I had to write JNI code to use Windows API for registry and Service Control Manager directly from a Java program. Not the only way to do it especially in these days of Powershell but worked a treat at the time

Most of these exoplanets are a significant distance away from us. If you assume that all potential civilizations might have started roughly coterminously with ours, it's possible we just haven't allowed enough time for their electromagnetic footprint to reach us yet. Maybe someone in the next 10,000 years or 100,000 years, we'll gradually get enveloped with signals from all over the place. This Great Filter may be no more than that, and not an extinction matter at all.

Actually these lyrics are from No More Cocoons: The Jello Biafra Spoken Word Album, released in 1987. Ice T sampled them. Track is called 'Message from Our Sponsor'.

Just to add to the Hitler thing... Regardless of Hitler's own personal Christianity, the vast majority of his generals (though not the SS), and probably the majority of the Wehrmacht (possibly including the SS as a whole) were Christian themselves. In order to perpetrate mass murder, you need people to perpetrate it. This is the root of the Pope's calumny. Most of the killing was done by religious people. And I still don't blame religion for it

Forget Foundation, it's called FUCKUP...