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Google represents everything soulless and wrong.
"... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute
"Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!" - gavindon
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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Really? What about everything that's soulless but not wrong? Or wrong but not soulless? Or just none of the above? Cos I always thought it was just a search engine which you are entirely free to live without.
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Not that examples are so hard to come by, but doesn't an assertion like this deserve just a little support? What did google do that pushed you into the "evil" camp? It has to be more than just realizing that all ad brokers are evil by construction.
I mean, I know why google seems evil to me...
- Owning the internet verb for "to search", and adulterating search results with paid content is pretty evil.
- Announcing an open source operating system for phones and then after it is accepted spending years replacing it bit-by-bit with proprietary content is pretty evil.
- Conspiring with a cartel of Silicon Valley employers to tamp down wages for the geeky talent that makes it great is pretty evil.
I just wondered what you woke up to.
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I woke up to the fact that Google's Android developer program is not fair. Besides that I have nothing against Google. I'am not in the "evil" camp, that's sounds bad 
“Everything is simple when you take your time to analyze it.”
modified 21-Apr-15 15:24pm.
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heheheh Very well played sir... Kudos to your eloquence and truth friend!
"... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute
"Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!" - gavindon
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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Saw that a couple days ago. So close, yet so far. You can see the poor little thruster trying to compensate for the tilt but it just can't get enough oomph.
Marc
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I told you: "don't touch the red button in the remote" 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Funny - I just remembered dreaming about it tonight. They launched rockets every minute and tried again and again landing it successfully. I was watching from some remote landmass and it seemed completely reasonable that they had so many of it
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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It seems to come down quite quickly. Doesn't give the rocket much chance to compensate for unknown variables like wind, or sea motion.
Also the rocket centre of gravity must make it naturally unstable on a barge. Must have clever latches.
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I was thinking wind too.
When I studied I was a member of the hot air balloon club at the uni.
Normally it's a completely smooth experience to go by balloon as you move with the wind.
But once we were on the country side in an area without commercial aircraft and we were allowed to go up to twelwe thousand feet, something no one in the club had ever done before.
So naturally we decided to go for it.
On the way up at about 8000 feet we went through a layer of air that shifted the wind direction 180 degrees.
The balloon tilted about 20 degrees to the side which figuratively scared the sh*t out of us, as we were entirely unprepared for it.
I immediately thought of this when I saw the rocket lose control.
BTW. There was a second time when we figuratively crapped our pants during that flight.
At eleven thousand feet the flame went out, and couldn't be lit again. To little oxygen.
We had a pretty good speed downwards when we could light the flame again, almost three thousand feet lower.
Luckily a hot air balloon has an additional function as a parachute.
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Can be fun if all you're doing is the sightseeing flights.
But this rocket is landing on a barge at sea and the winds tend to be a bit stronger and and more unpredictable. On top of that they would need the barge to be stablized. Maybe at the speed they're dropping they should us a small parachute or small rockets at the top for stablization.
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They've released a training pack[^] for people who want to help out.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A lot of my settings have been unsettled.
I've had to go to the trouble of clicking about seven times!
Way too much of a pain!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Perhaps you tossed your cookies. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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The word of the day is misophonia[^].
I came upon it due to being concerned with a disturbing pattern in my behavior that seems to be getting worse. Anytime the phone rings, especially the cell phone, I feel a sense of dread, and have started uttering expletives uncontrollably! I used to be able to control it, or at least limit it to my inside voice. Now it's progressed to a 2 second pre-answer verbal assault on the unwitting caller. 
I'm pretty sure there is a correlation between the amount of time I find myself on the phone and the progression of this ill behavior...that and the fact that 9 times out of 10 someone is calling because they need something, need to commiserate, or just want to talk about themselves/nothing. At any rate, I need to get a handle on it.
So, I was wondering if others in this community also experience this, and if so, what method you may have for dealing with it. I have a feeling gin may be a common answer!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: what method you may have for dealing with it.
Turn phone off
Turn ringer off if phone must be on
Don't answer phone if ringer must be on
Answer and then immediately hang up if phone must be answered
Give phone to gf if actual conversation must ensue.
That pretty much takes care of it for me.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Give phone to gf if actual conversation must ensue.
You gf isn't always here.
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Please press 1 for English! 
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
When you are dead you don't know it, it's only difficult for others.
It's the same when you're stupid.
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Just answer the phone in German!
I've been getting a lot of nuisance calls from telemarketers, so I just don't answer numbers I don't recognize.
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Cornelius Henning wrote: Just answer the phone in German!
Do you regard German as especially scary? 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Well scary not... but pretty neither 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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depende de a quién le escucha!
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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I had the impression from his earlier postings that he knows German. That's the only reason I selected German.
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