What? Make it yourself.

Quality in online writing is reaching new lows. It was 'Sam Astin' in the original article. Somehow they copied and pasted an incorrect correction into the excerpt on Slashdot. Seriously, WTF? 2 tries and they both spelt a 4 letter name wrong.

the Army Corps of Engineers mobilized in the U.S., hiring private contractors to build emergency field hospitals around the country.

.. it looks like stereotypical USA responsiveness in that it was more important to not miss a business opportunity than it was to effectively attempt to save lives.

Boldly going forward 'cause they can't find reverse..

"correct horse battery staple"

That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!

Actually, wouldn't capital letters be cheaper to send from an energy viewpoint? If they've got less 1's in each byte and a 0 is assumed 'lack of signal'...

They might take more pixels to draw though? So energy costs would go up at display time (assuming you're displaying it of course. Interesting - oh, unless it's black on white so then it's cheaper again...

I think I'll stop now before further thinking about this makes my head explode.

Or maybe, he's already worried his future OS is going to leave him for a group hyper-ultra-sentient relationship.

What if you just download a copy of the old woman's money? Or even her whole handbag and it's contents...

Trickle down effect is as trickle down effect does

Everything -- bar none -- works according to the principles of physics.

Ahem. The principles of physics are based on the way everything works, as far as we have worked it out as such.

Raised to the power of grayskull.

Now you can use your eyeballs to try and get Mario to punch the monkey!

The way they wrote that, it makes it seem like astronauts are up there jettisoning their camera gear every other day.

Turn left at the next set of lights, then pull over and replace your scratched tobbacconist.

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If you have to sign or agree to something in order to access it, it's not free, even if they say otherwise.