I'm struggling to determine why this would be bad, except for a potential lack of views. Come to think of it, if we built hobbit holes on appropriate slopes, then everyone would have a view, unblocked by other buildings. The energy efficiency would be exemplary. Thanks for sharing this idea with the class, not just even though but especially because you thought it was a bad one, o blessed reverse barometer.

It could help facilitate cross play, which is a highly requested feature.

Still not interested in having a Sony account though.

Consumers have gone broke and you don't get an Apple Obamaphone.

They're probably not as bad as HP, but if you have to resort to praise like that then they are terrible.

You want to talk about primitive, let's talk about fire.

It is a horribly wasteful method of getting energy into things.

Don't get me wrong, i'm not about to stop cooking my steaks with it, there are times when it's great. But given the basic issues with using fire I want to avoid it whenever it's not adding anything to the end result.

There's a reason steel plants use induction.

Buybacks signal there is nothing better you can think of doing with all your cash.

Or that you have a lot of cash and other assets and a market mob madness has depressed your stock price to where it's a really good deal to spend some of the cash to take some of the stock out of circulation and concentrate the company's value in the rest of it.

Possibly it's even such a good deal that some rich outsiders could buy up controlling interest, sell off the non-money assets, take that and the cash pile, and come out ahead. That leaves the current employees out of a job and with their unvested options worthless. Better to spend the hostile-takeover bait making the rest of your stock more valueable now, and keep the company running, than wait until the hostiles are buying and screw up the company and its stockholders with poison pills and the like.

You can be first to eat a caterpillar steak or whatever

Sexual predators dressed as men can walk RIGHT INTO women's bathrooms and assault them. Nothing is preventing it. As such your idea is stupid and you should feel stupid.

Your theory would make sense if the majority or even a significant number of bathrooms had some kind of controls over who could enter them based on apparent gender. But for the vast majority of bathrooms in the world, or in the US, or in fact in any place you can name, there are no such controls.

As such, the idea that not letting people with penises [claim to*] be women and use women's bathrooms protects women from being sexually assaulted is, frankly, spectacularly stupid. Men dressed as men can just walk into them and rape women. In fact, it happens dramatically more frequently than a chick with a dick doing it.

* It doesn't matter which for the purposes of this argument, and I'm not interested in having that debate in this thread

"This comment reflects what many people have been too afraid to voice."

Uh, no.

They are not afraid to voice it at all. We know this because they won't shut the fuck up about it. They're worse than vegans.

"The suffix "phobic" suggests people are afraid. They are not; They are disgusted."

They are disgusted because they are afraid of things they don't understand.

The root is still fear.

You prefer to be ignorant? On brand.

Kids hate the chromebook. Our schools given them to students and a lot of their material is there. But they sit entirely unused around here collecting dust during the summer or when the material is just on a website they can get via their ipads or home computers.

There's no way to get my kids to agree on a single thing, except they they're not going to use their chromebooks without a fight.

If you need trained technical support to troubleshoot an issue with a switch you aren't much of an IT Professional, IMHO.

In 20+ years in this profession I've never needed technical support on a switch for anything other than a hardware failure requiring RMA/warranty service. Cisco would certainly be less frustrating in this regard, because I wouldn't have to jump through the Tier 1 nonsense to convince them it actually is a hardware failure, as opposed to an ID10T error, but I haven't dealt with enough switch failures to justify the Cisco Premium for this scenario.

I could be a real snob and make the same statement about routers and firewalls. Admittedly a higher bar there, more that can go wrong configuration wise, still, unless we're talking super small business here, you should have enough in-house expertise to manage them with whatever configuration you need.

Either way the artists usually get fucked. They get roughly dick from album sales too.

If you want them to get money, download their music, then go see them in concert. If you can find a show at a venue where Ticketmaster isn't eating it all, that is.