I wear a self-winding mechanical watch precisely BECAUSE it's not "smart". It tells the time (in 3 time zones, on a 24-hour basis) and displays the date. The date function isn't even "smart" in that I have to manually advance the date at the end of months that have less than 31 days.
The best part is that I LIKE IT that way.
I wear a mechanical self-winding wristwatch. I would never wear a smart watch.
We're trying to make smaller and smaller cars out of silicon, because then we can fit more cars onto parking lots. The number of cars we can fit onto a parking lot has been doubling approximately every 18 months for the past half-century, but we appear to be approaching some hard physical limits for the actual size of cars. In addition to the limits imposed by the size of the cars themselves (below a certain size, cars start interacting at a quantum level with the other cars around them), there are also challenges inherent in manufacturing cars at such a tiny scale. There is some new car-making technology on the horizon that may resolve these issues by using higher-frequency car-making lasers in our car foundries. But top researchers still have technical hurdles to pass before they can manufacture cars that are smaller than 7nm.
Easier car analogy: you can only shrink the car so much before the limiting factor is not the size of your cars, but how precisely (and how thin) you can paint the parking lines.
I selected "something jewelled" because it was the next best option.
My lady got me a 116710LN (google it) for our 10-year anniversary. WOOT
IANAL.
Why do we keep inventing and enforcing new "terrorism" laws when (AFAIK) every terrorism offence could simply be classified as "traditional" common-law crime and just prosecuted as such? Examples: conspiracy, murder, arson (includes bombing), kidnapping, forcible confinement (hostage taking), extortion (blackmail), piracy (hijacking), treason/sedition/espionage, etc.
The optimum committee has no members. -- Norman Augustine
