We have levels of wealth inequality that are worse than the gilded age right before the Great depression.

Where did you get that utterly wrong idea from? Not that the Gilded Age was a time of great wealth inequality, but that it was just before the Great Depression during the Roaring Twenties, roughly a century ago. If you'd bothered to check, you'd have learned that it ran from the late 1870s through the late 1890s, decades earlier.

So echo chambers for singers with weak voices are still OK, right?

Tell us you've never served in the military, without telling us you've never served in the military. :)

And when did you serve, and where? I was in Uncle Sam's Navy, '69-''73, including time in Tonkin Gulf.

If memory serves, his work on thiotimoline was just a sideline to the work that earned his doctorate. And, if you want to try to confirm his thiotimoline results, you can find it on Madagascar, a large island in the Indian Ocean, mostly inhabited by Zuni and Pueblo Indians.

Thank you. I'm a retired computer geek and was wondering. I use Fedora on my desktop, and update it every morning while making breakfast. Generally, I see a new kernel come out once every week or two, but lately they've been coming down two or three a week. Now I know why.

I want someone to turn the whole "president Jack Ryan" stuff into movies/TV.

I always figured that that's where Tom Clancy ran out of ideas, rather like Daffy Duck at the end of The Scarlet Pumpernifckel.

Advertising has been on this site for over 20 years now. The only difference is which ads are here, but that's all automated as well. We see slightly fewer mail order bride ads now, which is a likely a good thing, but otherwise its nothing different. There's no reason for a human to screen them.

How many farthings are in a Pound?

Simple: there are four times as many farthings in a Pound as there are pence.

Well, there's one way to make sure they know just how good or bad their design is: make them use it.

I say this often, but honestly when was the last time any new code was written here? Stuff breaks over time but it has been years since anything was added or updated. We all know that of course Unicode is over 20 years past its promised rollout (beating even Duke Nukem Forever in terms of development hell cycle), but really it seems unlikely that there are any software developers left working for this site. I'm not sure there are any full time employees at Slashdot at all anymore.

In other words you can put the complaint in front of more eyes but it won't find any more eyes that can do anything about it.

...home-brew NAVEL-boil.

I'm not sure what kind of coffee you're referring to, but if it's the US Navy's coffee, here's a quotation that will show you how seriously they take coffee:

"...although the United States Navy might win a war without coffee, it hopes never to be forced to make the experiment." -- Samuel Eliot Morrison

If you just want coffee, not a desert-in-a-cup, go anywhere else. Your local indy coffeehouse, for example.

About the only time I'm stuck with Charbux is when I'm at an SF convention at a hotel that "Proudly serves Starbucks." What there is to be proud of, I can't imagine. Either that, or sometimes at an airport. When that happens, I get it black and doctor it to taste, including a bit of salt because that kills the bitterness.

When that happens, start referring to it as Charbux: over-roasted, burnt and bitter. Consider it an IQ test, as the smart ones will find something else to drink and the rest will pretend that they actually like it.

If they didn't know where to click first, then whoever was responsible for the UI did a bad job. Once the program's open, it should be clearly labeled where you click to get started, and how to go from one step to the next as you go. There are thousands of websites out there that do this so that a novice user can get everything entered in the right order without any guesswork, so whoever botched that job had no excuse for their failure.

Also, a vehicle with a manual transmission can be push started.

You can do it with an automatic, if both drivers know what they're doing. You put the dead car into Neutral, get it moving and when the car in back stops pushing, slam the front one into Drive, or possibly Low. Not easy, but I've done it once or twice.