In the ninth grade, I gave up on "The Silmarillion" about halfway through, only to start reading "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever". I've also never forgiven myself...

The effect of even an inch of ice on surfaces is absolutely crazy. We get ice storms in the PNW every few years and the only thing you can do is hunker down and hope the power comes back on before you freeze to death. Snow isn't a problem. Millions of tons of ice clinging to everything is a significant problem.

Especially with above-the-ground power lines, which is really silly with so many trees around in the PNW. Visitors from Europe are frequently astonished that a developed country would do it that way...

Says the anonymous coward -- you spineless twerp...

Don't you just hate it when you are doing 0.99c along an interstellar freeway and some photon is tailgating you?

Drafting...

Maybe her smartphone didn't have a decent flash...

Well done...

This is starting to be as common and stupid as everyone who complains about the McDonald's coffee lawsuit without understanding the specifics.

Apple is guilty of a number of evils, so it isn't necessary to distort the facts in order to demonize them. That you do feel the need to do so actually undermines your argument...

You are clueless...

I don't even have kids, and don't particularly like them. I'd be completely with you if we were talking about people taking kids to a nice restaurant.

However, with travel parents simply don't have much other choice when it comes to their children. I've never seen a parent who wasn't embarassed about their crying kids, but there is often not much they can do.

Learn some empathy...

Contest programs ran in the same process, so your rand() state was shared

This little bit of vital information is what moves your story from "stupid, could never happen" to "clever idea", and, absent this information, the original reply questioning your story was well warranted...

ESPN only charges $3 per home per month.

However, note that they require placement on the simplest "expanded" tier, which means that it is $3 for every subscriber, regardless of whether the subscriber even cares to watch sports. To net the same amount ala carte, they would have to charge much more.

When you get Viacom doing the same thing, the networks charging for placement, etc., the base costs add up pretty quickly.

I think that he was referring to a complete interpreter for a 16-bit processor called sweet16, which resided with the integer BASIC interpreter in the original ROM.

Sweet16 was pretty much never used, and its space (along with the builtin assembler) was reclaimed later when Applesoft BASIC came out.

tl;dr version: No disrespect was meant. The proxy baptism for your father was an act of love and friendship, which he is free to reject if he doesn't want it. I'm sorry if you were offended.

So you wouldn't be offended if some Satanic cult were to decide to "baptize" your father or grandfather?

I'm surprised that you can't see why this practice would be considered offensive ... and disrespectful. If the guy wanted to be baptized, then he presumably would have done it while he was alive.

What worth 100B dollars could Apple buy that they also could have a good fit with?

They could fund the war(s) in the middle east for less than a year. (Just to add some perspective...)

I was hoping to avoid any specific answers, as I've been sent to mod-hell for advancing a feminist agenda here on Slashdot. As such, I've been sticking to more generalized questions. Like, why aren't white people working in-proportion at fast food restaurants in Seattle? (In Seattle, it's almost exclusively Hispanic people working behind the counters, in New Mexico, it's almost exclusively teenagers.)

I think that was the OP's point...

Men are indeed overrepresented in engineering fields, for whatever reason. But, they are also overrepresented in mining, sewage treatment, and any number of less desirable jobs. And also less represented in nursing, child care, certain types of administration, etc.

Is it fair to cherry-pick?

Do you really believe that Turing should have become celibate because his sexual preferences were illegal?

Do you feel the same way about pedophiles? Not that being gay is anything like being a pedophile. However, your statement applies equally well to pedophiles. Why do you feel that it doesn't it apply there?

I swear, with all the real oppression going on in today's world, it's astounding the nonsense people come up with to bellyache about in the name of "freedom."

Yes, some people even spend their time whining about other people whining -- can you believe that!