mawhrin

i host my mail services for the last twenty seven years, and yeah, you're talking shit. starting the smtp daemon is not the same as managing mail server.

i'm sure a quick look at stock prices will sweeten the pill.

oh i agree, but verhoeven's reading of the original is still not wrong, and the reassons for his distaste are valid. and heinlein was not only the author of the moon is harsh mistress, but also of the incredibly racist farnham's freehold (yes, i'm aware that he probably toned down the racism of campbell's original, but that's a bar so low that you need to dig a trench to find it.)

also, to some extent, poul anderson's war of the wing-men.

misaimed fandoms are a thing; you'd be surprised (or not) how many hard right fans in poland do the witcher books and games have. similarly, there are still people who believe that verhoeven's starship troopers film is an affirmation, not repudiation of fascism (in the original book, and in general).

this is not people's laziness; it's that the practice is deceptive. don't reinforce the business narrative.

this is quite infuriating, i had a number of mozilla/firefox people telling me that this feature wouldn't work with opt-in (it's bullshit though) because too few users would enable it, and neither fucker asked himself : “wait, if we're afraid we can't convince our user base to buy-in, perhaps we shouldn't develop the feature?”

it's good the rats can't help themselves but to brag about what they're doing – in at least three different public places.

no, no, it's fine. the less readable they are, the better.

well, what gives. who could've expected that tracing woodbins is a liar, and a scoundrel.

dear me. doesn't he know that the actual art requires hate-skimming at most?