GreyEyedGhost

Once upon a time, we differentiated our apps based on their capabilities and gave them a consistent interface so people who knew how to use Windows|Linux|MacOS apps would already be familiar with how they operated. Now we differentiate on looks/user experience, and many of them arent capable at all.

For blindingly obvious reasons.

The fact it’s satire doesn’t make it untrue, and we have plenty of statistics to back it up, but it seems the only thing Americans like more than complaining about their broken system is insisting that any change at all would make it worse.

Was this spry 88-year-old killed by followers of Opus Dei‽

j/k I don’t know enough about them to say anything. I thought it was an interesting idea, but seems unlikely.

First entertainment purposes only is corporate language for gives the wrong answers and don’t want to lose the lawsuit if we tell people to trust it. Just like Fox News.

This is intentional behavior on the part of Sxan, and he’s fairly consistent about it. I don’t agree with his reasons, but he has the right to believe what he does and write how he does. I don’t begrudge him making people spend additional mental effort reading it, and most days it doesn’t bother me. I don’t have the energy today, so stopped reading after the first thorn.

I realize there are benefits to attacking Iran, but it’s still wrong.

Ive always thought of it as more of a shot against the man than the woman. In your example, the man slept with someone he normally wouldn’t, for whatever reason, and only recognized that fact once his desire for sex was satisfied. The woman didn’t change in the entire situation.

Likewise, I’d say my choices in this area were poor, but had nothing to do with looks.

These are not the pixels I was looking for!

Pixels coming at a premium in this picture.

Learning more about the universe is one of the least stupid things we can do. The estimates for universal healthcare in the US range from $200 to $500 billion a year. Sure, we could reduce our research goals wherever (keeping in mind those may have an impact on healthcare, such as radiation and photography) or we could…not attack another country for no pressing reason (about $200 billion in a few weeks). But sure, let’s focus on the $25 billion a year spent on NASA. That will fix things.

There are so many different fields of research that have led to advances in just medicine, that you would be hard pressed to find one that hasn’t benefited it. Optics, electricity, refrigeration, metallurgy, chemistry, nuclear science, on and on. How many years do you think germ theory would have been delayed if Galileo hadn’t advanced optics to the point where telescopes could show details on planets?

This is a fraction of the cost of healthcare and is absolutely not the reason universal healthcare in the US isn’t happening.

Yes, Esperanto has many advantages of a manufactured language, but I think there are only something like 2 million speakers worldwide. If someone wanted to dip their toes into it, Harry Harrison’s Stainless Steel Rat series has Esperanto sprinkled throughout it, and has been translated into Esperanto. He was a fan. You certainly won’t learn it reading his (English) books, but the structure is very recognizable.

“These yoots-”

“Hwat?”

“These yoots.”

“Hwat’s a yoot?”

“Oh, I’m sorry your honor, these unibody crossover vehicles with an open bed.”

Something like that, I imagine. It might get confused with youths if you’re discussing them in NYC.

Maybe OP can tell us what kind of doctor he isn’t.

For a nation that is all about personal freedom, they sure spend a lot of time telling other people what to do in areas that don’t really matter. Even for the sake of military uniformity, facial hair must be maintained and groomed seems like an acceptable stance. Anything else is just power tripping.

What he is saying is, while a lot of the phone calls you got were answered with the KB, this doesn’t reflect the people who didn’t call because they used the KB. For that, you would need to track total sales, new customer intake, volume over time, etc. It’s quite possible you could have customers who got a KB reply from your support staff in a timely manner and decided if it was that easy for you to get an answer to them, it would be worth it for them to try it before calling next time.

Of course, the reality is quite likely that the main users of the knowledge base you built was the support team, which still isn’t a loss.

There was an utterly surreal burger commercial someone prompted that I just loved. It wasn’t really good, but it was a lot.

“I’d like a Coke.”

“Is Pepsi okay?”

“It will have to do.”

Or

“Do you have Dr. Pepper?”

Certainly possible. I haven’t bothered looking into what types of shifts are typical for doctors in hospitals, but $430k is certainly more attractive.