I read somewhere that 'Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.'
That mayst been some olden goings on tither.
Seems like they've bettered themselves since.

The Turkish police didn't really have to place wiretaps to listen in on Erdogan.
They could have asked the NSA for recordings.

Here is some trivia: in Hebrew that bird is called 'Hodu' which is also used in that language as the name of a country you call in English 'India'.
Rumor has it there is corruption there too.
Is that a coincidence or what?

I sit-in-the-armchair corrected.
Happy Holidays.

I'm not so sure about that. I thought that the close-to-vacuum of space does not conduct heat that well. The "low" temperature of space just means whatever particles happen to be there on average don't move all that fast. Without a cooling system, the only way for the electronics to lose excess heat is by black-body radiation, which is totally insufficient relative to the rate at which heat is generated (think of your mobile phone, PC, laptop or TV and how hot they get).

Agree. The flip side are all those old business software applications that seem to stick around forever. They run only on legacy platforms - hardware/OS/browser (IE)/screen res./etc.

Corporates sometimes cannot move to newer platforms just because they're stuck with some software they purchased a decade or more ago that is not compatible with new, widely used standards (not even cutting edge ones).

x currency worth of bitcoins. There are other countries out there with their own currenciesAre there? Generally speaking, Americans don't seem to be aware of the fact. Or care, if they are.

I have 2 user accounts on a Windows laptop that is used by my wife and myself. Changing the Chrome profile in one account changes it also for the other one.
I don't have anything to hide from my wife but it is uncomfortable to think that your chrome account is shared by all other Windows users on the same box.
That's useful to remember if you ever log on to Google on some shared machine...

The whole point is that we humans are good at inventing new jobs for ourselves. Whoever would have thought that someone will actually be selling storage space on the clouds just a few years ago?

Does it have to be said that with every generation of innovation, old skillsets are no longer required while new ones open up?
As a result less than 1% of the developed world are actually involved with agriculture, compared to close to 99% 3 centuries ago. Very few of us need to do hard physical labor at work. Extremely complex tasks requiring tons of number crunching is done easily by computers and so on.
Robot buyers are not much more than those price comparison sites that give you the best prices on the products with the features you want to purchase.

Now that all those pesky little details of everyday life have been taken care of, go do something worthwhile with your life, such as posting a viral video on youtube of your cat doing something hilariously stupid.

I voted "Wait, I could get pizza from magical sky robots?".
On second thought, I could just get a 3D pizza printer (delivered by drones).

He believed that spicy or sweet foods led to "passions" and "impure thoughts".

That's odd, I've recently been to India. the spicy food there didn't induce such thoughts. In fact, it took a few away...