... they promoted an engineering manager to the top spot ...

FTFY
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"There is no mercy, only ashes." - where is this from?

The desktop metaphor is probably too complex for the average developer.

They never had a desk.

A desk wouldn't fit down the basement stairs, anyway.
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Easy to learn: Hard to use.
Easy to use: Hard to learn.
Easy to learn and use: Won't do what you want it to.

...My fucking toaster is a bread-browning platform....

I use my other toaster for that.
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And, please STOP thinking about the children!

For radiation shielding, they suggest to use the "consumables", which probably means fuel, raw materials, equipment and water.

And left-overs, after a while, unless they have a way to reprocess astronaut output.
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I look up and all I see are the lights of a billion places I'll never go. Well, a few hundred.

"Don't provide any services to Syria" means ANY services, including educational services.

Except, of course, banking services!

...there can't be more than about a hundred of those....

I find your faith in Unicode disturbing. Or UTF-8. Or, whatever

Or do you only use one handful of fingers to count? (26 base 10 = 101 base 5)

Apologies to people whose real character set exceeds 100 glyphs.
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Let me know when a 3d printer can print replacement printer cartridges.

Formations are rocks. The Grand Canyon is a hole.

I am more fascinated by the claim that the Colorado River 'joined up' the earlier bits.

What cut those earlier bits? Links by email, please.
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I look up and all I see are the lights of a billion places I'll never go. a few hundred, meh.

Call me when I can get a 3D printer that can print a 3D printer, CC licence preferred.

Let us not get too involved with wishing for reasonably priced ink for it. RMS could explain what I am trying to imply.
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I could try to list the things for which I thank RMS, but I don't think he would approve of some of them.

...The only conclusion we can draw from this is the demise of both Princeton and Facebook....

and air !!

...willing to risk the destroyer screen to protect the valuable carriers...

That's what destroyers are for - relatively inexpensive perimeter defense for valuable core assets.
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Flying is the second greatest feeling you can have. Landing is the greatest feeling you can have.

The First Amendment isn't there to protect speech you like; it's there to protect speech you detest. Remember Larry Flynt's statement:

"If the First Amendment will protect a scumbag like me, then it will protect all of you. Because I'm the worst."

Larry Flynt sums it up best himself: "If the First Amendment will protect a scumbag like me, then it will protect all of you. Because I'm the worst.

Patchwork Girl, by L Niven.

opera.

How can one possibly plagiarise oneself? Plagiarism is presenting the utterance of another as one's own.

Surely this is merely repetition. If he assigned away copyright to the first utterance, it could be copyright violation, and that is probably a felony offence.
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. - Hunter S. Thompson