Senators elected in November, 2024, will not be sworn in and seated until January 3, 2025. For now, contact the one who was not up for election or the one who ran for reelection, whether that person won or lost the bid.

And then there's the complete misunderstanding of the apostrophe:

• It's not "would of" it is "would've"... a contraction of "would have" (applies to could and should as well)
• Apostrophes do not make plurals: the plural of "book" is "books," not "book's"
• "It" and "who" are the only ones I know of where the situation is reversed... apostrophe for contraction ("it is" => "it's" and "who is" => "who's"), but no apostrophe for possessive ("its" and "whose")

... would focus on the major polluters (China, India), we might actually have a real impact on pollution levels.

This is a problem overall and has been experienced in other franchises as well *cough*Doctor Who*cough*. The producers, show runners, etc, have been far more concerned with trying to satisfy a small segment of fans and push some agenda or message, all the while forgetting that they have to actually tell a good story too. Sci-fi stuff always waxes political... doesn't matter what you support or despise. If the story is good, people will watch or read it and keep coming back, and it will likely attract new fans too... even if you are pushing an agenda or message. If you're going to beat your audience over the head with said agenda or message every few minutes, lines, or whatever, they will get tired of it and walk away.

That's because the House of the Mouse has been pooping on other franchises, hoping the audiences will forget about the first round of mouse poop on the Star Wars franchise while they work on the current victim(s).

I swear there are people out there who would say, "But I thought that was the indicator telling me my headlights were on!"

Where I live I need to use a combination of low and high beams because there are no street lights in my neighborhood. Fortunately my car has "auto high beams" so when it detects enough light coming at me they cut down to low beams... but I am also attentive enough to turn them down manually when I see people walking (my neighborhood has no sidewalks either) so I don't blind them as well.

I would much rather watch older TV shows than anything new. It's not just nostalgia... they're just that much better or more fun.

The way I learned it in the Red Cross's Advanced Lifesaving and Water Safety Instructor classes, as well as the PADI Rescue Diver class... Rescuer's Rule 1: Protect yourself first, or else there will be N+1 victims.

You could always require the phone be tied to the parents'/legal guardians' phones and that the parents would have to do the authorization. For the edge cases of legally emancipated, something could always be worked out where the date of birth (and nothing else) is added by an official organization that would handle it. The parents would then be able to do the equivalent of MDM similar to how it is done when you get a corporate phone.

Revenue enhancement.

You never know. You may have an ID ten tee user error going on. You might have some honeypot machines looking to see whom they can trap, or maybe a testing lab that does regression testing. There are several reasons... some legitimate, some not. I've worked with systems in the past that had to use the original installation with no updates... as idiotic as I thought it was. It was some kind of "business decision" and like it or not, I did not have the authority to update the machines.

Wow... you went from zero to super moron in no time flat. Try digging into your personal memories... or talk with your friends, if you have any... about your time back in school. Or has your programming wiped out all of your memories?

It's the law that Governor Tim Walz signed that requires tampon dispensers in all school lavatories, whether they are for the girls or the boys. I also think they're chasing the wrong bogeyman... putting them in the girls' lavatories and women's bathrooms for the adult faculty makes a lot of sense... and in a men's bathroom for the adult faculty probably won't faze many of them... but put them in the boys' lavatory and your janitorial staff will be unclogging toilets and sink drains a lot more frequently, and it will keep happening until those dispensers are empty and not refilled. Doing stuff like that is just second nature to a pre-teen and teenage boy.

Heh. That's what I get for not charging forward on that idea many years ago. :)

Yes, you are.

Tell me you do not understand how Java or a scripting language works versus how a compiled language like C does without telling me.

Congratulations! You just proved my point. By abstracting stuff like that away, you lose the ability to keep it under direct control. Yes, it is extra work for the programmer, but it also means you can guarantee the efficiency of the final product versus writing stuff that goes into a black box that magically does things without telling you how it does them.

You need to scroll up. Apparently someone did it 16 years ago.

Down mod? Nah. I've actually held a similar opinion... that languages like Java were the start of this downfall because while they were great for product delivery speed, they actually hurt the ability to program because they took away the need to understand efficient program statements and ways to minimize resource usage while maximizing speed. If I were 20 years younger, I could probably write a doctoral dissertation on this.