Oracle has always been the Mafia Family of tech companies. Once you’re in, you’re in for life.

Bravo!

Good luck writing Yorkshire dialect without t ‘umble apostrophe, dick’eads

I’ve done it, but only pre-live, and the client then wanted it putting back into Oracle again because they were never ever ever going to escape Oracle’s clutches. It’s very rare that vendor specific optimisations are actually worth using though - 99.99% of performance issues are bad table/join design and indexing fails.

Where is Merry Man Worf?

Kaboom!

Captain Linebeck from the Phantom Hourglass is a great character.

People be always trying to invent Erlang.

Scots ghost called “Ronin” moment.

Always felt like it was kind of rude that Susan Sarandon kept this guy’s name long after they were married, and got way more famous with it. Worth it for the alliteration.

Fire up the Quattro!

This is why the pros are paid the big money.

Libertarianism is explicitly based on the ideas of Manchester School Liberalism. The British Liberal Party of the 19th Century was all about free market ideology, in contrast to the (theoretically) more centrist modern party. In Victorian Britain, Liberal own you.

The original Liberals were actually a bunch of mill owners in 19th Century Manchester (at the time the most technologically advanced city in the world) who got together to ask challenging questions like “why should we have to pay taxes?” and “what if we basically owned our employees? And their children”.

Marx and Engels lived there for a time and witnessed the conditions the working people lived in first-hand.

Yes, all of that! If anything, Chateau Picard should be a collective of equal volunteers who just really love squashing grapes with their feet in rural France. Iain M Banks novels deal with this aspect of Utopianism much better.