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Don't confuse "free choic"e with "responding well to carefully planned psychological campaigns". As long as even smart people maintain they exercise "free choice" mass communication specialists and the execs commissioning them continue to have champaign for breakfast.

The bar at the top needs a special kind of love I don't possess.

I was at the event where the Gotthard tunnels -north and south- actually connected. The last bit of rock was drilled through and the drill head became visible. A worker opened a door in the head an a festive drink was shared through that door. Didn't the designers of Bertha have at least a celebration in mind? Hell you could also think of doors to analyze issues like the one they deal with currently.

What? For enhancing the"experience"?

Je should have offered to mail popcorn. That would have reduced the fine bin $10'000. I mean, every penny counts.

Buddy you remind of myself and my son more than you can guess. Sure, the checklists... You really want to be a robot all your life? I myself am sometimes much too direct and many people react badly to that. I compensate by working hard and by trying to be a genuine caring person towards people around me.
I never considered myself to have ADHD and I will pay attention.
As I am highly creative I could not bare living a fake life of etiquette just to please people that most likely will reject me anyways. Instead I choose the attack strategy. I slowly start to genuinely appreciate people and to act accordingly. Perfection has not kicked in yet but I have good hopes.

Kids who now have ADHD used to be called a-bit-of-a-hand-full or vivacious or blustering or some other endearing term. Sure, there were times where you'd get annoyed by the pestering "brutes". But then they would show their unexpected lovable side and everything was fine once more. You"d deal with them and they would with you. Both became better in accepting different characters.
Nowadays we define norms and anything outside of them will be therapeuted away. I say let kids be without protection that eventually will drop away from them. Let them learn how to deal with themselves and be there when they need you.

All of the huge financial organisations I have worked for pretty much ran their own Windows distro. Sure, standard Windows with a bucket load of special features. You'd be amazed at how much needs tweaking. An own Linux distro isn't' completely out of this world.

So your grandfather was basically messing with simpleton brains. He must have been a character and I for one would probably have appreciated his conversation.

Will it recognize me when I do "the stranger"? I'd be damned pissed off in such a moment of need.

I live in CH and getting a job is easily doable up to 55. Then it gets a harder but not impossible. Here in CH there's no real job protection and so you can get fired and hired more easily. The US should be even more radical. In countries where job protection is paramount, jobs clung on dearly and you're basically screwed once you hit 50.

I'm a programmer and I'm above average -or so I think-, I hack all day and have too little sleep at night.

I cut down b-trees, I skip and jump, I like to piss off people by using gotoes.

My code is unintelligible and I hang around with the coffee machine.

I wish I were a metal worker just like my dear mama.

I should not have pushed the submit button bit still I did.

Tesla the fire engine?

How much does Snowden know? Will NSA reveal more than they really should? Do they in the mean time know what Snowden knows?