Because business users work in different locations on occasion?

I would think for thoroughness, the smaller projectiles of birdshot would be better than slugs.

To play Devil's Advocate, so to speak, maybe it was intended as a shameful manner of burial?

Not available for US based cruises, ATTFA. However, Disney lets you bring booze on, as does Carnival (within limits). However, Carnival lets you buy booze "for the room" in advance. My wife and I will probably order >2 bottles on our next cruise, instead of one, but still a very affordable choice.

I think the poster meant "someone downloading the full quality version wouldn't be able to use the excuse they can't afford the movie". Yeah, I'm positive that's what he meant.

I think a real option would be to release low-quality versions as free, or discount ($0.99 movies, $0.10 music) downloads. You could certainly get the gist of it, but leave enough distortion to make people considering buying the full version. Plus, smaller file sizes for those low-qual dl's might actually save money? Someone sharing a full quality version wouldn't be able to use the excuse, and the low-quals would be free advertising.

Look, we'll just stay down here until that thing goes away. They're always peaceful, just scooping up some dirt and getting stuck once in awhile. Come on, it isn't like it'll fire a laser at ... OK, General - you were suggesting a massive pre-emptive attack?

Just came back from RTFA. Apparently, the original challenge was ""I say there is no species of technology that have ever gone globally extinct on this planet.". Meaning shoe-fitting fluroscopes are ancestors of the modern X-Ray and CAT scan. Various tape technologies led to DVDs. The rack led to ratchet straps to hold cargo in place (mostly kidding). So, a entire branch of knowledge, no longer used.

Once we've tested the first "generation ships", then we can work on the interstellar ships. Would you really want to be on the first interstellar vessel? Why not learn from mistakes made from travelling to relatively accesible destinations, and benefitting from the technically minded masses who will be ecstatic about even this development as we go? If we skip interplanetary, and go to interstellar, even with faster (read: unavailable) propulsion, the first vessel to go interstellar might not be the first, or even the fifth, intended to be interstellar. And if we fail, this will be a handful of astronauts who die, it will be - by its very nature - families.

MIRRAR - when you look up at the rear-view MIRRAR and there's a high-pitched noise coming from your mouth, the vehicle in the rear-view MIRRAR is likely to rear-end you.

Isn't unscrewing a bulb the most direct method of disconnecting it, and not the socket, from the mains?

...beat them up