The Dutch called them walghvogel, or "disgusting bird". Their greatest culinary virtue was their abundance and how easy it was to catch them - much like the passenger pigeon, only less tasty. Then, like ground-dwelling birds in other previously isolated environments, rats and cats and dogs and pigs all took their toll.

You need to track down a copy of Dad's Nuke by Marc Laidlaw - there's a cult in it that eats a cultured meat product called "Host", which is supposedly cloned from the prepuce of Jesus Christ.

Lots of marginalisations will affect internet access, or internet access at the point where people wish to consume this media. Poverty, unstable housing situations. Hell, even workplace rules may affect that if you can afford a personal phone and a data plan but are not allowed to take it into a workplace that's perfectly happy to leave a radio playing for all the good little drones to listen to.

Sounds like it's time for a community group at arms length from these operators to try to set up something under the provisions of the Local Community Radio Act, and push back hard against any obstacles they might encounter..

I suspect its use as an insult is often ironic, as many people I've heard called that completely lack both depth and warmth.

Fox News reports that the chocolate ration is increasing from 30g to 28g, effective immediately.

I'm holding fire on upgrading or migrating away until I hear more about Google's own alternatives for personal/family users. From their own help, in the "Legacy free edition upgrade questions" section:

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Nice, and i can't say I blame you. I wish I could get away with that, but there are too many users at work who need stuff sent by organisations that use Sendgrid. Yes, even the easier/cheaper service with the sendgrid.net envelopes. Including a few Shadow IT things bought by various departments, which have become business-critical.

What you're buying with a Tesla is a set of hardware, a set of software to run it, a set of features, and a guarantee that Tesla will rectify the issue for a certain period of time if that stack of hardware, software and features should fail to perform according to the criteria listed in the contract.

Features like enhanced acceleration or a greater depth of discharge on the battery pack (extended range) push the hardware harder. I'd expect that there would be a higher failure rate with those features unlocked, so it's not unreasonable for there to be an additional cost associated with them. IF you expect Tesla to provide a warranty, you should also expect that to be on the platform as they provided it. If you hack your internal combustion car to increase the turbo boost pressure, you can't expect the manufacturer to be able to guarantee trouble-free motoring either - but if they had a factory or dealer after-delivery option to cover the warranty for the increased boost on the same hardware based on the expected additional likelihood of failure, that would be similar to what Tesla are offering.

Once the warranty is up, or if an owner is willing to forego the warranty and eat the repair costs themselves in the event of a failure, it should be possible for the owner to carry out any number of performance modifications within the limitations of what is allowed by the registration authorities (in the case of a road car) or the racing authorties (in the case of a track car). But if you want Tesla to come to your rescue if the magic smoke leaks out, you'd better be sure you've held up your side of the bargain.

...the CD32.

It sold well, for a while, but failed to save Commodore.

I'm neither a chemist nor an economist, but I see other problems.

As most common commercially significant ores are carbonates, getting magnesium by liberating CO2 so you can capture CO2 in a magnesium carbonate seems like a stupid idea.

Mg(OH)2 - bruceite - is another magnesium ore which could provide the required magnesium, but I don't know how common it is. Magnesium Chloride can be obtained from seawater, but we've then got excess chlorine we need to find a market for. And that doesn't stack quite as easily as solidified sulphur.

They may be optimising for durability (Samsung example, less protrusion straight out means less chance of brushing and breaking the USB connector) and/or reducing the likelihood of pulling on the cable pulling the plug out of the wall (Nintendo example - with a nod to durability because the cord is also more protected from being brushed by passers-by, although a bottom or top entry would also do that at the possible expense of usability in low-mounted outlets).

That square and angled one, though? Yeah, that's just evil.

It rubs the cardpunch on its skin, or else it gets the hose again.

This kind of thing goes back WAY further than that.

I've got a book from the mid-80's with a whole lot of C64 robotics projects in it, which features a lego pen plotter. The paper handling is more convenient - that project was a drum plotter - but otherwise, it's a variation on that basic design. In some ways it's both a step up and a step down from that project - this rasterizes everything, whereas the old C64 project could draw non-jaggy lines in any direction.

I'd say the paper handling alone makes it a step up from the C64 project in terms of convenience and usability, though. Plus, any advancements over the Mindstorms project make it worthy of attention IMHO - it's great that we can all learn from other tinkerers.