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Because, as xkcd 169 says, communicating badly and then actung smug when you're misunderstood is not cleverness. "Orders of magnitude" refers to a decimal system in the vast majori…

Some German publishers used to to that for books too, apparently. I've heard at least of cases of it happening to Terry Pratchet and Iain Banks (possibly because they wrote SF/F, w…

Or even "it has a trivial bug/doesn't run as well as i think it should/insulted my home decor, you die now"

Alec? Is that you?

Sure, but if the exec in question has moved on to another company by then, what do they care?

Shouldn't "bed as a service" be a hotel?

What's unfortunate about the name?

At what point does something become part of a tradition or culture? Why does "it started as an ad campaign" preclude something from becoming part of culture?

IIRC some jurisdictions consider any force at all - such as pushing an already-open door further open - to be sufficient to make it B&E rather than simply trespassing.

There is a Douglas Adams quote from 1999 similar to that: > I don't think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn’t becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it's very n…

In some a case going to the Ombudsman costs the bank regardless of the outcome. In the UK the first three cases in a year are free, but from the fourth onward the bank has to pay £…

Not even all of Weta - only the digital VFX bit.

It also made me think of 'By the Waters of Babylon' by Stephen Vincent Benét. Wikipedia tells me it was also (indeed, originally) published as 'The Place of the Gods'.

Never become the guy who can fix the printer.