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WCDT Strips 3236 - 3240 (6-10 June 2016)
Gyrre:
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--- Quote from: Zebediah on 07 Jun 2016, 07:32 ---
I saw that, and assumed he was drinking the sort of herbal tea that is more usually available in bags. And we know they do herbal teas because of the Bubbles unicorns episode.
Unfortunately, all sorts of even quite respectable UK coffee and tea places use tea bags now. :-(
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That's the way it's normally done in coffee shops in the US - their primary business is coffee, not tea, so it's easiest for them to make tea in single-serving sizes. Which, in general, means handing the customer a cup of hot water and a tea bag. Yeah, I'm one of those weirdos who orders tea in coffee shops (can't drink coffee, tears up my stomach) - but dedicated tea shops are pretty thin on the ground here.
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And whose fault is that? #1776 #Boston :wink:
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At the risk of being accused of being "unpatriotic", it turns out that Sam Adams (the man not the company his father founded) was quite the bastard. The mob that caused the Boston Tea Party was pretty liquored up thanks to him. And the historical record shows that's far from the first time he got a mob liquored up and started a riot. Nearly all of the confrontations the Boston colonists had with English soldiers were orchestrated by him, and he had quite the little dictatorship over the city (leading to the British having to intervene in the first place)
cesium133:
His father didn't found that company, it was just named for him (unless his father lived a long, long time, since the company was founded in the 1980s).
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 09 Jun 2016, 05:57 ---His father didn't found that company, it was just named for him (unless his father lived a long, long time, since the company was founded in the 1980s).
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My bad. Not sure how I forgot that he ran his father's into the ground.
EDIT:
If you're curious, James Perloff has written a two part article on the matter called The Secrets Buried at Lexington Green which goes into much more detail than this interview.
retrosteve:
--- Quote from: cucumber error on 08 Jun 2016, 20:17 ---The phrase "bootstrap itself to omnipotence" sounds awfully familiar. (In the text below the comic, which is why I was able to find it).
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Having the AI "bootstrap itself into omnipotence and light out for the Kuiper Belt" sounds exactly like the backstory to Alice Grove. I suspect the next thing it does is instantaneously remove all high technology from Earth, and send all the technocrats into space.
retrosteve:
--- Quote from: anahata on 08 Jun 2016, 23:36 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 08 Jun 2016, 22:58 ---On the actual subject under discussion, I remember reading somewhere that the more nodes in an arbitrarily large network, the slower it gets simply because of the processing power required to co-ordinate so many distributed processors.
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It's a reworking of Brookes's Law: "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later"
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I was about to say this, but you just did!
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