So, not saying that "drugs are bad" or anything, but also having well adjusted ground control crew who can function well without pharmaceuticals is a good option.

Stretching a 9 hour shift to 12 isn't bad at all, especially with the excitement of the storm, the pajama party at work, and the not being able to go anywhere because the roads are flooded. I do wonder how "at risk" the staff's personal cars were during the storm. Mission Control isn't far at all from the Clear Lake / Mud Lake corner, even if the building can take rising water, a parking lot at double normal capacity might not all be up above flood. I suppose the usual admin people were probably mostly absent, so there's probably not a parking overflow situation.

Different countries, believe it or not, in legal terms.
The 1707 Act of Union that created what is now the UK, allowed Scotland to retain it's own separated laws.
So if a law is passed in Westminster it needs enacting twice. In English law & Scottish law.
It's probably one of my favourite things about Scotland, the freedom to roam anywhere.

You're the smartass kid in class who takes everything literally as though its funny and clever and reads only enough of a sentence to feel like you're so smart to find a contradiction. But that contradiction falls apart when actually comprehending the whole sentence, had you cared to read it whole.

Yes. But his travails began with what proved to be a low-stakes case, so I'm not sure why the police are out to get him. Another poster pointed out that the photographer deleted his photos when he learned that there was a search warrant, but that doesn't answer why the prosecutor jumped straight to the warrant rather than take (what the photographer said) was the more ordinary and non-hardass approach.

Since the guy is a "press photographer" he should have little trouble getting a real reporter to lay the facts out.

Public corporations tend to do things to benefit themselves. Oracle fought to get APIs covered by copyright -- and won. That's a step backward in the US software world in an amazing amount. Yes, the court didn't make Google pay because fair-use, but fair-user is judged on a case-by-case basis _at trial_. So going forward, because of Oracle's greed and unbending desire to control all of Java everything (and Android) all software developers in the US have this API pitfall to watch out for.

Second, even if there is no direct benefit, there's no indirect benefit to Oracle to open-source Java (or anything). So long as they can extract complex licensing and other fees from everyone wanting to use Java (EE) or the JDK or the API... that's exactly how they work.

Oracle wants to dominate The Market, All Markets, and Larry Ellison has an ego to rival anyone. Unfortunately people with large egos are unable to make decisions that benefit anyone other than themselves.

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How are these "potential fruits" going to help Oracle? I ask because that's the only thing Oracle actually cares about.

Don't forget your fedora!

Exactly.... Not only is my eyesight not that terrific, but I purposely went for a "last years' model" new HDTV when we were due to replace it. Got a lot more features for the money by picking out something 1080p instead of 4K, and most of the content we use with it isn't 4K anyway.

We do a lot of streaming of content saved on my Plex media server, for example -- and pretty much all of that is compressed to 720p or 1080p resolution, tops. The larger, higher resolution files are less likely to work over wireless without stuttering, and clog up my bandwidth if someone wants to watch them remotely, served via my connection. The cable company isn't sending us any 4K content either ... at least not without paying some additional fee to see a limited selection of things in it.

I have a 4K monitor for my Mac and that's more clearly useful to me -- but even so? I still find myself dragging a lot of windows over to my big 1080p resolution display, just so all the fonts are displayed larger.)

Google says you're wrong.
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95617?hl=en/

... and its contrapositive: if you lost, then you didn't know what you were doing.

Therefore every investor knows what they are doing, right up until the moment when they don't.

Let's say that I had bought (or mined) 200 bitcoin back when they were practically free(*), and now I want to transition from "Bitcoin millionaire" to "actual US dollars millionaire" by selling all my bitcoins at their current value.

How would I realistically go about doing that? Is it really just a matter of going to a Bitcoin exchange site and clicking "sell 200 bitcoins"?

(*) to be clear, this isn't actually the case; if it was, I would probably already be Bitcoin-savvy enough that I wouldn't need to ask

The Saudi authority have for a long time performed MITM on the nations whole population and companies such as Symantec have actively aided them.

