I think you missed the entire point of Opportunist's post. We need to find a way to get more people to act. You determined it was worth the effort. Unfortunately, there seem to be human-nature level arguments against actually effecting change. That was the point of the post. It is so much easier to just rationalize your way into the status quo. I try to drive less, and use less plastic. Nevertheless, I can't convince my wife to turn the AC up, nor do I ever remember to bring reusable leftover containers to restaurants, so I end up with their single-use polystyrene. These are easy. I want to do them. But I'm a lazy, forgetful, conflict-averse human just like everybody else.

I'm surprised the TSA hasn't been sold to the hotel chains yet. Only a matter of time.

They book the room to multiple guests. Or just hand out the wrong key. It has happened to me at least once; fortunately the other guest was not there. Just his stuff.

What in the world does that even mean? You know I love you, drinkypoo, but you're not making sense. Sexual assault by a stranger in a hotel room is just not that common. There is a much higher likelihood that somebody coming into a room unannounced is there to clean the place, not rape the guest. Or hell, they might have just double booked the room accidentally; that happens at least as often. If you're going to cite stochastic rape as a reason to shoot at somebody, at least think of the other possible reasons other people might be entering.

These gun nut assholes think it's ok to shoot somebody for knocking at your door for directions, or trying to get help after a car wreck. You might also notice a pattern in the victims of these crimes. The default solution to problems in America seems to be "shoot first, ask questions later."

I love that the AC accuses you of trolling, then pulls like three or four trolls into one post. Very classy. Good luck with these guys; they really believe that white men are totally oppressed by the (((liberals))). They see any attempt to right centuries of racism and sexism as some sort of personal slight against them, just because they have to compete on an almost level playing field.

They have more envelopes now. There's "They did it first." "They made us do it." "We didn't do it." "We did it, but it wasn't illegal." "It's illegal, but still not as bad as when they did it." and "Hey, look at those job-stealing Messicans!"

When I tried to show the GDP growth numbers (as published by Trump's Department of Commerce) to a friend to explain why, no this isn't the best economy since before the recession, he just shambled away muttering something about the Deep State (TM). Facts shall never get in the way of peoples love for Dear Leader!!!

I can tell you from experience, if there is a "do not turn off" sign on a switch, the likelihood of it being turned of is proportional to the cost of restarting the process that it shuts down.

I knew I was done when I had to fill out a form to schedule a meeting to form a committee to train people how to fill out the form to schedule meetings. I wish I was making this up.

Another time we had a "Design for Six Sigma" meeting to determine the best option for a component. When we came up with the best option, the person in charge of the meeting said we had to start all over again since that's not the outcome sought by upper management. So I said, why don't we add a column for "What bossman wants" weight it higher than any other requirement? Did not go over well.

Also money.

It's an algorithm based on posting behavior. If they don't want to be banned like trolls, maybe they shouldn't, you know, troll people. RWNJ snowflakes still seeing oppression everywhere, even when their team owns all of DC, and most of the airwaves.

I worked in the power industry about 15 years ago, and there was always resistance to anything newfangled. There was one exception. The ability of the HMI (we called them MMI back then) to communicate with the outside world was seen as a godsend. You could remotely tap the datalogs and see trends in things like air intake differential pressure, oil temperatures, mag sensors. All of these things would provide us with valuable information, and it was even better if you could correlate it across multiple sites. Back then it was all read only though.

I don't know when they started letting things get changed remotely. I'm not surprised at all. It was always a PITA to have to send a field tech out to a site to do a system update. So I guess it was only matter of time before the ability to write changes became a desirable feature. But even on an air-gapped system, if you have somebody there to make updates without proper vetting, you're still hosed. Just MITM between the mother-ship sending the update and the onsite guy with permissions to change things. It's not a real-time attack, but it could still be devastating.

That sounds almost as dangerous as dihydrogen monoxide, a common additive in thousands of common food items, including almond "milk." I've heard they use it in farm fisheries and sewage treatment. It's even used as a paint thinner!

You realize words in English can have multiple definitions, right? From a dietary and chemical standpoint, almond milk is much more like cow milk than juice. It is fats and proteins in a liquid. Juice is primarily sugars (sort of like skim milk). If you want to be picky about it, "milk" at the grocery store is nothing like raw cow milk either. In my house we don't even drink cow milk. And if we have some in the house, it is specifically referred to as "cow milk."

Maybe instead we should make a law that says all milk has to specifically be labelled with what animal (or plant) it comes from! Not to mention describing the processing that took place. Whole milk would become "centrifugally separated 4% butterfat recombined pasteurized cow milk with added vitamin D and and reduced lactose." YUM!

Why does the dairy industry think it gets to define how we use words? That's not how language works. Of course, I live in a part of the world that refers to any carbonated beverage as a coke, so what do I know?

Almond milk is no more juice than it is milk. It doesn't come from a fruit, and it's not pressed out of a plant as a liquid. It is a white mixture of protein and fat suspended in a liquid, and in that regard is much more like milk than juice. Just because the marketing department came up with a sensible thing to call a product, doesn't mean they are conniving to deceive anybody.

Next thing you know, people will be all pissed off because peanut butter isn't really butter. When it comes to names we have given things, "we have always done it that way" is a perfectly cromulent argument. If everybody knows what almond milk is, then changing the name to something else will cause more confusion, not less.