If that private plane or jet is on final near my house and that low it's already going to be crashing in my fields.

That's what I'm trying to figure out here. What exactly were they expecting. This is like buying a scooter and complaining that it fits fewer people than a bus.

I don't know, how much excess radiation was absorbed by those bodies?

The supply of the taxi medallions has been restricted by regulation... regulations specifically lobbied for by the taxi companies. This is their own mess that they created, and a disrupting technology is ruining the business model they turned into law.

With regard to calling Uber parasitic rent seekers... Isn't that exactly what this medallion system created? A bunch of rent seeking?

They are building a large apt building near Conshohocken. The thing must be 5 stories tall but the whole damned thing went up with wood framing (at least it looked like it from I-76). I'd imagine that there are quite a few buildings like that which would have model like collapses if subjected to typical movie building trauma.

Exactly. Number 1 rule for any science fiction or fantasy story: Stick to the rules for your universe. Anyone can accept that magic works a certain way, what they can't accept is when your characters or your story forgets to behave within your rules.

I like to think of the wands as a bit like a resonant megaphone. The magic comes from the wizard, and the wands just amplify and focus what comes out.

Swish and flick the wrong way and you screw up the frequency with a magical Doppler effect.

True, but it puts the scale of the SLOC into perspective. I doubt IOS is significantly smaller than the Linux kernel.

A backdoor might be hard to hide, but a backdoor enabling flaw might not be. Just as with any problem, you don't always have to solve it in one go, you take "bite sized" pieces and solve them.

So you don't enable a backdoor, you just introduce a flaw which makes it easier to exploit another flaw downstream.

As long as humans are reproducing, humans are evolving. Even if it is evolving humans most adapted to pushing a button labeled "produce child" and having a robot nanny care for the child its entire life.

Pressures are not removed, they may change, but they are never removed until the last of a species dies.

Terrorist: "Hi, Bob's business freight courier service? I've got a lead on some test petroleum product I need shipped from the seller's address in Indiana to my office here in Fort Worth, TX. It's all packaged up and ready to ship. Just arrive at the loading dock and use the dock phone to call my number and I'll be down to accept delivery."

Petroleum product meaning standard fertilizer/petroleum mixture so favored for explosives. Office being the target building. And the number he calls from the dock phone will be a call to the trigger.

The point of this is to say that there are so many ways that this can be accomplished today, that it is kind of silly to worry about AVs when the potential exists in a billion different ways today. The key is to catch them before they are ready to call Bob's Courier Service. Once it reaches that level of maturity, from a counterterror perspective, you've failed.

Soldier: "Yes. We saw a family take refuge there after telling us about the guys on the ridge."

The lack of flexing on the display when I opened it was a big factor for me. Some of the laptops out there made me feel like I was going to put a crack in the display.

Ok, so I use a MacBook Pro for my laptop, but Thunderbolt peripherals are sorely lacking last I checked. Anything out there was expensive, or very niche. I'd much rather have 2+ USB ports on one side of my mac than my unused Thunderbolt ports.

The specs are great, but I can't use anything with it.