It's kind of awesome when real physical devices start to sound like technobabble isn't it?

You look more like a meat popsicle to me.

Who also often have no technical expertise in the field of the case in which they are supposed to be making decisions. One week a rubber tyre manufacturer, and the next a microcomputer chip manufacturer debating about the minutiae of their patents which are almost all >10 pages long and filled with hundreds upon hundreds of "whereas"s and conditions, I'd imagine it'd be enough to make any tenured lawyer pull out their hair.

As they say, "A cat in any state is fine too."

Now with 90% more logical fallacy per communiqué!

You know, I could be a smart arse and say this rules out most people that choose to use PHP, but I think my karma would burn. Oh wait....

Yeah, you pretty much do, you just don't write it in SQL any more, you write it using codeigniter's API. I'd much rather see:

There's nothing quite like a proper abstraction. You might want to take a look at the Doctrine ORM.. it implements something like that.

All adults sound the same in that universe.

Does it come with Reversi? Also, can it be downloaded from Nebraska?

Right right, should've been more clear on that.

MM = Machinist Mate, think Mechanical Engineer but for maintenance operations on mechanical equipment. EM = Electrician's Mate, think Electrical Engineer but for maintenance operations on electrical equipment. A-Div: various shops and other groups that maintain the mechanical systems such as Hydraulics, AC, Steam and Heat, the catapults, fire pumps and water distribution systems, among others. M-Div: Machinery division refers to the group of MMs. E-Div: same for EMs. Afraid I don't know what DZ means, though it's a METAR code for drizzle, so perhaps that's what's being referred to. No first hand knowledge here, just stuff gained from reading, so please if you've got first hand or links, please correct.

There's a general feeling (at least one that I've observed) that online petitions don't do anything useful, so even though one exists I certainly wouldn't trust it to judge demand for any one particular thing.

Also it won't protect you if your machine has accepted a CA cert from your workplace and they're man in the middling you.

Argh, I know it's poor form to reply to your own post, but that doubled up "at least" bugs me so.

I /wish/ Netflix would use flash instead of their silverlight based technology because I don't use Windows or Mac and would actually like to be able to watch Netflix streaming content. At least at least Adobe usually lives up to their cross-platform promise. Actually it would be nice if they just used an open format, but I doubt that's going to happen while DRM support remains poor (I'm not going to go down that rabbit hole in this post.)