Witnessed a car crash a few years ago right in front of me because of this. I was the second car in line heading south at a traffic light. When our light turned green, a car heading west in the late afternoon ran the red light and smashed into the car in front of me.

I saw them coming and said, “Watch out!” but of course that did no good. The driver of the westbound car said she lost the traffic light in the sun and didn’t realize it was red. I have no idea why you’d continue on at 40 mph if you weren’t sure you had a green light, but here we are.

I had chosen that route home intentionally to avoid driving into the sun. Had I been the first car in that line, I might have been involved in the crash despite my caution.

I don’t know why this is funny, but I’m laughing anyway. Last Place is really out there sometimes.

He caved.

Spread the word, irritate red hats everywhere.

Does this sound like a man who had all he could eat?

Or, do what the nearby horse farm does, just head to my neighborhood and leave the horse shit all over the trail and the road and people’s yards!

Seems kind of rude to me, but what do I know.

Three days is the (generously calculated) time until civil defence will have soup kitchens up and running

Wonder if that’s still true with the budget cuts to FEMA here in the US.

How many of us old Slashdot users are here, anyway? 5 digit UID here.

How quickly do you think an os upgrade of this type finish?

This is what I’ve always done. It has worked fine for me every time.

To add on: I’m pretty sure, in the NHL, you can’t slide a teammates stick back to them, except for the goal tender.

I’ve been daily driving it on my desktop and laptop for several months now, seems fine. But I don’t need the bleeding edge either.

But that’s not what the comment was about… The top level comment said Debian was hard to upgrade, and I have not had that experience.

I don’t understand that comment either. I’ve been using Debian for years on my server, and it just keeps up with the times (well with Debian times, not necessarily current times).

It’s way easier than Kubuntu was for me, for example, which required reinstalling practically every time I wanted to upgrade. A few times the upgrade actually worked, but most of the time I had to reinstall.

Ummm you go first.

I mean, that seems empathic to me - you are relating to her (potential) feelings.

My kmymoney file goes on an old compact flash memory card.

My home directory (including that file), /etc, databases, and a few other things get backed up weekly on to a USB stick.

Media raid array is automatically backed up to a large drive in another computer each evening. (The raid5 array isn’t that large. It was when I built it, but now I can buy a single drive that is nearly as large as the array…)

Pictures are backed up to Amazon’s glacier deep freeze. I pay about $1/month to back up all of my pictures. I intend to put other important things there too but haven’t gotten there yet.

“The chickens are revolting!” “Finally, something we agree on.”

I love that movie and still quote it. “And we’re the chickens!”

Good point. It’s still an odd term to describe fighter planes.

I am a native English speaker. It sounds like something someone who was translating from another language would say. “Soldiers” is the really common term.

Warfighters?