"and then..."

and then all hell will break lose, obviously.

LOSE LOSE LOSE LOSE! YOU WILL LOSE DATA!

Sorry... I'm usually a calm rational person. I almost never become a grammar-nazi, spelling nazi, or troll. It's just that I see this so often I'm afraid one day Webster will just give up and switch the definitions of Lose and Loose.

+1 Caprica reference...

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.

Dear Slashdot,

I have become proficient in the use of a "Hammer" and I'd like to know how to become a Hammer professional. I use a hammer on a daily basis. I can't believe that making furniture is the only job available, although I would be open to that. What areas of Hammer usage have other people experienced, and what has been your experience as a hammer professional?

WTF? Is medical insurance extremely location dependent? I live in New York and I pay $1500/month for a family plan. All of the plans I looked at were around the same amount.

> How anyone who has ever been involved with the US system of healthcare providers and insurance companies could want to keep it is beyond me.

I think the ones getting million dollar checks from the Healthcare system are pretty pleased with it.
That would include the insurance company execs and the congressmen they've purchased.

Its not a trend on Slashdot. Its a trend in the world. There is a growing problem with the ultra-rich gaining more power and wealth and the rest of the world getting less and less.

Great. Because bickering partisanship has worked so well for politics.

> I hear that response (or, "I hate it") [...] Personally, when it comes to that line of reasoning, I hate it

heh. i see what you did there.

Woooosh! Hook, line and sinker.

In the House of the Worm takes place in a far future where the few people left live in enclosed stone fortresses in a vast desert. They live on worms and bugs caught in the underground catacombs. They never leave the stone fortress, have no knowledge of anything outside or underground. The entire story reeks of decay and a slow death of the human race without any awareness of what they once were or what is happening.

Very depressing.

People of Sand and Slag. Damn that depressed me. It's like the Ugly Americans x 1,000. The ugly humans. They fuck up everything they touch and don't care or even notice. And the ending... damn... I was hoping the whole story was leading up to them rediscovering their empathy and humanity. Then they * * * I don't want to spoil it...

Full story is found here

Alright, "Scandanavia", OK. Stop being so pedantic.

They probably wont talk to you because you think Silicon Valley is in southern California and if you can't get that detail right they don't trust you on other details.