What's that in parsecs?

Are the ponies powered by hot grits?

it's been money. I know a few guys who hire comp-sci for gov't jobs and they're always complaining they can't get good candidates while offering 1/3 the pay of private sector. It'd be one thing if it was a stable career path but with our right wing taking a hatchet to anything they don't like it's not even that.

The do retire. Think big picture for a minute?

What's with the obsession with Hollywood? Just because the words "Star Wars" or "Star Trek" appear in the article, it doesn't make it /. worthy.

On the other hand, this would be a perfect thread for somebody to tell us about the many and wondrous benefits of using hostfiles instead of some insane and newfangled name service thingie.

FTFY.

I'm a fan (at least of Continues - Phase II left me a little flat), but just what part of any of this is 'News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters'?

Just askin'.

we have an understanding. We write laws to protect consumers and nobody enforces them. Did nobody in Europe get the memo? Where's Thatcher when you need her...

I am. I believe in annullment of non fruitful unions. Fuck who you like, cohabitate as you like, but make marriage about nurturing families has ALWAYS been my position. I came to this position when my tasks as a life insurance agent/financial planner led me to help rich DINKs pay less taxes using marriage laws, and felt strongly enough about it to change careers.

My position may not be to your liking, but it is still based on logical long term social best interests as I see them, and not extremism or prejudice.

Only if you happen to be carrying the Loc-Nar with you.

Having a system that supports the creation and nurturing of the next generation of mankind is in the long term best interests of homosexuals just as much as anyone else. Corrupting it into something purely based on decadent sex is not wise. For anyone.

"Finance is no longer a tool for getting money into productive businesses but instead for getting it out"...

This unit must survive.

Yeah, Apple *really* led with that. Firefox has had a "block third party cookies" setting since day one.

it's easy to spot since he calls one of the political party's out by name. There's still some weight to the NIMBY folks though. The trouble with nuclear, at least in America, is that it's damn near impossible to keep it safe. Sooner or later some venture capital firm notices how much money's being spent on safety and moves in with promises of "efficiency", takes over the plant operation and starts cutting back. That's really what the NIMBY crowd worries about, they're just not allowed to talk about it because those same venture capitalists are our ruling class. It's pretty much the same thing that happened in Japan. They knew the plants weren't safe but didn't want to spend the money. Big disaster, lots will die of cancers and the like, but nobody important go in trouble.