... using a graph that suddenly went up at the end.

Hire someone who plays Kerbal Space Program. We've been coming up with solutions for this for years.

The object of this expedition is to see if we can find any traces of the Mars Climate Orbiter expedition.

Just keep hitting him after he gives up the first password. You don't even need to say anything.

Not speaking directly to employees is irrelevant. The result would have been the same if he'd been overheard saying this to someone on his office phone. And as I said, at that level you're always effectively in the office no matter where you go.

Yeah, the reason you can't think of the ".... something" is because he wasn't actually fired for watching "Arthur." That was a stupid thing to say. Are you drunk?

He wasn't fired for quoting a line from "Arthur" either, so don't stumble there.

The problem was that he CHOSE that quote as an answer to "what do you do for a living." Joking or not, he said he plays for a living and that big boobs are expensive toys like fast cars and golf balls (well, okay, golf balls aren't expensive, but the implied private club memberships are).

If, as VP of a company, I went to my suppliers and other partners and told the women who work there that breasts are toys I like to play with, and the bigger the better, I would expect to lose some partnerships and subsequently get fired.

If, as VP of a company, I went to my female employees and told them that I prefer large-breasted women and I can get them because I'm rich and money is all large-breasted women care about, I would expect to lose some employees and subsequently get fired.

If, as VP of a company, I forget that the price for being near the top of the ladder is never getting a day off as the face of the company and start talking to a public figure like he's a bro who then shares what I said to my partners and employees, I would expect to lose partnerships, lose employees, embarrass the company, and subsequently get fired.

Does this clear up some of the mystery of appropriate, respectful behaviour for you?

Watching that vid brought back memories of a DOS utility that would light up the Scroll Lock LED on your keyboard if you had a Hardcard or were otherwise missing an HDD activity LED.

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... just so I can call it QAnonAnon.

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Clearly the Mafia / Russians / CIA got to these physicists before anyone could put together Oswald and magic dark matter.

I know many adults who've taken public speaking courses to get over their fear of it. And yet, kids are just told to do it by their teachers as if it's a perfectly natural rite of passage. Why isn't public speaking taught as a skill in school? It only comes naturally to a few, and I'm sure even those few could benefit from some instruction.

Likewise, no one ever commits crimes because they chance going to jail.

Right.

In real life, people are more impulsive and don't think realistically about future consequences. This is why arming everyone makes things worse. It's the ones who fly off the handle that win the draw, not the rational "good guys."

The universe is just a really big quantum vacuum fluctuation. It came from nothing and will eventually collapse back into nothing and as long as it doesn't interact with other universes it will be exactly like it never existed at all. Which it doesn't.

Seems like a waste of neurons that I still remember entering G=C800:5 from DEBUG to run the low-level format utility on the hard drive controller ROM.