Linda Boreman, iirc, learned about Ada Lovelace in a computer class she was taking prior to becoming a porn star.

Another solution to add to that list of several likely solutions: Eveyone will need a really good compass.

And, it'll most likely be something like that as an iPhone app.

Congratulations citizen; you have at last achieved a victory over yourself and will begin to realize that all is well now.

Perhaps even the non-developers — the Yahoo! Yodeler, Wylie Gustafson is one that comes to mind from over a decade ago.

Google does have crap-loads of servers worldwide, localized into 7 different regions, 2 in North America; an eight region was recently activated during the last year or so. IIRC, the regionalization allows the data centers as a whole to never experience a sunset; also, the data itself being redundant, is optimized locally to minimize delays.

This is awesome vindication from a personal perspective. I've been an active, card carrying member of both the NRA and the ACLU for more than a decade and could never quite understand how most members of each organization could dislike each other so much. Although I never went out of the way to keep it a secret from either side, I had a tendency to avoid conflict with members when they would express their blanket dislike of the other organization — due to when it was known, I would get what I felt was undeserved hostility.

Occasionally I regret not taking a stronger stand and being a little more outspoken about my position, especially in light of recent events.

That's probably a decent description of his present state of mind, considering he also supports the idea in his original business card in a succinctly summarized but less eloquent form. Funnier then when it was without any hindsight about the ramifications.

The guy should give his original works a little more respect. It was a simple story, impressively told. Although the special effects (if any at all) were limited to analog tricks, the unique production — excellent for its time — would still work today. If he felt it was outdated, a remake or a sequel to THX's story would have been the preferably better route.

Freshening up his films with CGI, seems to imply an easy way to get more money with little effort; showing a lack of interest, perhaps laziness, with making any more new movies.

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Is this a worthy comparison? An alternative remembrance, THX 1138 being interrogated; also, the main focus of its movie's poster.

2^0 + 2^1 + 2^1 + 2^3 + 2^3 + 2^1 + 2^3 = 2^5 - 1

Being low may not always be indicative of being better.

However, there are factors making the global warming thing go in the opposite direction. Fwiw, 15% of California's electricity is generated by hydroelectric plants. A legend showing all of the operational plants in California makes it easier to see what might happen if they stop producing power — the oil powered plants will compensate for the loss by kicking in with extra output. This is what happened during the Enron fiasco 12 years ago when the State experimented with private sector market pricing.

Apparently the land down under was actually meant to be a direct reference to Hell itself — Australia: occasionally strange and subtly bad-ass.

It's more likely that some, perhaps a lot of these fires, including this one, are arson — initially started by people directly or indirectly related to fire departments:

California Arsons by Firefighters
Firefighter Arsons
Percentage of Arsons by Firefighters

Putting constructive criticism aside ... even one, is one too many.

The purpose in the first part of my reply was to express that I was not oblivious to and in agreement with the point being made in the question's intent posed by the parent comment. It had nothing to do with the improperly used sophomoric indignation done by some people to counter an idea they disliked. I've rarely used the word with others, perhaps at most 3 or 4 different times in my life; once in writing — the one (properly used) in the previous comment — and the rest verbally (and improperly used) as a way to "diplomatically" challenge a stranger or the police checking me out with a fake question. Regardless of the meaning's accuracy, this is what it was supposed to have meant.

This seemed to be a polite way to segue into the remaining part of my comment: opining about trust being relative to how much risk is involved on what's being gambled. The idea of the phrase, represented as a sound bite, has been around for a long time and used by a lot of people with differing political views; it's originally attributed to the Russian people. I'd forgotten it had been used by Reagan as a slogan (he didn't dream up) when dealing with the Soviet Union. There wasn't any intent meant on my part to support the idea by identifying it with Reagan, then subsequently getting side-tracked with debatable qualities of unrelated issues about his Presidential accomplishments.

In hindsight, it would have been better to have replaced the unsuspected "loaded" terminology done to shorten writing time in my previous comment with a type of definition that's personalized as a descriptive phrase. It may or may not work. However, since it's something I'll consider from now on, perhaps I'll find out then, when there's a next time with similar conditions. (Fwiw, I know this is a standalone reply, since an AC doesn't get an email notification. The clarification is done to avoid the slim possibility of getting improperly tagged with inaccurate spin. It's also possible the AC is the parent comment, but making that assumption and replying to it instead would create ... problems.)

Knowing when it was created improves reading comprehension about the writer's point of view.

Since this distraction has been happening a lot more often during the past decade, is it time to consider another legal word to distinguish between the author's first date of creation of an original work and the date of financial ownership — presently, a more accurate definition of copyright.