I think his dream is to be the evil megacorp from just about any space dystopia.

Look at the 13 states that PJM operates in. They've taken a very different tact. For instance making it easy for townships and counties to nix plans to build solar and wind installations. Ohio Senate Bill 52 (SB 52) of 2021 is a perfect example. basically no new renewable generation has passed siting approval since (though HB15 2025 seeks to remediate that a bit).

The greatest obstacles to bring new sources of generation online over the last 10 years, have been Red State legislatures, who have made the Siting and Permitting process for new plants almost impossible to get signed off. Since almost all new generation projects are renewable in nature, they saw it as a way to engineer a crisis that made the EPA look bad, and keep old dirty plants running long after their lifespans had elapsed.

so as long as there have been android tablets, I've had a 7-8" one that is my Book. fits in the back pocket, holds a hundred pounds of books and a bunch of manga too. Right now I have a Samsung Tab2 S2 that's showing its age a little in terms of battery life, but I can't see myself going back to analog books, barring some kind of apocalypse.

Certainly relaxing some of the rules could have helped a lot, 7 or 8 years ago.
I still tool around superuser.com, but over the last 10 years its become a husk of its former self, with fewer and fewer multi-visit users every year, because everyone has a horrible first experience navigating the strict terms of service for the site and the remaining overzealous userbase.
Now, its probably far to late to do much about it.

Please keep in mind, I'm not saying that IPv6 or its larger namespace is ludicrous; I'm saying that the TFA's assertion that the problem with IPv6 is a lack of additional features is. It is not the lack of new features that has hindered adoption. But that aside, pinging a 128-bit address (that you have somehow memorized) while trying to troubleshoot why your DNS server isn't resolving names at the moment or then trying to ssh into that machine to reboot it while there are no naming services working your network IS a pretty good example of why no one wants IPv6.

This whole premise is ludicrous. IPv6 adoption hasn't taken off as expected, not because of a lack of new features; new features would not convince me to use it. The issue with IPv6 is that its scale is not "human-sized". Its the same issue as Metric time; even in societies that have largely adopted the metric system, no one is going to tell time based on the number of seconds since the birth of the universe.... its simply not sized correctly for humans.

Well, you see they did try to improve it. With NZBs. They brought about a rebirth for Usenet, albeit supporting a different culture (file sharers). Unfortunately that brought forth the wrath of BRIEN, and to be honest, NNTP just isn't sufficiently robust against adversaries determined to delete/take-down its content..

Usenet is to NNTP as WWW is to HTTP+DNS.

So, as long as there is no prior data, and we live in the present tense, then we can deny, say, that the ship is sinking? There may be a reason that you are in academia...

The conservative goal is the absence of a King of the Hill, not to _be_ King of the Hill.

You keep talking about that Way as though you know Him, too.

At a high level of abstraction, Your Team is, in fact, a bad economic/acid trip.

We'll have to ask them. I suspect denial of decent council.

Out of office by the time the Maoist junta got going?