I'm disappointed that you're disappointed.
And I'm disappointed that you're disappointed that he's disappointed. Snowden has sure been bad for morale.
The biggest problem with general jury duty is it is unbounded.
IMO, the biggest problem is that the two sides get to reject jurors. If they just picked 12 random people without any challenges allowed, then required (say) only 10 of 12 to agree on the verdict, the system would work more efficiently and with less gaming. Maybe exceptions could be made for hardship or disruptive jurors could be ejected (and fined), but the current system is mostly gamesmanship. Lawyers don't want intelligent jurors, they want jurors they can manipulate.
Disregarding that a year is one orbit around the sun, if you consider a year that is 1/13th of the current one, we would all fry.
This redistribution of orbital motions is trickier than I thought.
I diagnose you egomaniac paranoid
Is that a showstopper? I mean, he's a fucking genius, cut him some slack.
I like the idea of having the interviewee read code. In a team environment, that's more important than how much code you can crank out.
we have a civilian launch system
Or at least a way to launch rich people and vapid celebrities to 50 miles above seal level. Unfortunately, we have no way to keep them from coming back (yet).
There has never been a case of this causing a single problem anywhere.
So what is this horrifying stuff-which be as much as four feet thick-and why did it begin appearing? The Minnesota research team is focusing on changes in the microbial content of pig shit as the cause. Minnesota Daily reports that the researchers hypothesize that a "new set of [bacteria] species" has developed in manure pits in the last few years. One possible catalyst: The practice of feeding pigs distillers grains, the spent mash left over from turning corn into ethanol. Distillers grains came roaring into feed rations in the mid-2000s as corn prices surged, pushed up by the federal government's escalating corn-ethanol mandates.
they more or less control the media, thus control what people see, read, and think
I always laugh when I see a statement like this, in an open forum read by hundreds of thousands of people. If the government is controlling what people see, why aren't you modded "-1 Unpatriotic"?
If this was the unix world, they'd be talking about no longer updating 8.1.0 and requiring customers update to 8.1.1.
If this were Ubuntu, they'd be upgrading from Persnickety Panda to Persnickety Panda Possum.
Snowden deserves a Nobel prize too.
Or at least a mention in the Pulitzer announcement. The way the announcement phrased it, you'd think the journalists dug out this information on their own, rather than having it dumped in their laps.
The optimum committee has no members. -- Norman Augustine