for their skills, but, really... are you actually planning on a second career as a male prostitute?

someone remind me why this guy keeps popping on ./

He probably pays Dice for the privilege. Or else Slashdot just posts him because he's click-bait, baby. And the more you hate him, the more more you click, and the more Slashdot loves him!

Granted, it's not clear quite what he was trying to say, but he seemed to be saying that a package containing a whole, bone-in chicken costs about $8 where he is. Given that a chicken (at least here in the US) is between 4 and 8 pounds, at your price point of ~$1/pound, I could see him paying up to $8 for a chicken - especially if he's trying to buy organic chicken, for which you pay about a 30% premium.

Shoes, I guess - my feet get too cold and drop off in the winter, otherwise.

So maybe if you loaded the magnets into a shotgun, then fired them through your brain, you'd notice an effect.

You know, I've heard that you get the same effect by using rocks as with magnets. You don't hear about that as much because the medical industry wants to keep you in the dark and hooked on expensive magnetic technology instead of actually curing the issue for once and for all, cheaply and effectively. But take my word for it - rocks work just as well and only costs the time it takes to find the right sized chunks of gravel. It's just like how the medical industry suppresses cannabis.

Should be "Why Sane People Have No Time for Wikipedia". FTFY.

So, I think we may be stuck with "tape" as a synonym for "record," probably for decades to come.

Yes! And isn't it great?

Think of how barren English would be without the presence of archaic phrases - you'd not be able to bridle your enthusiasm, take a particular tack, or a million (OK, maybe a few hundred) other things. Languages change, but they have inertia, too. And I can't stress enough how good that is! I as a man of advanced years would sound particularly stupid using the vernacular of today's hipster, as both he or I would sound if either of us brought up phrases like "23 skidoo" or called a woman a "tomato", unless doing so in some ironic manner after viewing an ancient black and white film.

Or just look at it like what it is... Something that makes fuck all for sense, just like our fun, fun language.