Chilling? I think the submitter fails the goddam Turing test.

"highly reasonable" I would say. Which, come to think of it, is kind of chilling, seeing as it's the UK government being reasonable.

I think we can say exactly, as it's not a coincidence that the rotations align like that, it's a stable configuration of two bodies in orbit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_locking

Although a single search point across all communication channels would be nice...

But I share the submitter's concerns, a feeling of "is this it?" when using TBird. I occasionally look around to see if I could improve on TBird on Win and year after year, there's no change in the landscape. Of course, I should now state for you my wish list of missing features; sorry. All I can say right now is that it isn't perfect, and I just have this feeling there has to be a better way to handle and interact with email.

Yeah, and I went back to Mutt recently as TBird was choking on IMAP stuff. Work-around.

Me too. Blows my mind; now and then I find myself suddenly thinking: oh yeah, there's a frickin ROBOT on another PLANET right frickin NOW! It is incredibly cool.

That, and voyager passing the heliosphere. That is in some ways the number one human physical achievement.

Actually, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/

I really should get around to updating my bookmark.

Yeah, YouTube really nailed the comment system...

Good post AC. I think you are on to something with your last sentence too. Technical research on the web is a nightmare, because you have to parse the motivation behind the opinions and filter on that too. Low level programmers ... obsessing over pointers or garbage collection ... indeed. These people can come across as enormously well-informed but their opinions are often worthless outside their tiny, unknowable silos.

This comes up all the time. Pay attention now. There is no such thing as "road tax" in the UK. Instead, there is Vehicle Excise Duty and is based on the emissions of the vehicle. Electric cars pay 0. Low emission cars pay less than gas guzzlers. Roads are paid for out of general taxation and have been since 1936.

Also, many cyclists have insurance, either through large scale organisations (CTC, LCC etc) or their home or travel insurance. And what is now required is a socialised insurance fund for all people, giving all citizens automatic 3rd party insurance cover when riding a bicycle. This would be cheaper than administering a authoritarian bicycle or rider registration system.

Furthermore, were cyclists to be asked to contribute to the cost of the road infrastructure, then they would be absolutely right to demand much more extensive, cycling-specific infrastructure and much stronger rights in conflict or collision situations with motorists.

ooo my own personal troll. how nice.

Arguably, junkies and ideologues are sociopaths too. It's enough to say "never trust a sociopath". Except the problem is that sociopathy isn't simply absent or present in a person; sociopathy exists in all people to a greater or lesser extent. And sociopathy is probably the result of the interactions of a set of underlying psychological states and conditions: the forces that establish such properties as self-esteem, motivation, empathy and so on.

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"It is easier to beg forgiveness than to ask permission"

If you are using Git or Hg, all you need is SSH accounts on a box somewhere, and git or hg installed. There is no server as such. If you can SSH into each other's machine, do it like that. Take one repo, clone it on the other and you are about there. There is no cost. There is no management lunch. There is no need to even mention what you are doing. Just do it. If you have mounted file share access, use that: no need for SSH, just clone/push/pull across the file system.

That seems sensible, but pointing to 127.0.0.1 could still be malicious if you've got a rogue web server running too.

In the context, there's a certain irony there in that VirtualBox is an Oracle product, no?