Indeed, they can! They can install a back-up generator.

Which will cost how much? And how often will it be used? And, of course, you're burning the thing you're trying to sell.

Hm. Considering the profit margins of gas stations are pretty low (that's why they became convenience stores that sell gas), I'd say there aren't too many that have these back-up generators. So if the power goes out, you might have to go to the one or two that do have backup generators. Hope you have enough gas to do that (and don't mind waiting in a long line with all the other people).

You are aware that gas pumps run on electricity, right?

It's also a lot easier to generate your own electricity than it is to refine your own gasoline.

Oh, please.

This one made me laugh...

I love my stick-shift, but I'll admit that I hate stopping on a hill. One thing I used to do when I was driving a stick-shift with no hand-brake (Jeep Wrangler) is when a car came up behind me, I would start to roll back towards them. They'd usually come to a stop pretty quickly. The problem was that I'd move back to where I was and the idiot behind me wouldn't get the hint and pull right up behind.

That said, my 2020 Mazda MX-5 actually has a sensor that figures out it's on a hill so when I release the brake, it will hold the car there for a couple of seconds while I step on the gas. I chuckle about it because when I took it for a test drive, I used the hand-brake on a hill and the salesman never corrected me. I discovered it myself when on a steep hill and the light changed before I could engage the hand-brake. "Why am I not rolling backwards?"

Same with the Tesla Roadster.

I gotta admit, I've been curious about this...

If I run out of gas, I can call AAA or someone to come over and they'll give me some gas--at least enough to get to the nearest gas station. Is there such a thing for EVs?

Maybe I'm missing something. I wasn't aware that Steam or Apple were marketing anyone's product. They were providing a virtual space for you to do it.

I'm not sure that's entirely accurate.

There used to be a group external to Apple called APDA (Apple Programmers/Developers Association) which actually published the "Phone Book" version of "Inside Macintosh" because Apple wouldn't do so in such a cheap manner so it was taking forever to get API documentation out. I believe Guy Kawasaki talks about this in "The Macintosh Way."

I'll admit, I wonder if this is still going on...

Back in the mid-1990s, I had an apartment where they had their own antenna/satellite dish. So you plugged your TV into the antenna and got broadcast TV. Give the landlord an extra $20 and you got Showtime & The Movie Channel via the satellite dish.

"She ought to dump that pink chimp and go out with a real mammal"

While I agree, I'll admit that there isn't necessarily a day where you can say, "Oh, today is collaboration day." Some of what happens is serendipitous. Having everyone together improves the chances of this kind of collaboration.

A company I worked for used to have quarterly "Big Room Planning" sessions where everyone came in and planned the quarterly work. A bi-product of this was getting a bunch of smart people together to discuss things in-person. Sometimes interesting ideas came out. Sometimes they didn't. But I think it was definitely more effective than doing all of this in Zoom meetings.

I've always heard them referred ro as PTO (Paid Time Off)...

The concept is that you don't have, say, 2 weeks of "Vacation" and 1 week of "Sick Days", you get 3 weeks of PTO. You manage it yourself. It's nice because if the powder up at Mammoth is awesome, you can call in and say, "I'm taking a PTO day!" rather than calling in and saying, "I'm *cough* *cough* really sick today..." You also don't get into the whole, "I need a sick day because my kid is sick."

Most companies will also let you accumulate PTO whereas companies with "vacation" and "sick days" don't usually let you accumulate "sick days."

Actually, the description made me think of OpenDoc.

Trust me, this existed long before YouTube/Social Media. I know plenty of people who moved to New York or Hollywood to become famous--not necessarily to become actors or dancers or whatever. That's what they wanted to be--famous. Acting and performing were the means to an end.