fixed that for you, HTH, HAND

How big is thing thing going to be?

In my experience, the development environment for software is larger than the actual software.

Working copies, and interim copies, and what have you. Tools, pieces, and parts.

Now imagine something as massive as a video game, specifically involving art and computer graphics ... models, mockups, rendered seqeunces, things I don't even know what might be in there.

I'm betting the amount of source material which feeds into a finished game is likely many thousands of times the end-product. Because you probably have various edits and do-overs of stuff which took a long time to make, and is probably valuable.

I can't imagine how many terabytes it takes to build a modern video game.

But 40GB of cool stuff? Yeah, I totally buy that as possible.

I'm kind of concerned about that line as well. The implication is that that the odor of gas was suspected to be related to the presumed explosive device. Thing is, the pressure-cooker turned out to not be an explosive device. So... it turns out the odor of gasoline was either fabricated or as you say, due to a defective car. A huge part of police responsibility is being able to determine truth. It's not hard to figure out that a car is leaking gas. Unless you're making shit up, which is what this particular instance sounds like.

The world should not be set up safe as a default for you and your fucking whiny children.

The moral upbringing of your children in a sealed bubble which keeps the world at bay is your damned problem.

Every parent who insists the world be made sanitized for you and your precious little snowflake can piss off.

You want a nanny internet, you take the time to sign up for it and request it. But if you think the rest of the world should have to opt-in ... you can fuck off and leave the rest of us out of it.

I'm s sick of idiotic parents who think the world should change to protect their children. We don't give a crap, they're not our kids ... on behalf of parent-less couples everywhere, this is your fucking problem not ours.

I won't moderate my behavior for my mother. If you think I'll do it for you and your brood of annoying children ... well, ask me. I dare you. Because they'll learn every possible bad word as well as hearing them used in complete sentences.

If you think the world should tiptoe around you and your kids ... you're too stupid to have kids.

Shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker and tits. Fuck you, fuck off, go the fuck away, and don't make me tell you again.

I will not in any way attempt to say that I understand the entirety or magnitude of the issue. While I've known people with mental illnesses, that doesn't mean I can truly understand it.

But I lament that one has to describe internet privacy and security as something which you have to be in the throes of a clinical mental illness to appreciate.

Because these days, a perfectly sane and rational person should be assuming that governments are, in fact, spying on them. Or at the very least have the capacity to do so with shockingly little oversight.

But if people think that only clinical paranoids are, or should be, concerned about such things .. people will continue to act as it only clinical paranoids are concerned about such things.

And, that's just simply not true.

Yeah, I sure would think so. But then again, it's reasonable to expect the stove to not leak gas. It's far less a given that whoever fills gas into the tank doesn't spill a few drops. People are clumsy and self service pumps are the norm.

Anything made by the USA with a V8 in the "malaise era" is the anti-tesla.

Hey, my dad gave me that watch. And I have allergies. I'm trying to make a cold medicine that will blow them away.

Thank you, Mister Rockefeller, but what about all the poor schmoes who don't have a lawyer on retainer? They shouldn't have to worry about being shaken down by the cops, either.

Now you're just getting redundant... can it.

If you swing for IT and miss, what are you going to do for a living? Phone support? Telemarketing?

If you swing for some real vocation and miss, like say smog tech or doctor, you can still fall back as something else, like a normal bolt-breaking mechanic, or a weed doc.

I don't know what the female equivalents are, it's probably sexist even to just suggest such a thing. Not a lot of women going into smog though

When a revolving door exists between corporations and Washington, and when corporations can buy public policy, what's the difference?

Man, I rail against NYT paywalls which people erroneously claim can by bypassed by private browsing, and I get accused of trolling. One failbook link, and everyone LOSES THEIR MINDS

Or however the meme goes.

Being somewhat paranoid due to my periodic bi-polar "manic" periods, I already was convinced the goobernmints and corporations of the world were up to nefarious snooping and hacking

Of course the problem with this characterization is it somehow implies that this is something only people with mental illness believe.

The reality is, it is now an objective fact that it is true.

But for some reason this fact hasn't sunk in, and people keep acting like it's solely for paranoids and other crazy people to be concerned about.

And that's simply not true.

We may be more. But the EU is basically a self service station for the member states, not something they want to pitch in for.

Imagine the US, just with every state doing its best to rip off all the others. That's what the EU is like.