Monitors used to be better than fucking tv's is the point. Now we've gotten retarded and gone backwards due to idiot box functions taking over most peoples understanding of what a computer display should be.

"That's where the ATV and solitare analogies don't make sense. If you wanted those analogies to be fair, you'd have to say that the ATVs were custom built for golf and those ATVs should be banned everywhere forever by law because they were used on one golf course. If I made a cheat friendly solitaire program, and used it to cheat, it is reasonable to ban me from using it on specific systems where the TOS disallow it, but to say that the program I wrote is itself illegal and can never be used, sold or given to anyone because it broke the rules on one system; that's just wrong."

Seems like they built a Blizzard-Terrain Hack Vehicle and not an All-Terrain Hack Vehicle, so there may be some weakness in your analysis.

"The CEO. If you don't know what's going on in your company, you're criminally negligent anyway."

Unless you're Jon Corzine.

Totally wrong on the puddle, not bothering with the rest.

http://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/faqs/commercialflights.html

Nutshell:

"The corresponding annual effective dose, based on 700 hours of flight for subsonic aircraft and 300 hours for the Concorde, can be estimated at between 200 mrem for the least exposed routes and 500 mrem for the more exposed routes."

500 mrem is equal to 5 millisievert. So 100 msv is equal to 20 years of commercial airline employee exposure. In one hour.

Don't forget the sapping and impurification of our bodily fluids!

Deny them your essence!

Totally agree. And fuck Israel.

It's also amusing that you don't, are wrong, and are so smug about it.

So you equate liberty with government handouts? Bizarre, if true.

Priceless. That was simultaneously the most hilarious and sad post I've seen in a long while. Kudos.

"whole thing sounds a bit clockwork orange to me"

Bingo.

The Midnight Commander progress meter is for me the standard by which all others are judged, and is on my Things of Serious Fucking Beauty list. For years it has put to shame the fluctuating WAG meter in Windows. You know it if the network or something starts suddenly slowing down your move/copy - the throughput readout doesn't lie.

And tsk, tsk. What can I say, it's a battle between the young and the old internal geeks.

I also note sadly to myself that my old geek would scold, while the current enforcement mindset would encourage terrorist charges. And also noting that the fact that I would even _think about that_ is fucking sad.

"Why don't y'all take that badge and shove it up your ass. All up in your ass." I'm American.

Welcome to the forum Dr. Soong!

Joking. That post was a thing of beauty. And fwiw anon, I have mods but was moved to reply. So...damn given and thanks for reviving the old /. vibe in me for a moment.

On the whole, I would say no.

Building a reputation for quality is hard and restrictive. It restricts your ability to be lazy and make short term cash by ripping people off.

China can make high quality things right now. They just choose not to.

And though I feel it is crucial, I will leave the cultural differences between Germany/Japan and China unexplored so as not to incite a riot.