I imagine it's because the ice locked up in the mountains was further from the center of the earth, so by melting and not being as much on the mountains, it's like pulling in the arms of a figure skater, speeds up.

Playing Cyberpunk 2077 on Stadia now, seems to be playing alright. The monthly charge to continue access to your games sucks and the selection of games isn't that great, but the controls seem to work pretty well. Have had a few instances where I lost control for a bit, but that isn't very frequent.

It worked for a while when HBO MAX was launched but they specifically turned off the ability to watch in a Linux browser, have to boot up window to watch in chrome.

As a poll, it's interesting, but what we really need to know is how Cowboy Neal is doing.

The latency numbers they are offering are better than most cable systems I have been on. Remember this is low earth orbit not Geo orbit. I think the numbers they were running were less than 20, it appears that it's the bandwidth that they have the trouble with in congested areas,

Citation please. I think you are making an assumption, I don't recall any such law.

It typically costs me more than $20.00 to go to the movies by myself with drink and snack, so overall not a bad deal. It would be nice if the trial run of this had any shows I actually would be interested in watching.

I'm pretty sure Slashdot started to attract a certain element in the late 90's, before that I never saw a non-technical or uninteresting article on Slashdot. Probably went downhill when they let CmdrTaco log into the site.

Last couple of times I've went in there the stock has continued to decrease. Long ago they changed the entire book section over to toys, perfume and other items but the signs at the end of the isles still claim to be books. I last went in there about a month ago to buy a new laptop, there were no demonstration models nor salespeople, so I guess I'll shop elsewhere for the laptop.
      It's pretty much a wasted trip to go there now, nothing to buy. They keep giving me different stories about why the shelves aren't stocked, I think the latest excuse was they are changing suppliers and waiting for new inventory, but yeah not too sure if that strategy is working if it leaves your shelves empty during the Christmas shopping season.

To me, the biggest issue here is that my conversation is going to be recorded and perhaps listened to by a third party. For something like calling for a pizza that might not be too bad, but even that call would have my name address phone number and credit card number. I suppose if I was just calling to get information it wouldn't be too bad; however, most of the places that I call that take a while to get through to are likely places that I will need to provide other personal information. Just seems like a lot of risk for a bit of convenience.

I lost your phone number. Shoot me the directions.

The IRS is responsible for errors, just make sure you get your tax advice from them in written form.

I guess I'm too old, I still listen to the radio

There was public access to the internet starting in 1989. Gopher was created in 1991. Mosaic released in 1993. So people did have access in the time of gopher and before the web "launched". I was playing muds in 91 at the library, but there were several isp's available at the time growing out of the bbs era.

I'd also disagree with the statement that ordinary people flocked to discover this new thing. At the time of gopher, before the web, ordinary people didn't have any interest in the internet. While some of use were listing to radio over the thing, chatting in chat rooms and using newsgroups, most of the rest of the world was oblivious to the internet. It wasn't until 93 when the web was launched the ordinary people started to join the internet and it became eternal September. I don't remember when AOL started giving away their discs, but that was a major push to get people online as well.