If they had deployed DNSSec and I would have advised DANE then this would have been harder to perform.

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/dnssec-qaa-2014-01-29-en

top tip try and enable it on your own domain !

The Bering Sea's typically not involved in the Indonesia raft theory. The Kon-Tiki route was all south of the equator. And the Bering Strait was a land route beginning c. 21,000 BP, though access along the coast was blocked by ice until about 17,000 BP and the interior route didn't clear up until about 13,500 BP. There's a pretty good history of the sea level in the area here: http://theconversation.com/fir...

But like I said there's plenty of other evidence against the theory, at least as a significant driver of human migration.

The OP's bizarre, too (I ascribe that to the media losing something in translation, not necessarily the original research); Clovis-first has been out of favor for decades now, and the timing on when the Bering crossing was open doesn't agree with anything I've seen espoused in recent years. The inland route probably de-iced c. 13,500 BP, and the coastal route by 17,000 BP give or take. And most mDNA evidence has suggested that the coastal route was used, so the timing's not only fine for humans in Mexico by 13,000 BP, but even a few millenia earlier.

I'm guessing the research was phrased more as "here's additional evidence against Clovis-first and for an earlier date" and the reporters added some sloppy wording around it to sensationalize things.

Is he still considered paranoid if the police ARE out to get him?

That time was about three seasons of GOT ago.

I'm Canadian (although mostly Scottish by ancestry). I once stayed in a bed and breakfast in Ireland.

The woman running it said "oh, you're American!" I said "well, Canadian actually." She said "basically the same thing." I said "sure, I guess that makes you English?"

Houston (Harris county) voted for Hillary.

explain how killing lots of civilians helps win battles, Hammurabi

We should use Rust to bring peace to the Middle East.

Ah yes, just assert what I am saying is false instead of coming up with actual arguments. And asserting that somehow religious societies are moral, much less better than secular ones.

As for the basis of the United States Constitution and the beliefs of the founding fathers... you may want to read up on a thing called The Enlightenment.

Note that you are the one bringing up Westboro and propaganda.

You don't have to know what you're doing. In fact, it's better if you don't "know what you're doing."

Buy index funds or throw darts at the financial pages. Don't ever check the value of your stocks.

Larry Ellison didn't get to where he is (one of the richest in the world) by giving shit away. Is there a tax deduction involved? Hidden agenda?

Paul Krill is a joke. Just look at his history.

They can't cause they are too shit for that. Java > .NET in every conceivable way. If you don't understand that then go home.

Bitcoin was also supposed to eliminate the big transaction fees charged by banks. But in order to get a transaction processed you have to pay fees that even the banks might blush at.

The scariest thing though is that lots and lots of bitcoin is held by a few random anonymous nerds. If one of those guys gets greedy, desperate or bored and tries to cash out....

Tech workers, yes, but I meant the whole range of open jobs. Recruiters exist for more than just IT, and they're telling companies that they have to offer more than they're used to providing if they want people to move to fill the positions.

No inherent value is not the same as valueless. Here are some other things that have little or no inherent value:
1. Gold
2. Diamonds
3. Dollars

I'm not sure if the resume farms (many of which were actually located in Asia) have thinned out recently or they gave up trying to contact me. I still get the occasional ping from LinkedIn, but they tend to be in-house recruiters, with very few hits from even the larger recruiting firms. I still get calls every few months from resumes I last updated almost a decade ago.

by Node.js and Angular for anything besides the odd query to a database here and there?

Let me apologize profusely. It was not my intent to cause any confusion.

decides to include the new open-source Java as a part of it's .NET platform just to piss in Oracle's face.

Creativity is for innovation. Tenacity and sociopathy are for growth.

Bitcoin is a massive gamble, I'm not falling for it!

Tulip bulbs, that's where the smart money is going...

Lucky or it wasn't that old. Dynamite will sweat nitroglycerin after as soon as a year in storage. It can accumulate into pools on the floor. A small as a half of an ounce can take an arm off if you drop a hammer.