He's technically correct. Anywhere where there are dark skinned people, there's going to be trouble. That's because anywhere where there are people, there's going to be trouble.

It's probably an abbreviation for "ascetic aesthetics".

Like this?

Said the laser to the truck?

In Star Trek, the cops would shoot you, too. (Now where's the "stun" setting on a Beretta again?)

the incident was 6 years ago, and FF has been struggling for longer than that. Losing Google and the revenue it brought was a big blow. I felt like they wanted him out and used that as an excuse. Not that people don't lose their jobs over stupid things all the time. It's just odd to see it happen to someone so high up. Usually their above all that.

There's still a tonne of things that Firefox does for extension authors like myself to make our lives easier. I've been toying with a Chrome port of my plugin but it's been slow going since there's so much networking stuff Firefox does for me that Chrome doesn't yet (and maybe never will). Heck, I can't even use the "let" keyword yet without hacking into Chrome's config...

There should have been plenty of businesses to buy up and use that hardware. There's never a shortage of people that could put computer hardware to good use. otoh I've seen economists talking about how in the 70s businesses spent 40 cents of every dollar on investment and now it's like 10 cents, with the rest going into the shareholders/investor's pockets, so it's possible we're just seeing the effect of run away parasitism sucking all the capital out of our economy (I think the quote was something like:"Finance used to be a way to get money into productive businesses, now it's a way to get money out").

But I think it's more likely that a lack of demand for Sun hardware existed. If you're selling something for 1/10 retail it's because nobody really wants it...

Don't say that. He might hear you.

Sun was run out of business by cheap Intel hardware + free Linux devouring their core business (expensive high performance workstations and servers). Nobody makes money on Java. Even IBM doesn't. They make money hiring out cheap Indian programmers. That didn't leave Sun a viable product. Intel hardware + Linux (Lintel?) got too cheap too fast. It didn't matter if you're Sun box was 10x faster. I could roll out 100 Lintel boxes for 1/10 the price.

at least not in early builds. It was MDI (multiple document interface). Maybe it was in betas or something, but back when tabs were first introduced in Firefox Opera still had an MDI interface. I remember trying it and being frustrated with how clumsy MDI was for changing between pages...

Your UID is too high to remember him, but this would have been a perfect response for the "IF I EVER MEET YOU I WILL KICK YOUR ASS" guy.

I believe they prefer the term "Gravitationally Challenged"

Supernovae are transient events. So it will fade. 10 years from now, the light will reach us again, after it's travelled a different route. RTFS, it's right there:

"The supernova will appear again in the next 10 years, as its light takes different paths around and through the gravitational lens."

In other words, some of light got lensed into taking the scenic route, and will show up later.

Technically, it goes to 1.1. (That's the original 1 plus 10%, of course.)