Then why did you keep watching them? I've seen each of the original three once and have no desire to watch them again. I don't find them that good. I last at most 10 minutes into Episode 1 when it was on TV.

In the first Han is the father but in the reboot the writer has the tachyon field reversed so Jar Jar is the father.

The article talked about having units in Camp Bastion which was in a war zone and was a camp that could hold 28,000 people. It handled the logistics for Afghanistan and was a major staging area. They would have needed a lot of computing power there to manage logistics, telecommunications, aircraft control, running a city, in addition to planning military operations.

Before the original commenter took the machine in they should have made a proper backup in order to save their data. I've had a hard drive replaced by Apple and they specifically state, and have you sign an agreement beforehand, that they don't back up and restore your hard drive for you. Not having a backup of your computer isn't Apple's fault, especially since they make it very easy for you to do so. You should always expect that your computer is going to fail.

Greece has every business being in the EU. Greece and the rest of the southern countries should never have been part of the Euro. If anything there should have been two "Euros" created. One for the more powerful economies that tend to be in the northwest of Europe (France, Germany) and one for the other countries that are in the current Euro. The problem with the Euro that exists right now is that countries such as Greece and Portugal have been able to borrow at more favourable rates as they are in the same economic zone as France and Germany. Being in the EU together has no impact. If there were two distinct "Euros" then Greece and similar countries could not have borrowed so much because as they borrowed more their "Euro light" would have depreciated making the cost of borrowing more expensive. It was a mistake to group such differing economies together in the first place.

The first time I used AIX the administrator had installed it without the man pages! That was painful. How do you install a UNIX system without man pages? Mind you the other developers on my team wanted to run a shell script, as a child process, to set up all of the environment variables and they wouldn't believe me when I told them it wouldn't work. I didn't stay there long.

I was wondering if cable subscriptions would be impacted by this (or were they already hit by the sales tax?). The article states "expanded its amusement tax to include amusements such as TV shows, movies, videos, music and online games, if they are delivered by electronic means to customers in the city". Since most cable subscriptions are digital now it would seem that they should be included in this. It would be weird (though not unexpected for a law to have unforeseen consequences) to have something like HBO not taxed when part of a cable subscription but taxed when streamed through the Internet even when it's basically the same thing.

You are trading off a shutdown to fix a pump versus a meltdown. The trade-off is a short controlled shutdown, a quick fix, and a fairly quick start-up which is probably measured in days to a week versus an emergency shutdown because your pump failed which means that your reactor is offline for a number of weeks at a minimum. The chance of a meltdown due to a single pump failing is infinitesimally small (though if the other employees are like you then the risk of an incident increases greatly).

The ISS has a mass of approximately 417,000 kg and it's made of comparatively light materials when you are talking about building something out of 1" steel. And that is only made for six people living in a pretty cramped lifestyle. Do you really expect a human colony to exist of just six people and live in basically a large submarine? The population size is going to be a lot larger and they are going to need a lot more space. Every person is going to need their own space. Take a look at what each astronaut has on the ISS, especially when there is gravity they won't be sleeping "standing up". Then you are going to need communal areas, kitchens, medical areas, and so on. Not every space will be dedicated to work. Plus a colony will probably have children at some point so you need that whole infrastructure too. Plus the ISS doesn't even have space for growing food.

Maybe it would take too long to reacquire everything that were tracking when you jump from view to view versus when you physically turn your head. I don't know if this is the case or not. You still have to re-orientate yourself either way but maybe we're wired to do more efficiently one way. It's possible that the brain can be doing the tracking while we're turning our head so the effect isn't as bad. I'm just guessing. But considering the amount of money they put into the project I would hope that they thought of doing something like putting a view of the back on the visor.

Hey, they are building it just like every Agile software development project I've seen done.

You wanted a plane, okay, here you go!
Oh, you wanted it to fly. We'll get back to you in a couple of years. ...
Here's your flying plane. What? It needs stealth?
Be right back. We'll need more money. ...
Right. We've got your stealth flying plane.
STOVL? I'm sure you didn't mention that before. That's gonna cost a LOT extra. ... (5 years later)
Voila! Two models. Normal and STOVL. Both fly and with stealth.
Missiles? Where are we gonna put those? We'll have to get back to you about that. ...
Okay, we figured out how to put a couple missiles on and keep it stealthy. That's all right?
Supersonic!?!? ...

It's not going to solve the problem that the plane itself is physically unable to fly the moves required in a dogfight. The pilot isn't the limiting factor.

Maybe they could just ask the enemy to fly to a better altitude before starting the dogfight?

No, the parent is so involved that they built a time machine to identify when their child's teacher had a problem in school and went back in time to fix the problem so that they could become a great teacher for their own child to excel!

The Russians have floating nuclear power stations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...