Yeah, I was a beta tester for that thing back in the day. There were some very awesome things that they had the potential to do with that game, but just flat out refused to do at the mere suggestion. Basically every beta tester begged them not to launch when they did, and it turned into a whopping disaster because they refused to listen.

I didn't even buy the final game because I already knew it was buggy garbage that had many serious flaws of design, and I recommended my friends to take a pass because it was a vast waste of money.

"And we're also very glad that we're still moving forward at 'Reddit Speed(tm)'

Reddit Speed: noun
A sufficient metaphorical velocity to orbit accountability without ever intersecting with it.

(Adapted from a joke inside my company about moving at [company name] speed)

Yeah, no.

An apology just means that there was a significant enough signal to trigger a publicity action. The real apology is "we're sorry that you don't approve of things we're doing" not "we're sorry that we did things you don't approve of."

Yeah, we don't like that "science" stuff around here! We'd much rather be completely ignorant of the universe around us than have you "space nutters" actually discovering things!

Signed,

The Flat Earth Society

This is the first time that I can think of that a population directly voted in the affirmative to collapse their economy.

I hope that's just me being cynical, but I think that's what's on the way.

I don't exactly understand how decrying Federal budget largesse when it comes to NASA is "on topic" where decrying Federal budget largesse when it comes to defense spending or social spending is not.

The F-35 is wholly unnecessary and spectacularly expensive. That seems very on-topic to me.

Because it's incredibly unlikely to ever have a nice design ready to go for future plans when Congress cuts funding. *cough* (Saturn I-B / Skylab)

I guess I don't see how this is different from the Saturn 1-B launch vehicle that was only used to launch a manned capsule once (Apollo 7) until the rest of the Saturn V launches were cancelled, and they used the surplus 1-Bs for Skylab crew launches.

Sometimes it's perfectly fine to have a purpose-specific launcher for early flights needed to test stuff. Would we have the same people grousing about using too big of a rocket to just fly crew modules in orbit if they skipped the smaller SLS variant? "Ermahgherd, they're launching hardware capable of going to the moon when they're only going to LEO! What a waste! etc."

Well, for one thing, the equal protection clause is part of the 14th Amendment, and has nothing to do with the Founding Fathers, as it was ratified in the 1860s or thereabouts - about a century after the Founding Fathers did their thing.

But why would that matter, just because it invalidates your whole statement?

It wasn't too long ago that the ThinkPad T-series had a magnesium cage inside protecting all the parts, and stainless steel hinges that would not break. Don't know if that's still the case now, but Lenovo kept to that when HP and Dell went with cheap plastic shit that would wear out through normal use, much less any form of accident or abuse.

Yeah, it's a pretty radical decision to state that the equal protection clause should actually provide for equal protection under the law.

Yeah, I forgot that the standard operational context for Windows is to have it do 85 things you don't want it to for every 10 you do.

Guess I've been using OS X and Linux too long where the default is to get what you ask for, and very little else.

But it's not the State establishing the exchange, which is what the argued-about language says.

I think everyone is in agreement that the exchange is being established, but the mealy-mouthed language of the law allows for this challenge based on what entity established it.

I'm no lawyer, and I'm glad the decision went the way it did. But clearly 9 Supreme Court Justices thought that it wasn't explicit enough, so they chose to hear the case.

I'm also glad that this is hopefully the last bitchy little petulant lawsuit regarding this legislation.

I'm thinking that the missing link in his logic is that if the State decides not to 'establish' an exchange, then the Federal exchange is tacitly authorized to be the 'established' exchange of the State.

Of course, that's stated absolutely nowhere in the text of the law, but that's probably the link.

Because Dice owns Slashdot, and approves the front page posting of click-bait all the time now.

You haven't noticed?