Comment Milli Vanilli turned out bogus, (Score 2) 25
so will Mila Mozilla.
Comment Re:Aaaflac! (Score 1) 65
What about the Strait of Hormoooz?
Comment Re:I thought it was the DG Eclipse (Score 2) 32
Aaak. I think it was. That'll teach me to work off of decade old memories...
Well, it probably won't teach me.
Comment Re:At first I thought they were crazy. (Score 1) 31
What, you give male aliens a mulligan?
Comment Aaaflac! (Score 3, Funny) 65
"Sorry, but we don't have an insurance code to cover 'sub-atomic vaporization chain-reaction'."
Comment So they finally replaced (Score 1) 88
Eric
Submission + - Tracy Kidder, Author of "The Soul of a New Machine", has died.
wiredog writes: Tracy Kidder, author of "The Soul of a New Machine" has died at the age of 80.
"The Soul of a New Machine" is about the people who designed and built the Data General Nova, one of the 32 bit superminis that were released in the 1980's, just before the PC destroyed that industry. It was excerpted in The Atlantic.
"I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."
"The Soul of a New Machine" is about the people who designed and built the Data General Nova, one of the 32 bit superminis that were released in the 1980's, just before the PC destroyed that industry. It was excerpted in The Atlantic.
"I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."
Comment Re:It's not a ponzi scheme (Score 2) 58
It's a Fonzi Scheme: Ayyy Aiiii!
Comment Re:Could it be good? (Score 1) 134
Exactly. I've never watched him in any form, but I do remember him from the BTS of the Hobbit, and some internet videos showcasing his knowledge. He's a real fan. That's really what LOTR needs.
If Peter Jackson is attached, I'd watch it.
If Peter Jackson is attached, I'd watch it.
Comment Re:If they bring Mars rocks back (Score 1) 31
Such meteorites tend to be sterilized via thousands of years drifting in space and re-entry heat. We don't know really know if such is comparable to a direct surface sample.
Comment Re:You can't stop the signal (Score 1) 31
I don't miss a signal typo.
Comment If they bring Mars rocks back (Score 1) 31
...they better test their safety in a space station rather than Earth. There's a slim but non-zero chance they have microbes we have no immunity for.
Comment Re:Not just any sailor (Score 4, Insightful) 86
Just shows you even the stupid can become officer.
Or President.
Comment Re: Why should people use it? (Score 2) 33
....... uhh, we'll get back to you.
Comment Re:WTF is wrong with this guy's brain? (Score 1) 114
He's also a sleasebag who has been credibly accused of sexual assault by three women (and in general being a sex pest to many more). When a former friend (Jonny Robb) threatened to out him over it (it had been gnawing at him for a long time, and he was friends with some of the girls), Milton entrapped him (deliberately switching the topic to money, baiting him into asking for money to stay quiet, knowing that he was poor), then when he got Robb to ask for money, reported him into the police for extortion. Robb - his old friend - committed suicide after being released on bail.
Not defending Milton at all, but it bends the constraints of credulity to say that he "tricked' his former friend into asking for money. If he was being confronted by Robb for his sexual sins, how did he manipulate the conversation into convincing Robb to ask for money to keep quiet? Just because he was poor? That is severe mental gymnastics.
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"Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth." -- Milton
