I wish I could give you a point for your comment but alas I have no points. However, you're right. The Oracle thing is interesting but it's clearly the equal pay issue that's caused this problem.

Why is this only happening now and not 10 years ago?

You need to properly understand the circumstnaces.

When PlanetExpress ship arrived at Roswell in 1947, it was already out of control. They couldn't avoid crashing. Now, the capture of Zoidberg was stupid as was Fry becoming his own grandfather.

I'm not sure you can afford not to. Given the current trajectory toward net zero, we're going to have a potentially uncomfortable planet to live on. If we don't have some kind of solution, we may well be looking at a situation where the planet can only support a much smaller population than exists. At some point we're going to have to look at trying to get CO2 levels closer to the pre-industrial values than they currently are.

This issue is a great example of why supply and demand shouldn't be the factor for determining price. All it needs is for the supplier to use the actual cost of providing the service, plus a reasonable profit.

Surely what they needed was redundancy. I don't just mean another controller but another mechanism for control. I can see that the controller would be a good choice for maneuvering but if they had a fallback that was less simple to use but at least could tell the sub to surface would be enough. Anything critical should have redundancy.

It's been changed several times. Originally it was Acorn Risk Machines.

I have a contract that pays for 4 devices. I do not why they have to be in the same household.

I wish I had the points to mod you up. I was also unimpressed by his attempt to game on linux. Luke seemed to take the whole challenge much more sensibly and was correspondingly far more successful.

You're totally right. This method of capturing CO2 into seawater is interesting but it's of no practical purpose. It needs resources and energy both of which will be in short supply. Better to not need it in the first place.

We need to get it applied automatically to all episodes of Battlestar Galactica and any film directed by Christopher Nolan.

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The UK does count. It left the EU, not Europe (although I do think there are some nutters who want to find a way to drag the UK away from the continent).

One thing worth noting is that the company who makes the lithography machines is European - ASML.

I am quite interested in a flip style phone but not a fold style phone, mainly because it just makes the phone a lot smaller. However, there's no way I'm prepared to pay the kind of money expected by Samsung (and I assume Google) for something like that. My current phone (OnePlus 6) is still more than good enough for my day to day. When I need a new phone, I'll check the market but doubt I'll be prepared to spend more than 500 quid on one. Phones have got ridiculously expensive. My original Galaxy S was around 200 quid and that's when it was new to the market. I really do think people are suckers for spending so much today.

I enjoyed the central conspiracy for the first few years but every time they added to it, I thought it got weaker and weaker. For me the best stories were standalone. My favorite was the one with the vampires.