The strategic reserve will be CowboyNealCoin.

We failed to inculcate a respect for the value of the written word. You reap what you sow.

"More-minor infections are not cause for alarm since the data was drawn from patients who had a hospital record of their infections, indicating more-severe cases, experts say."

Non sequitur.

I blame the reporter.

...it's the Eric S. Raymond release.

The obligatory poll option at your service.

I'm over ten years without flying, and TFA has given me another reason to continue my streak.

*wanders off, disconsolate again*

It's pronounced "bullshit."

You had me at "there's no way I'd visit Russia."

They lost me with the beach ball. Even at the tender age of 8 or 9 when it came out, I couldn't deal with the beach ball. Just... no. My dad, however, seemed to enjoy the film. :)

At the bottom of every /. page on the morning I first read this: "In any formula, constants (especially those obtained from handbooks) are to be treated as variables."

Use of "commercial surveillance tools" is perfectly fine, according to TFA; it's the misuse that is naughty. So obviously use by "responsible" governments such as the US falls under the "use" and not "misuse" category, and is perfectly fine.

I think we understand each other, Mr Treasury Person.

Unlikely, since employees are now sitting at Meta login screens and repeating the login process over and over and over and ...

I watched The Matrix this afternoon, and then I find this story on Slashdot. I’m sure it will be fine, everything’s fine.

There’s the CowboyNeal option that they omitted. I salute you.