I'm coming at you from an HP laptop I bought this year and have been happy with. But I bought a printer this year and after hearing that they are acting like such bastards about it I am very glad I didn't buy HP.

I bought a Brother double sided laser printer for $80 or $90 dollars off of Amazon. It also functions as a scanner, and third party cartridges for it from Amazon cost about $10-$15 and have worked great so far. I have been extremely happy with it. The double sided printing has been very helpful for some of my kids' school projects this year, and my wife and I had some paperwork we needed to scan earlier this year. The software for the thing is a little bit jerky (it asked if I want it to check for updates, and when it does it "helpfully" tells me about other software I might want), but that's nowhere near as bad as what HP is apparently doing with their printers.

that's cheating. they brought the rocks back with them.

this is because Facebook is an ad network - you & your friends are the product. Facebook sells your eyes to their customers, and if their customers want to show you flash pre-rolls and interstitials, then that's exactly what Facebook will use. Money talks.

their systems are certainly working better than other programs at their stage of evolution.

That depends on which "other programs" you look at. Back in the 1950's and early 1960's when we were still learning rocketry and their were no textbooks? Sure. They're doing much better. Compared to more modern programs... they're doing worse. Much worse. The open question, the only real question, the one with no satisfactory answer... is whether the problems are inherent to a startup with no collective experience, are due to their rapid prototyping process, or due to their constant schedule pressure. Or from elements of all three.
 
The one constant, the one thing we do know for a fact, it that SpaceX (or at least Musk) is consistently overconfident and equally consistently over promises and under delivers. He's not alone in that though... it's a pretty consistent feature of NewSpace. (Or AltSpace, or "mammals", whichever term you prefer.)

This should greatly simplify the task of getting samples from under the surface.
Granted, it's still a matter of timing, but flying through a plume of water 125 mi high and taking samples has got to be easier than landing and taking them.

Hell, with a flyby, it might even be possible to grab some and bring it physically back to earth.

You just discovered that there are incompetent IT professionals in both the public and private sector. Congratulations.

Coconut oil is high in saturated fat, so you might as well eat the lard (unless you're vegetarian).

So you would prefer trans fats to saturated fats? The 1970s called, they want their bad dietary science back.

Which number is the Use By date, anyway? Is it the ONE WITH FIVE DIGITS?

So....natural eugenics?

By getting a quote right before presenting the customer with his amount due, and then dumping the received bitcoin ASAP before transferring the yen to the utility company. Presumably they charge a modest "transaction fee" to cover small fluctuations.

Been there, done that. Basically had to go to the max dose of oxycontin just to take the edge off the pain.

This page you can see some pictures of the procedure and instruments people used on kidney stones in the 1600s. It seems unimaginable that anyone would subject themselves to that -- without anesthetic -- unless you've actually experienced it.

> The big players moved to HTML5 ages ago.

define "ages ago".

firefox only started supporting html5 netflix in 12/2015.

...right after Thiel was revealed to be a Trump supporter.

Almost as if the Obama Administration wanted to punish him for expressing non-liberal thoughts...

...it is the warmest it's been for about 120k years.

Of course, it might be important to note that just about every 120k years (for about the last 3 million, at least) there's been a clear spike (in some cases near vertical in geological timeframes) in temps and co2....and the last one happened to be about 140k years ago, so we are past due.