On the flip side, my divorce has been relatively painless. Initiated by my wife, we agreed the only financial responsibilities we share are the house and my daughter. I pay maintenance for my daughter and we're splitting the house. She earns about what I do, so why fuss?

I imagine the ferocity of your wife's attack lawyer varies depending on the grounds for divorce. In my case, we were just neglecting each other emotionally. I imagine in cases where there has been adultery, things get much worse.

They don't treat the guys they meet well either - ever played a MOBA game? You'll get constant accusations of being a noob, and have various curses thrown at you until your standard of play is what they demand. Of course, I've seldom seen actual advice on how to play better, which would be far more productive.

Yeah, the thing that finally provoked an upgrade was buying a game I really wanted to play that refused to install on Win2k because of the DRM.

I upgraded to the newest Windows available at the time... which was Vista. Oops.

Or the inverse, where the manager is a computer and the workers are all just "robot arms" for it.. already happening in fulfilment warehouses.

I liked my analysis of this in the recent "Peter Principle / PHB" story.

Aside from all the communications considerations, what you get with the Indian culture is a lot of deference and obedience. Which is precisely what you don't want, because they do exactly what managers tell them to do, and managers are by definition, people who are not competent to do their job.

It's a GIGO problem...

Doesn't work. Windows 2000 was really good as well. It whistles along on modern hardware. As far as I can tell, the main change in it is that XP contains more cryptographic components for implementing DRM.

Maybe it makes iced tea by brewing it hot, then chilling it rapidly.

Actually special ink that fluoresces a particular way in infrared light.

But yes, you can mod the machine by sticking the rim of a v2 K-cup inside it in the right place.

Or Investor-state dispute settlement

TLDR?

Corporations get to sue your sovereign nation if they think your laws are impeding their profits, decided by a "court" consisting of three "independent" lawyers.

So, for example, many EPA regulations would probably be contested very soon after the passing of this treaty.

This is what they want to hide. The fact that they are preparing to sign governance of the USA (and every other signatory) over to Big Corporate.

Indeed

Sod Single Payer, if they have to pay fraudulent bills like this.

The cost (and confusion) of all this admin is one of the reasons the USA has the most expensive healthcare on earth.

Code sets like the International Classification of Diseases have been *enormously* bloated over the years. You might think this has less to do with collating accurate statistics, and more to do with providing a means for insurance providers to claim that the "wrong code was used" and deny claims. I couldn't possibly comment.

You just start using tradecraft. Almost certainly, the terrorists already are. Encryption *already* makes you stand out as a weirdo, precisely because it's uncommon.

Sorry for the vocab nazi-ism but I see this one very frequently and it's finally pushed me over the edge.

It's toe the line. As in "conforming to the order of things by putting your toes on the line like everyone else".

How does "tow the line" make sense? Is fishing somehow conformist?

If you're going for a pee break, leaving your laptop alone, powered, is a ridiculously stupid thing if you're security conscious.

You power it off, you take it with you.

Clearly we're trying as hard as possible to get them nude, given the percentage of coverage.

On the other hand, no clothing at all would be bad for the profits of the fe-male clothing industry. What were those Ferengi thinking? There's a huge market there!

> Anyone else remember when Carter put solar panels on the White House?

Reagan had them taken down. Can't have the White House supporting (even implicitly) the downfall of the fossil fuel industry, can we?