Brit here (50-60 degrees N). What does Alaska think about the idea?

I guess that for us, use of the definite article implies that there was one specific hospital in mind, whereas we intend to imply that we're going to some member of the class of hospitals, and it's not important to state which one. Same goes for universities.

Worth remembering this oldie but goldie. http://www.ahajokes.com/com065...

The advantage of using ancient languages - Greek in this case, BTW, not Latin - is that it allows a common vocabulary for use among speakers of many different mother tongues. Just as "petabyte" is founded on Greek "pente" ("five"), "yottabyte" is founded on the Greek "okto" ("eight"); so the next iteration would most usefully be founded on Greek "ennea" ("nine").

...is the name the Romans used for what we call the Mediterranean.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/... No information here about sentences handed out, but I've never read of any derisory sentences being handed out. We generally hold our police officers to account.

Did we ever work together? :-)

...with 300 KW of microwave energy? Good luck with starting a family after that.

If you want a UK equivalent to The Onion, I'd suggest the Daily Mash.

1968 to 1971.

This doesn’t accord with my memories. I joined ICL (the product of earlier mergers) in 1972 and as a programmer worked with three women on the team. Later, at a publishing company, the chief programmer was female, as were two senior systems analysts. I don’t recall any animosity or other bad feeling towards any of the women I’ve worked with. As for minicomputers, their design really didn’t fit the corporate processing requirement; though by the end of the 60s ICL had developed a successful small 24-bit mainframe comparable to (say) the PDP-11 in processing power, though arguably with the wrong form factor for laboratory use. I do wonder whether a US issue is being projected onto the UK here.

I must have missed something here. When did LO start being touted as a competitor to LaTeX? Was it about the same time it started being criticized for not having a thesaurus?

"Significantly larger than a 747", eh? Wouldn't it make more sense to compare it to an A380?

Based on concerns expressed here, I have investigated traffic coming across my desk directed to the www.nsa.gov IP address, and found innocent explanations for it. Are there examples anywhere of syslog records for traffic confirmed as being generated by compromised equipment?

...change the number of photons impinging on the asteroid, or increase their effect?