and he knows it:

I upgraded my iPhone (“what, you have an iPhone” — ok, you win, sin #1)

So which level of the Capability Immaturity Model would you expect them to be at? The description seems to predict a CIMM rating of -1.

So, what, you'd have four options: {man,woman,boy,girl}?

As long as it's paired up either {fe,}males or {wo,}men, does it matter? They're calling dudes "males". And for most people, the terms are interchangeable.

That's a function of which hole, though. I'd say one car's exhaust pipe is not the same as another car's exhaust pipe, even if they're the same model and everything.

make them revert to NO trading software allowed all trades must go through a person on the floor

"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind"? But then how will we get our Vile Offspring?

Hey c'mon, they could be using Haiku. Why would you assume someone uses a MS OS just because they don't use Linux?

I subscribe to Morgenbladet and I'm trying out some subscriptions on a kindle now after having pushed a lot of articles to it via readability or instapaper. Figured if I push a lot of their articles, might as well subscribe—they're not as expensive as daily newspapers and I guess a little fiscal stimulus doesn't hurt.

The news (and opinions) I'm willing to pay for don't seem to come out on a daily basis.

at first I thought IU meant "International Units", like SI units (International System units) and MU meant Medieval Units ... I'm not sure your abbreviations are very good.

The problem with Rjukan isn't so much the seasons as the fact that it's in the bottom of a steep valley. So part of the day the sun is shining on one mountainside, then a short period where sunshine reaches the town, and then the other mountainside gets sun. Having a similar town near the equator could be better or worse, depending on the axis of the valley.

I think american miles fall short---I prefer the Norwegian miles, defined as 10km. They're based on an older unit of measurement called a "rest", which was the same as 1mi back in those days, almost 10km. It was called a rest because 1re (1mi, 10km) was the distance people would walk before taking a rest.

Yet it seems to me that that's an answer to the question. (That is, it's something you could say to someone who says "floss is difficult to use/buggy".)

As for the question being deserving of ridicule, I disagree. There are people who say those things, and people who would like to convince them otherwise so they'll hop on the floss bandwagon as well, but don't know what to say.