Isn't that illegal in Texas and Florida?

Unlike Farty Don, who merely wants to shoot them.

Don't trust a company with "spin" in their name.

Sometimes a hypothesis has potentially observable implications, even if a mad scientist can't reproduce everything in their lab.

I think it has been decades since cosmologists believed the universe is expanding at a constant rate.

IANAPhysicist, but isn't a thrust of 1g specific to the mass you are accelerating? Same device pushing heavier mass gives less acceleration?

Is a claim that you can create a thrust of 1g even meaningful without additional details?

I reckon one of his biggest worries right now is how to find a running mate that won't backstab him with the 25th Amendment at the first opportunity.

Where's Bert bot?

Technology "advances" to the point where a civilization has to expend 3.5 whatzits to acquire 1.0 whatzits, and it isn't even approximately sustainable.

woke, adj. - "Not a knee-jerk reactionary like me."

Yes, that's not surprising that there's nuance that does beyond the headline. There always is.

Ironically, it's is more of an argument for them. They were not saying there would be no more updates, be them major or minor to windows, but rather than they wouldn't have "numbers" and transition into more of an OS as a service model.

The market doesn't like the sound of that. That's fine, but it's not like if Microsoft stopped numbering their releases they wouldn't be doing the exact same thing: sunsetting older versions of windows and pushing users towards newer supported versions.

I know some people think they should be able to "buy" an OS and stay on it forever, but the internet has rendered that largely impossible. If you want to air-gap your PC and stay on whatever version of Windows you want, go for it, but as soon as you're connected to the internet, they're doing the right thing trying to push people off of codebases that no longer support an economic case for security updates.

I'm an anglophone. I lived in Quebec for 8 years. I work for a company that is headquartered there. I go there all the time.

This is nothing like what Quebec is doing. Don't be a fucking moron.

if you drop 1000$ on the ground you watch who picks it up and the person who takes it knows it belongs to you and doesn't belong to them, then you're not out of luck .. it's not really a different set of rules. It's unreasonable to expect people to be able to locate a person who left 1000 sitting in the middle of the street who is nowhere to be found, and it's nearly impossible to prove the 1000 another person has is yours after the fact. On the other side, ATMs have multiple layers of logging, computer and paper trails and cameras. It's relatively easy to prove a) who has it now b) that they shouldn't c) that they know they shouldn't d) to whom it belongs

My thought experiment is, what if two black holes were approaching each other very rapidly on a not-quite-collision course, so that the sides of their event horizons briefly overlapped as they passed. Would they stick together?

ISTM that if anything was inside the overlapping area they'd have to stick, since otherwise that thing would be escaping from one of them. But is there anything there? Maybe something that just now fell in and hasn't had time to fall to the center? Or, is there quantum foam inside a black hole, and if so, would that count as "something" that would force the black holes to stick?