I'm guessing -- no I'm certain -- that you didn't RTFA, because from your posts you don't have a fucking clue what you're talking about. To avoid your further embarrassment, I'll just point out that this article originated with Fairfax Media, where their journalist was contacted by an anonymous insider. He travelled to several countries, risking his safety perhaps, in a classic example of old school investigative journalism. He exposed real corruption -- that is exactly the fucking point of the article.

As to real corruption, I lived and worked in Indonesia for 24 years. If you know more than I do about corruption please feel free to inform us all. Otherwise you'd be better off if you STFU.

... says the person who just admitted he doesn't get paid to program.

Given the small impact crater (60cm according to CNN) and the police statement that they have a piece of whatever fell to earth this seems unlikely to be a meteorite to me. If it was big enough to leave remains, and moving as fast as a meteor then I don't see how the crater could be so small. More likely IMO to have been a bit of space junk from one of the many satellites and stuff up there.

I think that language can and must evolve, but spelling need not.

The English/Aussie spelling/pronunciation makes more sense if you look at the periodic table, but your coworkers might not have thought of that. Aussies like to take the piss...

I respectfully disagree. English spelling is already a nightmare for children and newcomers learning the language; allowing different people to spell the same word however they liked would only make it worse. Personally, I think we should simplify the spelling on all words using standard phonetics, and just have a cut-off date for transition, after which "old English spelling" would only be an academic option for those interested in transcribing older works.

There is evidence that children in English-speaking countries learn at a slower rate than their peers with a more logical and consistent spelling.

Seriously, in a discussion about Star Wars TFA? I've seen the movie and, while I haven't seen John Carter it would be hard pressed to be less realistic ;-)

I disagree with everything you are saying, and I'm convinced you should consider not advising people on simple math. Safe highway driving intervals are measured in time, not distance -- maybe you once came across the "two second rule"? Doubling the speed doesn't increase throughput by a factor of two: if people are driving with any concern for their lives it won't budge. Your other argument in your earlier post, about slower people causing accidents, exists only in your rationalizing world. (I have worked in motor vehicle accident investigation, and am a mechanical engineer.)

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I'll take a look into "remove me" as soon as I can. In the meantime you can contact your IT business partner for more information about our efforts to "remove me and replace me with a tiny script." Have a nice day.

JakartaDean

Thanks for putting this so eloquently. This is a concept I have tried to explain to people in the past (even at work in a previous job) and I lacked your excellent phrasing.

I saw what you did there...

I could have used this a couple of years back. Long story short, I cross-connected 220V live and ground on a solid state relay connected to a Raspberry Pi and a USB hub on the other side which was in turn connected to another Pi and then a TV. I burned out almost everything (1 Pi, hub, maybe an HDMI cable and an HDMI input to my TV). The HDMI 2 port on the TV was hot, not passive (thanks LG) but there were many possible avenues to ground the charge before damage was done. The device you describe would have saved me a great deal of time and money.

Copyleft didn't need strengthening. In effect this just takes benefits away from the citizens of the 12 countries involved and gives them to corporations for longer. Your comments are welcome in the circular filing cabinet beneath my desk...

Agreed and this is where I see good potential. There are many, many airports and airstrips around the world used very infrequently. Some I have visited cannot stay open at all without local government support. Paying full time staff to help land one plane a day is a huge inefficiency that this solves.

Unfortunately, I use the Home key every time I load a /. page. Why only this fscking site jumps to somewhere arbitrarily near the end of the page after loading is mysterious, and very annoying.