Joking about how old and tired he looked, he said that people regularly meet him and say "Jon Stewart!, hey, are you OK?". Can see why he wants to leave and I don't think the Daily Show has faded that much over the decades.

Am reminded though of a show from 2008 with photos of world leaders showing how much they'd altered after their long terms in office. Then he compared W from 2000 to the present day...

Read the preview first. Sigh. Lindbergh wrote the foreword to Collins' autobiography. Also, Collins had high praise for most of his colleagues, but a minority get some criticism.

Well there were questions raised, but it's all settled now- they're her mementoes now.

http://spacenews.com/obama-sig...

I agree with the Bill, but am re-reading Michael Collins' excellent autobiography and he's not completely effusive about many of his colleagues - he also shares the bewilderment over the David Scott Apollo 15 mailbag. [talking about heroes with leaden feet, the book's autobiography is by Charles Lindbergh].

Hasn't anyone tried to verbalize that to him?

Also European, not living in the bush; black is still the term to describe many people of colour, at least in my culture. A selection of headlines from last last six months in the very, very politically-correct Guardian newspaper

http://www.theguardian.com/us-...

http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

http://www.theguardian.com/us-...

http://www.theguardian.com/us-...

They all, unfortunately, have something else in common. But no, African-American is certainly not used with anything like the same dominance by our media.

Hang on, did I miss a memo? What's wrong with using the term black? What's the acceptable epithet? (oh, and just an advanced "Fuck off" to any racists with 'hilarious' replies).

Is it the Linux SSD? Many versions of Asus eee, some outlived their welcome. I purchased mine in July 2008, used it for a long, working holiday and it was faultless. Powered an external dvd, watched films, and generally all things that were expected of a proper computer. Writing for a long-time on the keyboard wasn't easy, but that goes with the 9" form.

A couple of years later, the web had moved on and browsing with an Atom chip became slow, then painful. Also it didn't help that Asus gave up support before 2008 finished and that the 901 Linux version was their only non-Windows netbook.

Still miss my Asus 901 netbook- Linux, light and took a beating. Easy to travel with, could be used in tight space like plane seats, great battery life and possible to get some real work done. Sigh.

Heard a radio discussion about which major piece of science would likely crack over the next fifty years. The answer came back as the Big Bang, with one of the participants saying [rather indiscreetly, IMHO] that it was Sir Martin Rees in a pers. comms. who suggested that it was full of holes and the area was ripe for a paradigm shift.

I once saw Fred Hoyle lecture on his Steady State Theory. He was awaiting the red shift results from a twin maser in some distant galaxy somewhere and we were assured that it would disprove the BBT. He was the single most beguiling speaker of my life. Came out fully believing, for the rest of the evening at least.

I have complete confidence that my phone calls, email and web traffic are all 100% monitored and have been for sometime. Now the people who used to try and refute this accusation and call you a tinfoil hat wearer, just shout "Barbarians at the gate".

The next game has started. It's your devices' outputs they now want. If Orwell could have imagined the ubiquity of networked cameras and microphones, he'd never have had to invent the telescreen. If you've nothing to hide...

Very interesting, thanks.

In 1990, Russian was the second language (by far) in the recently opened eastern bloc, which I naively hadn't been expecting. We were found ourselves holidaying in Czechoslovakia alongside Russians- exotic people after decades of Cold War threats. It was a lack of any language in common except rudimentary sign language that impeded comms. But from a Finnish perspective very understandable.

Apologies for the imposition, could you answer one question? Is it true that post-war reparations meant that the Finns had to buy a train-load of timber a week from the USSR? It's a vague memory from a late-seventies tv programme.

French as a second language in Europe? Certainly not by 25 years ago, probably before. In my experience, the only countries where it was preferable to English, German or Russian were France, Belgium and Luxembourg. Travelling anywhere else with my 'second language', I was unintelligible anywhere that couldn't understand English. Felt I'd been sold a pup in school.

Agreed. I sort of assumed the TFA would have something called 'facts' in it, that people won't buy cars, or that the killer app for Glass just isn't there. But it's just hand-waving opinion-based clickbait. Sigh.

Bang on the money. The well reasoned arguments here: http://marcrogers.org/2014/12/...

were made before the DPRK link was fixed in the news cycle. It was then instructive to watch workings of the new McCarthyist cheerleaders, even (especially) here on Slashdot. People seriously writing 'the FBI have all the incriminating evidence, they just can't share it with you' type-comments.

The eleven years since the non-existence of WMDs may seem long time for the kiddies running the military's multiple personality software, but most people here won't ever buy that crap again.

No, Occam's Razor said the simplest answer is most likely true. The OP didn't go on a flight of fantasy, you did. Nation state hacks corporation with possible major diplomatic consequences over a B-movie? Pull the other one, it's got WMDs on it.