Next, you'll tell us that part of that money goes to the state to cover shipping taxes, even though the customer paid nothing for shipping. Pshah.

It will me MUCH longer for these autonomous trucks to show up on public highways than private quarries and oil fields with no humans within a mile.

Yup, just reinstalled T2 and updated to 1.19, and albeit wide screen and high res, it does show its age. But Thief 3, albeit very pretty, was not as difficult. So Dark Mod might bridge that gap.

I gotta wonder what kind of shit Pope Jon Paul II was up to...

Weren't mod chips made illegal a few years back? IE: even possessing them? I wouldn't be surprised if mere possession is a crime.

My liberal educators taught me that the ends don't justify the means. You can't be for killing one species of animal, and against killing another.

The pun is not intended, as the return trip for these craft is hauling away trash.

But it seems that these pods don't have any ceramic coating, so they completely disintegrate on reentry. That's a lot of precious metals and computing equipment to just throw away every time you fly up. Last I heard, there was a lot of pressure on precious metals mining, most of which is in China, who already are tightening the screws on pricing for foreigners.

Call 911. If you are pushed off the road, I suppose the most you can do is crack your window and ask them to hand you their badges. Then file a complaint.

You have the right to drive to the nearest police station, you don't have to pull over right then and there on the side of the road. As such, they cannot count it as fleeing. That is in response to fake cops pulling people over and robbing them, or worse.

And you can ignore most such tickets.

People do all kinds of dangerous stuff without "real" justification. Taking a drive nowhere in particular, paragliding, skydiving, scubadiving. We do things that entertain us, that thrill us. Some of the most fun I had was riding my bike against traffic in NYC.

I think this Darwin award business here is a bit poor in taste. And I wonder whether you'll think any less of yourself the next time you do anything even remotely dangerous.

The 'o' must have been from a language character encoding the reader doesn't support. I'd see weird chars replace half the letters of a Polish newspaper source I'd download using Calibre.

That sucks. I had 2 Sony readers. The PRS-505 would reset itself if it came across errors in an ePub. Hadn't had similar issues on the PRS-650. Figured they took care of it.

How is ePub support finicky? Sony has been in the ePub business for probably a decade now. Cant imagine they didn't have the format straightened out.

I have 4 ThinkPads, and wish you hadn't used 'racism', as it negates most of what you said. There's lots of hacking going on from China, targeting Boeing and Lockheed Martin. And most wouldn't put it past their government to do what's "necessary" to catch up to the west, and the Chinese government has lots of control over their corporations. So it isn't outlandish to be concerned about the hardware placed in sensitive areas.

I think it's more of a boogyman and fearmongering to start calling people/nations racist.