I always thought of pet as another kind of family immediate member besides "parents, children, grandparent, etc." Judging by grief upon death, they seem to be between grandparents and uncles/aunts in closeness for most people.

The 6502 was cost reduced inferior chip from the point of view of capabilities of architecture and instruction set compared to the Z-80. A science teacher and a few of us students formed a computer club. We sold boxes of "TV Time Popcorn" and bought a TRS-80 Model 1 and the assembler package. So I (and one other member) learned and only programmed in the Z-80 assembly, we couldn't be bothered with BASIC, though the other two members and teacher did mainly that.

Even taking absolute carbon numbers, the pets are two orders of magnitude smaller in contribution to carbon emissions than humans. In short, the study was made by morons of the highest caliber.

How funny, you're imagine the highlighted words in a treaty have the common meanings you imagine and so then exclude mining. No, law and especially treaties don't work that way. Mining is fine, actually been done already by a certain point of view.

Not over priced for the professional, what my employer pays for my MacBook pro is negligible compared to their cost for say my insurance or what I'm allowed to spend on training or for that matter the software...just doesn't matter

False, a simulation only *requires* exactly the information content being simulated or perhaps less in some cases, but it does not require 1 bit more

We could accelerate a craft to 5% C or more with existing fission tech. Such a craft would have to be unmanned though, the tech we have could not support nor protect humans for a century long trip

"Obamacare" (a modified Republican plan that gives more money to healthcare big players) is fiscally unsound being based on incorrect assumptions, and so it will collapse unless changed. Obama back pedalled on promise of robust public option so it is not in any way a step toward socialized medicine.

125 jobs doesn't seem enough to have an article or whine about what Trump did or didn't do. It's less than rounding error talking of national IT employment.

You imagine 125 jobs means anything at national level? You are a dullard.

A very few wealthy have governments in their pockets, and so for example we have corporate fascism as the form of government in the United States. It is a bad thing.

That is not the kind of place where most trucks dock. Only need to take care of the 80%

A trucker has to sleep. A self driving truck owned by a trucker can work all the time between servicing

Attic? It's on my bookshelf next to me, and 34 years old. Useful for several classes in college and every now and then since.

Emulator that had the performance of a 100Mhz Pentium, hilarious history