MoreMoschops

On the plus side, the majority of the national debt is owed to people and bodies within the country; in essence, the government representing the people has borrowed from those people on behalf of those people.

My favourite interview question is "When can you start?"

"Later that year I got laid as in the aftermath of e telc bubble bursting the previous year (it was 2002 by now)."

Not all bad news, then. Was she pretty? :p

Great thinking. Where do I find the job that pays me to sleep in until lunchtime and then spend the rest of the day drinking?

And yet people did it before and won better lives for themselves and their families.

Why do you cast fewer working hours as left-wing? Being able to have a good life without having to work yourself to death doesn't sound left-wing to me; it sounds sensible and surely should be a dream of the right-wing?

If you think not being a wage-slave is left-wing, I think you've been fooled by the people who need you to work yourself to death so they can take it easy.

Edit: Which is me. Forget I mentioned it :)

Indeed. Right now I only have pidgin, evolution, transmission, two nautilus windows, a telnet client and firefox (with three tabs) running. It's completely unnecessary and I should be forced to never have more than one running at a time.

I think the idea is that if your operating system is listed as supported, and your specific device isn't mentioned as specifically unsupported, you just hope for the best.

If you go digging through the support forums, they do actually have a more detailed list of devices supported. It's just the front page that most potential customers will see first that's badly designed, and as we all know, if a customer doesn't find out what she's looking for quickly, she will always go on to devote extra time and resources to digging through support pages.

An awful lot of that does sound like psychological torture dressed up to just about make it possible to present some kind of legal argument that it's for other purposes, and the damaging effects on the detainee are an unfortunate by-product.

A phD; you put in time, humanity gets out knowledge. Presumably it's only waste of time if the knowledge humanity gets out wasn't worth the time put in. This article seems to think that a phD is for turning time into money.

Yes, just the job to help them clamp down on leaks. :)

Also, the Windows guys have no money left from paying a fortune for their OS :p

It's not "all about the living room". He's got this exactly back-to-front. The living room existed as a shared space because the facilities it provided were either too expensive to provide in more than one place, too inconvenient to do so, or just plain impossible.

Now that we can have watchable screens for a fraction of the price of even a decade ago in every room (often multiple use - I can't remember the last time I watched the actual television but I use a PC monitor to watch something almost every day), why have a single designated room for television watching? Now that we can watch our choice on demand, why be tied to a broadcast schedule or even be tied to the preferences of others? I can put things I want to watch onto mobile devices and watch them when I'm constrained in place, such as travelling to or from work or social engagements. I can choose what to listen to, what to watch, what to read, when and where I want. The idea of going to a single designated room and reaching a consensus with other people on what to do there is by no means objectionable - it's just no longer necessary to always make that compromise. The living room has expanded to every room in the house and beyond.

"But seriously--anything you might consider "subversive hacking" is illegal."

What are you counting as "hacking"? Hacking together some encryption software to retain privacy from an intrusive government is subversive and, in many countries, legal.

You can quite literally get into a yacht anywhere on the coast and sail away. Nobody will stop you. I've done it many times.

I, too, am not shocked that the restarted attacks twixt North and South Korea are not because of Wikileaks.

I think your double-negative statement alluding to Wikileaks not being of world-changing importance has been missed by people who type faster than they can think.

They left those other digits undefined to add the extras you mention at a later stage. It just takes a while for the paperwork to go through :)

Am I the only person who thinks he wasn't being serious, and is now just seeing how long he can keep a straight face?

"See how being hurt can be subjective?"

Oh yes, that completely destroys my claim that being hurt is not subjective. I'd best go back and edit that out.

Oh, wait a second. It seems that I made no such claim and you've delivered a total non sequitur that has nothing at all to do with the topic at hand. I'm as astounded as you are, which is why I doubled-checked, but it came out the same; it seems that rather than read other people's comments, you're just guessing what they might have said.

"Treason" is not the same as "wrong".

Except that countries differ in their legal definition of what a child is.

Without prejudice (meaning I'm not making any statement on the idea of boycotting Amazon), I find Book Depository (http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/) often to be cheaper than Amazon, and it has free worldwide shipping.

Women who sunbathe more have a lifestyle (money, time, desire to take care of self) that involves being healthier and having better access to medical care.

"My bottom line is this - if I say something to someone and did not mean any offense/harassment, did not consider it to be offensive/harassing - and someone else still wants to cry about it, then f-*ck them."

Hurting people accidentally and not caring at all. What is that level of lack of empathy and non-caring? Is that autism, or is it some kind of sociopathy or psychopathy?

"That bothers me."

So here you are, complaining about other people complaining when something bothers them. Do I need to draw you a diagram to illustrate your inconsistency?

"Seems people went to town downvoting me here."

Perhaps they enjoy living in a society where people are allowed to express disagreement.

"I get tired of women complaining about sexism in the startup/tech field."

Cry me a river. Would you prefer people just shut up about it?

The Harrier does not usually launch vertically from these carrier either, but they are STOVL aircraft; I think you meant to say that the original poster meant to say that non-STOVL jets struggle to launch from them, which is still quite a leap from claiming that neither a helicopter nor a STOVL-capable plane is a full aircraft.

Why is a Harrier or a helicopter not a full aircraft? They certainly look and behave like aircraft.

Because it's cheaper.

Soon to be joined, I expect, by one of the two brand new ones. Look sharp and you can also buy the aircraft to go with it, as the UK has decided to simply hope no carrier-borne aircraft will be needed for a decade or so.