You're fired.

The must be happi*er* than the general pop.

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.

Holy shit, the electronic locks fail closed instead of failing open? Regardless of the captain's individual and unauthorized actions in damaging the boat and causing it to sink, the cruise line and the shipbuilder are going to be sued out of existence with wrongful death lawsuits for installing locks that fail closed.

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How many more than 45 would be dead if they were wherever they were before they started working at Foxconn? You do realize that the suicide rate per 100,000 at Foxconn is actually lower than the suicide rate per 100,000 in the general Chinese population, right?

It's China. They're only allowed to have one.

The doctor is in.

Foxconn is only awful compared to Western work standards. You know what's worse than Foxconn? Trying to eke out a living in rural China, which is the alternative that these Foxconn workers are trying to get away from.

This should surprise no one, especially anybody who has read the Steve Jobs biography. Woz has always had a hacker ethos and prefers open systems over closed systems. He is also an ubergeek for whom the ability to tinker under the hood is an important feature (and he obviously has the skills and knowledge to do so).…

Yes, but they are run as a separate unit. Amazon actually acquired them for their culture, not so much their business.

"That is Plato's Ultrabook."

Yeah, theres a keeper.

The Coriolis Effect is real, but in order for a toilet to exhibit it, it would have to be perfectly shaped and frictionless, so as not to allow other factors to influence the direction of the swirl.

Independent film making is risky if it has any kind of actual budget and investors who expect their money back. Even a small film like the one I'm involved in [www.americanharmonythemovie.com] hasn't recouped its $300k budget yet (although we will get some more visibility on Feb 12 when the Documentary Channel airs…

The Rule 34 version of this is one of those strange fetishes I just don't understand.

The Chennai Super Kings? Really? I still have flashbacks to the entirely too much time I spent in Chennai in '98-'99.

There's a chat feature on the iOS version of WWF, too.

You're a computer engineer and you don't wear shorts to work? Methinks you picked the wrong company to work for. I'm sitting here in shorts right now (at a Fortune 500, even).

I smell a conspiracy.