In Soviet Russia, new mechatronic overlords welcome YOU!

Even today, there are plenty of crimes that you can be convicted of for only KNOWING it was happening. Sure you may not have killed that guy, but you were there, you saw it, and you did nothing to stop it. That's accessory to murder, conspiracy to murder and a whole bunch of other crimes.

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200x200 pixels is really only useful for animated GIFs of cats

Make it pink and you'll sell millions.

with my hands full or occupied, underwater, or covered in jam/cement dust/grease/crap.

I don't know what your job is, but I don't want it.

Some licensing schemes with oracle can wind up costing companies almost a million dollars per year.

I think they can cost almost that much to administer. I once got involved in trying to work out how much the hell we owed them and it was huge PITA to just extract the stuff out of our sales system. This was partly our fault (we hadn't captured some of the relevant info before) but mainly theirs because we hadn't needed to under the simpler old method.

In fact it was mainly our management's fault. One, for agreeing to the change (though perhaps they didn't have much choice) and two, because they only informed IT 6 months later when they expected a spreadsheet full of the magic lovely numbers to miraculously fall from heaven.

Because, as they say, if females were in leadership positions, there would be only peace in the world.

It'd last about three weeks.

Patents artificially sque the economies of scale.

[Spanish accent]Kew? [/]

The cetacean population in the Bodensee has remained remarkably stable recently, so they must be doing something right.

An agreement between two parties doesn't exempt either of them from obligations to a third party. Just think about it for a minute. Anybody could renege on a contract by forming another contract with that weird guy who goes through the bins at the bus station.

Yeah. If only there was someway to check, in advance, whether your symbols work or not.

It hasn't even been called "British Petroleum" for a decade, and even when it was it was largely owned by ayrabs.

Flourine isn't, but flouride is.

Actually, his original money to fund the record label was made by VAT fraud.

At the very least, there should be an option for desperate travelers (like myself, who was stuck in Europe for over a week after planning to be in that miserable continent for less than 3 hours

My grandfather once went to Frankfurt - it wasn't planned to land at all - and he ended up stuck there in rather low-grade accommodation till 1945. And that isn't what you colonial types quaintly refer to as quarter "till" eight, of the p.m.

Or another laptop. He could probably pick one up with a damaged screen for next to nothing.