If you read the details of the story, it becomes quite a bit less sensational.

"The world will pay me one gazillion dollars or I will unleash a rapid unscheduled disassembly upon the moon!!!!"

"The vast, vast majority of tech engineers that I talked to who are from the United States are very supportive of bringing in people from other countries because they want to work with the very best." Replace tech engineers with chemists or biochemists and that is absolutely not true.

...and then we publicized the hell out of it to make sure that the Chinese government would see it and crack down even harder on net access. But I got to write this paper and put it on my CV.

I see John Cleese as Tim saying, "Look! I'm warning you!".

Does anyone have a script a customer can stick to when dealing with Comcast?

Actually, You Go would be a pretty decent browser name.

Microsoft Edsel

FFS, is this going to be another breathless article about how corporate email is going out to be replaced by Yammer or some other platform de jour? Because that shit is just a waste of time. When my corporation jumped on the Yammer train (no doubt after a fiery sales pitch by some consultant), I started to see - in my email inbox, ironically - the hourly Yammer feed. It was 95% comprised of threads started by upper management which had zero to do with my day's work and which accreted into long long long posts as middle and junior managers jumped in with witless 'great idea!!!!' comments. You could smell the fecal matter on their noses. The other 5% was actual information passing between business units I had no contact with or interest in. But I am sure that in the next year or so some bright MBA will be sold on the idea of abandoning email and transitioning over to whatever the kids are using that week so that instead of getting actual targeted communications in my inbox I will be deluged with useless bullshit.

A European woodchuck or an African woodchuck?

Fucking Nevada Day Parade and we knew every year we were going to be behind Bertha and Tina. One eye on Sousa and the other on where you are stepping.

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The NFL is so afraid of TV that they are willing to let the broadcast rights go for several dollars. Wait. I forgot nine decimal places.

Depends on who owns the majority of the stock in that 'independent' company, don't it?

Well, my group all has wives or girlfriends, some quite fetching, so I am going to guess that is one difference between us and the television show.

Yes - in the mid-to-late 1990s Yahoo had a list every day of the websites that had come online the day before. In the beginning the lists were short.