I recall reading that after the 'battle' for Greneda, more medals were handed out - including to military contractors - than were handed out for D-Day. Might have been BS, but it's always stuck with me.

Funny how all this fascist behaviour and bravery of being out of range is starting after most all the WWII vets have died.

Apple's monoculture and price tags.

Why are critical infrastructre, military, and non-consumer facing financials ON A FUCKING PUBLIC NETWORK AT ALL?

Hmm. But how much of that speed was due to their massive web caching servers?

We really need Teddy Rosevelt to come back and bust all these greedy bastards that for all practical purposes are trusts.

Earlier in the year, while pointing out several areas across the globe suffering significant droughts, the other person asked: "Well, where is it all going?" I had no ready answer. I guess the oceans? Though I thought the sea level rises were due mainly to ice melt (even more water!), not increased rainfall and runoff.

"We're gonna need a bigger boat."

...you can see us driving our Web Rover in Nevada all the way from Brazil.

Sadly, someone's going to read this, think 'perfect IED' and put the hacker space in quite a bad light.

Most gas gages on conventional cars are rather conservative - I assume their lawyers to tell them to do this. Maybe Tesla needs to fuzz the range numbers and recalcuations downwards.

The car is keeping a log of where you've been.

Is Tesla partially funded by the state Security Organs? Nah; probably just insurance companies.

They're already *at* the bottom.

Lawyers, doctors, etc. get paid the big bucks for good work

Lawyers are paid to be as devious, cruel, and inhuman as possible without getting disbarred, period. From telling the jury she was 'asking for it' as she was dressed like a slut, to refusing to release someone when the DNA evidence doesn't match, but stating it is merely from an 'unidicted co-conspirator'. If your shark wins, I suppose it is 'good work', in an expediently sociopathic sense.

Attorney: from the Latin attorni: to twist (both the truth and the opponent).

But China will never abandon North Korea, unless NK attacks China directly. They'll continue to support them in any way possible, within reason, to ensure the communist stronghold on the peninsula.

Communism? Seriously? No. The main reason is that China doesn't want all those hungry, huddled masses streaming North over the border.

A darker reason: we in the West tend to think 'asians' are homogeneous (ironically, due to our racism), but the various Chinese ethnic goups are just a tribal as us White Devils, if not more so, and would prefer to keep the Koreans at arms reach in perpetuity.

[unplugs Ethernet cables]
'That will be $20 million, please.'