>How do you arrest someone in absentia ?

"You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means."

>Come on now, EMacs doesn't deserve to be slandered by being associated with Systemd

I dunno.

Have *you* ever seen emacs and systemd in the same room?

clearly they're the same, just with two names depending upon the audience . . .

and just as I'd grudgingly even accepted sudo itself!

>when I watch train webcams

uhm . . . is there a lack of paint drying in your neighborhood?

of course, the simple amazon account which doesn't require prime is also 5% back . . .

Nah, it's for the knockoff with a mail-order law egerree, Rube Gader Ginsburg . . .

I, for one, support the ban of nuyde apps.

Naked apps running around flaunting their bits are just gross!

Put an interface on, for crying out loud. Think of the children!

hawk

blocking enough of google's trackers also seems to trigger this.

one would *think* that after the first couple offices you killed them, the police would catch on . . . but then, I suppose they're sill stuck on the captcha . . .

>Once passengers have arrived at the train station somewhere in
>Nevada & found their way to Las Vegas,

Once upon a time, the railway station in Las Vegas was downtown.

Or to put it better, Las Vegas grew *from* the station.

The old classic shots you see of Fremont street were taken from entrance of the Union Plaza--the hotel eventually built on the railway property.

You actually accessed the station *through* the casino.

I took Amtrak from it to Iowa once. The oddities of accessing central Iowa by air at the time meant an overnight stay/airport sleep! So taking the train meant leaving at about the same time as for the airport.

I'm sure it makes sense to *someone* to not simply join up with the existing track and stop there again, but . . .

Speaking as a local the monorail was insanity from the start.

At the time, the taxi companies still had the "juice" (as it's termed here) to block it from going to the airport, which would have been part of any sane plan.

AFAIK, its only sane feature was meeting the requirement that the cost of demolition be escrowed.

In its bankruptcy a decade or so ago, Judge Markell actually rejected the agreed reorganization--something quite rare. He pointed out that, in spite of the agreement,
a) the court had an independent duty to review, and
b) one of the requirements for confirming a plan being that it wasn't likely to need another bankruptcy--and that this one pretty much locked in another one down the road.

Extending it *might* make sense; I don't know the current economics. But if so, it should go to the airport, downtown, and the nearby stadiums--or don't bother.

And if we're going ahead with tunnels (a big question itself), the monorail would be redundant, anyway.

hack came out in '82, and nethack was a fork a few years later.

It is still in active development, despite the netcraftian rumors some time back.

And still the only game that *matters* . . .

hawk

>And then of course, there's the whole matter of your car often being
>on the road or parked somewhere else when other people in the
>house might need it to be parked in your garage.

But this is about California, where the obvious solution is to raise revenue by requiring advance purchase of a permit to remove the car from your garage!

>followed by sci-fi itself which generally revolves around some
>Earth/Solar System/Universe threat which only one man (it's almost
>always a man) can solve.

That would generally be "space opera".

There are notable space opera protagonists who are at least nominally female: Weber's Honor Harrington (probably the most successful modern series in the subgenera), Moone's Kyla Vatta, Shepherd's Kris Longknife.

Of those, the first two could pretty much flip the sex of pretty much every character except Harrington's pregnant mother with no real rewriting, while the latter might be an exhibit for why male author's *shouldn't* try to write actually female characters.

Then again, there bulk of SF male protagonists aren't male in any more than name, so . . .

hawk

note that the pendulum has swung back.

Note, for example, the 2000 Morrison case, in which the USSC choked on the notion that a violent act a woman was inherently intra-state act.

While the overreach of the Commerce Clause still needs to be reined in, it doesn't (over) extend nearly as far as it used to.

hawk, esq.