Low blood sugar is actually something perfectly natural, and most of us, even the fittest have enough fat stored to cope with it. If you start to need to monitor your blood sugar to be in a good mood, you really need to grow some skin...

Real nerds argue over WHICH first edition is the one edition. See: D&D nerds, music nerds.

No, no, if it sounds like something, it's homophonic.

Don't expect many people will be willing to pay for skipping the commercials, once they see how much extra it is. You can be certain that skipping commercials will cost you more than $20 extra, are you willing to pay even that?

Why do you think every website, from Facebook to Twitter to the crappy newspaper down the street, is trying to get a way to show video ads? It's because they make a lot of money off those things.

This, a million times over.

That's why we have systemD. /troll

It turns out that's not true, at least right now. Because predicting weather a day or two in advanced is an easily repeatable and testable situation, our models have gotten better and better.

Because it takes a decade or more to test the predictions of a climate model, the improvement cycle takes much longer. It takes a long time to even realize they are wrong.

Sounds like fluffery. "We can do anything; we're the best!"

Being clobbered by a rock is one of those low-probability-but-could-happen events, like suddenly having a new plague come at us from Africa. It behooves us to prepare for such things. Rock clobberings, on scales ranging from Chicxulub to Chelyabinsk, HAVE happened.

Water is one of a large class of substances that we would like to find in space for local use, rather than to send back. Any mining materials return operation will want to minimize human presence, but for maintainability that presence cannot be zero. Hence the need for life-maintaining consumables.

The important measure is not what the situation is, but where it's going. The easy surface minerals are gone, and as we dig deeper the minig gets exponentially more expensive at the same time as it runs into increasing environmental restrictions. When we consider how friendly space is to machines, a highly automated asteroidal mining operation could prove cheaper in the long run.

What we need to do next is assay a large sampling of asteroids for mineral content. Why not send out probes equipped with a single high-power laser: fly to a candidate asteroid and keep station near it for a few weeks while zapping as many places as possible with the laser. Spectral analysis of each zap point will tell us the surface composition. Repeat for as many asteroids as we can.

I think that's quite a different issue though. Being the neighborhood tthis kind of h head, I've had quite a few people ask me his to stop the government from spying on them. Even the masses to some extent worry about this. They distrust the government, and for pretty good reason based on how it's been behaving lately. Yet, stuff like passwords on their phones or encryption really only matter if someone has access to their device. People seem to trust others around them, and therefore don't worry about this threat. After all, in the average Joe's mind, a hacker attacks victims remotely, not by borrowing your computer and changing the password of their automatically logged in email, for example.

the bullshit is more costly than the hardware, apparently...