The worst ones we get in Texas are a "blue alert" because a cop stubbed his toe--a 12 hour drive away.

Fortunately you don't have to turn off all alerts, and I don't--but most are useless. Even the Amber and 'clear' alerts are useless, often for places several hours away. Maybe state-wide ones work fine in Rhode Island, but not in Texas.

Yep, an idiot looking for a fight. Besides, Single Stage to Orbit is far more commonly abbreviated as SSTO.

You really are on the the wrong website right now if you fall into that category.

We went through this 'consultant' crap back when I was in HS (class of 96). In Texas we have standardized state-wide testing. You get 'practice' tests in 8th grade and they start the real testing in 9th grade in the fall. You take it until you pass, every semester, until one last session after graduation--if you still fail at that point you don't receive your diploma.

This test is based on a 6th grad education standard.

The failure rates are so high that almost every class in high school effectively tosses out the required curriculum to instead teach this remedial 6th grade material.

At my school they brought in a consultant to try to boost the abysmal math scores. During the homeroom periods each day they had the teachers pass out workbooks, and did a guided "lesson" over the intercom system. It started off with "2+2." Every student was required to not just write in "2+2=4" but also "Two plus two equals four" into this workbook. The "lessons" did not advance much beyond this.

The stupidity was that EVERY student was forced to do this. It didn't matter if you'd passed years before, didn't matter if you were in an honors class or an AP or Dual-Credit college course. Those classes revolted, with teacher support. It took a lot of threats out of the school and continued revolts before the school relented and at least let our classes turn off the intercom and ignore the bullshit.

It didn't help, either. Our school declared every student they possibly could as either ESL or special ed, as they were exempted from their scores counting against the school's average, but that wasn't enough either. From what I understand they have been borderline on having their certification revoked.

The state's solution this year? Eliminating the tests.

My question is, when during that time was the decision made to never make any more 40-man content?

That was the end of WoW for me and most of my guild. That is what we existed for. The move to 20/25 man stuff completely ruined the guild dynamics, forced a perception of 'A' vs 'B' teams, etc. Everything went to shit at that point.

Yeah, but maybe don't do it after you destroy and shut down a popular game and replace it with an inferior micro-transaction-ridden version that swiftly declined in popularity.

The be fair this is at least the way a noncompete should work--they get full pay (and I assume full benefits) for the period of the noncompete, plus these are only 6-12 months.

My old boss (who was a coder for the Apollo missions) told me a story of when he had his first management position, told by an executive he looked up to: "If you can't do your job in 40 hours a week, either you're doing something wrong, or your boss is doing something wrong."

If they come here to San Antonio they better have trained their AI on dodging mattresses and pedestrians who treat jaywalking as an Olympic sport.

Given my grocery store is cluttered with vendors restocking shit on virtually every aisle almost every hour of every day, restocking milk in some random aisle instead wouldn't make a bit of difference.

Same in San Antonio. They constantly stick me with ads and emails about it too. They went into a couple wealthy neighborhoods and haven't expanded in a decade.

All I want is Zigbee or Zwave with support for multiple controllers for redundancy.

As of 98 I was a college drop out (after two years, due to money), moved back home and figured I'd try to find a job and go to school locally instead. I ended up in the job I wanted (IT), rose quickly, and going back to school was never more than a fleeting thought. I got my foot in the door at just the right time. Friends who finished their degrees found a very different job market at that time, and those with CS degrees found themselves at minimum wage working a help desk while I was the main systems and network admin for a company with two offices, five warehouses and over 130 retail stores.

Battery technology just isn't there yet. Too expensive, too large, too heavy, too short of lifetime, too long to charge. We just aren't ready yet.

I compare this to AI. Current AI is just a mirage of what a *real* AI will be. Yeah, it gives us a little taste of what is to come, but it's not the solution everyone thinks it is...yet.

Unless you're in Star Trek Discovery, then they totally have sonar in space.

Seriously, fuck NuTrek...