I blame the dealerships too. The last time I went shopping for a car, I told the salesman I was looking to replace my Chevy Malibu, and wanted something small to midize that was good in the snow. Despite the bevy of options on the lot, he walked me over to a Challenger SRT ... a rear-wheel drive boat that most likely isn't even particularly good in the rain. Looking around, though, the dealer had invested in a lot of special edition models of sports cars (2 Mustang Roushes, a GT500, the Challenger, etc) and that was what he needed to sell that day. If I was the guy making midsize sedans, I wouldn't want that guy involved in selling my cars either.

Hate to disappoint you, but names of vessels are italicised.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu...

Cheers.

That's a bit arrogant, isn't it?

Even false things can be true.

Most people want their thinking and learning done for them. There is no magic cure for this, alas.

Seldom have I witnessed such a complete missing of the point as yours.

You posted AC, too--good choice.

Gosh. I can't find the word "cashback" in any dictionary.

I'm guessing it's something made up by non-native speakers who've not yet learnt "rebate" or "refund"?

DRM

Google Glass (or similar small, wearable camera, preferably hidden).

Casualties from modern, western nuclear designs are easy: zero. You get more exposure from a banana than standing next to TMI during the event. And yes, the nimby folks are the source of most of the problems. We wouldn't have plants decades past their intended life using obsolete designs, and we'd be storing nuclear waste in geologically sound facilities rather than temporary storage pools.

As for scalability, you can add a reactor to a nuclear site much more easily than you can add a dam to a hydro site.

In which parallel universe is it that PhDs bother with teaching at the high school level?

A factual statement followed by a mischaracterisation followed by a statement that really doesn't mean anything but is supposed to sound like it does.

And we're supposed to accept this rather poor attempt at being clever in lieu of logic.

Yes sir, we are indeed on Slashdot.

So all the cool kids are rewriting their DB servers and OS kernels in Python? How did I miss that?

My dad taught me that when Bill Gates was still stealing code out of dumpsters.

Thanks for the reminder, I'd fallen out of the habit of reading this strip.

Yeah, I stopped at "unique to ..., and ...". No need to have my intelligence insulted any further.

Basically, Putin was all palsy-walsy with the West until he saw this wasn't going to give him any sort of license to reincorporate the Baltics/Ukraine. Then it turned into "They're all out to get us".

Stop feeding the trolls, JC.