No. I live on the back side of a mountain from the nearest broadcasting station.

I think everything's more fun in person, too. Otherwise known as the baseball phenomenon.

Now if they could just put it on Netflix or Amazon Prime, I might actually try to watch an episode. People keep telling me I'd like it but I can't currently get it.

I'm reminded of one of my old physics profs who tripped over a trash can frequently, and apologized to it every time.

Ironically, the batteries weigh 40kg, and cannot be lifted by robots or humans.

(I know, 40kg isn't actually unliftable by humans.)

I thought everyone on Slashdot knew Perl.

Something about resistance is futile, right? Or is that Borg's law?

I sure hope your answer was, "What the hell are you talking about? I see the moon during the day all the time."

Oh, yeah, I'm not arguing that. You'd think given a few millennia someone would try something besides rock and feather, or any other light object with significant air resistance. It's mystifying how religiously they took Aristotle on all subjects, by the way, not just gravity. Nearly everything wrong with science for the next thousand years can be attributed to him, or a misinterpretation of him.

Math, according to my possibly faulty: Aristotle tutored Alexander the Great, who peaked around 320s BC. The Macedonian era was either the last gasp of Greek superiority or by some accounts post-Greek. Rome was already on the rise, and soon to eclipse it. Greek history definitely goes back another thousand years before that or more, though by 1600 BC I think you're deep into the realm of Homer already.

I'd like to fact-check the number of years between Aristotle and Galileo. That one is off by about 1000 years, says my memory.

And then they bill you $200 for the visit to the address they have no rights to modify.
Possibly they go ahead and break your existing equipment, too.

I wish I could get this. When my local (Charter) calls me, it's always an up-charge of $40 or more. Of course they want to sell me phone AND TV, and pretend like it's such a great deal because, if I pay $40 for the TV, the phone is basically free. I don't want the phone, and I don't want TV for $40. I'd gladly take it for $5, though. No amount of fishing around has gotten me that offer, though.

Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.

Because if the phone I currently have seems okay for a year and then turns into a nonfunctional piece of junk, I'm not very likely to buy another one next time?

I used to think I wanted to own everything. Then I moved 20 boxes of books 9 times in 11 years, half of the time not even bothering to unpack. I eventually realized while I've got several hundred books that I value and revisit (good stories, reference, push on my kids when they're old enough, whatever), there's a large majority I'm happy to read once and not again, and also very happy not to have to store/organize/move.