Focus all the worlds efforts on the people there

Yep, the world has no shortage of people wanting to take a one-way trip to ebolaland.

But APL lives on!

You mean the laws that stops private companies from digging trenches

Ain't no law stopping me from digging on my property. Oh wait, you mean the law that stops me from trespassing on and digging up other people's property without getting their permission first. Yeah, I'll add that one to the list for future reference.

it's because of government restrictions

Yeah, those damn laws forcing me to pay people to dig trenches, keeping me from stealing billions of dollars worth of copper and fiber, and stopping me from tapping into the electric poles to run the routers, that's what's stopping me from competing with AT&T. If only the government wasn't forcing me to come up with billions of dollars in capital, I coulda been a contender!

because none of the software terminals running under X can do this.

Several can, largely thanks to one library. See https://gist.github.com/XVilka...

I regularly fill up at the same station, so I do the math myself when I'm bored (I reset trip odometer each tank so I know how many miles I've gone).

Shouldn't modern fuel injection computers know how much fuel is being injected? It seems like it should be trivial for the car to tell me my MPG correctly.

He didn't ask for free cable.

Try "Do you think you should serve this shit to a US Senator?"

So that people can plug the controller in and use it without having to compile their own driver?

its not a $1k fee for internet, ever

Not everyone at the hotel is staying in a room at the hotel.

Do they hold business conferences there? Our company sends me to man the sales booth at conferences/expos all the time, and the hotels charge us ridiculous rates. I haven't gotten to $1000 yet, but the last one was at a Radisson which had a $150 "setup fee" plus $80/day per device for a two day conference (I expensed $20 to turn on my sprint hotspot for a month to run our demonstration ipad and ipod touch).

the HIPAA EDI transaction codes are X12 837 (claim/encounter transactions), X12 270 and 271 (eligibility inquiries and responses), X12 276 and 277 (claim status inquiries and responses), X12 278 (referrals and prior authorization transactions), X12 835 (health care payment and remittance information), and X12 275 (health claims attachments).

Huh. Which of those do I use to order a CBC? Which one sends a history and physical to the hospital? Which one does the MRI machine use to send me the picture of your brain? (trick question!)

Everyone's been using these transactions for years, but they are not relevant to the issue being discussed here.

Nice try, but we all know that it all depends on what the meaning of "is" is. I did not have sexual relations* with that woman.

Could be worse, they could have named it Windows One.

Squeeze was the first version to default to dash.

I'm pretty sure I was asked when upgrading to Squeeze if I wanted to make it the default, but the question may not have been a high-priority one so debconf could have been configured to skip it.

Apache HTTP server using bash as a CGI to process requests

Or any webserver using any CGI that calls system() to execute anything in a computer where the system shell is bash.

aka yourself

Or against github.