"some kind of market research or focus group or whatever suggested"
Yes, it is market research. When you are out of beer and 70% of your neighborhood is too, the price of beer in you local supermarket will go up by 20%. And you are paying for the tool to do so. Prost!
Butttt.... what about the revenue that our speed traps bring to our little town? My $270000 salary as police chief depends on it!!!
So they spend a frivolous amount of money for their fun and expect us to cough up 200 Million as an excuse for them?
n<<1 instead of 2*n
I usually start with my check book and it makes me cry, so I don't read on.
"They're meant to seed genetic traits -- one that stops mosquitoes from carrying malaria, for instance, or hampers invasive rodents' ability to reproduce -- in a population, and with terrifyingly high odds of inheritance. "
The inability to reproduce is not inheritable.
There is a way that often works: You join in and improve the idea until it becomes absurd and dies by itself. Then you blame the original inventor for the failure.
because I always pay cash
Me too. It could tell my ankle bracelet that I am at home when I am at the air port.
at the top of the list and Cowboy Neal at the bottom. That needs to be reversed!
So if I set up a robot that calls all political parties and members of the house once a week urging them to stop robo-calls then that is also free speech. If 10000 others follow my example their phone lines are clogged.
The default ubuntu installation has a guest user without password. This feature can be turned off but I noticed that every once in a while the configuration changes (move from
or the right half?
There is no reason not to have different ISO sizes. I would love to have an ISO that fits on a CD AND one that is 32GByte big.
The caps lock key is necessary when I have to type a password with upper case characters while holding my coffee mug. Don't get rid of it.
C++ is the best example of second-system effect since OS/360.
