Same reasoning applies to "toilet to tap" water systems. It's not that it cannot be done; everyone knows that eventually incompetence, laziness, or corruption will result in particles of shit in the drinking water.

Sort of. There are some patent like aspects to modern copyright. Let's see how it goes with ceoyoyo's Adventures at Hogwarts and Harry Potter moves to Las Vegas.

The most memorable part of Rings of Power was when Galadriel refers to someone in a convoluted way because the simple way would have referenced someone appearing in part of the canon that Amazon did not buy permission to use.

On the recent out-of-copyright topic someone pointed out that copyrights lapsed on various Betty Boop works for clerical reasons. So a court fight on a new Betty Boop work would be over whether the new work used the character from the works still under copyright or on public domain works, some of which are newer than those still under copyright.

...is that they watch Fox News so I don't have to.

Bill Maher is the one I think does news->comedy best. Too bad the bulk of it is hidden behind a premium paywall, so all I see are teasers on youtube.

Doh! That explains the lights from the cities along whatever coastline that was--it was night for them. A facepalm moment.

With Trump, it is all performance. I've found the best fit is to think "reality TV". Unfortunately, this is the real world where consequences live on after the end of the season.

Don't forget they also banned (AB1346) your gas powered lawn mower. And are on their way to banning gas powered generators.

For one thing, <i>Ford</i> was dick-waving off the coast of Venezuela and thus out of position to dick-wave in the middle east.

Since it took time to move assets to the region, it smells to me that the decision was made weeks ago. So, "why now?" is "because." The shifting and contradictory narratives coming from the admin is hunting around for something palatable to MAGAs and appeases Trump's vanity.

https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/equation-of-time.html

"high noon" and "noon" intersect 4 times a year but are otherwise drifting separately according to the magic formula only clerics of Astronomy understand.

There's also an alleged wobble that caused the Sahara to become lush and green briefly on a 20000 year cycle. Wonder how the clerics account for this in their equation.

IIRC (it was a long time ago).
Possibly the first peer to die. I think still the only homicide. A couple suicides and several car accidents.

I'm still not clear on how they proved strangulation from DNA evidence. Admitting to sex with victim sounds like a good defense to plant a seed of doubt.

Ban...not globally, but in 150 years fuel for tuktuks will not be available.

Casual interest in EVs (something I'll never be able to afford) has impressed upon me just how much energy vehicles consume...I mean, more kWh than my house. This got masked by the energy density and abundance of petrol (and refined products).

It's clear from watching global news that the future of personal transport is...donkeycart. The contraction in road networks will be profound. The extreme affluent will still maintain roads where they want to go. Roads used for commerce will be maintained, or possibly revert to rail. Using personal transport to go 12km for a weekly shop won't be a thing.

Just streamed a movie with Burt Ward playing a part. It had other famous names: Swayze, Travolta...but not the ones that first spring to mind.

I fully expect discs themselves to outlast the mechanisms needed to read them. Initially machines can be strung along with accessible repairs (replacing belts that reverted to crude oil, replacing bad capacitors) but eventually something vital and unavailable goes.

One of the purposes of the CVR in recording all cockpit sound is to capture the sound(s) of switches and controls being manipulated. If the cutoff switches make a sound, the CVR should have recorded it. But teasing what's likely a subtle sound out of the noise won't be easy.

In regard to intermittent wiring problems I'll point to the Dali where a single mis-inserted wire eventually triggered a series of events which resulted in 6 deaths and the destruction of the Key bridge.

Time to see <i>Hammersley</i> in action...fighting off the US Navy as it invades the Heard & McDonald Islands to make those fucking penguins pay that 10,000% tariff.

And more <i>My Cloudy Drovers</i> because no matter how many cast changes there are, somehow there is an infinite supply of daughters.