Some VOIP services I've used have much higher audio bandwidth than POTS. So much so, that the call has a disturbing quality to it. It feels like a telephone shouldn't sound that good.

Of course, right about the time I have that visceral reaction, packets start dropping and the person I'm talking to begins to sound obscenely time-dilated.

Be a pilot
Your phone rings
It's Boeing HR
"We'd like to hire you to test fly our new design!"
Schedule interview, end the call optimistic
Come to the realization that you've just been outed as merely average
Hello darkness my old friend....

Care to share the link to the official LineageOS images for Pixel 3? I haven't seen any available for download, the last 50 times I visited https://download.lineageos.org...
Not even snarking, you'll make my day if I'm wrong.

I meant that to say "100+ years ago in the U.S."

100+ years ago, "jay" was slang for an ignorantly foolish person. "Jaywalking" entered the vernacular due to public relations campaigns by automotive interest groups, that wanted the populace to accept stronger rights-of-way for vehicles on the road, rather than pedestrians on the road.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

... Hey slashdotters, I found the Wachowski sisters' /. handle!

Seriously, though. It was akin to pretending that episodes IV, V, and VI were the only Star Wars movies ever made. It's a cheeky way to express an opinion. If that's too nuanced for your comprehension, then you might have Asperger's.

AC was using feigned ignorance as critical commentary on the perceived unworthiness of the intervening titles.

Even more simpler-er: Disney owns the Star Wars franchise, so of course they will favor that one. (Also, not wanted to get sued by ST owners probably factors in as well.)

... How many years have you been on this Slashdot spamming campaign, now?
When you pick a lost cause, you really commit. My hat's off to you.

It's not arbitrary. Starting at approximately 100km, the speed at which an airfoil could generate enough lift for flight is greater than orbital velocity at that same altitude.

"Approximately", because it will vary based on conditions.

I got plenty. But seeing how I'm conversing with someone who objects[*] to small injections of humor[**] to a non-somber thread, there doesn't seem to be much point.

[*] Or at the least, was triggered by a good-natured jab at their favorite musical genre

[**] And yet, has a joke in their own sig

Wow, you completely neutered his joke before he could get any laughs! Good job.

Life exists in the service of entropy. We hasten it.

Sending frozen blastocysts out towards likely planets, to be incubated & mothered by robots upon successful arrival? That might work.

Sounds great, but I guaran-damn-tee that someone will twist it into something perverse and destructive. Like, "all consciousness is equal, but some are more equal than others."

At the very least, add something about not being racist, and overrunning available resources before sending out diaspora.