AC is trolling, Slackware is still systemd-free

The sad thing is _some_ of them may not have even been cheating -- it can't be that hard to independently make some of the same mistakes on a calc exam? It's not like they're writing a free-form essay...

... of course you can download the blank forms from the state site itself. But Intuit has solidly inserted itself into the online process.

Want to see something even more beautiful? If you want to do your own state taxes in PA (as opposed to buying the state package from HRBlock, Intuit, etc.), you go to www.pafreefile.com. There, you get sent to https://www.statefillableforms..., which is a domain run by... dum-dum-dummmmmm... Intuit.

Can't even print them out and fill them out on paper, you have to create an account and fill them out online on Intuit's site, then print them and mail them.

Fsck me. They ran their in-house system one last time for this year while "encouraging" us to use the new system. The new Intuit system is allegedly the only route next year.

> The brake pedal is for braking, dammit; simply lifting off the gas pedal should result in nearly coasting

You kids and your silly torque converters. In a proper car with three pedals, when you lift, as the motor slows it transmits braking torque to the drive wheels to which it is directly connected. It actually gives you more options for controlling the car. You can get it to rotate in a corner with a brief throttle-lift, upsetting the chassis less than if you touched the brakes.

What, you just sit in your car and aim it lazily at your destination? Where's the fun in that?

> If Firewire hadn't been an expensive pain in the ass, we'd be using USB for our keyboards and printers and Firewire for our portable drives as originally intended.

Um, you mean some of you _aren't_ doing that? :-\

Again I'll ask you guys for confirmation (no one has said "no, you're wrong" the previous times I've asked): what I've understood all along about AGW is that man-made greenhouse gas contributions are increasing the _rate_ of warming.

To be clear, that seems to be pretty well agreed on. But "the increasing rate of global warming is man-made" is not the same thing as "global warming is man-made". We could be reducing the rate of warming, and we'd still frequently be having record high global average temperatures, because the trend in this interglacial period that predates our industrialized influence has been _warming_.

Can we still ask for accurate science reporting without being tarred and feathered as "denialists"? Or is that not allowed?

Linux distros. After I'm done, I try to keep seeding for the next night or two to try to "give back" at least a little bit.

Anyone else who's read Niven's "Fallen Angels" recognizing way too much of it coming true? It was supposed to be _fiction_, Larry! (Wasn't it?)

> I closed it right away and the Mac installer started and asked me to install Mac Protector, so I quit the installer and all is well

No, not _all_ is well. You need to turn off the Safari pref 'Open "safe" files after downloading', which should not even _exist_. :-(

Unable to RTFA (server not responding), but seriously? They _can't_ be talking about actually using 2.4GHz ISM band, _unlicensed_ spectrum, full of all kinds of crap that you have to accept, to build even a supplimental safety system. That's just the submitter putting a generic name to "wireless communication", right? *boggle*

So somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but what I _think_ I've heard from the AGW proponents once you get past the ad-hominems (on both sides!), is that yes, we are between ice ages, and yes, the planet does naturally warm as you come out of an ice age (duh!), and yes, the planet has been warmer in the distant past, but AGW is about the global average temp increasing _faster_ than it should be naturally. Is that close?

So am I wrong in seeing "this was the warmest decade recorded"-type headlines lately and thinking "yeah, so?"? What happened to the rate-of-change bit? How is that trending compared to what they think is supposed to be natural?

IANACS...

Actually, Michelin did sort of what you're asking for a few years back -- the TWEEL.
http://www.gizmag.com/go/3603/

Apparently it hasn't been all that disruptive. At least not yet... :)

The extra negative camber in the rears is just to make the car understeer at the limit, which keeps the "general population" from losing the rear and suing the mfgr. It gives the minority something to undo to really make it enjoyable to drive. :)

Don't misunderstand me -- I hate that as much as anyone. I'm talking about ICEs in an appropriate setting (mostly closed-course competition); and even on the street, a nice V-8 doesn't have to be _loud_ to sound sweet. I've got cats and reasonable mufflers on mine; it's far from obnoxiously loud, but still has a nice song to it.

And honestly, here in my neck of the woods, subwoofers are a much bigger nuisance than loud exhausts. Self-centered idiots will be self-centered idiots, regardless what tools are available.