Must watch this "Charlies Angles" show. It sounds like it might be different.

It can be a bit obtuse at times.

When I was very young Gene Wolfe would occasionally come by the house, as he was friends with my parents. I knew he was a writer like my father, but being so young my only real recollection is that I thought he had a cool name.

I've heard that Gates is considering necrophiliac cannibalism just so he can finally say that Jobs has no taste.

A lot of vending machines are owned by small-time operators. Often semi-retired guys trying to make ends meet. You'll see them early in the morning at Costco loading up on items for that day's run. They split the revenue with the owner of the location of the machine. Not always, of course. The high-traffic locations get taken by the large operators, but there a lot of small-timers just trying to get by.

Sounds like you did a good thing. It's annoying that you cared more than the company, and some recognition and thanks would be nice, but then that's not why we do good things (at at least shouldn't be.)

ay is shy in Thai (heh). It sounds (pretty much) the same as shy without the sh.
I'm probably somewhere around the same level as you, though at times I can give the illusion of knowing quite a bit more. Apart from being unable to make certain sounds, I've been told my accent is reasonably good. But I was also once told I pronounce some words like a five year old boy would, so make of that what you will. :-)

Yeah, fuck that poor slob who owns the vending machine. He can afford it.

So what was your limit? If the owner had forgotten to lock it would you have taken all the contents? How about if someone had accidentally left a crow bar nearby? Would you have pried open the machine? What's the line you won't cross?

I've wondered about ay and shy, but figured it's just coincidence.

hahaha. Five hundred dollars? Fully subsidized? ha ha.That is the most expensive console in the world. And it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard, which makes it not a very good email machine. Now it may sell a lot. I don't know. But we have our strategy. You can get an Ouya for $99, it's a very capable machine. I kinda look at that and I say well, I like our strategy. I like it a lot.

And it's been anti-mitigated somewhat by Motorola losing huge chunks of money every quarter.

I don't see why. Open Source projects (and MariaDB is pretty solidly Free & Open Source...

The source code wouldn't be the problem. It depends on what was agreed in the sale. Surely some non-competes were signed. That's nearly automatic for any company buyout. Perhaps they have expired.

the electrons are all huddled together elsewhere talking about the last episode of Big Bang Theory?

Yes, they're talking about how the ridiculous audience laughter makes it unwatchable.

From my experience, Google has quite good customer support. But only for their customers!

Not in my experience. We were spending more than US$100,000 a year on adwords and we still struggled to get more than a boilerplate answer to any inquiries. And actually speaking with someone was completely out of the question.

How much of it would blow up upon launch, destroying artillery on the NK side rather than buildings on the SK side?

It doesn't have to balance to be a threat and a deterrent. It doesn't even have to be close. A 90-10 ratio would suit the Li'l Dictator just fine.

What is magic if not simply something that we can't currently explain?

You're playing word games with yourself. Magic *is* your explanation, not the thing being explained. There is a distinct difference. You are fooling yourself.

The film I can understand, but Feynman? Seriously? I guess that's either really bad or really good. Really bad in that it's nearly inexcusable, but really good in that now he has the chance to learn about him for the first time.