If you are able to build this thing, look at linearbookscanner. This would be my preferred method of digitizing but to build it is above my ability :-(.

I have never seen this standard in my life. It may be a standard in your country but as worldwide standard this is a fantasy.

The only 3-prong electrical plugs I've seen are computer power-cable extensions. My standard cables for standard 230V have 2 prongs, possible with an additional slot for earthing.

more than a few scenes with subtitles are obnoxious because you can't really see the movie anymore if you are constantly reading the subtitles. The next thing is you can't relate the various speakers to their text, especially if there is a heated discussion with multiple people. To add insult to injury subtitles are mostly a severely condensed version of the spoken text because the average reader simply can't read with the same speed as hear the words.

It may be more a "realistic" (what ever this means within fiction ;)) story but it isn't a realistic story device.

I have read a few books where after a few paragraphs with translation of foreign language there was an explanation that for the convenience of the reader from this point on all was shown in the language of the reader. maybe this could be used in movies as well.

I cringe if a spaceship without propulsion is in danger of falling into a nearby star (or planet).

There are only 3 reasons to fall into a sun:
1) the course is already so
2) drag from friction with the outer heliosphere
3) application of the *missing* propulsion to counter the orbit velocity

Nearby a black hole are 2 more reasons:
4) at close distance there is no stable orbit
5) loss of energy by gravitation waves

If one of the two black hole options apply, the tidal force would transform the crew into reddish paste.

You have to understand the data-structure, how files, directories and commits are all content-addressable objects. The linkage of the commits by means of their id's must be understood.

To understand merging you should have used diff and patch a few times.

This is all.

With these few concepts anybody, who can write a program, should be able to understand git. To invent new use-cases or work-flows is another thing, but comprehending a given usage of git should be straight forward.

And to answer the original question: 3 short power-outages within 24 years.

Wooden houses are an anomaly in my country, there are TV-documentaries abort this curiosity. There are not many companies with expertise to build houses from other materials as brick or concrete.

Anytime I see in the news about an american huricane the splintered houses, I wonder why would anyone build such cheap houses?

easy

$ echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_chocolate

In my jurisdiction is altering data (stored or transmitted) without censent a felony. The action of Verizon is hacking and would here be punishable as such.

Obviously Pullman had no idea how to end the story and muddled together a scatterbrained final. Such disappointments happen far too often at the end of long story-lines, but HDM was exceptionally bad.

It's irrelevant what kind of people a law is targeted at. If you can't prove them guilty in proper style you have to let them go. If they (or the jury) are denied relevant information, they can't be prosecuted.

This asssumes you are living in a country with proper free government under the law. Apparently the USA doesn't qualify.

The results are skewed because the population of e-book vs paper-book readers is different. I hope the books I read won't be altered to match the apparent short attention span of e-book consumers.

If you want plot over sex don't buy erotica. Probably the plot of erotica is skipped to find more hot carnal sex :-)

Yes. Our data-structures are very pointer-heavy and thus not cache-friendly. The most critical hardware part of our servers is the cache.

The company I work for compiles almost all programms with 32 bits on x86-64 CPUs. It's not only cheap RAM usage, it's also expensive cache which is wasted with 64 pointer and 64 bit int. Since 3 GB is much more than our programms are using, x86-64 would be foolish. I'm eager waiting for a x32 SuSE version.