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nwombosi··on Microsoft reorganizes
If you have something stupid to say, keep it to yourself.

Too bad you don't take your own advice. You would have saved yourself the embarrassment.

nwombosi··on Kremlin security agencies buying typewriters "to avoid leaks"
How about one of the microfilm devices they used to use in 60s spy movies?
nwombosi··on Kremlin security agencies buying typewriters "to avoid leaks"

  Unlike printers, every typewriter had its own individual typing pattern which made it possible to link every document to a particular machine, Izvestiya said.
I thought printouts could also be traced back to individual printers? Leaks didn't start with printers. Just ask people who leaked during the Cold War and even long before then. Leaks go as far back as when text was used for communicating confidential information. Going back to typewriters isn't going to put an end to leaks, especially when leaks having occurring since long before the digital age.
nwombosi··on Microsoft reorganizes
If they are really interested in creating amazing products evidently they're working for the wrong company.
nwombosi··on Microsoft reorganizes
empower

That's such an overused word in marketing language. Everybody wants to "empower users", "empower people", "empower customers", "empower clients". What does that even mean anymore? Are we the downtrodden and unwashed without their "family of devices"? Marketing language in itself is something that really grates my nerves, but "empower" is the worst.

nwombosi··on The NSA slide you haven’t seen
You guys are amazingly mature and civilized for a social website. You make reddit look like Aleppo!
nwombosi··on Too Many Cops Are Told They’re Soldiers Fighting a War. How Did We Get Here?
I think the same goes for most of Western Europe. You rarely see fire trucks, but police cars and ambulances are common.
nwombosi··on The 'Sink-Urinal' Saves Water, Encourages Men To Wash Hands
I'd rather piss outside in the bushes, thank you very much.
nwombosi··on The 'Sink-Urinal' Saves Water, Encourages Men To Wash Hands
How often do people piss that far up a urinal? Doesn't seem common from my experience.