Right, so let's cite the website perhaps second or third best known on the Internet for having lots of trolls as an example.
...of a site that already tried this, and failed. Isn't this exactly the kind of example that the article was asking for?
What would the dad have done if this were around eight years ago and his kids wanted to play Persona 3?
Well, since his kids would have been 2 and 3, he would probably have told them that it was nap time.
You're right. Encouraging kids belief in fictional places like Jerusalem, Shuafat, Golan Heights and Tel Aviv is never good.
I think that every American should have to take a trip to the war zone
The last time they tried that was in the late 60s. It didn't go so well.
After which the [vendor] will tell you that they're **you** failed because **you** didn't allocate more memory for IPv4 routes. [vendor] will tell management how they had foreseen this problem in 2006 and how they warned customers in advance.
I wish [vendor representative] luck in pursuing other interests outside of [vendor]. You pay enterprise suppliers the insanely big bucks to be diplomatic enough to not tell the truth about just who screwed things up. Given the choice between calling the customer an idiot and having the customer continue buying expensive toys with a lot of zeroes in their prices it is usually preferable to just say something about how you will look into how the warning wasn't delivered to the right people, and then shut up and never speak of it again.
"we bought cheap noname switched back then because the head of IT cut the budget by 20%."
Deflecting blame to the department head may make you feel better but it's a dangerous move. When life hands you a bucket full of... let's just say "waste products" you can hand it to someone else, empty it out the window and trust that nobody is on the sidewalk or carry it to the dumpster yourself. Throwing it directly upwards shows a distinct misunderstanding of how gravity works.
This is exactly the kind of problem that makes you glad you overpaid for name brand hardware.
Which of these two answers to the question "Why did our network fall over and sink into the swamp yesterday?" would you like to give?
"Um, it's because I recommended saving a bit of money on buying off-brand routers that couldn't handle everything. I'll go clean out my desk."
or...
"It's not my fault! We bought [insert name brand here] because they were supposed to be better. Round up the rest of the management team and we'll have a conference call with [vendor] this afternoon and get them to explain how they failed us."
(RoundRect was what the Rounded-corner Rectangle was called in old Apple developer docs, either when drawing a button, or using that shape directly in QuickDraw).
At the time, it wasn't easy drawing rounded corners.
Steve [Jobs] suddenly got more intense. "Rectangles with rounded corners are everywhere! Just look around this room!". And sure enough, there were lots of them, like the whiteboard and some of the desks and tables. Then he pointed out the window. "And look outside, there's even more, practically everywhere you look!". He even persuaded Bill [Atkinson] to take a quick walk around the block with him, pointing out every rectangle with rounded corners that he could find.
When Steve and Bill passed a no-parking sign with rounded corners, it did the trick. "OK, I give up", Bill pleaded. "I'll see if it's as hard as I thought." He went back home to work on it.
Fast-forward to the next century where rectangles with rounded corners are still everywhere, but only Steve's company is allowed to use them.
It's good to know you're not an "abusive user."
He only drops the phone when it makes him angry. It's the phone's fault, really.
I'm going to have to go with the same answer I give at most project post-mortems when asked the question "What was the root cause of our problems?"
"Lax hiring practices."
The problem with working at a job where you can do whatever you like and never get fired is that you are working _with_ people who can do whatever they like and never get fired.
If that still sounds like a good deal then it's only because you have never tried it.
The term that applies here is either "Bad Journalism" or "Bad Science Reporting". Calling it "Bad Science" and leaving it at that is giving the real charlatans a free pass.
Scientist: "Hey, this is weird... We just put together something that shouldn't work but it sort of looks like it did."
Headline: "NEW EXPERIMENT PROVES THAT EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT PHYSICS IS WRONG!"
Scientist: "It's not that... Look, here's a copy of a presentation we just gave to the rest of the department. There's a tiny and barely measurable bias in our results that we should be able to explain away but can't."
Headline: "SCIENTIST WITH TWO ASSES HAS RESEARCHERS BAFFLED!"
Scientist: "Um, that wasn't a press release, just a little paper we threw together to discuss our results. It's for other people familiar with what we're doing, and who know what words like 'bias' mean."
Headline: "LEAKED INTERNAL DOCUMENTS REVEAL NEW LAWS OF PHYSICS!"
Scientist: "I'm just going to back away slowly now and call some nice friends of mine who can show you out of the building. Try not to make any sudden moves..."
Headline: "SCIENTISTS INVOLVED IN COVERUP OF REVOLUTIONARY NEW SPACE DRIVE!"
Scientist: "Well, look at that. I just put a minus sign instead of a plus sign in one of the equations. If you do the math over again the results make a little bit more sense this way."
Headline: "REVOLUTIONARY SPACE DRIVE SCIENTIST WITH TWO ASSES IS A FRAUD! HOW WERE WE ALL FOOLED?"
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