Remember - the Federation reserved the Death Penalty for making AI Androids.

Noonian Soong had to exile himself to a remote planet outside Federation control to work on Data and Lore (and his sexbot...).

They needed people to be able to have jobs *that* badly.

Which ... stop sending redshirts outside the ship with magnetic boots in a radiation storm, OK? They could have at least had some astromech droids. Sheesh!

I recently got a "plastic" target that changes color and the holes mostly self-heal if you don't use a hollow-point.

Good for plinking but they do wear out eventually.

I didn't even know this material existed before a buddy told me they were on Amazon. Amazing times, for sure.

Heck, I picked up some 100-lb test fishing line the other day that is some sort of braided heavy-chain polyethylene that is 11 times stronger than steel wire at the same size. The company made mechanical spinnerets to mimic spiders' to get it to work.

Again, I had no idea until a buddy told me it was $20 on Amazon.

Wild.

Back in the day we'd install wild boards that would upgrade the Mac CPU's by a generation or two, add FPU's, etc.

All of this depended on the systems being too expensive to replace or buy new except once in a blue moon.

At $600 which is probably $200 in 1986 money, it's a bit harder to be mad.

Those systems were probably $10K in 2025 dollars. Heck, a few were $10K in 1986 dollars.

Surely this story, which is essentially true even if the style is propaganda-ish, is evidence that central planning by a communist government does not work. Of course it doesn't work here either, something the trump administration and gop seem to have forgot as they begin to exert control directly in American companies to get them to do things for the king.

I strongly suspect this cheap laptop will be locked down. No root, no exception to only allowing signed apps. This will be wildly successful. If you need "developer" access you'll need to buy a MacBook pro.

Hope I'm very wrong but every version of macos on the last few years has been stepping towards this sort of thing.

*nerd alert*

The original script had The Matrix running in parallel on all the human brains.

Studio execs said that was too confusing and that they should be batteries.

Also Neo is seen on the Nebuchadnezzar with hundreds of acupuncture-looking needles with wires to get his muscles working while he's in a coma.

Writers should have been left alone (a story old as time).

So, how does anyone enter the workforce?

With two to four years between "seasons" of six to ten 42-55 minute episodes, it's hard to keep an audience interested in.

At least it used to be that most American shows had 20 or more episodes per year, year on year for the run of the show. TNG had something like 36 episodes per year. Crazy schedule for the cast and crew. Simpsons has put out 20+ episodes per year for 30 years.

In the UK things have always been different. One full series is usually a lot fewer episodes (many of the most popular shows had only about 6 shows per year) and sometimes more than a year between series. Maybe the scale of viewship is just different, but even old shows are still very popular today in syndication.

The Earth has frequently been much warmer than it is today and coral reefs grew much faster then.

Perhaps they have a fine point to make but the implications fly in the face of established evidence.

And not shaky evidence - you can go vacation on huge islands made of these old reefs, from when the oceans were higher.

You can go visit Chazy Fossil Reef today and see coral fossils 480 million years old, from when Northern Vermont was a tropical marine environment.

These data aren't disputed in the field.

...and thanks for all the fish.

If everything moved an hour later, what's the point of DST in the first place then? The original point was that permanent DST means parents were dropping kids off in the dark since sunrise was an hour later. Moving everything one hour later is then the same thing as standard time. So just keep standard time.

My only experience with induction is at the house of a family member, but I've never noticed any sound like that coming from their range. I used to be able to hear CRTs, but perhaps I've lost that part of my hearing in middle age. Not sure; haven't been around CRTs in a long time. But I have a really annoying USB wall adapter that I can hear whining.

While technically true, the odds of any fires started by induction ranges is orders of magnitude smaller than even conventional electric ranges. In fact in terms of general family safety and being burned by the stove when it is turned off, induction ranges are the only way to go.

That said, I have a gas range presently and have no plans to replace it anytime soon.

One of these days they'll realise this. Abandoning DST will make a tiny difference compared to what health diet and exercise would achieve. But this would decimate the junk food industry, and treating exercise like a luxury for the middle class and for those with the time for it is going to cost dollars. So obesity it is.

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