I'm jaded with battery claims. Oh, you built a better battery? Fine, make a product and sell it to me. If it's a better battery then I'll pay you well for your invention, but don't talk to me about research because I've heard it before.

That's what I thought, too. I'd never known that.

Now think all the way back to A/UX.

Offices I have worked in have had very little paper in them over my career (starting just before the Iraq War) but I work in tech so maybe we're on the leading edge. I literally can't think of the last time I had to touch a piece of paper specifically for work -- maybe signing my employment contract? Sometimes I use pen and paper to work out algorithms but more often I use a whiteboard.

What kind of office do you work in? There is a great diversity.

I can't speak for him, but I use the one at the local library. I have to go put five cents into that machine a few times a year. At this rate it would be cheaper to buy a printer in about three hundred years. There's also one at work I can use.

I recently got an email from my insurance company telling me they needed some additional paperwork. They told me to fax the documents to a phone number.

I thought "Sure, it should be fairly easy to find a fax machine. But... where am I going to find the time machine required to go back to the 1970s to find the fax machine?"

My father-in-law recently commented on me not owning a printer, suggesting maybe he could get us one as a gift. I shut that down: look, I can afford a printer if I want one, but I've lived my entire adult life (I turned 18 in 1998) without owning a personal printer, and my need to print is asymptotically approaching zero. I print maybe four or six times a year and on those occasions I seek out a printer.

I never knew CUPS was an Apple product but I remember installing it back in, what, probably 2000 on some Linux machines in college, as part of my work-study job. That must have been immediately after it was introduced.

You are right: the LPR system it replaced was awful. I don't remember much about CUPS except that I got it to work.

None of the terraforming ideas make any sense without a magnetosphere.

The closest subdefinition is "to draw out or remove as if by percolation".

Could the gas lost to space be "as if" liquid were passing through the gas? Maybe, if you stretch the definition. Replace "liquid" with "solar wind" and that's not very far off.

Other words would be a better fit.

One thing I can safely disagree with you about, though, is that this represents a new low for Slashdot.

Wouldn't that include, say, cars boats trains airplanes and spaceships?

I'd happily pay $2 for a spaceship, even if it ran Windows.

I'd pay more than $2 for a Tesla.

So why not use a different app store then?

Me too. If anything the Gmail filter is too aggressive and I lose some legit emails into the spam folder.

"they realized Oxygen isn't flammable and requires other flammable materials to burn"

I went back and re-read the article just to make sure and, yep, sure enough, it appears that they weren't in a pure oxygen environment, but rather were actually inside a spaceship made from various and sundry materials, most of which are sufficient fuel when surrounded by high-content oxygen gas.

The fuel is the spaceship and its contents: knobs, buttons, seat covers, clothes, hair, flesh, tools.

"Not because it is easy, but because it is hard!"

They'll still have to split assets and custody but they may not have to fill out legal paperwork, stand in front of a judge, pay lawyers, etc.

It doesn't extend to you. You aren't part of the sample.

The paper is important because in the event one of you decides the other sucks, then you have to go through an unpleasant, expensive and difficult legal process before your child can be deprived of married parents. That of course never applies if neither of you ever decides the other sucks. In the real world, a tiny minority of marriages have two people who never decide the other sucks; the paper is for the protection of the children (or maybe other assets) of the marriages not in that tiny minority.

Cheers to the hope that you are in the tiny minority. Good luck.