I'll add the Arctic Convoys to that, with most of their actions taking place inside the Arctic Circle including several actions big enough to be named and at least one German battleship, the Scharnhorst, being sunk by the Duke of York. Also, some of the ports in the White Sea were near enough to Occupied Norway that the Germans were able to bomb them with short range bombers.

And as far as South America goes, the U-Boats were ordered to "punish" Brazil for cooperating with the USN, and did such a good job that Brazil declared War on Germany.

No. The main character's name is Ralph Kramden and he's a bus driver in New York.

To get proper context, you need to know that this was from the '50s TV show The Honeymooners and was Ralph Kramden's (Jackie Gleason) regular reply to his wife's (Audrey Meadows) put downs or sarcastic remarks. And, the line always started with "One of these days, Alice, one of these days..." Yes, he'd generally make a fist as he said it, but he never threw a punch. Many of the episodes revolved around his get rich quick schemes, and he once told Alice that they were all to give her the better life that she deserved.

Red Hat is still pretty independent. Call them Big Purple Hat on a forum or Reddit and you'll get Red Hat engineers bristling.

How about if I call them DeadRat? Is that OK?

I've seen people make that argument before, that there is no difference. You can make that argument if you want, but if you can't provide a viable candidate then you're not helping anything.

Let me be extra direct here. I have never seen a candidate in a race I could vote in that I agreed with 100%. Frankly anytime I meet someone who tells me they agree with a politician 100% of the time I tend to want to tell them they need their head examined (unless they are themselves a politician, in which case doubly so). Even politicians like Bernie Sanders I don't agree with 100% of the time.

Complaining about the rules is not productive. We've seen what the SCOTUS will do about such arguments, we can't get help from them either. The only way to advance is to support someone who will actually do something useful. Pretending that they all do the same shit doesn't help either; there are meaningful platform differences. Just because Drumpf has held every position on every issue doesn't mean he doesn't stand for anything, either - he's actually followed through on some of his (very worst) initial promises.

A most impressive explanation why buses don't have or need seat belts. Thanx.

I'm told that another reason not to need seat belts is that the COG on a bus is such that it's almost impossible to topple one even by T-Boning it.

Your post history contradicts that. The correct statement is that you are against governments that are not run by your Lord and Savior. For you, the first rule that needs to go is the separation of church and state, you want to fuse the two forever together.

Don't pretend you wouldn't celebrate it as a great step forward if your Lord and Savior were the one promoting it, instead of the current leader.

Though ultimately, this could be an improvement for drivers and trucking companies. The logs truckers are legally required to keep and carry are a substantial burden. If the government can track it instead that could allow the drivers to spend more time actually driving and less time doing paperwork. You should be celebrating that as it means they have more time to do actual work.

Under strict supervision, yes. Unfortunately there is no supervision left as there are only two people working for slashdot and they both have real jobs in the outside world that pay the bills (Taco of course left years ago).

And don't ask about the unicode support they were working on 20 years ago...

Right now the contest is between fascists and cowards. The "independents" cannot compete with the way the system is set up. I'm sorry that is the case, but we all know it's true. Yes third parties can win governor's races and other such non-federal seats but they don't exist where national policy is made. You can go vote for your favorite third party candidate or for Mickey Fucking Mouse if you want. If that makes you feel better about yourself, great. It's marginally better than not voting at all, but only marginally.

Smart money is on a Lenin-style mausoleum for Trump with a body permanently preserved in a top-secret cocktail of preservatives. Not that he hasn't already begun that process with his diet...

North Korea calls itself the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Does that mean it's a democratic country?

North Korea's name give me examples of two of my rules. First, I strongly believe that any nation that calls itself a "People's Republic" cares nothing about their citizens and second that any nation that feels the need to tell the world that it's democratic isn't. And, from what I've seen over the years about North Korea gives me no reason to change my mind.

You need to be able to pay for talent, and often that's antithetical to union philosophy.

My father worked in the retail grocery industry in LA in the '50s and '60s. Always in union shops, and once he'd established himself the never worked for scale. He always negotiated a higher rate and his bosses will willing to negotiate because his reputation was that good. Eventually, he moved up into management, but he kept his union membership for the medical and pension benefits. I might add that as he was now management, he was no longer expected to honor strikes or picket lines and the union never bothered him about it because that was now part of his job.

Thanks to my severance package, I can't collect unemployment right now, so I'm not counted.

And that right there is one of the dirty little tricks that the DOL's been using for the last several decades to keep the unemployment statistics artificially low: they don't count how many people are out of work or looking for jobs, they only count how many people are getting unemployment payments. And, if your unemployment benefits run out, you're considered to have left the workforce and are no longer counted even if you're still looking for a job.

That might be true if the reason was insufficient buses to get them all to school and back home at the same time, but it's not. If that were he reason, Junior High and High School would end an hour earlier than they do. The reason they start earlier is to make their school day one hour longer than Elementary School. And. the last time it was tried, it was so hated that it didn't even last one full year. Why do you think it would be different now?