To get proper context, you need to know that this was from the '50s TV show The Honeymooners and was Ralph Kramden's (Jackie Gleason) regular reply to his wife's (Audrey Meadows) put downs or sarcastic remarks. And, the line always started with "One of these days, Alice, one of these days..." Yes, he'd generally make a fist as he said it, but he never threw a punch. Many of the episodes revolved around his get rich quick schemes, and he once told Alice that they were all to give her the better life that she deserved.

Red Hat is still pretty independent. Call them Big Purple Hat on a forum or Reddit and you'll get Red Hat engineers bristling.

How about if I call them DeadRat? Is that OK?

A most impressive explanation why buses don't have or need seat belts. Thanx.

I'm told that another reason not to need seat belts is that the COG on a bus is such that it's almost impossible to topple one even by T-Boning it.

North Korea calls itself the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Does that mean it's a democratic country?

North Korea's name give me examples of two of my rules. First, I strongly believe that any nation that calls itself a "People's Republic" cares nothing about their citizens and second that any nation that feels the need to tell the world that it's democratic isn't. And, from what I've seen over the years about North Korea gives me no reason to change my mind.

You need to be able to pay for talent, and often that's antithetical to union philosophy.

My father worked in the retail grocery industry in LA in the '50s and '60s. Always in union shops, and once he'd established himself the never worked for scale. He always negotiated a higher rate and his bosses will willing to negotiate because his reputation was that good. Eventually, he moved up into management, but he kept his union membership for the medical and pension benefits. I might add that as he was now management, he was no longer expected to honor strikes or picket lines and the union never bothered him about it because that was now part of his job.

Thanks to my severance package, I can't collect unemployment right now, so I'm not counted.

And that right there is one of the dirty little tricks that the DOL's been using for the last several decades to keep the unemployment statistics artificially low: they don't count how many people are out of work or looking for jobs, they only count how many people are getting unemployment payments. And, if your unemployment benefits run out, you're considered to have left the workforce and are no longer counted even if you're still looking for a job.

That might be true if the reason was insufficient buses to get them all to school and back home at the same time, but it's not. If that were he reason, Junior High and High School would end an hour earlier than they do. The reason they start earlier is to make their school day one hour longer than Elementary School. And. the last time it was tried, it was so hated that it didn't even last one full year. Why do you think it would be different now?

Yeah, but no shrimp or mixed fiber fabrics.

No, you're mixing up Orthodox Judaism and God Fearing Christianity. Shrimp, of course, is non-Kosher, like all shellfish. Mixing two fibers is forbidden twice, in Leviticus and Deuteronomy. It doesn't say why, but it may refer to various pagan customs that were well enough known at the time that they didn't need to be spelled out. However, in both places it specifies wool and linen, meaning that blends of other fibers is OK. If you're curious, you can find more detail here.

It's not so much that most of the posters here are anti-Trump, it's that those that are are spending all of their mod points downmodding any post that's neutral about our current POTUS. I don't know if they actually hate him that much or if they're simply desperate for approval.

Physicists call whatever it is that holds galaxies together "dark matter" just so they have a way to talk about it, but most laymen think that physicists call it that because they actually do know what it is and that's a good description. Maybe they should have come up with a less descriptive name for it.

but I cannot trust you further than I can spit a two-headed rat.

Well, if not a two-headed rat, how about a three-eyed fish? D'oh!

Maybe itâ(TM)s time we demand an actual online public square for discourse, one thatâ(TM)s free at the point of service and that ideally has the same overhead to value our public roads provide.

And what do you think /. is? Anybody can come here, create an account and post whatever they want, either using their account name or as Anonymous Coward if they want an extra level of obscurity to hide behind. Not only that, the only equivalent of censorship available if you don't like what somebody says is downmodding them, which is the equivalent of booing.

We can always go into marketing, and if that fails, we can learn telephone sanitizing.

Hebrew (at least historically, no idea about right now) and Thai for instance have no spaces between words.

I don't know about Thai, but I can assure you from personal experience that even in a Sefer Torah, there are spaces between the words although there aren't vowels. And as far as sounding words out when you've only been taught whole words, I'd imagine that figuring out how to do it on the fly can be rather intimidating if you've never even encountered the idea before, especially if you're not a very good reader, but I'm willing to be proven wrong on that point.

and if you're stuck the teacher will tell you to sound it out.

And if you've never been exposed to phonics how are you going to know how to sound words out? I learned to read back in the '50s, when teaching phonics was at its peak, and it's served me well ever since. Being Jewish, I went to Hebrew School and learned to read Hebrew but not, alas, to speak it. Up through my 20s and into my 30s I could sight read it during religious services, but gradually stopped going and lost the ability. Now, I can still read Hebrew out loud, but slowly, sounding it out one word at a time except for the occasional word that I recognize. I very seriously doubt that I could do that if I only knew whole word reading because once you've forgotten what a word looks like, it's gone for good. My older sister can also read Hebrew the same way: she knows the letters and grew up with phonics just like I did. How many people do you think that can learn to read out loud in a strange language and a different alphabet by using whole word reading? Doing it with phonics takes time and practice, but once you know that alphabet, it's just a matter of practice.