virtualbox is good but irrelevant to this conversation as it's not used in the enterprise so vmware doesn't care about it.

why spend resources on this? just grab one or two well established desktop distros, and ensure your packages work as good as possible. leave the distro itself up to the distro teams.

for good or worse, this means ubuntu. i have used arch before and i really like it, but it's not meant to be for the average user (if there's such a thing with linux)

i can't disable IPv6 on the google tv (huge android limitation). and i don't want to disable it on the router for every device, which means that the home screen can still easily get ads. switched to a different launcher and at least that's done. of course, can't get rid of freetime / prime / hulu ads

i have a hybrid. gets me around 450 miles. decent, although i should really be getting at least 500.

it was probably 15K more expensive compared to a equivalent gas only car, which is the thing i regret the most.

i will switch to electric once they increase the range to 500 miles and the company proves the cost of the electricity AND installing the charger is less than the gas cost.

football is the name of the game. every single country except one calls it football.

what you call football is what every single country except one calls it american football.

First they came for Boeing, and I didn't say anything because I wasn't all fucked up.

Got to be pretty unconventional to count as unconventional in QM.

Being a hippie never goes out of style.

Not everyone has enough money to do groundbreaking things like put a car in orbit.

I saw it when it came out, and thought it sucked donkey doodles.

Don't they know fake news is what everyone wants these days?

Perhaps I'm being too harsh. For example, if their boss is an MBA who gives out raises on the basis of how many pounds+gallons they produce or sell, they would be quite rational to request a report that shows how many pounds+gallons they have produced or sold.

For some suitable definition of "work".

In my experience, business "analysts" don't know what the hell they want, let alone how to specify it.

I've been asked to create reports that add pounds + gallons, and it's almost impossible to get them to understand why that's nonsense.

Why not? People who think their god will protect them don't need foxholes. People in foxholes are putting their trust in the boring but well-established ability of a thick pile of dirt to stop bullets.