Are there National Darwin Awards?

Xi, Putin, Bibi, X, and CIA: "Pass, we already swiped a copy."

What's the alternative? The customer always needs tweaks that were not in the original contract.

Unbacked Fox talking points.

> "They" just come from the "person" who "submitted" this "to" slashdot.

When I submit stories to Slashdot, the editor(s) usually shuffle it around quite a bit, so I'd expect they'd clean up the quotes. Vacation?

I notice if you interpret quoted words as pauses, it reads like Captain Kirk's delivery.

Reads like somebody just transcribed researcher notes as-is without bothering to pay for a real editor.

...part of the Milky Way, per Manifest Destiny. After all, he is the Chosen One, he even said so.

Dark Thumb, the latest mystery force/substance.

The F-35 had a good premise in the uniform-platform concept, but proved too tricky in practice.

Sometimes you just have to break big projects down into smaller independent projects even if that results in reinventing some wheels. Managing and coordinating giant projects is just plane hard, pun intended.

If it cost $400m to stick with the clunky old system, then being $200m over budget doesn't necessarily mean cancelling is the right decision. These kinds of decisions should have thoughtful and logical cost-vs-benefit analysis done.

This should go without saying, but too many are knee-jerk in the current air of political tension.

The public deserves a cost-vs-benefit report.

...can I just claim "there's a black hole in front of it"?

by Parenthy McQuotie

We drone them at 3am

That's the longest "go touch plants" I've heard yet.

Yes, but activity may "take a nap" for a decade or so.