How does Elon make money on the swings?

Epstein seemed to have a penchant for putting commas in random places. He used double commas too, for some reason. Epstein seems to have really liked commas and just sprinkled them liberally through his e-mails like glitter.

Pretty good idea posting as the middle card you are. A non-sequitur irrelevant to the matter we're discussing.

Aren't you a little old to be crying when you can't find your binky? P.S. all bold is the same thing as all caps - a clueless person with a rageboner.

A very attractive lady.

People call me as they wish, you are right. Over the years, I've been called Optical engineer, Optical scientistElectromagnetics scientist, Systems design engineer, even process chemist! Depended on what I was doing at the time. Since it is a recognition of my abilities, and meant positively, I take it as a compliment. The Process chemist thing was a little weird, a strange short part of my career.

The only place where it really "matters" is in a courtroom, where the lawyers get all atwitter about degrees in specific fields. Then the person can be an incompetent, but as long as they have the degree, they are somehow an expert.

Oh please, more the memss of universally stoopid 'murricans. Is your hatred of us overcoming what to 99.99 percent of us see is an obvious joke?

For what it is worth the person running the train is called an engineer. For what it is worth, part of the engineer's job is operating the old coal fired engines, their power transmissions, their water consumption, and boilers

This is not dissimilar to today, where engineers are responsible for smooth and safe operation of many facilities. And as a bit of eduction even though I'm a stupid 'Murrican, Here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Occasionally one of us murrican morons can edumacate those who are smarter than us.

But we cannot get our betters to have a sense of humor.

The "cold war" phrase has been hitting the think tank and media circuits. here is another example

For some time now. Wild wet and wonderful PA, one of the cloudier area, has been using Wind and solar very effectively for some time now.

Solar has an unexpected use. End of line extensions. When there isn't enough ugga-duggas left to meet demand at the last sub-station, solar comes to the rescue.

Placing panels is so much less expensive than getting new right of ways, running new lines, maybe even moving the substation, when new housing developments and businesses need their electricity. And please people, storage batteries are no longer science fiction. There are even bolt on solutions for arrays that don't have tehm now.

Then there is wind. There are places where the wind never stops, the Allegheny Front for instance. At this point, our new wind installs are less than before. The reason? At the moment, what we have now are supplying the power we need at the moment.

I'm ok with it as long as I don't have to bail it out if it fails.

It's like the hover tank in Sargent Bilko. Not about being practical, just about if you can get the contract. Human nature is the same everywhere.

Going to be honest, I didn't even read your whole post until after I finished writing mine and thank you, here it is. The Superman falls from the sky, Skynet spontaneously becoming aware comic book plot of an overwhelming force that appears from nowhere. It has to be unknown to be scary, so it happens somehow.

Look, every comic book problem has a comic book solution. The humans win in every Terminator movie. Just saying. Don't be afraid of a problem we made scary by definition.

Why would you force something more intelligent than you, something that by your own definition is capable of independent thought and free will, to do your bidding?

A person with fully twice your intellectual capacity can be enslaved, I mean it's a force and threats of violence thing not a brains thing right, isn't that the basic math for that equation? I'm asking why you think that is a good idea. What is this super-duper-intelligence, three, four times, immeasurably more intelligent than you? It's just as high as you can put your hand up thiiiiiisss intelligent, the exact imaginary point you're afraid you won't be able to restrain it, THAT level of intelligence, OFC.

Is it the intelligence you're afraid of? WHY? Intelligence should be restrained WHY ... and an intelligence great enough can't be ... WHY?

Can we back the fuck up and think about that premise a little bit please? We could play this game with Superman. If we make a Superman, how can we make Superman do our bidding? This is hypothetical but wow wtf people, who is the bad guy here, why are you even asking that. Besides that, if you have the technology to make a Superman, how do to keep twisting yourself into a knot where you don't also have the means to use force against him. Where does the asymmetry come from? He didn't fall from the sky, you made him in this story. So you need another plot device! We made him but we don't know how woooooo oooooohhh. GEE, never heard than one before. The AI will spontaneously make itself somehow, and therefore... hand waving.. unstoppable force. Good grief people. Don't you see how dumb this is.

Just a note - MacOS is Unix https://www.theregister.com/20.... Linux is Unixy as we say. Note that Unix is "POSIX compliant" now, and has been for a long time, (1993) so the pedants among us might want to weigh in on that.

Point is, I bash around in Terminal half the day. The default is now zsh, but bash sounds better to speak.

Yeah, when I have to go into Windows command line, I have to remember to shift my mental state.

Main point is, I have Apple create the ecosystem while I do paid things. Why should I have to do that? My burn rate overwhelms the cost of the phone or computer very quickly. It's like having a starter motor on a car instead of a hand crank. Obligatory car reference.

Exactly. There is a meme that all Apple users are clueless, with more money than brains. Sure, some are. It would be silly to think that Android and Windows users are the intelligentsia of computer, phone, and tablet users. Some are smart and savvy, some are not

You are trying to make the inferior performance of Android product integration a flex. Yes - I get Apple to provide a functioning integrated system. I have things to do that I am paid for, and those things work so much better with an integrated system that I do not have to futz with while unpaid, simply to make them integrate after a fashion. Just getting a computing device to function is so early 1990's.

And my familiarity with UNIX and its close brother Linux - well, I don't know about sleeping better, but I can get more hours of sleep.

I don't want to stop buying plastics. I want to have the option to buy actually recycled plastics that actually get recycled. We can do this but we don't. We don't because the people with all the money who therefore control the means of production decide that we don't. "We" is a stretchy word. So is "you" and so's "can". Sure, you can choose to opt out of society, but it would make more sense to make society not shit all over everything.