Roundabouts are extremely common here in Portugal. One of our cities has alone 35 of them. I doubt there are many places where you can drive 20km without going through one.
And unless your city is really a small town, it probably has thousands of intersections with traffic lights.
So why claim that roundabouts are "extremely common" when your own experience is that they aren't?
Good rant, but a few nitpicks:
1. No, the usage of 'fail' was entirely appropriate.
Defined by popular usage, FAIL means "there was a slight incongruity between what was promised and what was delivered, and by the way, I'm slightly retarded." (For comparison, EPIC FAIL is the same as FAIL, with the addendum, 'and I shat myself.')
If the speaker had meant to imply that the system really didn't perform, he would have written that it performs "literally."
2. If you ask one thousand experts about your great idea, you'll find that 990 of them aren't experts, 9 of the 10 remaining will only tell you all the ways it can't work, and the last guy will try to steal your idea.
it was just a "voluntary" request for cooperation.
(That means they had good old Joe Lieberman call up the company and "ask" them to print teh dots.)
If Slow Joe had made the call, there would be dots, then some stripes, a nice bit of plaid here and there, and probably the wallpaper pattern from his Aunt Lizzie's place in the 70s. Boy, let me tell you about Aunt Lizzie, she made the best apple pie...
The solution to car problems in SF is to get rid of cars.
But that leads to the real problem, which as it turns out, is that people who own cars get to vote, too.
Yeah, even in San Francisco! They actually think they've got "rights" or something like that. Nuts, isn't it?
Who the f*** is "Cecil B. Demille"? Are we supposed to know that name, or what?
You don't know the name of a celebrity? What's wrong with you?
After looking him up, it seems that the reference is nothing more than "I've got cameras and I feel like I'm a movie director," which seems so witless that it's probably right.
Send him to Gitmo!!! He's obviously an Terrorist Evildoer(tm) bent on destroying the American Economy!!!
Haven't you heard? There's a Democrat in the White House, so Gitmo and the drone strikes are no big deal.
I bet he won't be punished NEARLY as bad as the megaupload guy. Such bullshit.
How can you get so angry at something you speculate is going to happen?
But there's no need to bet, it's in the fucking summary. 105 weeks in prison, after a guilty plea. The megaupload guy is fighting it, which means he might get off entirely, or they might slam him, so the two sentences won't be comparable.
Obviously, choose your battles carefully. It's easier to be punctual and voice your disapproval when someone else is the one late.
I'm late to a meeting, for whatever reason, and you are asking me to do what now? No. I don't think so.
More specifically, "no, such activity is not in the job description as specified in the contract I signed with you. An expansion of my duties to include running laps, singing songs, etc. would constitute a material change and require renogotiation."
But the legalese is the last resort. My first line of argument would basically be, look, if we need to get some servers online with a quickness, I'm happy to temporarily do what would technically be sysadmin duties, even though I'm a software engineer. But I didn't sign up to be a clown, and it's not advancing the company's mission in any concrete manner.
Could a Slashdot editor please add to the summary info about teh Koch brothers payola for organizations relased at the same time, and the new built-in government tracking software? Even a link too a website with coverage about the Apple iPad vs. Google Android would do.
Fixed your post to meet slashdot editorial standards.
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