I'd hate to be at just a mere 2.6 lightyears distance from an event that caused two volumes both 600000 lightyears across to be filled with hot, X-ray emitting gas.

The reason that was modded down was *probably* because gross generalizations usually don't get much bonus points for being insightful. Especially when it's also a case of blaming the victim. Just look at the history of how women were forcibly removed from the labour force after WW2. I'm sure some didn't mind, but others did. Like my mother, who really wanted to hold her job, but was automatically fired when she married. And if you factor in the fact that women get paid less for the same work, the picture is even worse.

I think that article should be required reading for any scientist, and repeated before running ANY experiment (on animals or humans).

Dude, you have Wales and Northern Ireland in the UK. People living in glass houses...

In The Netherlands, there was an automatic fine to be paid to anyone who filed a FOI-request and didn't get the answers or requested information within a pretty short period. The inevitable result was the rise of small companies dedicated to filing as many obnoxious requests as possible, They reworked the law recently to tone that down a bit.

Also, someone used this law to harass a council with multiple requests per day over a period of more than a year, leading to the department having 4 full-time staff to answer just his requests. Finally, a judge limited him to only a few requests per week. He refused to obey and he was jailed as a consequence.

If any of the companies mails hit a US server, the USA can claim legal jurisdiction. This has happened before and people have been extradited over it. Post on facebook advertising your companies toolkits? Same thing. Use google maps for a map to your company HQ? Same thing. Use Dropbox? Onedrive? You're dead meat if they want to grab you. If you want to accept payment from VISA or Mastercard, well, they're US companies and they don't do business with criminals, you see...

Life can be pretty difficult for companies that don't play ball - even if they're nowhere near US soil.

Monitoring violations of the Benthic Treaty.

They probably contracted the building of the station to the lowest bidder - and it wasn't in the initial specs.

Interesting! I'll bookmark this, in case I ever have another validated development process.

I hate videos. Most are badly done, and take ages to get to the point or to the information I need. Sometimes they're good, but that's a rare exception and certainly not the rule. At least with bad documentation, I don't waste as much time.

Yeah, I got the same complaint when writing specs and documentation for a validated system in a pharmaceutical company. Apparently, it's a validation thing.

I think you're right, but I'm still mad that literate programming never took off. Ilike writing down my thoughts, and then slowly expanding that into a program. Ah well, information analysis and modelling allow me to do that too. But if we had programming tools that could do that, it would lead to much better documentation and likely much better code as well.

Wow. That is certainly the first time I've ever seen someone describing Mad Max as "socialist". Oh, us poor men, to be duped by explosions and pretty women into watching communist propaganda! Before you know it, we'll sing the International, while embracing our inner female. Shortly after that, the USA will fall to North Korea and we're all going to be enslaved in the uranium mines...

Well, this certainly made my day! Thank you ;)

Of course they won't. Even Stalin and Mao never sold their mass murders as anything other than "War on {criminal flavor of the day}".

sayeth Anonymous Coward.