I noticed the other day when I went to the YouTube homepage that the recommendations it gave me were videos that closely conformed with my actual interests. Except I hadn't "logged in" yet.

The sole reason for that amendment was to guarantee the citizens the right to bear arms, so that a citizen's rebellion against an out-of-hand government would be a guaranteed option.

Did you know that this argument only starts to appear after about the mid-1960s?

Did you know that even staunch conservatives like Judge Robert Bork and Judge Rhenquist believed that the "right to bear arms" only applied to "well-regulated militia". Until the extremist (and quite corrupt) Atty General Meese from the Reagan administration started pushing the notion that the 2nd Amendment applied to everyone owning a handgun in the 1980s, there had never been a single Supreme Court justice in US history who held that belief.

Yeah thats what I thought when I read the title, that someone had written an app for 'finding a new home' and that apple had rejected it, maybe because of pressure from real etate companies.

This may or may not apply, but when I interview I have a couple of questions I ask which have different solutions. When the candidate gives one, I disagree, sometimes energetically. I don't care what answer they give, I want to know if they can think round what is probably a fairly simple issue, under a reasonable amount of presure.

I then want to know how they deal with some prick arguing with them that their chosen solution isn't very good.

Personality issues are pretty fucking key in most roles and companies...

I do tell candidates both before and after that if I argue with them they should just take it as part of the process, to try and calm them.

In general, try to think why you are being asked a question, and maybe why the interviewer is disagreeing with you in a demonstrably correct answer. Of course that applies in life as well as job interviews.

That shouldn't be too hard to cover, as Heinrich Heine said: "Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen."

Except if you could read you'd see he isn't quite AC.

What good is a scale that gives equal weight to a part of the spectrum that we cannot see?

Human eyes aren't the only thing on the planet that light is relevant for, you know.

First you put your lungs in the dome, along with your weed which you light and then you slide the other half of the dome over and let the lungs fill up with smoke.

So the massively parallel touting of this new buzzword should best be described as a 'cloudfuck'?

LOL, thanks for that, I needed a laugh. I'm going to break into that office building next door and turn off all the monitors tonight. Just doing my bit, you now?

Not all computer policies are administered via software. Perhaps a green initiative, along the same lines where when you leave for the day and are the last one out, you turn off the lights. If your computer isn't working towards the benefit of clients or the company (virus scan, being up for you to RDP into when a client calls), it should be as idle as possible without hurting the availability for the client problems.

I can buy a Ferrari for a few hundred thousand or I can buy a Toyota for a few thousand.

Wouldn't comparing Chrysler with Lexus be a better comparison here? ;)

I wonder if a skinny persons shit burns hotter than a fat persons. Kind of a measure of how many calories pass through someone. Seriously though I don't see why this is news. A tape worm will make someone lose weight so it makes sense that the bacteria in a person would effect weight too. Wasn't this the idea behind the yogurt with bacteria.

'First off, the words "propaganda" and "lies" are not interchangeable.'

Actually they are, presenting facts via selective bias is lying just as surely as presenting outright lies. It is no different than a partial quote or quote out of context that conveys a message that is different than reality.

For example, the US propoganda of the russian military is that after the 'collapse' anyone can easily buy nukes for 10-50k from the corrupt, evil, and incompetent russian military. Yet, oddly enough, apparently nobody has taken advantage of this because there are precisely ZERO new russian armed nuclear powers. No sold technology, no sold bombs, nada, zip, zilch, zero. There are small arms but I think you will find the U.S. military illegally traded as many if not more arms both during and after the cold war. In fact, by all credible accounts the U.S. military/government is the largest legal and illegal arms dealer in the world.

Heh heh heh... just wait until those grappling hooks are on your hull and desperate armed pirate robots are scurrying up the rope ladders.