Here's the lyrics to a fairly typical, average kinda tune:

We used to swim the same moonlight waters
Oceans away from the wakeful day

My fall will be for you - My fall will be for you My love will be in you If you be the one to cut me I will bleed forever
Scent of the sea before the waking of the world
Brings me to thee
Into the blue memory

My fall will be for you - My fall will be for you My love will be in you If you be the one to cut me I will bleed forever
Into the blue memory

A siren from the deep came to me
Sang my name my longing
Still I write my songs about that dream of mine
Worth everything I may ever be

The Child will be born again
That siren carried him to me
First of them true loves
Singing on the shoulders of an angel
Without care for love ‘n loss

Bring me home or leave me be
My love in the dark heart of the night
I have lost the path before me
The one behind will lead me

Take me
Cure me
Kill me
Bring me home
Every way
Every day
Just another loop in the hangman’s noose

Take me, cure me, kill me, bring me home
Every way, every day
I keep on watching us sleep

Relive the old sin of Adam and Eve
Of you and me
Forgive the adoring beast

Redeem me into childhood
Show me myself without the shell
Like the advent of May
I’ll be there when you say
Time to never hold our love
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But there's next to no repetition in it.

And yet all the cool kids love Python and YAML these days, both of which break in fun and interesting ways if you get the indenting wrong.

But that's by design, and is very clearly spelled out. And if you can't deal with Python's formatting rules, maybe you should go back to BASIC. The rest of us are making great stuff with it.

that Jimmy Neutron film for ideas on how to launch differently from Mars surface.

A Star Is Born has been remade four times [after original 1937 film]:

- 1951 (a television adaptation) with Kathleen Crowley and Conrad Nagel
- 1954 with Judy Garland and James Mason
- 1976 with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson
- 2018 with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper.

I don't really expect Hollywood to change any time soon.

Really?

Also, we are currently in the most temperate time of the year. Wait until you can exceed the demand during winter or summer before running your victory lap... or are rolling blackouts no longer a thing in California?

Also, it's Türkiye. Because Türkiye saw how well the rebranding worked out for Myanmar and decided it wanted nothing to do with dumb flightless birds from now on.

If I were an arbitrator or judge, I would be asking "how long would a reasonable consumer who purchased the game expect it to be playable" then order pro-rated refunds. Absent any reason to think otherwise, "how long" would probably be the supported life of the hardware it was designed to run on if it's tied to a particular device (serial #) or type of device (make/model), which is rarely more than 10 years these days, considerably less for some types/genres of software-as-a-service (which is what this game is).

If they're out there I think they're smart enough to stay away. We have nukes after all. Sure, they may have a fancy ray gun or some other weapon. It's like a guy with a knife and you have a gun. There's no question the gun is a better weapon. That guy with a knife can still kill you surprisingly fast as long as he's less than 21 feet away. If they come down to earth, they're effectively within that 21' rule. They can be blown to smithereens. They could also end up triggering war while some countries deal with them, others think it's a ruse for an attack.

Another indicator of danger is the trash in orbit. I'm sure a 1KG piece of spacecraft moving at 17,500 miles per hour is still a danger to them. It's not as if they can call AAA spacecraft repair. If they do this all the time I'm sure they know about all of this stuff. Which civilizations they can interact with and which ones are dangerous. I think we're one of the dangerous ones.

Sounds reasonable to me. If some state agency or state court says forcing providers to lower rates is against state law, the court should rule that providers in that state are ineligible for the aid until the state law is changed.

That would put all providers in that state on the same playing field: None would get the aid, but none would be forced to lower rates.

In the case of Ukraine, the success rate is very high because anybody in range is likely an enemy soldier.

Israel's success rate may be as low as 0.1%. That tells us that robots can't tell civilians from military. A large enough stockpile of human shields would be a serious problem.

And we know drones et al are vulnerable to GPS spoof attacks, making such an attack risky against a technologically advanced enemy with intellectuals and engineers forming a scientific take on special forces.

Why bother with a missile? You're here, so a geek. You know GPS jamming is effective, as is GPS spoofing. All you need is a parabolic dish and a high power transmitter. There's simply no possibility of a wide-angle transmitter on a satellite matching a narrow beam that's broadcast from a hundredth of the distance. Sure, there'll be authentication keys. And social engineers have compromised most of the world's governments, which means the keys will be for sale somewhere.

The only way I can the robot army being effective is if they flatten everything at long range, indiscriminately. And that is going to cause its own problems. Especially if the software gets hacked prior to install. Which will happen, because hiring and training an army of hackers in Mitnick-style social engineering tactics costs a tiny, tiny fraction of the expense of maintaining a wall of tactical nukes that can EMP the robot forces.

The robots work OK, but the AI doesn't. Israel is using AI extensively to target Hamas at the moment, with the very best AI that exists and the very best military minds the world can produce. The success rate is somewhere between 1% and 0.1%.

Face scanning tech also depends on the data set being valid. The DOD has been compromised many times by airwall violations, security violations, improper screening, and extremely buggy software from Cisco and Microsoft.

All the enemy needs to do is write a rootkit that flips a couple of bits. The robot army now faces the other way and friends are identified as foe. I wouldn't put it past a group like the Lazarus hackers to be capable of such a stunt. We already know the enemy is capable of GPS jamming and GPS spoofing, because they've done so to hijack US drones, and that's another potential vulnerability.

US military robots are also known to have severe problems identifying that a person dressed as a tree is a person, not a tree. A skillful enemy could walk through US robot army lines without impediment, unless the US robots shoot indiscriminately. But if the US robots are genocidal, mutually assured destruction becomes a viable tactic. You can't be more than dead, after all.

And if the US includes a death switch, given that US defence contractors don't always wipe hard drives and the military don't psychologically screen very well (Manning was known to be seriously mentally unstable prior to deployment, for example), there's absolutely no guarantee the enemy won't simply learn it and spoof it.

I just don't see how the US think this could possibly work.

I think a lot of Linux users will wait a bit to get the bleeding edge from now on...