The real irony is calling somebody out for being ignorant of technology, from a position of ignorance about the specific common technology upgrade that he’s calling the guy out about. It’s very meta.

I’ll take “How to look stupid on the Internet for $1000", Alex.

There are anti-fraud aspects of the data processing platforms which are able to detect this kind of thing, fyi.

I spent 15 years flying (mostly international, so 10-15 hour single flights a lot of the time, and up to 24+ hours with connecting flights), always in business class over the water. Lots of times bumped to first class due to either using miles or status.

“It’s a little puzzling that Amazon would run an NCAA apparel sale after all but 12 schools have been eliminated from the tournament”

“It’s a little puzzling that Amazon would run an NCAA apparel sale after all but 12 schools have been eliminated…

“Mexican immigrants are attempting to break off parts of America into Mexico”

Those old statues never get the likeness quite right. St. Patrick had to have been a bad ass to scare all the snakes out of Ireland.

Supposedly, you can pack a Kalashnikov with mud, and it will still work, while getting a couple grains of sand in an M-16 will bork it.

Oh, wait, your *clients* are all assholes to begin with? Nevermind.

“You put them under some pressure in the interview to see how they respond.”

There might be a few false positives caught with this method, but I’m guessing it’s a small enough percentage that it’s still better to flush everybody who climbed in a known toxic environment. I’d agree that somebody who *didn’t* climb in that environment is likely not tainted.

Most big company cultures include very explicitly stated codes of business ethics. Whether or not they strictly adhere to them is obviously a different question, but generally they will all tell you that they want people who will speak up and report any unethical circumstances that they find at the company, and…

“Oh, you worked at this company, you’re probably an asshole”

Somebody help me understand: Feminists are or aren’t the people who used to burn bras and who still to this day occasionally engage in topless (or in some cases, completely nude) protests?

You know, there are a whole lot of people who could learn something from the movie Soul Man...

I have a friend who is in Iceland to celebrate his 50th birthday *right now*. Of course, I just sent him this...

And this is any different from what the Harlem Globetrotters do in exhibition games how?

Once the number of anecdotes reaches a statistically significant number, it is. Example: X anecdotes of Galaxy Note 7 phones blowing up became the raw data which ultimately drove shutting down production of that product completely.

THRL;CR?

During the decade-and-a-half of international work travel I did (around 4 calendar years on the road, over that time), the craziest local bar I’ve ever seen was the Hungry Duck in Moscow. Specifically, the Hungry Duck as it existed in ‘98-’99 (not the reincarnation that opened in 2012).