Part of the problem with Jaz drives was that the platters were glass, which is why head crashes did so much damage. Not only that, if you dropped one and it landed wrong, the whole platter would shatter into tiny pieces taking all of that data with them.

There you go, using facts. We don't let facts get in the way of a good narrative.

Completely agree with your setup, but even on slashdot perhaps 10-20% of the readers could implement. In the real world, vanishingly small.

That said, the Walmart house brand Onn has been a delightful surprise.

I seem to remember the Iraq-area wars that the US was involved in going on far longer and less of an oil crisis happening this fast.

That would be because even during those wars and conflicts, we didn't have an orange-painted pedophilic retard with delusions of grandeur causing a weekslong blockage of the major shipping lane through which ~35% of the world's crude oil trade flows.

The closest we've seen recently was when the Ever Given got stuck in the Suez during 2021, and even that only lasted for 6 days. Plus, it wasn't as big a deal because less oil was being used worldwide during pandemic countermeasures.

The closest in the past 100 years is when Treasonous Klanbitch Ronny Reagan betrayed the USA and convinced the Iranian Ayatollah to cut off shipping to hurt Carter in the 1980 election, in trade for guns and other military supplies that the Treasonshit Republicans paid out later during Reagan's terms.

Do you not do the classic date night: dinner and a movie?

Sure...

But these days its getting harder and harder to get out on a date without the wife finding out...

But I have no idea why people pay that much money and sit through the advertising just to watch a derivative summer comedy.

....to veg out and enjoy someone else's air conditioning during the extreme heat of the summer....?

These are the same people that insist "assault rifles" must be banned, despite being unable to define them beyond "they're scary".

Well, er...let's see...they're black!! And uh....when you pull the trigger, they go "PEW"....and uh....well uh...

Right?

Being in the firearms business without an FFL will make you a human doing illegal things. Even if you do it with a file and hand-crank drill.

Not federally.

It has always been legal in the US to make your own firearms for PERSONAL use.

You can make all the firearms you want, but, you cannot sell them, nor give them away....no serial number required, etc.

This has been the long standing right all US citizens have enjoyed since the country began.

It's only recently where companies made this a bit easier to do that some states started freaking out.

Cue the Corrupt MafiAA starting another assault on digital preservation. Sigh.

"Recruit your friends, grab your 15 year old camcorder, edit in Sony/Magix Vegas, do the CGI stuff in whatever you can find"!

A home user these days has a LOT of resources/tools that will allow some great content to be made.

There are tools that only a few years ago were ONLY in the reaches of the $$$ corporations.

You can buy quality cameras for $2K or so range...you have tools like Davinci Resolve that actually has a FREE version that will do 99% of what a young filmmaker would need to do with reference to editing, VFX, Sound and color correction/grading.

RODE and DJI and others make perfectly usable mic systems the average user can use to capture good sound.

And with the AI tools coming on board....you can do some really special stuff, not full CGI, but I've seen transitions clips done with AI that had my jaw drop....

And no this will not put you in the poor house....yes you have to invest ''some" into equipment, but the main resource you need these days....is sweat equity, imagination and determination to learn how to use the tools at your disposal.

Nobody expects you to put out Raiders of the Lost Ark on your first attempt....but hey, good story writing and presentation go a LONG way, hell, just look back a couple decades ago and longer to see that that is actually what carried movies since the inception of the art form.

Yeah. Whose sense of morality or spirituality will the software be tuned to? Mine, or yours or those of the Roman church? There's millions of people who find it immoral to eat onions

Ok, any religion that says God says you cannot eat this or that food...is immediately disqualified....

I cannot believe God made pork....some of the world's BEST food (bacon, smoked BBQ, etc)...and then said "You can't eat this".

Sorry I don't buy it.

Onion? Seriously...?

Please, what religions says you can't eat onions? If they were right I'd be dead and in hell by end of breakfast most days.

Or am I seeing some danger in what the AI might learn from Christian history?

Still...better than the Islamic/Muslim religion's history....convert of die.

Thank goodness the Christians were here for the crusades or the Muslims would cover most of the world by now....

Hell, they're still trying, and somewhat succeeding in parts of Europe.

At least with Christianity the concepts of empathy and forgiveness came about..no such thing with the brutality of Islam....if you don't believe it, go live in some Muslim countries and see how long you last?

Tell me about it. I live in PA and the laws are ridiculous. The state finally relaxed the laws enough that convenience and grocery stores can sell beer and wine. In order for this to happen the store must also serve prepared food and having a seating area. So most places just add a few cheap cafe tables that nobody ever sits at. The stores are also restricted on times they can sell and quantity. In fact it wasn't until the early 2000s that PA allowed alcohol sales on Sunday. So you couldn't even get a bottle of wine for a cooking a Sunday roast

Ah...so glad I live in Louisiana .....home of the "to go" cup where you can take your drink out of the bar in a plastic cup.....drive thru daquiri stores...and alcohol sales 7 days a week.

A true "liquor store " is kinda rare here....as that in most places you just get your beer, wine and hard liquor from the grocery store...of the Quicke Mart....or the gas stations....just about anywhere really.

Be aware of unexpected correlations. Maybe DUI will go up because people now have to drive to another state to get their fix.

Yep...we have drive thru Daquiri shops here in Louisiana....and alcohol is sold just about everywhere....gas stations, 7-11 type stores...grocery stores sell beer, wine and hard liquor.....hell you rarely see a "liquor store" that is just dedicated to booze....

Hell, if you come into the NOLA area, not a lot of ID checks either....just have to know where to go.

Back in the Good Old Days when the Apollo Program first put men on the moon, the men all rode in Apollo capsules, meaning that they all had a crew of three. Artemis II used an Orion spacecraft, with a crew of four, making this the first time that we've sent four men out to the moon's orbit at the same time. This may not look like much, but it shows that we're not just re-using old technology or designs but are making bigger and, I hope better equipment.