Provided that Oceania stays at war with Eastasia and allied with Eurasia, everything in your proposed future will be double-plus good...

... or something like that, anyway.

Oh, for the want of mod points.

Meh, I learned it a few years ago (note - am a "damn kid" still). Bit disappointed that "sunroof" on a new car generally means "automatic transmission". I really wish $MFG would listen when I say I want standard transmission AND the sunroof...

Yeah, that's what it sounds like, the chips "heal" in the same way that networks "heal" -- route around the slow/bad/dead parts -- rather than biological healing of replacing the dead/missing cells. I'm taking this to be the first steps towards artificial healing -- the chips (or networks for that matter) can close off the parts that are "bleeding" due to damage.

So, for now the chips are able to put up a rudimentary scab. Eventually, they may be able to take "local" resources (silicon, carbon, whatever) and start rebuilding the patterns that were on them. I just hope the re-structuring there ends up with a "#5 is alive!" machine, rather than a T-1000.

Evolution's had a damn long time to get the "rebuilding cells" part down -- we're just at the "stop the bleeding" phase with the chips. Once they can rebuild their structure, we're in for trouble...

R64 (moons*) are from Eve Online (Rarity [4*], 8, 16, 32, 64) -- each rarity level being progressively more difficult to find as the number increases... I don't know the progression, as I don't think it's been published (or at least, I couldn't find it with a few quick google searches), though estimates hold Tech moons around 400.

Assuming linear progression of each step halving the number of moons, and Tech being a representative example of R32 Moon density, that gives a count of about 200 of each type of R64 moon, spread across ~3500 systems, with varying numbers of moons (from 0 to ~100 ... I think 102 or 104 is the highest). So, at an average of 50 moons/system, you have a 0.1% chance any one moon in a system would be R64.

*well, actually, it's the material's rarity, but you can R4 and R64 materials on the same moon ... and it'd still be considered a R64 moon.

**R4 moons are everywhere, and generally not counted when talking about moon materials.

No, and nothing of value was (will be?) lost.

yeah, but then again, we'd have to be _incredibly_ lucky to find an unclaimed r64 in our home system ... and then we'd immediately find out how incredibly _unlucky_ we are to find we're living in null.

On the other hand, there are at least a few thousand of us who know how to handle the politics (provided that they're not all too busy shooting each other, that is).

but that's more because History doesn't have enough programming slots for cramming shitty reruns of room-temperature IQ programming on one channel

For example, Monday (04 March) ... 00:00 to 11:59 EDT, per tv guide website. Times are the start time of the show. All are repeats unless otherwise noted.

History:
The Bible (2h - 00)
Vikings(1h - 2,3,)
Infomercials (0.5h -4-5.30 inclusive)
Classroom (1h - 6)
The Real West (1h - 7)
American Pickers (0.5 & 1h - 08-19.30 inclusive)
Pawn Stars (0.5h - 20,20.30)
American Pickers (1h - 21, new episode)
Pawn Stars (0.5h - 22,22.30, new episodes)
Vikings(1h - 2,3,)


H2:
Miracle Rising: South Africa (2h - 00)
Stories From the Road to Freedom (2h - 02)
Declassified (1h - 03)
Infomercials (0.5h - 04-06.30)
Secret Passages (1h - 07)
Modern Marvels (1h - 08, 09)
Alaska: Dangerous Territory (2h, 10)
Modern Marvels (1h, 12-15)
Alaska: Dangerous Territory (2h, 16)
Modern Marvels (1h, 17-23)

Granted, Monday night is the "Modern Marvels Marathon" night on H2, so it might not be a fair comparison -- sure, it glosses over _a lot_ of things (unfortunate), but it's not just the drivel of "[item] could be worth a lot of money." or "Why the hell is this guy showing us all the stuff HE WON'T SELL!?". Tuesday is devoted to UFO Hunters/Ancient Aliens/etc.

Same goes for "Science" and "Discovery" and "The Learning Channel" ... It's unfortunate how so few of their shows now care about "Science", "Discovery", or "Learning" (ignoring the fact that TLC stopped being "The Learning Channel" ~15 years ago) -- hell, with the exception of "Blue Planet" (et. al.), and the Neil Armstrong specials I'm hard pressed to say _any_ of their programming follows in the title of the channel. Only one that still seems to follow their station name in programming choices is "Animal Planet" (and even there, it's probably just as much "reality" crap as the other stations).

I fail to see this as a bad thing.

So, use something else to get around the ISP blocking 53 -- Tor, nonstandard port, etc. If it _really_ comes down to it, there's always /etc/hosts.

Admittedly, this isn't necessarily something that grandma would be able to do -- but it's not like she's exactly doing much more than looking up a recipe or checking email (even then, phone is usually better)

Oblig XKCD

While definitely true, that only speaks for ~today~ (or at least Monday). If you're running sites that may run afoul of this, you're probably gonna set up HTTPS ... or cut off the US.

And yet another reason to not use the ISP-provided DNS servers ...

I think you meant "Eastasia" (or perhaps "Eurasia" or "Oceania", depending)

Difference there is that the fake maple syrup is labelled as such ("maple flavored syrup"), usually in small letters in some otherwise unobtrusive spot on the front label, and also on the back label with the qualifier "contains x% maple syrup". We had both in my parents' house (parents liked it, kids got the cheap shit ... probably more because "little kids" + "pancakes/waffles/french toast" = "lots of wasted syrup on the plate" than anything)