Google's imagery says that it's been there since Oct 20, 2016. Looks like it wasn't there in August of 2015 - so yeah, it's been there for years, and we know roughly when it was placed.

No, but one may well be approaching alcoholism when one cannot enjoy an activity without consuming alcohol.

The recent littany of "I'm now gonna do this activity because I can finally get booze there!" is a bit weird. Movie theatres, museums... as if these things are unenjoyable on their own, but with booze - fun!

It may not quite be alcholism, but it's a kissing cousin.

Why does every single discussion about women in tech immediately result in a bunch of denials, followed by pats on the back (upvotes) as dudes congratulate other dudes on how much of a not-problem there is?

Your post could have closed out the thread. Because that's exactly what it turned into (unsurprisingly).

Thank you for this. I started to read his reply which was even more off-the-wall, so I couldn't finish. But I'll add to your sentiment.

From one male nerd to the rest, who think this way: talk to women. Seriously, talk to them sometime. It will blow your mind just how little you understand about what it's like to be female.

And another thing:

You know how every guy dates some girl he thinks is hot, but it turns out she's pathetic/manipulative/whiny/needy/annoying/whatever? And later, you regret it and think "man, what the hell was I thinking?". I've never met a man who doesn't have at least one regretted relationship, unless they really don't date very much. When guys do this, they have a "man I used to date this stupid bitch" story.

When girls do this, they get raped.

I'm not quite sure why this is so difficult to understand.

Little travel tip that I, as a Canadian, learned years ago entirely by chance.

If you encounter this security system in the US (still mostly as gas pumps) - 99.5% of pumps will allow Canadians to use a "zip code". Take the first 3 numeric digits in your Postal Code, and add "00" to the end, making a 5 digit "zip code". Works like a charm almost every time. I've only had it fail once. And they do actually use this as a security code, I've tried 55555 and 90210 and nothing else will work. But this one does.

I'm stunned that this little tidbit isn't all over the Canadian news, considering how many of us travel to the US (especially in our cars!).

This is only the US version. Canada Post's "super mail" boxes only require one key. You use it, and return it to the outgoing mail slot.

I know many people who still act as if they don't have Internet.

Shows like Spartacus and Game of Thrones are their only boob intake. And they will proudly tell you they will watch them almost solely for the boobs. And spend hours discussing how great the boobs are, if you give them a chance.

Looking this sort of thing up on the Internet apparently will offend the wife, or their inner sensibilities, or something. But seeing it on HBO is just a-OK.

We still live in an eerily puritanical society.

To put the reliability into perspective. I was speaking with a VMS sysadmin when I was 19 years old, who exclaimed that he had support contracts on cluster with higher uptimes than I'd been alive.

It is a really, really rugged OS. The clustering has an elegance that I miss on Unices.

That's a lie. There are no running 7094s in the world.

Most people - yes, even Wall Street - use public transit in NYC. The subway is way faster than a car. There is a reason that they are building a new 2nd Ave line, and it isn't for the poor people.

My issue with the trains is that we are in 2013 and they are still putting new cars out with conductors! Yes, a person paid (and paid more than a cop IIRC) to stand in a little booth and close the doors on the train. I won't even get into why they still have drivers, they can't even get rid of the conductor.

Have you considered the expense to the economy of a 15-minute NYC subway delay during rush hour? If a person can help any one of the bazillion little situations that arise, then the numbers out of the red pretty quickly.

Yeah, it's totally ignorant to rip on Americans when their political incompetence - of the people, not the politicians - when this idiocy is holding the world ransom.Show yourself as a thinking nation and stop re-electing the Republicans who do this shit, then we'll talk about ripping on America being "ignorant".

As long as the comments are clearly delineated from editorial content, I don't think it makes a whole lot of sense to hold the paper responsible for the content of the comments.

How do you figure comments differ from the opinion column of newspapers, which have always very much been the editor's responsibility?

Newspapers are fundamentally different from forums like Slashdot or Reddit - they have a well-defined role in society not as bulletin boards, but as authorities, and part of why that is, is exactly that they have skilled journalists choosing what is fit to print. And this is why editors are public figures.

But there's better ways to prevent that than holding newspapers legally liable for comment content.

Yes, but they are not liable because incentivizing responsibility us a good way to deal with bile, they are liable for the content because their editor is publishing it on their site, a point which bears making.

Not to mention that Facebook had some pretty severe growing pains for aperiod of more than a year, with frequent downtime - and remember how godawful Facebook Chat used to be? Ugh.

Comments are a source of income to newspapers, because it causes repeat traffic to the same articles.

Whether or not it is profitable is a concern for the newspaper, not everyone else.

A blog with the heading "Monitoring and combating antisemitism, and the assault on Israel's legitimacy, at the Guardian (...)" is definitely going to be a useful source in this discussion.