Mega-giant civilization destroying hurricanes next. We're doomed.

Agreed that the statue of limitations prevents his prosecution for felony child abuse.

However, his position as a judge should be held to a higher standard. While it may be too late to send this guy to jail, he has not business sitting on the bench. For that matter, he has no business being a lawyer either, but that's a different problem.

With respect to sample size, similar experiments have been repeated, admittedly in the field under uncontrolled circumstances, several million times over at least the last 5 decades, approximately 100% of the occasions the utility of function of quarters for beer money exceeded the utility function for quarters for laundry money among male college students

Is a bunch of people trying to hack on physics to bridge GR and QM. There are a couple different ways to do this. Strings are one, loop quantum gravity is another.

Right now, everyone is still in pre-release debugging, not even beta-testing. It's ALL VAPORWARE. Complicating things, as always is money - grants, funding, publication, as well as ego and rep - appointments, tenure, etc. The truth will out eventually - the theories WILL mature and develop; testable, falsifiable hypotheses will be formulated - patience, grasshopper.

What I'd like to know, now, is who's the "Home Brew Computing Club" of this mess and who is the "Bill Gates writing bitchy whiny letters complaining about shit"?

Witten and Greene I've heard of. String theory and string theoreticians are carrying the day (in political / "marketing" terms) in the academy. Who is losing and bitching? Apart from their economic incentive to bitch, should they be?

Excuse me. Corporations release crap products that cause problems and then refuse to man up and take responsibility for fixing them. Not exactly news, no.

  But when corporations behave with the ethical and moral standards of petulant spoiled children - like Microsoft consistently, persistently does - then they have earned exactly what they get, including pretty much any and all guerilla tactics to smack them into behaving.

is the color blaze orange with concentric circles on the back?

A good manager has godlike omnipotent powers to handle all externalities and all incidents and occurences of Murphy's Law etc.....

Unplanned overtime happens because sometimes, sh*t happens, even in the best run organization. The best manager is still not responsible or able to control what sales promised the customer nor what legal said were restrictions on the code, nor the schedule changes the customer asked for.

ERP Systems fail (and this is by no means an exhaustive list, just what I have seen myself) ...because the sales pitch is to the board of directors and the implementation is at the user level. ...because I (financial analyst that I am) have a job to do. Your system helps or it doesn't, but I've got to get my job done.

The common theme here is that ERP implementations lack humility and respect for the existing business and the people who actually run it. In pursuit of relatively nebulous "strategic" advantages, an inflexible, underdocumented, undersupported system is shoved down everyone's throat.

A few years down the road what happens? The planning guy (me) and the accounting guy had EACH separately reimplemented Access databases to provide the information we need to do our jobs, despite the fact that a module exists in the ERP system to do exactly what we need to do.

Except that, of course, it's been configured in such a way that it doesn't do any such thing, and we can't change it. Hell it took me 3 months (not full time) grovelling through help screens to even understand it. No, there's no budget for training. Or user support. And changing things? Get in line.