So you’re saying they need to hydrate better?

The funny think is Pinky was actually the genius. But he didn’t want to upstage Brain.

It’s possible, especially for target pistols, many can have a very light trigger pull.

That said, I don’t think this was.

A pruning pull with a rope that lets you hit a taped on spray paint can should do the trick.

Or an RC heli that does similar.

I bet someone clever can build a stingray and capture the cell signal.

It! Methheads and crackis…. The new look has more copper. Just saying.

These jokes are enough to turn anyone to the dark side.

Their users, that is, when nobody laughs.

Fitt’s law being true or well known, and explaining why it works doesn’t mean they hired a behavioral psychologist.

This is like saying an architect hired physicist to explain why arches work; when everyone already knows that they work.

With the other UIs, like Mac’s next step and dock; they saw the same basic concept and had the ability to see real world feedback from that, no behavioral psychologist needed.

Paying taxes is compulsory. Military service is not.

When the military isn deployed, the purpose is to kill enemies of the state.

When the military is deployed to polling stations - those enemies are voting citizens.

Ask yourself why it’s military cyber sec and not, I dunno, FBI or, like, state-level people.

See my response to the other guy that said similar-

Everyone in the armed services are trained to kill. Not everyone is a trigger puller.

Even if all you’re doing is serving as a cook- that role is to support and enable others; and is part of the overall job of killing enemies of the state.

During our basic training we spent all of half a day at a range learning to shoot. Not exactly a ton of learning how to kill. Most people in the military aren’t taught how to kill. There are far more people doing logistics work than doing the deadly stuff.

They just taught you to wing ‘em?

More to the point. Everyone in the military is taught to kill. Not everyone is taught to be the trigger puller.

At no point in history has the trigger puller, the spear-stabby-stab-guy, or the rocky-smash-smash-man ever gone to war without others fighting along side them- or indeed, people providing logistical support.

All of that is what allows a military to function.

The purpose of the armed services is to kill the enemies of the state. Ostensibly for the protection of the state’s citizens.

That is why you being deployed to a polling place would “disturb” people.

Hate to break it to you. But you are moving through time. Every second.

Without time, if you weren’t moving through time, nothing could change, and the rate time flows is different for each of us… it’s complicated and I’m far from the best person to explain it, but time is not like a fourth axis that everything gets placed on, even if that’s kinda sorta how we model it.

“I think my view is, what we have to do is articulate why this is in the best interest of the United States of America, and actually get out there and talk about the ways in which it is in the best interest of the United States of America.”

Please do. this should be entertaining. and embarrassing. (he’s gotta earn his AIPAC slop, like a good little piggie)

The qbasic version we had was graphical in the sense of not being in dos like how nano works in the terminal today, but was not graphical in the sense of a mouse clicking things.

Granted I was like eight? So I could be miss remembering. Pretty sure the only interest I had was the gorilla game where you were chucking exploding bananas at each other.

My guess is they wanted to be hip like apple’s osX’s center dock.

This smells apocryphal to me. Very apocryphal.

Like you don’t need a behavioral psychologist to explain why people are going to prefer putting menunthingies out of the way.

Even back before a mouse, graphical applications (like q-basic) would place their menuthingies at the top, in a header. They had already established a pattern we still largely follow today- the most general menu category goes to the right, the most specific to the left.-

File is stuff relating to the document- opening, closing, savoring; document wide settings, etc, where help is… uh… extremely specific and almost never used.

So you already have this pattern in UC design; applications are already following it because it makes sense. So now, your devs need to place another menu bar somewhere, and they place it at the bottom, so it’d out of the way of everything else, and they follow the pattern.

oh. and NeXTSTEP’s came out in '88…

You know what’s hilariously funny about Tim Curry as Cardinal Asshole?

Nailed the look.

I mean, read the books… the reason he was rejected from the musketeers was because he needed to serve in another unit for a period of time. he goes away getting into duels with everyone, because he was a gascon, and they were basically the muricans of the time. In any case, during his adventure in which he was doing a favor for the queen

during the ordeal, the Cardinal’s man- Count Stinky Cheese- (aka Captain Balthasar de Montmorency, Count of Rochefort,)- was given a full parden for things he did. D’Artagnan got caught and was being accused of treason, but had successfully gotten the favor done. Since he was apparently Capable, the Cardinal handed him a captaincy with his soldiers; in part for averting the worst of the Cardinal’s plans. (I think the king suggested it as a way to get the D’Artagnan the experience for the musketeers.)

Their training is to kill. It’s in the conduct and prosecution of war.

They might be better trained, but that training is not applicable to any law enforcement activity.

And it’s absolutely not fucking applicable to exercise your rights as an American citizen to vote.

the unit that Charles de Batz de Castelmore served in was called Les Mousquetaires du Roi, or the the Musketeers of the king. Charles de Batz de Castlemore served as a captain in the unit during Lois XIII and Dumas roughly based his novels off his exploits.

As an aside, one of the few things the movies gets right about the novel (or even just the period) was the general foppishness of the military culture and upper-classes of the time.