by another inanimate carbon rod

Turned the 'event' into a bit of a honeypot. Would be interesting if it caught anyone trying to take advantage

Theory: what you are seeing is the random injection of money from lobbying efforts in their respective marketing boards. If money wasn't involved, then the bad things would probably just stay bad and we wouldn't consume them anymore.

communications have been disabled. we must be at war. 502 Bad Gateway

'centuries' are not SI units either. Do you perhaps mean we're 63.115 gigaseconds from a somewhat arbitrary time reference?

Yes. Triple redundancy is always best. (vote on which is failed)

10 Print "Wine Is Not An Emulator. But then what does Wine stand for?"
20 Goto 10

That theory doesn't hold if all 10 dogs are missing the same 20% due to a common failure mode.

Well not really an XKCD but a What-If.

That's not necessarily true either. A scheduling analysis could be performed to determine the real-time capabilities of the system. A simple stability program running on a massively overpowered linux system could be proven to guarantee scheduling at a low update rate. It's just not an efficient real-time system.

Thinking way out there... but if the Rift catches on, will significantly more brains be trained to cope with motion sickness? Will we be better equipped for space travel? I wonder if it will reduce motion sickness medication sales.

In the bitcoin equivalent of losing loose change in your couch, one of my old hard drives has 4 mined bitcoins on it somewhere. They are rapildly approaching a value high enough for me to stop being lazy and ressurect the machine.

This is especially true for pre-1996 pennies, which are 98% copper. roughly 3-4 cents per penny depending on the current copper price.

Imagine a.. wait, I can't. there's only 6 of them.