It's good that it's mapping translations rather than language speakers - but it's not mapping content. Say 50% of the tweets in English are concerning Kim Kardashian's latest outfit, or Lady Gaga's pop video. An article in Finnish (why not?) is telling everyone how to talk to dogs. Which is more important to humankind?

Of course, how you automatically judge merit is another matter....

I've got two records of Elgar himself conducting Elgar's two symphonies. Elgar, for heaven's sake. I was offered 10 cents each for them. I still have them.

You find me someone who will actually pay the $$$ that the journalists say vinyl is worth, and I'll flick on my 100 or so records. In the meantime, they're in boxes waiting for my daughter to sort out when I end up six foot under.

Whenever something sounds too good to be true, it usually isn't. I'll put some cash on this being in the Ig-Nobles in a year or two.

Back to 'Eat less and exercise', everyone. That's probably safer, anyhow.

Subscribed to that with friends in the '70s and kept buying from them 'til they went bust. As a consequence, I've over a 100 'board' games and a good knowledge of military history (some problems with geography ... I used to think Vienna was in Austria-Hungary, etc ....).

Since then, picked up some goodies - "Republic of Rome', 'Pax Brittanica'.... hard to find face-to-face opponents these days so PBEM or video games.

But then there's the solitaires.. 'RAF', 'Carrier'...

Good one - I'm here for you. Susan Blackmore's book on consciousness quotes the appreciation of qualia as a mark of consciousness. I can't see any machine ever enjoying a ham sandwich, or a beer. They can be programmed to respond as if they did, though.

Totally agree. I can't comment on whether the government is anti-science - it's not my government - but I would also like to subscribe to your newsletter.

And, of course, good luck to the ground crew with Orion. May you be rewarded with success!

Faulty logic there. You might as well say "Youngsters are well known to do high-risk sports and hobbies, such as base-jumping, or swimming with sharks: employers can do the maths and will hire older staff that have survived these self-destructive years".

I did one on my Weber once - a monster, wrapped in bacon, stuffed, etc...No smokenator (how can anyone do that to the English language...) but indirect cooking. End result was a good bird, but it cooked a helluva lot faster than the veggies we had to go alongside. Damn bbq...everything is either over or under.

Source is 'Wikipedia'. Hmmm. Be more inclined to take it seriously if it was sourced from WHO, or MSF, etc...

Might be just NZ, but we get voltage drops every now and then - sometimes severe enough to cause problems (pal of mine asked me to recover his RAID array after one fell off after a brown-out).

Side-effect of a UPS is that it smooths all these things out... oh, and surge protection too.

Damn right, Who cares? You USans are good at some things, top in some, bad in others, crap at a few. Much like the rest of the world.

I've said it before and I'll say it again - the world owes you a debt for getting humans on the moon.

(On the other side of the coin... never understood why you folks have so many guns...)

Heck, that's a prerequisite of membership.

But look on the bright side - nerddom also requires more than one operating system ...

Anything that has a number in title will be garbage (or otherwise redundant). LinkedIn is full of "The six ways that you can succeed at your next interview", "The Top Ten techs of the 2010s". "The Seven Programming Techniques you must know"


Kittenman's law is fine. Pat pending.

Put a comment on your website mentioning that someone out there is using your company's name and number for callbacks, and tell your customers to be aware of this issue.
You can't be liable for their gullibility, any more than you can for the actual actions of the Nigerian scammers (or whoever they are).

An Ancient Greek said "If people speak ill of thee, act so that no-one will believe them". I'd say that's still valid.

Yes! You beat me to it. I taped these off my old valve radio when they were broadcast, back when I was 14. I lovingly cared for the cassette tapes over the decades since, hearing them once every blue moon... and then found out I could get flawless copies off this website.

I remember hanging the mike next to the speaker... portable cassette player. Back in those days, the big thing was recording birdsong.