Or they just reboot the system every day or so. I'll bet those systems haven't been running nonstop 24-7.

Nom de Dieu! I thought that the French had their nuclear reactors down to a fine art. Zut alors!

Well, back to ze old drawing board, ne?

"The Uber spokeswoman declined to elaborate on the nature of these tools."

Does it include a call to my cousin Vinny in Joisey?

damned lies, and statistics.

I am ever so NOT in love with our education system. I swear ...

And he called them girls! Man, that guy is just aching for a fight!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Goose-stepping is purely optional. And they still have academic fencing! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... Joy!

One can never have enough scars, ne?

Dear FBI:

1 - Buy.
2 - Identify
3 - Arrest
4 - Prosecute

I mean, one can never have enough weapons grade plutonium, don't you know? And there's always a market for it!

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/ar...

Reassigned, not fired. Also not shot.

If the Chinese can make it work for THEIR people (who all look alike, after all, right?) .. imagine how easy it'll be for us Western barbarians with our round eyes and facial hair and all.

Sorry, change Bangladesh to Bangalore .. or just "cities in India". I don't imagine things are too pleasant in Bangladesh either.

"Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday son."

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

I thought everyone knew that? Kipling certainly did. (I think, but am not sure, that Coward stole it from him.)

https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/q...

So the solutions might include (1) Plant more trees, and (2) Bring Broadway to Bangladesh.

It would be a wonderful opportunity to send one up, to see if it actually generates thrust without fuel (in a relatively gravity free environment where it would be most useful).

http://www.gizmag.com/cannae-r...

Although that's a lot of trouble to test the Cannae Drive: just suspend it from a rope, throw the current to it, and see if it deflects from the vertical. (A simple antigravity drive test suggested half a century ago by some well-known science fiction writer.)

http://wow.mmosite.com/fanart/...

I heard damn-all about this event, and I'm a BIG warbirds fan! Ditto with my favorite online AGW Warbirds forum :-( Hell, I even missed the streaming live!

Sigh ...