Or perhaps he wanted to open the PDF in a window. One would think that should be fairly easy. You know... in Microsoft Windows.

You do know pollution can also be atomic particle that can only occur through fusion on the planet.
Also, light is a pollution as well.
Basically too much of things that need to be artificially created would be a reasonable definition of pollution for this usage.

How about we have a reasonable education for all? It turns out honors in High School is not a predictor of college success.

" Shouldn't we always strive to help the best the most?
define 'the best'? Is the person who never took a risk really the best?

Not if it has paradox-absorbing crumple zones.

"Smartphones are for work, for life. They're not toys, they're tools."

Eh, if that were strictly the case, the market would be a lot different. Smartphones are a lot of things: tool, toy, fashion, entertainment.

Window Update? How dare Microsoft regularly and automatically patch known security flaws in their OS and other software.

*shakes fist in Redmond's general direction*

Who cares what it's called? No one I know of is trying to compare this to the horrific losses in Japan after the tsunami, or other major disasters around the world. It was a big deal to us here in WA state (and I heard the terms "disaster" and "tragedy" used more often anyhow). An entire square mile of mud 10 to 40 feet thick wiped entire families and/or all their property from the face of the earth in an instance. Whatever you want to call it, it was pretty awful for everyone involved - including the rescuers.

If my next-door neighbor gets robbed or had their house burned down, that would be a big deal to our local little neighborhood. Someone in the next town over might sympathize, if they heard about it at all. It wouldn't get reported on the other side of the country. That's just the reality of life, and it's nothing to wring our hands over.

We are talking about ODF here. The encoding will be UTF-8.

ASCII is a subset of UTF-8-encoded Unicode. If you do not use anything beyond ASCII in your document, the unzipped file will only contain ASCII. If you put Korean characters into your document (and you do not have to change font to do so, if you are using a decent font), the unzipped file will contain non-ASCII characters. In both cases, the file will be a valid UTF-8-encoded Unicode XML document.

Well the DRM isn't actually a useful feature, but having a player that supports BD-J, when BD-J is used for some kinds of DRM, is useful insofar as it lets you view the DRM'd discs.

If the question is whether BD-J being part of Blu Ray has added any useful features to Blu Ray, then I think the answer is no.

American engineering tends to use US-customary units. Scientific research mostly uses metric, but engineering uses mostly US-customary, somewhat varying by field (e.g. medical devices tend to use metric).

Interestingly it's so ingrained into a lot of aspects of North American production that even Canada, which has switched to using metric for engineering, has a lot of parts specified in a way that obviously refers to customary units, with things strangely coming in multiples of 25.4mm, 0.454kg, and the like.

I'll agree with your premise that assholes are assholes, though, and yes, I've met my share of them (there are plenty of middle-class and rich assholes too, in case you missed it). But I think a much smaller percentage of assholes have the courage to say nasty things right to someone's face, on the record, and with the possibility of immediate retaliation. If the only think that keeps their piehole shut is the possible consequences, legal or otherwise, that's fine by me.

Oh, and for what it's worth, anti-sexism laws haven't changed how "middle-class people view women". The laws are just a reflection of changing mores in society. I'd say you've got cause and effect reversed. The majority of people collectively decided it was no longer acceptable to sexually harass co-workers/underlings and later dismiss it with a wink and nod. Seriously, read some of the shit these women have had to put up with. There's no goddamn excuse for that - none at all. And I'm not going to excuse it no matter what someone's social or economic position is. And fuck anyone else who tries to excuse it for any reason, because they're part of the problem as well.

"Just last night I was told I was going to be raped, along with my mother, for beating someone in a fighting game. "
Did they text that to your person phone? Did they tell you they are going to kill o and include the make and model of your car?
No? probably not the same thing then.

"you know that this is the internet we live on"
Maybe we should try to make it better? nah, lets just give up and shrug our shoulders.

" I implore everyone to provide proof of their allegations"
I agree. It's critical.

"before labeling it as a systemic issue.
it is a systemic issue, and it's pretty well documented. There is a difference between A threat, and a systemic issue of threats within a community.

"and I don't enjoy being falsely stuck in to a harasser category because I work in tech and have a penis but won't label myself a 'feminist'."
knee jerk much? no one is doing that, get over yourself.

" Furthermore, I feel that articles like this with claims but no evidence will just make people shy away from hiring Women for fear they are going to start claiming harassment when there is none."
did you read the article? Nothing in your post seems to indicate you did.

if you 'have' to do something with your girlfriend, then maybe you should find someone else?
I don't understand this stupid idea that a spouse can't enjoy something the other spouse does if for nothing more then to share in their enjoyment.