The Doctor

It’s worth trying.

Ask Amazon why they picked a name that was the same as a small publishing company that had been around for years and sued them into a smoking crater in the ground.

Them’s who has the gold, makes the rules.

For non-profits (like 501©(3)'s) that’s not unusual. Non-profits are more like specialized tools for the board of directors than like companies.

Source: First ten years of my career were at non-profits.

I haven’t seen it on any of the instances I hang out on.

Thanking? No. That would be impolitic.

Quietly using? They’d be foolish not to.

I think yinz missed the sarcasm in the comment you’re replying to.

We don’t know what Cory does all day. We know he has a family, I think he has a kid, that means that he has responsibilities that don’t involve blogging. For all we know, at the end of the day he curls up with a dead tree book and unplugs to relax. He might not be as online as his overall style might make him appear and we don’t know what all circles of people he runs with, so it’s entirely possible that he just heard about it.

I think it’s because people are taking their frustrations out on whatever seems to make people think something might be on the upswing. Even better, because you can’t necessarily see who upvoted nobody can call them on it.

It’s like the folks who go to see a movie and gush about how awesome it was when you’re sitting around shooting the shit, but the moment they get on the Net they trash it in as many ways as possible.

That’s pretty much the entire Internet these days.

Maybe it’s taken him this long to kick the tires and develop an opinion from daily use. There’s nothing wrong with that.

It’s not like we can do anything about it. Customers can’t control what a business does with the money they pay. Writing and calling don’t work. The best any one person can do is cancel their service, but they’re in the minority.

Of course they are.

Nope. The publication date aside (2 April), DHS is not known for its sense of humor in any context.

ISS operates under the assumption that it is in GMT.

https://greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/space/

If it was that easy, I don’t think the US government would have mandated a whole project to figure it out. NASA would have done it by now and been using it internally for a while before anybody noticed.

That’s not sarcasm - that’s kinda how NASA solves weird (to baselines) problems like this. They just sort of do it, it’s done, and then somebody might get around to publishing a paper about it. At least in the years I worked there (GSFC, 2010-2013) it used to be a thing that engineers would chat about while waiting for the coffee maker to finish brewing a fresh pot, or maybe doodle on a bad while waiting for a run to finish.

If folks haven’t yet, what’s it going to take?

I find it difficult to disagree with you.

Which is what the twenty-first century might be selecting for. They’re the only ones that seem like they’re doing okay right now.

“Our smart securicams don’t trust you” is the new “You’re not a good culture fit.”