Free the hostages. Then you can start talking about the IDF.

no, they just don't want porn in schools. All those so-called banned books are still available in every store.

oh really? Transparency? Hugos? Really?

Ten years later and now everyone still acts surprised.

they always were politicized. This year WorldCon was held in communist China and the GoH was a Putin fanboy who denies russian warcrimes in Ukraine.

of a Tom Clancy novel?

If they sell fewer they need to charge more per item to make the same amount of money overall.

Itâ(TM)s also blown the tracker I attached to my cheating ex-girlfriendâ(TM)s bicycle before I headed over to the range to buy a box of 9mm.

December 1 through February 28.

We never stopped going in to the office.

for years. Apple, Microsoft, Google, all of them Have Issues. Smaller, more nimble, companies may be more easily contacted, but it often takes knowing someone who can bypass the various gatekeepers.

And not just in software. Several years ago I had a highly repeatable weird glitch while closing the top of my German convertible. Couldn't seem to get it fixed. Complained to Warren Brown (RIP) at the Washington Post during an online chat, and two days later I got a call from a regional engineering guy at the car company, and was in that weekend getting a switch replaced.

Put Hyper-V on its servers OSes

Or perhaps Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems.

Windows gets upset if you mix codepages. I suspect Linux and Mac do, too. Sure, mixing US/GB codepages shouldn't cause much trouble. But mixing Hebrew and US causes all sorts of fun, since the text moves in different directions. And Chinese can move vertically in addition to horizontally. If you don't start each snippet of text with the byte order mark things can get weird.

with running into police cars and fire trucks that are parked by the side of the road with their lights flashing. Oops.