Of course your example has almost nothing to do with the BASIC that its creators created.

I think you misunderstand. I literally meant late in the year 1980 (the year that John was shot), not late in the 1980s.

I remember in late 1980, the dark joke going around was "What would it take to get the Beatles back together? Three more bullets."

Statically link that and see how much worse it becomes.

And what pray tell would you say that sponges are if not animals?

CSE[C] (Communications Security Establishment [Canada]) is the Canadian equivalent to NSA and has definitely be around longer than since 2001 though they may have changed their name. CSIS would be more like CIA.

While NSA, GCHQ and CSE are all responsible for foreign signals intelligence, the FSB is the Russian equivalent to the FBI while Russia's equivalent to NSA is FAPSI. More reasonable choices should be: NSA (USA), FAPSI (Russia), GCHQ (UK), The Technical Department (PRC), and CSE (Canada).

I totally agree. What kind of an idiot gives their passowrd to an administrator?

Can't have the U.S. back unless they amend their constitution. It currently prohibits the stationing of foriegn troops in the Philippines.

You mean like using 3D printing to make a titanium jaw?
83 Year-old Woman Gets Replacement 3D Printed Titanium Jaw

I don't know about you, but growing up the nearest that I was to school was 3 miles and it was typically around 30 miles.

They went digital then they switched from VHS to DVD.

The book _I, Robot_ was a collection of loosely related short stories or a single short. What connection there was between the movie and Asimov's writings were mostly from a single story in that collection, "Little Lost Robot". As far as good or bad, while most tend to agree that "Blade Runner" is a great movie, it has little to do with the novel _Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep_

I am not denying that there are far more than 24 time zones, just that the odd balls that are not +/- a whole number of hours, or where that value is more than 12 are not major ones. For example NATO uses letters A-Z (except J) to designate time zones. D is +4 E is +5 and F is +6, but there is no letter for the ones any of the others there is the convention to follow the letter with a "*" to designate half an hour pase i.e. D* is +4:30 and E* is +5:30 and if you really want to get into the weeds a dagger and a double dagger are used for the :15 and :45 versions. Either there is no division between major and minor time zones in which case the term phrase is useless. I guess someone could decide that the definition was base on the number of people who live in them, in which case you could aruge it down to two +5:30 and +8 as they are the only time zones with more than 1 billion residents or up to as many as you like (assuming that Saudi Arabia hasn't officially adopted something other than local solar time as the standard). I guess you could stretch major to include the couple of places that are more than 12 hours ahead of GMT/UT/Z but then you would have something like 27. In any case 24, without making a strange and arbitrary decision about what consititutes a major time zone, is not a good number.

Well, since I *am* right I guess I shouldn't have expected it. Even though it is one of the most populous time zones +5:30 is *not* a "major" time zone.