There once was a time that I had no real frame of reference to differentiate contracted hours of employment from private time. I had no boundaries, was pretty much always on call, and thought I was lucky to have the employers that I allowed to (and were happy to) treat me like that. I pretty much always took the call. Several employers did pretty well out of me during those years.

Then I grew up and developed a modicum of self-esteem.

Remember kids, just like all other dates, April 1st comes to Australia earlier than to most other countries - almost a whole day earlier than the U.S.

To be fair, your AMD analogy would only work if AMD printed "Intel Pentium MMX" on their K6s, and they were packaged in the same PPGA package as a real Pentium MMX.

The chips that FTDI is disabling really are counterfeit - they look identical on the outside to a real FTDI chip, it's not just matching FTDI's VID/PID to use the same drivers.

Perhaps the commenter does not spell as well as you, O exalted paragon of linguistic virtue. But maybe it's just some form of Freudian slip? (S)He was obviously thinking about hypocrisy and government at the same time as writing the words and you know, sometimes when you do stuff like that, weird shit just happens. Sometimes - as it is here - it can be funny as well.

Knob!

He's never getting laid - look at his username! Hell, I'll probably never get laid, and I only recognized it.

Those of you getting laid will need to Google it.

I too, find that vi brightens my day and emacs is shite.

Actually, I thought Kalganids sounded like a periodic meteor shower. Derailing reality entirely and assuming that to be true, currency that falls from the sky at regular intervals sounds like a pretty good deal. I'll pay with those.

But I don' wan' none o' yo' fancy-ass lah-tay. No, no, no. Make mine a flat white!

Nice try, but if it looked like that, there would not be an unbroken surface large enough to support a legible font.

Risk it, it's funny! Way off topic, but the image genuinely is SFW. The text - maybe not so much.

Oh, you get a karma increase alright, you just get to share it with the hordes of other trolls who use the AC "account". Unfortunately, any karmic boost is comprehensively outweighed by the karmic bitchslapping (which you also get to share) brought about by the combined actions of those other ACs.

How about that? Occasionally, life is fair!

Call me crazy, but if I were to refer someone to some truly useful information about ed(1), this is the file I'd link.

I hope you are nice and comfy sitting on that fence. Real geeks use vi and refuse to acknowledge that there even is another editor.

Rear wheel drive or not, weight shifts from your car's rear wheels to its front wheels when decelerating from forward motion. Unless your car also has rear wheel steering, this is a good thing to maintain while you are going downhill.

To paraphrase Jules Winnfield, "Physics, motherfucker! Do you speak it?"

I'll let you on my lawn, kid if you listen to this song...

I'll just take that as the exception that proves the rule.