Well, I can correct you one point (although you may disagree with me anyway). The Una-bomber (a.k.a. Ted Kaczynski) is probably defined most accurately as a luddite more than anything else. If you read his Manifesto, it's clear that he had both extremist left-wing views as well as a right-wing views. If you read how he defines "leftism", I think you will note that very few leftists would agree with his definition. And he calls conservatives "fools". There is certainly nothing in his manifesto that is in sync with right-wing ideology.

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Pretty much. Case in point. In this technique, the individuals under attack are first assumed to be "incredibly racist/sexist/homophobic", and anything flowing from that as an assumed fact sounds reasonable.

This will start happening soon in the US, now that the FCC has passed rules that only protect "lawful" content from getting blocked...

I TOLD you to be careful what you ask for. Everything will be scanned and known. How else will ISPs determine what is "lawful" content and "lawful" protocols (yes, that's in the language, too - "lawful protocols").

Not the only one. I have one that has several non-functional keys because enough of the plastic rivets that hold the metal plate to the internal plastic board have failed, producing a warp. There is probably some technique to re-attach it, but I haven't found one yet. 30 years ain't bad for plastic rivets, but clearly they have a limited lifespan.

Probably so, but that doesn't make for good marketing / war propaganda. The people committing these acts don't call it "suicide", they call it Jihad or martyring. "Kamikaze" was translated for Americans into being synonymous with suicide, too, but it actually means "divine wind".

Don't confuse suicide with self-sacrifice. Indeed, you could claim that Jesus committed suicide because he could have gotten out of the crucifixion several times, and chose to allow it - "the lamb" is sacrificed. Samson sacrificed himself in order to bring down the pagan temple of Dagon. He took many Philistine lords with him.

Calling this "suicide" is like saying James Brady tried to commit suicide by jumping in front of a bullet.

They use a pig.

Thank you, Barack. Nice to know who your friends are.

--- Warren Buffet

This is NOT a technical issue that new software will solve. It is a training or management issue. If people don't understand how to use version control, they will use it like a file share instead. I've encountered this MANY times, and right now I'm struggling with the idiots (actual software developers) that are using dead-simple SubVersion tools and STILL want to make copies for new versions, create new folders for the "current" docs and rename folders as archives. Constantly. And these are supposed to be DEVELOPERS! They seem to have no concept of tagging, branching, or even versioning in general. WHY did you delete all these files and then commit a bunch of modified files into a new folder!??!?

The only way to fix this is to create some policy and procedure documents (they can be really short and simple), and then get management to ENFORCE them. Otherwise, you might as well just throw out the version control system and let everybody do whatever they want in a shared store. Because that's what they'll do anyway if they don't "get" version control.

Perforce sucks, and everybody knows it. Go away, paid shill.

No - it's an effort to destroy the most successful world economies. They even admit that's the goal. Nothing to do with "environmentalism".

You can't have no tree fitty, you Lock Ness Monster!

Not true. Even if you dismiss the credibility of studies showing how beer and wine making promoted the formation of agrarian societies, it's clear that long ocean voyages would have been impossible without mead - it was the only way to store potable fluids for long periods.

You could even go so far as to say it was alcohol that created modern society. Now, you can claim we would all be better off if society had never progressed beyond hunter-gatherer lifestyles, but that's a pretty pessimistic viewpoint.

Quite impossible. Alcohol addiction is not something that happens over and over - once you're addicted, it's for life. Just go to any AA meeting and ask. There are only 6.9 new people every three seconds. By your reckoning, that means that 43% of the global population are alcoholics. I feel like that's a bit inflated.

Those studies show less about the effects of alcohol and more about the way our physiology works. It's a placebo effect based on a conditioned response. It also works on people with severe long-term pain. After treating it with morphine successfully, an injection of saline because just as effective as actual morphine. Plenty of studies on that, too.

As a major hop-head, you have my deepest sympathies, sir. I typically enjoy beers in the 70 - 120 IBUs range. If I had to stick to low (or non-) hopped beer I would certainly quit drinking it. In fact, I did for many years in the mid-to-late 1980's, before I discovered craft beer.