Upon sentencing, Lachwani turned his head all the way around and told the judge "Your mother sews socks that smell!"

Have you ever signed up for cable or even some streaming? They quote one price and tell you all the amazing things it includes. But the bill is higher and includes special fees for some of the things that were touted to be included in the advertised price.

I see no requirement for a GLOBAL rest frame. Ships push against the water all the time, but ocean water is not a global rest frame.

Wild imagination alert here. Imagine a "dark magnet" that could push against dark matter permeating space. Now the whole thing reduces to either a propeller in the water or an electrodynamic tether. Of course, it's not going to be producing one newton per watt.

You're missing the point. Any decent engineer KNOWS that fiber cuts happen. Whether they should or should not is irrelevant, they happen all the time. Having a state's 911 service depending on a single cable not being damaged is piss poor engineering at best.

Side note, always keep a short length of fiber with you. If you get lost or stranded, bury the length of fiber in the ground. When the backhoe shows up to break it, ask the operator for a lift into town.

We really need the cloud to butt extension more than ever.

Look up Starfish Prime. A nuclear test at an altitude of 250 miles. It caused some unexpected EMP damage in Hawaii, 900 miles away.

Checking out in a power failure has only gotten harder over time. Now it's well beyond just having someone who can do arithmetic. None of the prices are actually on the items so without the scanner and the POS looking it up in a database the cashier has no way to know the price other than have someone go look at the shelf (assuming they can FIND the correct price there). Once it's all totaled up (perhaps an hour or 2 later), there's no way to accept a card payment. If the power outage is generalized, the customer can't get the cash either even if they have plenty in the bank. In some areas, even knowing the different tax rates on different classes of items would be an issue (school supplies vs. staple goods vs. 'luxury' goods).

At least the equipment that would be fried on the local distribution side is easy to come by. The transformers that would need a rebuild on the distribution side would have to be rebuilt since there are no spares. There's also nobody prepared to do such a rebuild in the U.S. currently.

If Congress is REALLY worried about any sort of strategic resiliency, that needs to be addressed. There should be spares and on-shore capability to manufacture and re-manufacture that equipment.

So what makes you sure there is nothing reacted against in a different propellantless drive? Even if you don't know what it is.

Again, not that I think the drive in TFA is going to actually produce thrust.

Now run the numbers for an electric motor where the rotor is a satellite with an electromagnet and the stator is the Earth.

Note carefully that I am not claiming the propellantless drive in TFA actually does anything but get warm (if that), just that a theoretical propellantless drive need not intrinsically violate thermodynamics.

The next issue is on the American corporate side. More and more people are noticing the ludicrously low prices of things if they buy direct from china and wondering why the same thing made in the same place by the same people costs so much more when bought from a U.S. company.

Not barge in, tell the company to fix it or they put out a press release denouncing the company and it's executives by name as a threat to national security.

Alas, no. Apple's users in China are getting the ones having to taste the medicine.

Credentialism doesn't help. At one time, those with the right kind of mind tended to learn on a C64, Atari, or perhaps an Apple][ and then got a job. Before that, interested people took an aptitude test and got on the job training.

Now HR is all about the degree and some keywords.

First, you failed to fuck off. Try again.

Not going to happen.

Second... "They did quit first. They staged a sit in in an executive office with full knowledge that it'd likely result in their termination, and potentially worse." ...You're a complete moron, aren't you?

They quit. They knew quite well they were quitting. If how they quit hurt your feelings, I'm sure that they'd be happy to tell you to "fuck off" too.

Here's a fuck off from me for the hell of it. I don't expect you to actually comply, so come at me, bro.