Sounds like you use tarot readings as a more-fun therapy session: reflecting on what's going on in your life, where you'd like to head, and what to do about it. As long as you treat it more like a campy discussion & less like mystical powers, you're in good shape.

Exactly - that's why there have never been any suicide bombers, and why no one has ever shot at armed police or troops.

People desperate to take or keep power sometimes do desperate things.

MAD relies on everyone potentially in charge of nuclear missiles to be rational.

These 2 things are slightly incompatible. MAD has held up surprisingly well, but as the landscape changes from US-vs-USSR to multiple players, it gets messier.

Just build Titanic III at the same time, and have it cruise alongside empty.

If Titanic II starts sinking, leave the buffet, grab your luggage, stroll across the walkway to Titanic III, find your cabin (you'll keep the same cabin number) and Bob's your uncle.

With a title of "How Much Stuff Can Timothy Jam Into His New Hoodie's Pockets? (Video)" you'd think most people would not expect a serious review...

I love the complaint about the video just being Timothy stuffing things in his pockets for 40 seconds. That's pretty much what I expected based on the title alone!

Nobody's stopping you!

You can go ahead and start working a 32-hour week; most likely, you'll make roughly 80% of a 40-hour week's pay. Might be hard to arrange, as most jobs include benefits, hard to break those down to 80% but some minor negotiation should get you there. Most people would rather get 5-days pay per week than 4-days. Many folks work overtime, more hours for more compensation. But not everyone; there are "part-time" jobs out there, and self-employed folks can set their own weekly max-hours.

Or as happened repeatedly with a former boss:

Rush out a data CD for him to test, he tests it during lunch & it's unreadable...

Look for scratches on the bottom side, take it ito the men's room to wash off the peanut butter & jelly he'd gotten on it while eating, gently wipe dry & have him try it again. Deliver a stern lecture on the proper handling of CDs containing the master copy of the company's chemistry databases.

While I agree with you about 0.015" being enough for many hobbyists... that's only 1/64" not very finely specced.

There are plenty of items with tolerances in a few thousandths, a fair amount down to tenths (ten-thousandths), and my father (a tool & die maker) occasionally worked on projects with even tighter tolerances. I don't know what "aerospace" parts you're referring too, but heck - in my high school shop class, I had to do lathe work to diameters within .001" to pass. If you're milling a positioning notch or locating a hole for a bearing/shaft, you'd better be tighter than 0.015"

My neighbor's dog must be advanced, he has a default level of response:

Sensory Input / Response

Nothing is Happening / Bark continuously!

Who said anything about a network protocol?

A "data diode" receiver just needs to monitor an optical sensor, which could be pulsed at a fixed clock rate to provide a baseline. Monitor the on/off/brightness-level of your optical sensor, you can then write the output to a file. No need for a 2-way protocol.

An example demonstrates the practicality of this:

Timex DataLink watch: early models fed data to the watch by flashing bars of light on your monitor, while holding the watch's optical sensor in front of the monitor. No feedback from the watch back to the PC.

I'm also sure there are some folks at NASA who would suggest you can pull useful data from a received signal.

Come to think of it, the closed-captioning info in a TV signal is a one-way data transmission...

TFA points out that NONE of the crabs of that type are eaten: they are all too small too eat, so they're all thrown back, regardless of their resemblance to a face. So their is no evolutionary pressure based on their looks.

Even better would be not rendering animations in non-visible tabs...

Find some back issues of Mother Earth News - they've been running articles on folks doing all sorts of low-cost houses for decades. They have books / plans available, info on insulation / solar heat and power / etc.

Lots of good stuff.

re the "Assault Laser Restriction Act of 2015"

This will ban lasers painted in camouflage colors (forest, desert AND arctic), lasers with connectors for a shoulder sling, lasers over 36" long (and ironically, sawed-off lasers under 18" in length). Also, the sale of military-style "high-capacity" batteries will be restricted to military and law-enforcement only.

More like: "I do not like the state spending money on funding new private commercial enterprises that traditionally lose money. They should be spending it on maintaining existing state-owned properties, held in trust by the state for its residents."

Thought experiment about cars: if the goal is increased mileage, which would be more effective back in the 1970s:

(a) Federal government sets fleet efficiency standards for manufacturers to meet & defines a standard measuring process

(b) Federal government mandates all new cars have 1-barrel carburetors