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• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  Hopefully the younger generations will never NEED those old skilz to survive; IF/WHEN an emergency comes they'll have their EVs & cell phone service available ... and GPS to guide them to the hospital ... In any serious collapse of...
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  My cursive is very clear and readable, I had been complimented on it many many times in my life. Having said that, I honestly think that cursive is one of those inventions (like bitcoin and social media) which are actually...
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  Do you know about the real life General Walker? Curtis LeMay?...
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  Scammers ... there's usually no chain to roll up, so at best, you get one scammer. If they're smart, they're running the op through an offshore call-centre, which makes getting your hands on them a job for INTERPOL and the...
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  Incidentally .. Driving on autopilot is so safe isn't it? From the article: "A California Tesla driver found themselves in the middle of an active train track after the EV’s autopilot mode allegedly mistook it for a road, leading to...
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  When I saw "Dr. Strangelove" back in 1980's, the "precious bodily fluids" went over my head because at the time I had not yet heard about Joseph McCarthy using that phrase. The other two lines I am pretty sure I...
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  Can you mention some jokes which are really obvious to us, but went completely over her head?...
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  "Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder." ...is a pithy slogan which is absolutely, 100% false. No civilization in history ever "died by suicide". Civilizations transform, not die. Historians consider 476 AD to be the end of Western Roman Empire,...
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  ...aside from the black mold and opportunistic slave-takers and broken glass... then there's the endless blackness of a human made cave Almost all malls in US have a lot of skylights, so they are not all that dark even without...
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  I am also pretty sure I read about this quite awhile ago, but no idea where. What you described is pretty similar to the setup in "Camelot 30K" by Robert Forward...
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  crucifixion was NOT a punishment for "theives", it was reserved for treason against Rome. Which means that the two "thieves" were rather Zealots (terrorists in that part of the world? Noooo....). So the "King of the Jews" suggests that he...
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  Would that be Moses as he likely was, or White Moses™ as portrayed by Charlton Heston in the film? According to the story, Moses spent half his life passing for an Egyptian (and believing himself to be an Egyptian), so...
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  an additional problem for the Democrats that their voters are inefficiently clustered in urban areas/i> Don't your electoral districts have the same population? Yes they do have the same population. The "additional problem" peteratjet was referring to is that...
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  Eternal youth? No, thank you. After you've lived through too many people close to you dying You are assuming that you are the only one who gets eternal youth. In any realistic scenario (inasmuch as eternal youth is realistic), if...
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  "in 1983 the notion of a nuke swap was too abstract for most folk" Yer wot? In 1948, possibly. After 1949, no. I find that a particularly odd comment to read on a site where the principal common interest is...
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  Rules: 1: You don't get to ban people from leaving your habitat. 2: No shooting at the neighbors. 3: There is no rule 3. That is, the whole thing got built so every godforsaken splinter group could have it's own...
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  After a couple of early attempts to grapple with them in the 70s (notably Ringworld by Niven and Orbitsville by Shaw) authors figured out that an actual fully-maintained ringworld civilization, never mind a Dyson shell, is simply too huge to...
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  One is Musk and other loathsome offspring of civilization setting their sights on creating a Dyson swarm in our system, following their normal cancer logic of unconstrained growth. If it's possible, some knucklehead is going to try to launch it,...
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  At one point I had a computer (I think it was Windows 1.0) with no hard drive and two floppy drives. They were labeled A: and B:...
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  I know perfectly well how to change a tire, having done it many times in my life. But... The last time I had a flat in my Camry[1] was several years ago, and the last time before that was about...
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  SpaceX starship made a soft landing in Indian Ocean. Next test flight, SpaceX will attempt an actual landing on the tower....
• Commented on Harmless Fun
  because shotting a deer out of season is a crime but harvesting road kill is not In some US states, maybe. In most states, it is illegal to harvest a roadkill out of season. In fact, AFAIK, even in-season you...
• Commented on Harmless Fun
  He had a standard test question about a cave ecosystem where cave crickets pooped, fungi ate the poop, and crickets ate the fungi. Do you happen to remember how exactly the question was phrased? A student might think "This...
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  my space battles, all two of them, are more like a game of Diplomacy: fire offensive weapons, fire off defensive drones, then wait for speed of light results. The best, or at least most poignant, space battle I had ever...
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  No, he can't vote in FL until the end of his sentence. Who cares about whether or not Trump can vote? The important question is, "Can he be on the ballot?" And as far as I know, the answer is...
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  candidates have run from prison for various political offices And at least once, won: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Michael_Curley...
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  There is another level of autonomy between your "semi-autonomous drones" and "fully autonomous drones": Human commander designates the targets and divides them by priority levels, then the drones themselves decide on the order of attack....
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  Have you memory-holed "Farnham's Freehold" already? I always thought "Farnham's Freehold" was a PARODY of white nationalism. Perhaps I was reading into it too much of what was not there....
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  I would go further than that. Trump's followers are not tolerating his sex scandals, they are embracing them. Have you seen the pictures of Trump rallies with women wearing "Trump can grab my pussy any time!" t-shirts? Sometimes with an...
• Commented on Harmless Fun
  I found the book’s philosophy utterly appalling, and it had very little to do with the Federation being fascist or oppressive. The overall celebration of humans’ continuous expansion means that sooner or later humans will take over every habitable planet...