Are you talking about a television show, or real life?

I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or serious. But tape is no where near dead as backup media for business. Very few people used tape for home backup. Spinning disks are still in most homes. I don't think spinning disks will be anywhere close to to being as "scarce" as tape is today. For cheap massive online storage, it's still pretty hard to beat. For streaming video, it's a fantastic solution. And with the way resolution for video is going, spinning disks are perfect.

I have a mix of SSD and spinning disks. I probably have around 50TB of spinning disks for video, music, pictures and documents. I also have 7 external spinning disks for backup. I'd be very surprised if this will change much in the next ten years. Unless some new terabyte plus writable bluray replacement comes along, or prices on SSD take a huge nosedive.

I don't have a smoothie in hand, but I often times drop off my wife at the front door and then park the car. Usually my daughter gets her a wheelchair while I'm parking. Or I get it for her after parking. I usually park somewhere else if there is a close spot. But I don't worry about it in bad weather, or on the off chance she may want to try to get to the car when we leave the store.

But, yeah I know what you're talking about. I see people park there all the time for no good reason. Hell, most of the people that have handicapped tags or placards don't have any reason to get them. I think some doctors just give them out to people if they live to a certain age. Back when my wife was still able to walk from the parking lot to the front door, most people that parked in those spaces looked like they were sprinting compared to her. Because my wife has MS, I never park in the handicapped spots when she's not with me. I know how miserable it is for her to get around, so I'd hate to cause any additional problems for anyone else who may need to park there.

That must be what caused that WHOOSH.

I've been in the marine reef keeping hobby for several decades, though I haven't had a tank set up in some time. I've kept this species for many years. They are call "electric flame scallops" in the hobby. Even though they are clams and not scallops. But I have to wonder who these researchers are to have just discovered that they do not actually produce light. I've known for at least 20 years that these clams produce this effect by moving parts of their mantle to expose a bluish white streaks under the reddish-orange part.

"You can't believe everything you read on the internet"

-Abraham Lincoln

Um, no. You aren't going to copy it from one vinyl record to another vinyl record. Nor are you going to copy it from cassette tape to cassette tape, like the old days. It will go from vinyl to digital . There will be no further degradation from one digital copy to another after that, unless more compression is used.

If you have new record, a decent turntable and stylus, feeding a good AD converter and something like Cool Edit. You're going to get a pretty good sounding digital file. Certainly no worse than 128 bit MP3's

I hear that's the average 911 response time in some areas of Detroit these days.

It was also originally much more complicated than what was released as Monopoly.

Agreed. Though I still reminisce about the times prior to John Walker when we had an attack sub trailing almost every Soviet sub.

Very true. But I would guess that if the US gets into a shooting war with Russia P-8's will be dropping active sonobuoys all over the place.

Unless the Sea Wolf and Virginia class attack subs manage to take out every Russian sub right away. Or happen to be in the area and are already tracking them.

That depends. The P-3 Orion, P-8 Poseidon use active sonar buoys. And when the MQ-4C Triton goes into service, the P-8 will focus more on sub hunting.