The last time there was a nationwide ground stop was in January 2023, when a pilot notification system went down. Prior to that, the last nationwide ground stop was issued after the September 11, 2001, attacks.

210 gigabytes for one single game.

My goodness, how games have increased in size over the years.

Almost every game ever made for Amiga (about 5000 games) is 17 gigabytes.

Almost every game ever made for the Commodore 64 (about 30,000 games) is 850 megabytes.

Almost every game ever made for the VIC 20 (about 1500 games) is 8.5 megabytes.

I doubt he originally intended to have the Roku deal as his primary source of income. He just wrote a nifty screensaver and was selling it to the world-at-large, then those guys came along later and offered him a stack of cash to use it.

He still sells it on his own website as a screensaver for Windows, Mac and Android.

I wonder if issuing pardons by the bucket load could backfire.

It's my understanding that if you have received a pardon and are therefore in no danger of being prosecuted, you can no longer "take the fifth" and can be compelled to answer questions about criminal activities that you may have participated in.

In theory the time is to allow the new government to select a cabinet and for new officials to receive briefings and have time to get their questions answered by current officials rather than just being thrown into the deep end of the pool with no preparation.

In practice that time can give people with bad intentions the opportunity to act on them before the new administration takes power. So as with many other things, the theory is sound but the implementation can lead to less than idea consequences.

Controversial?

Seems like it eliminates the whole point of the project.

Non-revocable payments were supposed to be the objective, are they not?

I guess I don't know enough about bitcoin and it's many cousins, but wasn't the idea of this digital currency stuff to be immune to things like payment tracing and freezing (impounding?) of accounts?

Maybe for the whole movie before long.

Just type in a few prompts to tell the AI what you would like to watch, then sit back and enjoy the show.

A custom movie, made just for you.

Right or wrong isn't at issue here.

Someone is being charged with a crime, so we're discussing matters around what constitutes legal versus illegal.

Please do try to keep up.

If you use that as an absolute standard, wouldn't it put a lot of other businesses in the crosshairs too?

When three businesses all have a sign in the window that says "Best price on Rugs!", should two of them be prosecuted for fraud?

Someone tells me that he wants a particular car.

Knowing someone else who has that car for sale for $500, I tell the first person that I can get him the car for $5000.

The guy hands me $5000, I go to the seller and hand him $500 and bring the car back to the purchaser and say, "Here you go."

While that may be unethical, is it illegal?

What if the guy who wants the car says he'll pay $5000 for it and I take his money and buy one for $4999?

The difference being just the amount of profit?

I genuinely don't know the answer.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Di...

It's a general-purpose diagramming program, not a web browser.

If I need a gun to protect my liberty (as the gun folks claim they do) then what would you expect them to do with their guns?

Shooting the oppressors is the only purpose I can think of. Do they have another function that I'm not aware of?

There's also something that could be called a "poverty tax".

People who have very little generally end up paying more for it than someone else.

For example, if you need toilet paper you might be able to scrape up enough money to buy a package of two rolls for $4.99. Even if the package of sixteen rolls is on sale for $9.99, you don't have $9.99 and therefore can't buy it.

Also, consider what happens if you are in a position where you have nowhere to store food and prepare it. You have to buy pre-made food in small quantities (individual servings) and can't even boil a package of ramen noodles. So you end up buying a taco from the truck on the corner at a higher price than you would pay if you could just make one yourself, but you can't.

The "poor tax" is real. It's really expensive to be poor.

It's their website and their property. They invite you to store some of your data on their webservers, and they provide the terms under which you can do that.

If you don't like the terms they are offering, you can not store data on their webservers.

Facebook isn't life-and-death.

I don't have a facebook account, I've never had a facebook account, and I'm still here. You can do it too, if you choose.