Comment Re:Cash - The Gift that keeps on giving (Score 1) 14
Exactly. There's no need for everything to be on-line.
Comment Any truth to radar claims? (Score 1) 90
This is most likely more of Trump's bullshit, but are there any radar experts here who can comment on the validity of the claim that the turbines interfere with military radar?
Comment Re:Aaah, yes, Calibri, the scourge of wokeness ... (Score 1) 201
The whole MAGA movement is on crack.
Comment why was there a problem? (Score 1) 28
So, why were the stricter rest requirements a problem if the airline knew well in advance that they were coming? Is there a shortage of pilots in India? Was the airline not paying attention?
Comment "wasteful" (Score 1) 201
I'm dying to know how using Calibri rather than Times New Roman is "wasteful". It isn't like it costs extra to use Calibri.
Comment Re: Why was the older version better? (Score 1) 75
Many years ago I experienced what seems to have been a bit flip. Newly compiled C programs on our VAX 11/750 running 4.2BSD Unix suddenly stopped working. It turned out that this was due to an error in the file locore.o, with which they were all linked. The installed version of locore.o differed from a freshly assembled one in a single bit of a single byte. The source file locore.s had not been changed nor had the object file been reassembled. The incorrect bit appears to have arisen spontaneously.
Comment Re:Fuck that (Score 0) 143
I mean, let's just come up with a hypothetical example. Let's say that baby formula manufacturers realize that the specific tests used by the regulator to check for protein can be fooled by melamine and so they use melamine as an ingredient to save money while fooling the regulator. Consequently hundreds of thousands of babies get sick and tens of thousands are hospitalized with some dying, and that's just the ones that are known about. Should the regulators be the only ones that get in trouble while the executives who made the decisions buy themselves some private islands? I mean, A. that's not a hypothetical example and, B. I just do not understand what you are trying to argue here. Maybe it's my fault, but it just seems incomprehensible to me given the actual, real-world history of corporate behavior when it comes to food and drug safety.
I presume you're referring to the 2008 Chinese Milk Scandal? I'll point out this was something perpetrated by the Chinese industry, not American. It was knowingly covered up with the complicity of the Chinese government to prevent it from embarrassing the ongoing Olympics. Only when the scandal became impossible to cover up did the CCP take any action.
As of December 2025, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and former Mayor London Breed have both expressed praise for China and the relationship between San Francisco and Chinese cities.
Comment Re: The next couple of years (Score -1, Troll) 55
No, he's talking about actual genocide, not the sick inversion in which Israel is falsely accused of genocide.
Comment Re:Battle of Sluys (Score 1) 17
They often killed any captives they didn't hold for ransom, but not always. Sometimes they released them alive but mutilated them, e.g. by cutting off a hand, so that they could not fight again.
Comment Re:Google? wtf (Score 1) 92
In any case, why not use LibreOffice calc if the number of cells is a problem. It allows up to 1,073,741,824 cells per sheet.
Comment restore old site? (Score 1) 71
It sounds like they should just restore their old site, of which they presumably have a backup, at least until they can fix the new one.
Comment Re:Cameras, for what? Good news clips? (Score 1) 90
There is such a thing as an armed security guard. The Louvre unfortunately didn't have any.
Comment Re:Yeah okay (Score 2) 140
Since when do the city schools suck? Palo Alto is a wealthy city whose schools are considered high quality. Perhaps you are thinking of East Palo Alto, Palo Alto's poor neighbor, many of whose schools are not very good?
Comment Re:Rich assholes (Score 1) 140
It isn't just a preschool. And the neighbors' complaints aren't just about the school traffic. They're about constant construction, which is reportedly noisy and obstructs the streets, and security staff whose activities are not restricted to the Zuckerberg's property.
Comment Re:Zoning permits to homeschool? (Score 2) 140
"homeschooling" is teaching one's own kids. When you're teaching somewhere between 14 and 30, most of whom are not your own kids (the Zuckerbergs apparently have three), and you employ teachers to do it,, it isn't "homeschooling". You're running a school.
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