Captain Aggravated

Shut. Down. Madagascar.

The hospital? What is it?

“I should probably buy another box of nitrile gloves.” excellent decision.

Yeah you gotta go get the huh duh six hungeos from old mate Senny.

If I understand correctly, Intel attempted to trademark “586” and AMD objected because it would prevent them from using a consistent part numbering scheme. The courts agreed foring Intel to make up a brand name. They wanted something that sounded sciencey and technological, like the name of an element, hence the -ium suffix, and it was the fifth major version of the x86 platform, fiveium? No…penta…Pentium!

Actually no, I was figuring on having adults present to raise, educate and care for the children, but under strict orders to not introduce them to superstition.

does it only effect privates? what about officers, like, say, captains?

I’m not meaning dump 20,000 children alone in the left half of Wyoming, I mean, keep them with their parents, hire teachers, teach them math and science and…basically a history that replaces a lot of “and they believed their gods said” with “the ruling class decided they wanted to”. What happens to children when they are raised in a functioning, supportive, nurturing society that does not contain religion or superstition?

Yeah, the people of the United States have been so stupid for so long that Europe and Canada have spent the last month scrambling to figure out how to do without all the things they rely on us for, to include computer operating systems, CPU architecture, to cloud computing and payment processing systems.

Then the experiment would yield data.

Take ten or twenty thousand children, take over a fairly large portion of a midwestern state, build a large and complete environment for them to live in including towns, museums, theme parks etc. and raise them as normal Americans but absolutely 100% avoid introducing them to the concept of religion until they’re 25.

I actually use them frequently, like I have Ctrl+Alt+L bound to lock my computer, and workspace commands using the arrow keys and the like. It’s easier to do one handed.

Yes, but not as often as the left.

While touch typing, I pretty much always use the left shift key. To type “A” for example I slid my hand over one set of keys and pressed the A key with my ring finger. Right shift ends up used mostly with the punctuation marks to the right, like I actually move my entire right hand down to hit shift and ?

I also strike T, Y and B with different hands depending on what I’m typing.

There may be some other eccentricities but I do mostly touch type properly, asdfjkl; and all that.

I wonder how much of that has to do wtih chromebooks.

Pilot G-2, Obviously. #5.

Especially with software, it’s a weird world.

Back in the 80’s and 90’s, they were making actual improvements to things like spreadsheets and word processors. Remember when spell check was a separate program you ran after the fact?

I’d say MS Office hit the point of perfectly usable, needs no improvement somewhere around 2003. Even by then, the vast majority of users weren’t aware of or cared about the features they were adding and would soon start strongly wishing Microsoft would quit fucking around with the UI every few years.

Their business model relied on people buying new versions every so often, and then they made a version that was everything anyone would need…so now what? Demand that they just keep paying for it.

Are they delicious?

Huh. Might have to give those a try.

Well that’s fascinating. You may find this hard to believe but I’ve never really considered Mexico’s relationship to the pancake before. AFAIK “hotcakes” is an American term, I don’t think I’ve heard the British use it, so…do you think of pancakes/hotcakes as American? Makes me wonder what the Spaniards call them.

You want uniquely American, forget wheat flour and make some hoe cakes. Cornmeal based.