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I think it's fair to expect our highest level of government to be staffed exclusively by people with at least a BS in Political Science, ideally a Master's.

I've heard of sites being so badly programmed that basic features are a huge drain on resources. For example, there was one site where, any time a popular user made a post, it caused a lag spike as the server generated the thousands of notification messages for all their followers. The only way...

Even aside from everything else, I think it speaks volumes about how horribly our system has failed that someone who didn't even finish high school is now a member of Congress.

No doubt most of these people will get slaps on the wrist, but I feel a little better knowing they've at least gone after as many people as they could identify. Also, not surprised most of the cops just let them waltz in with almost no resistance. I think that ought to be more widely known and...

Update: What the actual jive. So, I realized that the heatsinks on the rest of these computers probably needed a good vacuuming out just like that one did, so I shut down my main system, opened it up, took it all the way apart and scrubbed it down as thoroughly as I've ever done to anything...

I hope you've bought a UPS since then.

Well, would you trust an IOU from the cops?

No, that's from the mini-desktops. The fan was definitely laptop-esque, though; it's one of those weird fans that has to pull from a vent that's perpendicular to the chip so it has a million blades and they're not scooped like a desktop fan.

My dad works at a school, as I believe I have mentioned before, and sometimes brings their garbage home. One time it was a bunch of laptops and a couple mini-desktops. The timing couldn't have been more perfect, as my own home rig I had been upgrading like the Ship of Theseus since 2008 had...

Hell, I don't trust anyone to do that. And neither should anyone else. No one can be trusted with the power to literally control other people's minds. Not even a handful of volunteers.

Counterpoint: Oh boo hoo the cops had to pay for something they need to do their jobs instead of being able to exploit people for free stuff for a change. A whole hundred fifty even, like that could have bought a whole half a gun, maybe. It would be different if VW was refusing to even accept...

The thing is, running out of customers will only be a "problem" to them in the sense that there's no one left to fleece for even more money. By which point there's also no more money to be gained in the first place. Why would they accept the offer to give all their money away just so they can...

By the same standards that needing a permit to hold a public protest is, probably.

And I'll bet it's actually worse now than it was before the EU was established.

I'm just now realizing that the reason they did that in the first place was probably because it would have been way too much work to have to design, code, and animate an entire playable fighting game, even if there would only have been two functional characters in it. Well, that and if it was...

And literally everything else. "Theory" doesn't mean "hypothesis" in the scientific world, because why use a word to mean the same thing it does to the layman when you can just co-opt it to mean something completely different and then get mad at the laymen for continuing to use it the way they...

Hundreds this week, but he's likely to lose the rest of them if he doesn't find some new means of distribution because his own syndicate also dropped him. The Plain Dealer dropped it so fast, they didn't even have time to find a replacement, so they're just running a gray box with the text "New...

I've heard there's a former Secretary of Education who's been making headway in that field, but that was like 20 years ago now...

That's how it always works. One bad apple, flowing downhill, etc.

Video games are weird. Even the comparatively-normal ones involve doing things that are well outside the realm of ordinary human behavior. Consequently, you might catch yourself, or a streamer/Let's Player saying something that makes perfect sense in context but would sound utterly insane to...