For example, the holocaust still isn't funny.
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is, as has been remarked before often and accurately, a pretty startling kind of a thing. It is, essentially, as the title implies, a guide book. The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable portion of which are continually clogging up the civil, commercial and criminal courts in all areas of the Galaxy, and especially, where possible, the more corrupt ones, this.
The previous sentence makes sense. That is not the problem.
This is:
Change.
Read it through again and you'll get it.
I congratulate you, sir, on beating Mr Douglas Adams.
Even without further employment these people will be wealthy their entire lives.
Let's make that period as short as it is prosperous.
Caffeinated bacon? Baconated grapefruit? ADMIRAL Crunch?
[the theory of evolution by natural selection] doesn't have (yet) predictive power
It has. Otherwise it wouldn't be used in computing for finding near-optimal solutions to problems.
Three econometricians went out hunting, and came across a large deer. The first econometrician fired, but missed, by a meter to the left. The second econometrician fired, but also missed, by a meter to the right. The third econometrician didn't fire, but shouted in triumph, "We got it! We got it!"
U.S. Defense Secretary Warns of a Possible 'Cyber-Pearl Harbor'.
So, no, it's simple. The USA declared "Cyber War" on the USA so some "attacks" are required to be reported. These don't have to be real though, just reported.
negative growth
I'm sure there was a single word for this. Even several depending on context.
potato-and-vodka farts can be pretty damn toxic themselves.
Sorry, carbohydrates and ethanol don't produce highly toxic fumes. Proteins do. Very little in potatoes. None in vodka.
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin