My favourite bit is how the rooks take pieces: not the one they can see directly, but the one *behind* it. It doesn’t matter whether the first piece is yours or the opponent's. This creates all sorts of chaos with pins, and doubled-up rooks are nasty.

The stupid bit is the people choosing those numbers. The only thing you (kinda) control is how many people you will share your payout with: so choose something “random” to maximise your winnings!

(Have there been studies on whether numbers greater than the days in a month are less likely to be chosen?)

I must live in bizarro world, then. Time Machine still works perfectly well on a current system paired with a plain old hard drive set to HFS+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

(yeah, it helps — is hilarious — if you know the character beforehand)

Shhh. No one is interested in logic or plausibility, or being on topic.

So you ban the floating section that screws up scrolling (this is not a Space versus PageDown debate, ya dills) and then, hell, get rid of a stack of other stuff too.

Obviously if it goes into a house or something otherwise substantial, it’ll be stable for a century.

But the less-realised benefit is that modern tips don’t really rot much, so even when you’re done with the wood (or to a lesser extent, wood product) it’ll be stable for a long time — long enough for us to work our crap out.

In a perverse way the most efficient action in a coal-burning society may be to simply destroy the trees locally in a high-efficiency burner to generate power. Not many tree farmers are emotionally keen on that, though.

I understand the claims. It’s publicity for the firm/industry.

But there are reasons to model the effect of losing one or more lane: you want to see the effect of having a bus or multiple-passenger-only lane, or better know how to schedule maintenance.

Don't forget the drop bears!