Thanks for remembering my day!

The amount of flights allowed in The Netherlands is strictly regulated. KLM can't fly as much as they would like. Therefor they have to choose which customers to serve and what flights to make. They prefer to sell long flights with high ticket prices over short flights with lower ticket prices. Convincing people to take the train on short distances clears up capacity for long-distance flights. KLM could simply stop offering those short-distance flights but people would turn to other airlines and that might make KLM look bad.

Most abortions are not forced abortions. Your saying that you can't make jokes about topics that have dark sides to them. Say goodbye to any joke about sex, religion, politics, children, prison, animals, labour, animals, food, alcohol, art or pretty much any other human activity. If humans do it, someone will have found a way to corrupt or abuse it.

I'm pretty sure he gets it, it's the entire point of the joke. It's not a joke about abortion, it's a joke about freedom of speech.

I disagree. A professional is someone who gets paid to do something. Unfortunately it doesn't guarantee any level of quality, especially in the software-industry where there is very little accountability for failure nor a generally accepted standard for quality.

That's why the Germans claim Facebook uses extortion. Apparently it is so hard to leave / never join that it can not be expected from a reasonable person. Hence extortion; users are forced to join Facebook against there will. Not with a gun, but with social pressure.

How about game support? What games can I expect to work with VR on Linux right now?

I'll just start using 128 character passwords, randomly generated from the non-ascii part of Unicode.

The NSDAP was a union between left-wing socialists* and right-wing nationalists. Hitler belonged to the latter arm. The first thing Hitler did when he came to power in 1934 was to murder the socialist leaders. Look up The Knight of the Long Knives. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... By the time WW2 started there was little left from the socialist part of the party. The nazi's the world got to know were mostly right-wing nationalists. * socialists, not communists, they were anti-communist.

Stealing this material would have hurt and maybe killed thousands of people, but not by putting it into a bomb. These isotopes are used in hospitals around the world for all kind of things like diagnosing and treating cancer. However there is only a very small number of places that can manufacture them. If memory serves there are only six of those laboratory's in the world and they are unable to fill the current demand anyway. If any of those can't produce for any reason the entire medical world immediately feels the consequences. Stealing a large supply of isotopes an possibly disturbing production or distribution for a long time would have deadly consequence. People would be unable to get diagnosed or treated and some of them will die. That part would be far more harmufll than any dirty bomb the terrorists could build.

[quote] Some people just dont get that when you use your companies services (phone, email and what not) there is no expectation to privacy. [/quote] That may be true in the US but not in Europe. In Europe employee's do have a legally recognized expectation of privacy. You shouldn't expect as much privacy as in your own home but there is some privacy nevertheless. There is always some expectation of privacy. I'm sure everybody expects privacy when visiting the loo, even at work. There are borders, it's just a matter of where you draw the line. I expect privacy when I'm working in my office with the door closed and I expect my boss to knock before entering.

All reports miss an important part.
Nobody went out to look at this guys private messages. During the course of an investigation into his performance at work some private messages were discovered. He argued that this alone was a violation of his privacy. The judge decided that the employer did the right thing. The employer was not intentionally looking for private messages and he did not read them when he discovered they were of a private nature.

This is not a cart-blanche to spy on employee's.

I used to think along those lines untill I saw it in action, it quickly devolves towards slavery. My municipality forces people on welfare to do community service. Unfortunately those "voluntary" positions replace actual paid jobs. A famous example was a street sweeper who was asked to supervise a number of "volunteers". After training them he was fired an replaced by those "volunteers" as his job was no longer necessary. He couldn't find a new job and had to apply for unemployment benefits. Upon registering he was told that he needed to community service to get more work experience. He was assigned to sweeping the streets and was forced to do his old job at no pay.

It's reality, not a dream, and has been for a while. It's hard to find numbers to put this into perspective but I found some info from IEM San Jose (december 2014) and DOTA2. IEM had 4 milion live viewers during a two day event. DOTA2 reached 2 million simultaneous viewers with a total of 20 million viewers. While NCAA is bigger than both events combined the numbers are not that far off either. NCAA is an old organisation with a 50 year television history that has a lot of resources to promote it's events. As eSports have time and demography on their side I expect that eSport will continue to grow. Especially now television broadcasters are starting to pick it up.

That statement makes me wonder if you've actually watched eSport. In my mind it's no different than watching people play baseball or tennis.

v1.0 That's easy. v1.4 Just prefix every sentence with a version number. v2.4 Software has been doing this for ages. >= v1.7 How hard can it be?