You can try, but all the arable land is already taken. There’s a reason nobody lives in the empty spots.

Just because the Americans are asleep doesn’t mean the Australians learnt to speak other languages!

Heck, I’m not sure we’ve even got the hang of English half the time.

I live on the other side of the world, so my chances of going to the US are much lower than yours. Nonetheless, I have always maintained the same opinion.

It is not worth going to the United States. If I say the wrong thing or step in the wrong place, I’ll be shot or sued or both, probably in that order. And if I’m injured, I’ll be financially ruined.

If my employer wishes me to go to France or Switzerland or Japan, who they do business with regularly, I will be willing to go. But if they ask me to go to the United States, who they also do business with, I will refuse even at risk of losing my job, which I like very much. I believe it is one of the most dangerous “civilised”, “western” countries now, at least to outsiders.

Not here it’s not!

I Rick Rolled my entire school this way. Write a program that maxed the volume and held it there at 100%, minimised all open windows, downloaded a photo of Rick Astley and set it as your wallpaper, then started playing Never Gonna Give You Up. The only way to stop it was to power off the computer or wait the song out, then manually fix your wallpaper.

I saved the executable in a publically accessible location on the school’s server that I shouldn’t have had write access to, and sent a cleverly disguised link to a mate. He thought it was hilarious, and forwarded the email to a dozen of his mates. They forwarded it to all their mates, and pretty soon no teacher could go 60 seconds without another one of their students’ laptops interrupting the class at max volume.

Best bit? I “taught a valuable lesson in cybersecurity” and didn’t get in (much) trouble!!

I model all of my UI choices off of old(er) school windows

Same lol. The casual observer wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between Windows XP and my Debian install, bar for the fact that I have a search bar in the start menu.

Infinitely disappointed it’s not this one

I wrote one of those papers. The fuckers charged me $1000 to publish it as open access, then other journals download it and stick it on their websites and charge $60 to read it. What a joke!

Tell me you’re too young to have used “Ask Jeeves” without telling me

At least in Russia if he sued he’d fall out a window.

so America are still the good guys, right?

Knew exactly what scene this was before I’d even taken a good look, let alone read the text. One of my favourites, along with “I will not carry a gun, Frank”.

To be fair, POST could mean a number of things. Are we talking in a webserver context? BIOS context? The POST Office?

Typing this reply from Sailfish!

• Michael Scott

Be all that as it may, but sweet fuck all percent of you actually vote, so what difference will it make?

I am absolutely of the opinion that good software is far more important than good hardware. Unfortunately modern hardware is so good that inefficient software gets a free pass.

I’m very sorry it came off that way. I don’t even know what I said now its been removed, but I’m sure the joke was meant to be at my own expense, not yours.

Removed by mod

I got a fevah!

And the only cure…

is more pickle!

Aww