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  If we reached the point where they came into my house I'd be fucked no matter what, so I'd take as many as I could with me. No use in making my death meaningless.

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  What I'll defend, however, is fractional measurements when precision matters. With decimal measurements, precision can't be nearly as granular. If your measurement is precise to one 1/8 of a unit, how do you represent that in decimal? 0.625 implies your measurement is precise to the nearest thousandth, but rounding it to 1 also isn't precise. 5/8, however, tells you the measurement AND the precision. With fractional measurements, you can specify precision by changing the denominat...

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  That would mean I had to interact with 15 people.

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  That song taught me that no matter what you're describing, if you call something "ironic" *somebody* will correct you.

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  When Inwas in college, I saw that the local high school was putting on a performance of "The Secret of Monkey Island." My best friend and I loved the games and were excited to see it, so we bought tickets. I cannot express how bad it was. I've sat through some awful shit, but we just couldn't take it. We walked out of a high school play because it was *that* bad.

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  The only person serving time for a global conspiracy to rape children is a woman. She's a terrible woman who deserves it, but it's still telling.

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  Dude's never heard of fishing attacks.

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  I'm a third-party non-employee lecturer at my local university. I teach scuba, underwater photography, and scientific diving. The courses are taught off-campus at a dive shop using the shop's its classrooms, pool, and equipment. The liability insurance is paid by me. There's a lake on campus we dive at, and the university charges students to enter it. The students have to pay $3000+ in tuition for some of my classes. ...and the university doesn't give me or the shop a dime....

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  The little ones were worse in my experience. They tended to turn better on the axles and with couple guys spinning on the outside you could *really* get them going, then have the people riding move to the inside and it blue-shifts.

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  Sure is a good thing doing this dishes is the most complicated and least-pleasant thing people can do... Who's gonna volunteer to go through years of training specializing in commercial diving in wastewater to treatment plants for free?

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  Dude - I just need you to type in the admin password so I can install software or fix whatever is wrong that you don'tunderstand. We really don't need to spoon. I wouldn't actually mind if they actually vetted the software, but they just type in the password and install whatever I click on. I once changed the name of an installer for a new version of QGIS to "IT malware installation test" and they didn't even notice.

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  They were way more repairable though. We had a gas dryer that lasted 40 years and was only replaced because we moved somewhere without gas. It was basically a big egg timer with an electric motor and a gas burner. You could fix anything on it with a crescent wrench, screwdriver, and off-the-shelf components from the hardware store for about 9 bucks. The replacement dryer has had to have $1000+ circuit boards replaced more than once.