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Comment Re:Count me out (Score 1) 81

macOS has been doing this (using a video wallpaper) by default for a while, and I'm guessing that's what brought this idea to the fore (again).

And yes, it's basically just a pointless, silly distraction - why would anyone want this? Unfortunately (from the OS manufacturers' position) operating systems are pretty feature complete, and basically the only "new shiny" thing they can offer is adding pointless bloat. Oh, also they can actively break things I guess... which always seems to go hand in hand with adding pointless bloat.

Comment Re:What's with the "moon" term? (Score 2) 35

If "general public thinking" is the metric... the naming seems unhelpful in that regard since, at least based on TFS, it's not orbiting the earth - it's orbiting the sun and just staying in earth's proximity.

I would think something like "near earth asteroid" would be a less confusing term for such objects.

Comment Re:Why stay in Seattle? (Score 1) 52

From a personal point of view, my parents moved when I was -2, -1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 11, and a few more times (I put -2 and -1 because I have an older sibling who was affected by moves before I was born). I think it did a lot of harm to me and my siblings emotionally.

Oh, you are 100% right. This was basically my childhood experience. My dad was in the US Army; and, back then (1960s-1970s), he was getting moved a lot. In terms of my age, my family moved at: 0, 1, 4, 5, 7, 7, 7 (yes three moves while I was in second grade), 9, 10. On top of that, at (my age) 8 he was shipped to Vietnam, then they wanted to ship him there again when I was 11... so he decided to get out.

Interestingly (and possibly ironically) when he left active duty, he moved into a mostly equivalent full-time position with the Army Reserve - doing personnel and logistics management in support of the frequent moves of active-duty personnel! But he never had to move again, thank goodness.

Eventually the army figured out this wasn't a good way to get people to re-up... but yeah, it totally sucks to keep leaving your friends. Doubly so if you're a shy kid, like I was.

Comment Re:I think it is a shame.. (Score 1) 67

I don't think that's a particularly defensible position when we're talking about World War II. As screwed up as things seem right now, the world would almost certainly have been a much worse place had the US stayed out of the war.

I'm assuming, of course, that "stayed out of the war" would have also included not manufacturing huge numbers of tanks, planes, and ships for the Russians nor the British.

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