there are Reasonable Commuting Area bumps to base salary for more expensive cities long in the contract at my telco, for instance. long before my 24 years started there.

"I really think you should just give me that boat, it's dry in the showroom."

"you don't have that 60-inch 8K big screen on, and I should really have it."

"Your Honor, even if I did kill those 30 people, it's a nice day, and if you let me go free, we can both have the afternoon off."

showing that it's useful to shove the old obsolete junk back in the storeroom corner. you never know when junk parts are useful. a lesson for us all... don't toss anything. hide it from the Significant Other, though.

side effects include stress, psychosis, laughing in serious meetings, suicide, and voting for idiots based on poison memes.

seems the government just shot their argument for encryption back doors in the head. "onlly us" is not going to play in the other 200+ nations of the world that buy our tech products.

Lindsay Graham is a perfect example of a knee-jerk know-nothing. toady. without John McCain to keep him in check, he'd make a great lieutanant in the Red Army, and wouldn't have to change his mind much to succeed.

there is no database big enough and fast enough to match every consumer location by grid square (GPS spies, here they come) with every warning by grid square (NWS doesn't have the cash or staff to split and feed Buggy Brother)... and doesn't have the capacity to identify every stream out of providers with the same coordinates and interrupt them. this is technobabble asshattery by some congresscritter who can't stop his ancient VCR from flashing 12:00... or his microwave, which for some reason cooks everything for whatever time it is on the clock when they start it. and thus sets off the smoke alarm.

and you get, not just an F, but a Z^21

at the distribution center, you need to present ID to get your package. bus-ted!

boxholders need information on the rental sheet to get a key. bus-ted!

they won't ship to "second stop sign on Pitcairn Place, leave in bush". you need to leave an address. bus-ted! you have to give up information to get the goods.

first time the peaceful Nobel Prize committee has awarded a prize for a salt and batteries.

I'll see myself out....

Larry's going to buy another Hawaiian island! and populate it with the Linux licensing fees!

horse hooves on blacktop. if you're going that slowly, you're in a buggy.

Toyota's biggest challenge is not technical... it's selling bonds with no call date to offer 0 percent interest loans for infinite months.