You're trying to paint cause and effect as a vicious circle when really it's management and shareholders trying to squeeze blood from a stone and then bitching when their hand hurts.

It's a wonder the name is human readable at all.

This doesn't seem like an intrinsically bad idea; things like the GHS hazard pictograms, DIN 4844-2, ISO 3864, TSCA marks, and similar such things seem like perfectly reasonable additions to Unicode(some of them are already there).

What seems like more of a problem is the idea that the Unicode Consortium is out there fishing for ideas. A project of that scope has more than enough backlog to work through; what possible benefit could there be in putzing around internally with ideas for stuff that hasn't been codified by any relevant user groups, standards bodies, experts, national standards, etc? If they think that they have free time for that, they probably aren't looking hard enough at the stew of natural languages and commonly used symbols out there.

The original round of unicode-ified emoji, while puerile and obnoxious, were at least a solid instance of one of the Consortium's functions: the symbols were in wide use; but saddled with a horrible mess of legacy encoding schemes and general awfulness, so the only thing to do was wade in, hand out code points, and hope that the legacy systems could be burned to the ground as soon as possible. Same reason why parts of Unicode have substantial amounts of duplication, single characters that should be represented as composites, and so on; because various legacy standards had to die.

Here, though, there is no obvious existing standard being modeled on, nor any interoperability issue being solved. If somebody wants Unicode to have a picture of absolutely everything; maybe they should go work on graphics format standards.

Did you just misspell "BSD"? *ducks*

That's some interesting logic. So, most Linux distros are going down the drain because they use systemd, and I quite agree with that. And then those that don't use systemd, they are also doomed by definition?

I used NetBSD for a while around 2002, and I loved the pure Unix way after using all these Fisher-Price Linux distros. However, it was seriously lacking in hardware support and software availability. Fortunately, I soon discovered Gentoo that combined everything that was great in both Linux and BSD, by modelling after BSD Ports but using the Linux kernel and GNU userland. So it's strange getting such a comment from the BSD camp, while Gentoo is one of the closest to BSD style of all Linux distros.

Sounds like EPR needs CPR.

I've had an ipv6 tunnel (mostly) up and running since 2010 just for experimentation. Now my router brings up the tunnel and enables stateless auto configuration for the entire LAN. Lazy ISP is no excuse.

App gasbuddy no longer has permission to do fuck all.

I like to think of insurance as reverse lottery. People pay small amounts to participate in the game, and then hope they don't win the jackpot. So when insurance companies invest this money around, it kind of balances out.

I see what you did there.

So what you're saying is you're selling a useless overpriced miniature screen that's been outdated for over a decade instead of a genuine augmented reality product?

I really hope that "proud to declare that we are at the cusp of a reclaiming our heritage of being connected to each other and connected to the world." made a lot more sense before some translator mangled it; because otherwise it seems like absurd nonsense. If people were connected long enough and far enough back in time for it to count as 'heritage', the technology behind those connections must have been comparatively primitive. Is he saying that communications have regressed since that time? What golden age of connectedness is he talking about?

Where I live, it's a one. Check my photos out.

Turning off lights in cities isn't going to help astronomers much.

Actually, no. City glow is a huge impediment to astronomy for an area hundreds of times the size of the city.

There's a middle ground here. Lighting can be designed so it primarily lights the ground, instead of going every which way. Goes a long way towards reducing problems optical telescope use faces.

Also some moderately recent styles for t-shirts. And hosiery. And.... jeans.

It appears that giving someone scissors is a direct route to dolling out cuts. :)