It has a steel frame, fibreglass underbody and stainless steel panels screwed onto the underbody like cladding. The nose and tail valances are some kind of ABS plastic, also screwed into the underbody.

The factual correctness of the statement doesn't stop it being self-righteous.

"Good enough" means it drives 90% of consumer hardware, runs a major browser and an office suite. Linux has been good enough ever since it got wireless drivers/support sorted out. But on 99.99% of all the computers out there, Windows or MacOS are already there when you buy them, and they're good enough too. Desktop linux solves a problem that almost no one really has.

In that it's an obsolete pile of trash taking up space and doing nothing useful that will cost the school money to dispose of. Even if they can make do with running ancient software or some modern software excruciatingly slowly, this old gear is likely to fail very soon, then all of a sudden you're shelling out for disposal costs. Accepting people's garbage is almost always a false economy. They threw it out for a reason.

This week i watched the despecialised editions of the original trilogy on an 11 foot projector screen. Seeing them for the first time in years writ modestly large in HD i can say this: The low budget of Star Wars is very obvious when compared to Empire Strikes Back. It's still an astonishing accomplishment for the age and the money, but some of the effects and costumes look shaky as hell under the cold light of day. Luckily the inventiveness and ambition of them make the rough edges really charming and still evocative. Empire on the other hand is obviously much better than the other two. As a lifelong Star wars obsessive, i've always rated the original trilogy pretty evenly in terms of quality. But now it feels pretty obvious to me that Jedi is far too casual and played for laughs for any of the stakes to be felt. Apart from the space battle, which is stupendous, nothing ever lands as if any of the characters are taking any of it seriously, and no ever feels in any real danger. Everyone is acting like it's all a walk in the park. Contrast this with Empire, where they are always on the back foot, either running away or resignedly walking into what they assume is certain death. One other thing i noticed over all three films is that everyone is an asshole. Especially in the first one. Except for the very end they are just constantly rude and obnoxious to each other. In the other films they only seem to be nice to each other when they think someone is going to die. And Luke is just wall to wall arrogant in Jedi. The teddy bears picnic at the end of jedi felt like an anticlimax. It needed more, but not the pan pipe jubilee from the special edition. Something else. Not sure what. All that having been said, i still fucking love all three of them.

It would be much better if people would stop calling anti-muslim bigotry "racism". It implies that to be muslim you have to be one particular skin colour, which is ironically just reinforcing a racist attitude and the giving undeserved coherence to the idea that the answer to an extremist islam threat is to throw all brown people out of the country.

For the kind of cars i drive, $500 would buy me a replacement car every month.

This is a genuine question APK, and not a dig - do you have autism or asperger's syndrome? You behave in a very unusual way, tracking all these things people have said to you and pasting them back into conversations weeks and months after the fact. I'm just curious about what motivates you.

And where is your evidence for that?

Poe's Law and all, but my gut tells me it was a joke.

As if you couldn't make similar remarks about any arbitrary political/social/religious group. Oh sorry, I forgot, anyone in your tribe is a saint, because your tribe is the special one that's right about everything.

Unfortunately we have almost no say over what the shower of cunts that calls itself out government do. We marched in the millions against helping the shower of cunts that calls itself your government from invading iraq, to avoid the cost of billions of pounds and thousands of lives but it meant fuck all. The elite do as they please, and we are totally fucking impotent. There will be no armed uprising that american gun nuts fantasise about, in the US or the UK. And if there were it would just replace one shower of cunts with another shower of cunts. The only solution i can imagine is if enough people learn to stop being cunts that they eventually outnumber them and organically end up replacing them. But most people are cunts, even the people that should know better, so for the time being, we're fucked.

Then it makes even less sense.

Hans Reiser?

i live in the uk and my local cineworld did this briefly about 5 years ago after a commandment from on high. The staff found it embarrasing and stupid and i remember seeing them wandering in with the goggles on and staring at us for a few seconds then walking off again. They only did it for a couple of weeks.

This isn't new, and it isn't really a sustained procedure of audience monitoring. It's a publicity stunt to make people think they're being watched - make a giant fuss about how they're watching everyone in the dark and hopefully that will scare them into not filming the screen.

They do it long enough to make people aware of it then stop again. Then in another 5 years make a big hoo-haa and break out the night vision goggles again for a couple of weeks.