I don't see how eating my neighbor gets me parts for my Aibo - unless he has one, too.

I think you meant that "cannibalizing" (i.e., removing parts from other currently functional) Aibos might be the only way to get said parts - similar words, two VERY different meanings. Even so, functioning Aibos need not necessarily be cannibalized, as I'm sure there may be one or two broken Aibos lying about for parts, too.

I like to control how my music goes digital and when. That's why I only play my vinyl on my hipster turntable.

That's a great way to encourage investment. This company has spent tens of millions developing this technology. Sure, that pales into nothing compared to billions, but it's still a lot of money, and denying them any return from it is ridiculous. Also, the ISS is not the USSS. If the ISSP gets some of the money from this company, then great, and they probably have already paid them a chunk of cash.

...and this.

The ISS goes around the earth at something like 20 times the rate of the Earth's rotatiuon, so you couldn't really show the Earth rotating from the ISS, the natural rotation would be swamped. Someone else does that kind of thing, anyway.

You can particularly see it in the shape of the London Eye, the big wheel at the top of the London video.

So all boycotts are pointless, because no single individual is significant? Raindrops are really really tiny, yet floods happen.

Agreed. I will start taking notice of polls once more when they go back in the sidebar.

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> How many streaming music and video services does your preferred media player support?

One. It streams from my playlist. Only. Ever.

> And how can a new streaming music or video service arrange to be
> supported in your preferred media player?

Streaming services can go jump in a lake. I listen to what *I* want
to listen to. If I wanted to hear random ear-punishing junk somebody
else picks without consulting me that doesn't match my tastes at all,
I could turn on a radio.

> Finally, how should a browser-based video game play its music
> and sound effects?

A) I can't think of any reason for a video game to be browser based.
B) When I do play games that have sound and music, I normally
        turn the game's sound and music off so I can listen to what *I*
        want to listen to, which is generally much better than listening
        to video game music.

The aliens are just a plot twist. Even with aliens, the story has been, is, and, until we decide otherwise, will be "us against us".

I thought we weren't talking about the third world...

You forgot the Kiwis (Haven't they been absorbed into Aussieland yet!?). But yeah, I think that post got the other five countries in the world.

If you had six months and still couldn't pick up the "jargon" and "stuff outside my field", the trouble may be you (or you worked in a company full of assholes).

I've worked in various knowledge domains - security, medical systems, banking systems, electronic design automation, have only been formally trained in one of them, and needed to come up to speed with them to become effective in my job. I found I could become productive in most jobs within a month and came to be known as the computer guy with the most domain expertise within a year in each case. I did it by asking questions and listening - not only of people who were training, but the SMEs that worked at these organizations. But then I like domain swapping because I get bored easily.

It would be almost impossible to prove murder. The best you might get is negligent homicide, but even that's a tough sell. It's hard tying a direct causal line between non-vaccination and death, when so many other non-vaccinated children do not die. Yeah, from a medical point of view, it's negligence. From a legal viewpoint? Whole 'nother can o'worms.