I choose to believe IRLRosie is the real Alexa. Not that she is, I just like that reality better.

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"A Life Well Lived" for $2000, Alex.

Thanks for entertaining while also educating us. Pursuit of knowledge, in all forms, is a grand goal for all of us. Again, RIP.

How about we close the research arm of Deutsche Bank and spread those salaries around to help those who can't work from home -- like (main lobby) bank tellers, drive through tellers, janitors, IT staff, and many others? It makes as much sense as taxing work from home employees and giving it to others who can't work from home, forced out due to redundancy, or any other issue. That is just Socialism under the guise of a tax with shiftily crafted words to try and make it not look like Socialism.

Yes, they did, and please tell me how many times TOS made mention of that fact on the show? Did Uhura ever say "because I'm black"? Was it ever even mentioned? I don't remember it. Just like Sulu being Asian or Chekov being Russian or any number of other things. ST: TOS did these things SUBTLY and EFFECTIVELY.

I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that Discovery will not only rub it in the face of 2020 America, but will try to force your mouth open and then shove it down your throat. THAT is the difference. Subtle but there versus overt and obnoxious. Don't scream "I'm X" at me; I'm an adult, intelligent, and have empathy -- I'll figure it out through your actions, my observations, and, in the case of TV, through good storytelling.

Still living in the 1990s I see. Hey France, this has been tried multiple times and always fails.

Grow the fuck up, You show tits and ass on normal television programming. Sure, it isn't hard-core porn, but it is still the naked human form. With simulated and/or implied sex in a lot of cases.

Going to require age verification to watch TV as well?

This is nothing more than a large load of bullshit. There is nothing racist in D&D -- not even the Drow. I, nor any of my many friends who play, have ever thought that any race in the game was racist, no monsters, no nothing. If you're seeing racism in D&D then you went looking for it and didn't quit until you found it... the same way you went looking for a snowflake in the middle of an empty wheat field in the southern United States during summer and saw your own dandruff and went "See! Snowflake."

Give me a break and give this SJW virtue signalling revisionist claptrap a fucking rest already.

...to no longer be connected to the internet at large? They want to run their own internal "internet" that is crippled with no strong encryption or end-to-end protections.

I'm going to say "Good luck with that, India!" Black hole of Calcutta indeed.

You can usually see which laptops use 18650s, by the shape of the case. Pick a laptop, and search Amazon for replacement batteries.

I strip the 18650s out of laptops for other uses. It's just cheaper that way. It usually works out to about $1 for each 18650, including the occasional bad battery.

Thin squares, like the MacBook Pro have, are different. It's pretty obvious that an 18650 wouldn't fit in it.

Built in batteries are more likely to be flat square or rectangle types. You're SOL for replacing those with a pack of 18650s.

I only strip them down for their cells. I suppose if you're *real* careful, you could cut the case open, and be able to reseal it. There are temperature sensors inline, that you'll want to keep. and you'll need to solder the new ones together. They're typically spot welded. And, obviously, you'll need to keep the original control board. ... or just buy a replacement pack on Amazon or eBay. When the batteries die in the laptops I use, I don't try to remanufacture them. While I could do the parts cheap, the labor would exceed the cost of the replacement pack.

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Ya, that's exactly what it sounds like.

You'd think that someone along the way would have said "Hey, these run too hot, lets improve the cooling before these ship".

Damned kids. We flipped through 5 static filled stations, and were happy with it!

Isn't this the beginning of Stephen King's "The Stand"? Well, see y'all in Vegas.

If so, William Gibson will be a happy camper then. I, for one, welcome the Turing Police overlords!

What about the severe child porn problem that is apparently plaguing WhatsApp (https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/20/whatsapp-pornography/)? All this move to make communications end-to-end encrypted across all three platforms will do is extend the amount of people that can be reached, and can reach, those resources nearly anonymously -- making it more difficult to investigate the situation.

That sounds reasonable. A 200,000 year long process now takes 100 years. I hope geological changes speed up the same way. That'd move the next Yellowstone caldera eruption from sometime in the next 600,000 years, to possibly next Thursday. Just enough time to plan an apocalypse party!