No, because all stations would have been on the same playing field. When one player decides to behave with especial assholiness, then, yes, people will remember that.

All's fair in love and business.

And we can call the universe warping mode "The Paradigm Shift".

"That's a great ID10T story. Right up there with INSERT INTO MyHugeTable (ID, Value) Values (SELECT MAX(ID)+1 From MyHugeTable, "Value") which I found on a table with one million rows when client asked why his website was so slow. "

I see almost exactly this in a newly mis-behaving app that I have to deal with. The table in question has grown very large. It bothered me when I saw it the logic. I don't have great SQL chops, but this kind of logic only works well with a serial column, right, as the DBMS will track the highest assigned value? If not, then the thing has to do index or table scans to find the value in each invocation.

CMIIW

thx, sr

It reminds me of all the fun in the past where various people or groups have tried to legislate pi.

I don't think she'll fit.

Yep. Job security.

Hi there Hi there, thanks for the incredibly large low-rez picture of a gorge cut by a river.

Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh

On the comet, the mighty comet,
the lander sleeps tonight.
On the comet, the quiet comet,
the lander sleeps tonight.

woo-oo-OO-oo..

Truth.

"You know, when the complexity of a problem is growing exponential, even if you could use all the energy in the universe you will not able to solve it. That is the point."

I believe that I read that before the end of classical physics, things were getting very complicated. It took various theories--electo-magnetism, relativity, quantum mechanics, etc--to make sense of the experiments that were being done at the end of that era.

Similarly, we're now trying to resolve relativity vs. quantum mechanics. I believe that the complexity that we have now is due to the fact that we have to reconcile two theories that don't match "reality", and today's experiments have complex results, and when the answer to life, the universe and everything is found, and a new unified theory supersedes modern physics, a lot of the theoretical complexity will go away.

I expect it to be less than two centuries for that to happen.

Interesting. Of course, the people who actually run the county will then "fire" the sheriff due to all the fedmoney drying up. Greed crosses all boundaries.

You want to test someone for STD's for a job?

Security by obscurity?

I thought of this too, but couldn't remember who wrote it. I remember reading one of the series he did on slow glass waybackwhen. It definitely caught my imagination then. Good stuff.