Every commercial passenger plane has to have one on board, and by law has to make it available for inspection by passengers. A pal of mine likes to ring the flight attendant and ask them to please bring it to him for inspection, or show him where it's posted. on the plane. He makes a few cryptic notes off og it and thanks them. They treat him like he's radioactive for the rest of the flight.

In the late 80s. I interviewed at at place that was about to upgrade to the next version of VAX/VMS. Based on their description of the requirements for preparation, the paperwork produced would have outweighed the system by a factor of 3.

"It's like the worst of Perl, Ruby, and JavaScript had a drunk love child" I couldn't agree more. PowerShell constantly wants you to type commands like "DissAssemBle thecomplPicated Dictionary using ImpossibleSyntax". Fortunately for me, I got out of my Window job just as PowerShell was coming in. Haven't missed it a millisecond since.

Weill, not live humans, anyway...

...Soylent Green...

I agree. Wozniak was the real hero of the Apple story. And without Jobs, Wozniak would have still been a technical giant. Without Woz, Jobs would have been an insurance salesman or a self-help huckster. I've never understood the Cult of Jobs.

...this will be an unwatchable woke mess.

“Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by eactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. . . . The process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there's no reason or excuse for commiting thought-crime. It's merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won't be any need even for that. . . . Has it ever occcured to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?”

The most expensive place to get to in the solar system (starting form the Earth) is the Sun. It would be cheaper to yeet the socialists out of the solar system - a plan I would heartily support.

" Allied air supremacy meant they could not target the UK " Allied air supremacy was nowhere near sufficient to stop a single medium bomber from slipping in and targeting London.\

They should have done E. E.Smith's Lensman series. It would be a whole lot more filmable than the cerebral Foundation stories.

"protesting the lack of COVID vaccines" - yep, that's what they're protesting - the signs they are holding that say "Libertad" - that's obviously the Spanish word for vaccine.

Back then, building dome shaped buildings was a big thing. The dome building community was mostly folks concerned about the ecology. It was ironic that these folks, the same ones who spoke out about about plastics lasting for centuries, not breaking down and polluting the Earth, were at the same time crying how hard it was to find building materials for their domes that would last when exposed to the outdoors.

RSTS/e is for users. RSX is for hackers. RSTS/e had no internals documentation, no way to write device drives, and no way to change mode to kernel. RSX included internals source code, documented MACRO examples, and practically invited you to roll up your sleeves and get to work on the kernel.

Pretty soon, the cockpit crew will be a pilot and a dog. The dog's job is to bite the pilot if he tries to mess with the automatic controls.