I have an email in my spam filter with a sent time of year 2060. Either it's really from the future, or email timestamps are largely worthless.

What does grit have to do with conscientiousness and openness? I would consider grit to be the opposite of both.

It's only an human mistake!

This is one of the reasons I would like nested groups for POSIX, but it will never happen because people think it's too Microsoftish.

Soon, the distinctive "tink" when a lightbulb filament breaks.

Static on the TV preceding thunder (now it just pixelates).

It's an orchestra mimicking the sound of an extremely common (for the time period) piece of technology. There are also sounds that mimic trains, automobile traffic, and other technological wonders. They're not meant to be rip-roaring, slap your knees funny, but instead "oh my, how humorous a diversion from regular orchestral performances".

The distinctive whine of an old SCSI drive. The whir-whir-whir-whir-click of a tape cassette rewinding. The flappity-flappity of a movie reel that has gone through the projector. Cha-chunk of a slide projector. The sound old beer cans used to make when ripped open. Dot-matrix printers. Floppy drives. Floppy drives forced to make "music".

That's one fast vest!

True, but there are usually sacrifices that are made in such setups. Usually the HDDs or other mobo components don't get airflow and end up cooking over time. If they made laptops a little more rectangular like servers and allowed more airflow over all the components then they'd be very cool. Of course they'd also be loud and ugly...
I think what submitter needs is a luggable like from the 8088 days. A desktop computer with a laptop screen and a detachable input device. Perhaps a detachable UPS too.

Thermal paste isn't magic. I have a machine that's been running since 2005 without thermal paste. What you want is a way to remove heat quickly from the chips. That's not going to happen with the tightly packed frame of a laptop. I would suggest a custom frame of either copper and aluminum or aircraft aluminum with lot of holes and added fans. It'd be noisy, but wouldn't overheat as bad. You'd need to vacuum out the dust regularly. The best option would be to get a portable desktop.

You didn't get it. One world. One timeline. A human that wasn't descended from the standard strain of humanity. It's a fulfillment "paradox" in that it's a paradox only if the main character would make different choices. But the character doesn't because the character didn't and the character won't. It can be argued that the character can't make different choices any more than George Washington can make different choices about what is already set in history. Once you accept the concept of time travel and reject the concept of "many worlds", all of history throughout time is set in stone. Predestination.

Obligatory movie clip: Bear Drinks Poo Juice http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R...
Don't watch before/during lunch.

Because this isn't Arrakis, and most of the Earth's surface is covered in water, which will still be there for future generations as long as we don't find a way to effeciently fuse normal hydrogen for energy.

An investigative and communications body beholden not to the State, being necessary to the functioning of a free State, the right of the people to own and operate presses, shall not be infringed.

The portion about the Militia is a reason for the right to not be infringed, but not a mandatory reason. If a well regulated Militia should demonstrably be no longer necessary for the security of a free State, then that doesn't mean that the right of the people to keep and bear Arms suddenly can be infringed willy-nilly.