they slice it to molecular thickness and fry it in cheap crappy oil

Shows how much you know. Bacon doesn't need oil, it's got its own fat.

-jcr

If you don't boil bacon, how can you make bacon soup?

-jcr

Are you sore?

Troll? Not only can you get your data out by the provided interfaces, but the backends are proddable with the development tools, and you can manually extract any data out of the databases that you like.

some claim (I'm not about to pay to read the article) that Linux is being used more. ISTR something about Solaris being taken up more in banking too, but that was long ago, before the Oracle buyout. Nobody with half a fucking brain is even considering putting Sun equipment into their infrastructure if they don't already have some.

That's what they told you. It's cute that you believe it.

If you open up a dictionary and look up "disproportionately" you'll see what I'm talking about.

No guesses like that but I'm guessing it will be between Coca-Cola and Nestle.

Most homes today are made of asphalt, fly ash, and a mixture of sawdust and wood glue, with a minimum of actual timber, all of which is concentrated in the framing.

Roofing tiles are grit in asphalt. They're laid over tar paper. That's laid over chip board, which is just crappy bits of wood stuck together with the part of wood which generates dioxin when it burns. All of the structural members are held together with galvanized metal ties which emit zinc when they're heated much. The wiring is required by code to be sheathed in PVC which releases dioxin and chlorine gas when it burns. The outside of the house is covered in more chipboard which is covered in recycled milk jugs which is covered in some more manufactured wood, maybe some thin plywood siding, more of that dioxin-producing glue. The inside of the house is covered in sheet rock made from fly ash from a coal plant, and you hope their scrubbers are working right or it's full of toxics and radioactives. Carpets are one plastic or another which usually produces all kinds of nasties when it burns, or sometimes a natural fiber treated with some kind of toxic fire-retardant coating which often releases chlorine gas. Most padded furniture, likewise.

It's clear that a submarine is a sketchier environment for a fire than a house, but it's also clear that pretty much everything in the modern house is both flammable, and toxic when it burns.

Maybe I'm just being a dumbass but it seems to me like there must be some kind of optics that would solve this problem, even if they have to have THz imagers on the out-facing side...

Is the brain actually efficient? From what I can tell it's filled with spurious thoughts and impulses and only the presence of certain chemicals keeps that garbage from running slipshod over our foreground tasks.