Comment Youâ(TM)re all wrong; itâ(TM)s an obscur (Score 1) 31
Clare Quilty: a fictional character in Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita. Meant to suggest âoeclearly guiltyâ according to Mr Giordano in 10th grade English class.
Comment Birchers (Score 1) 186
(Yeah, it's the John Birch Society; I failed to completely correct from "Birchers" as they were informally known.)
Comment They almost stopped in the 1960s (Score 3, Interesting) 186
For those who don't remember, the plan to stop minting pennies in the 1960s got canned when the John Bircher Society came out claiming it was Communist influence, somehow.
Comment Free, but you have to watch an ad first (Score 1) 22
After all, they have bills to pay, too.
Comment Boomers want CarPlay (Score 2) 218
Peak Boomer here. I own a GM car with CarPlay, and will not consider one without it. Perhaps youâ(TM)re thinking of our parents, who served in WWII?
Comment Will they occasionally switch to driving on the ri (Score 1) 20
Is all the training data from London, or is some from the US? In some unusual circumstance, will they start driving in the right lane?
Comment No worries; the EU will come to their rescue (Score 5, Funny) 270
Oh, wait...
Comment In the 1960s, right-wingers hated the idea (Score 1) 245
Way back in the 1960s, the penny was going to be discontinued until the John Birchers made a stink that it was somehow part of a communist conspiracy, and that was the end of it. My, how times have changed.
Submission + - CDC orders massive retraction of scientific papers on political grounds (substack.com) 2
Mr. Dollar Ton writes: The CDC has apparently instructed its scientists to retract or pause the publication of any research manuscript being considered by any medical or scientific journal, not merely its own internal periodicals. The move aims to ensure that no “forbidden terms” appear in the work.
The policy includes manuscripts that are in the revision stages at journal (but not officially accepted) and those already accepted for publication but not yet live.
In the order, CDC researchers were instructed to remove references to or mentions of a list of forbidden terms: “Gender, transgender, pregnant person, pregnant people, LGBT, transsexual, non-binary, nonbinary, assigned male at birth, assigned female at birth, biologically male, biologically female,” according to an email sent to CDC employees (see below).”
If true, Lisenko would give fat thumbs up to the new administration.
The policy includes manuscripts that are in the revision stages at journal (but not officially accepted) and those already accepted for publication but not yet live.
In the order, CDC researchers were instructed to remove references to or mentions of a list of forbidden terms: “Gender, transgender, pregnant person, pregnant people, LGBT, transsexual, non-binary, nonbinary, assigned male at birth, assigned female at birth, biologically male, biologically female,” according to an email sent to CDC employees (see below).”
If true, Lisenko would give fat thumbs up to the new administration.
Comment Re:Question (Score 3, Funny) 60
I attribute it to malloc().
Comment Re: No problem, just don't. (Score 1) 175
Just checked; IBM's "DISK OPERATING SYSTEM" 1502143 First Edition (January 1984) DOS Version 2.10, page 2-89 specifically says: "If you are not certain which drive is the default drive, do NOT enter FORMAT without a drive letter." Note that it does seem to be fixed in version 2.11, which insists you supply an explicit drive letter (which still isn't awfully fail-safe).
Comment Re: No problem, just don't. (Score 1) 175
You must be running one of those fancy 80286 machines. Try MS-DOS 2.1 on a real 8088.
Comment Re: No problem, just don't. (Score 1) 175
The FORMAT command in MS-DOS will wipe out your whole disk in a jiffy. Fun times.
Comment Great! (Score 1) 13
Given their record on suppressing real science around disease, vaccines, physics, etc., while promoting flat-earth, moon landing fakery, etc., etc., how are they claiming that they're going to get STEM right? Why won't it just be full of the same junk, TikTok?
Comment Adams was NOT just picking random numbers (Score 1) 98
He specifically chose 42 because it's what "you get when you multiply six by nine."
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