They should have a Magnus Carlsen who can call bulldog on rules which have nothing to do with the game like what pants you're allowed to wear. Where to place a captured stone? Good lord. As long as they don't flick them at the other tables they should be fine.

There are two things that have made chess a TV sport in Norway: Magnus Carlsen, and pila. SJÃ... PILA!

Live commentary on rapid and blitz games, heavily informed by the arrow (pila) giving real time evaluations from Stockfish. Even if we can't see what the player did wrong, the knowledge that there's a devastating response to the move just made makes watching it a lot of fun.

Yeah... I doubt the Russians have the capability to make an undetectable beam weapon capable of getting through concrete and faraday cages and probably lead panels etc.

However, the capability to bamboozle some random government person struggling with diffuse health problems by telling them what they wanted to hear and selling them a junk gadget? That is a proven Russian capability. It's what they do in their free time!

I don't, actually. There are so many. Who was that guy again?

But either way, I'm not opposed to speaking ill of the dead on principle or anything. People willing to speak ill of the dead is why we have the Nobel prizes. For that matter I can't imagine Adams, either before or after his supposed brain damage, would have felt entitled to mild words after his death.

On that note, Stonetoss is surprisingly often funny, despite being neonazi-adjacent at the very least.

Shatner admitted he'd been an asshole to fellow actors, apologized to many and expressed his regret (at length!) in writing. Rather different to Adams, who saw being an asshole and getting away with it as pretty much the greatest thing in life.

> just as the reader was supposed to feel sympathy toward Dilbert when Dilbert was mistreated.

That's what you would think. But rereading Dilbert comics from quite far back and knowing what Adams came out with, it seems maybe that was just projection on our part. Adams probably rooted more for the psychopath dogbert, or even characters like the CEO. The most glorious thing in the world to Adams, seen both in action, in his celebrity crushes and openly in his less ironic writings, was to be an asshole and getting away with it. In that sense he was a genuine troll.

But like everyone, he didn't get away with it. In his case, not even relatively speaking, since as others have said he probably shortened his life by embracing contrarian "medicine", and probably didn't make himself happy for long with his pivot to open scorn and loathing.

And where do I buy your get rich quick with dropshipping book?

Yeah, if it takes twice as long to charge you need twice as many charging stations. Not rocket science. Makes perfect sense if you think 5 second about it.

Just whatever you do, don't think 6 seconds about it.

Why? It seems like we agree to me. I'm not saying they were lazy, or mercenary. All I'm saying is that if they were mercenary in the way OP suggested (organizing to get better deals when threatened with closure), they did nothing improper to their new owner.

Good for them I say. If you're an employee trying to get the most out of Ubisoft while giving as little as possible in return, you simply have the same attitude to the company as they have to you.

Oh no, what would the world be like without dropshipping?

How would you know the technical isn't the problem, when data keeps being faked? It's not the first time.

Thank you Daveid.

It's perfectly normal to go around spitting in people's faces, hoping for them taking a punch at you. Longing for it. Very normal. Lots of people live that way.