Opposing powers say "challenge accepted."

This is and will continue to be an arms race.

London announced they are converting Big Ben to digital.

I would not worry to much - at the speed our government does things, it will probably take 500 years to do it.

I learned to use a sewing machine about 65 years ago, and was still able to use it last week to shorten some trousers. Yes, I did have lessons at one time, but I can still thread a machine without owning the instruction manual.

I can't thread an overlocker because my sight is too poor, not because I can't figure it out from what it does.

The speedometer is probably digital.

But if you can't read an analogue clock, you are probably too dumb to be let out on your own anyway!

In my family, analogue clocks are used to teach children fractions before they start school - so they know how to divide things up between themselves.

I know kids in America are allowed to use guns for this purpose, but in most of the rest of the world, they are not.

All you have to do to avoid being infected is just be healthy.

I used to read a fair amount of books when I was younger. Wide variety of subjects from fiction, science fiction, history and a few biography types. I still have boxes of books I've read in storage. Many others I've redonated to a library for them to sell.

However, within the last decade I haven't bought many books compared to the past. The ones I have bought are mostly history related with only a handful of fiction/science-fiction. When I pick up a new book (new to me) I go to page 100 and start reading. If the story at that point doesn't interest me I put it back. I just can't get into what people consider good sci-fi such as The Expanse series. And forget about the Three Body Problem.

The last books of such type I remember purchasing were Darwin's Radio and Darwin's Children by Greg Baer. At the same time, I can't get into his other works.

I'm sure this has to do with my tastes changing, but considering the number of books out there and how often I'm looking, one would think I would be able to find more.

It might've been some other plant or other living creature (probably a bug, the show had a "bug guy" forensic scientist), but the concept was the same.

I don't recall any actual prophesies from either Defenders Of The Holy Tab Key or the Users Of The Divine Spacebar in the great Whitespace Programming War back in the day, but maybe I just forgot.

Thankfully, the kool-aid wore off of both camps and most of the fighters decided "screw it, fighting a holy war over whitespace isn't worth it, I'd rather spend my time writing good code" and both religions, if they still exist, have very few die-hard followers left.

From a US-close-to-center perspective, thee US far-right and far-left wings both appear to be absolutely batshit mental.

With apologies to bat guano.

... 8.3 billion opinions" isn't far from reality.

I have that problem sometimes. Most often it's because either the material is boring (poorly-written fiction), it's over my head (technical docs I'm under-prepared for), or I'm just tired.

Tired I can fix by setting the book down and reading it another day when I'm more alert.

Another technique that usually works for me is to read a paragraph then stop and think about that paragraph and how it relates to what came before. This technique doesn't always work for me, but it works often enough that I have it in my "bag of tricks."

If you've ruled out fixable things like nutrition, energy level, etc., then you may need to find some other way to ingest information. Someone else mentioned audiobooks. They aren't for everyone, but they might be for you.

Step 1: Before starting kindergarten have someone read a bunch of books to you, and keep going for another year or two after that.
Step 2: Read lots of books with someone, asking them for help when needed.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: PROFIT!

All kidding aside, if your parents, big brother or sister, or other person read lots of age-level-or-slightly-above books to you before starting kindergarten you are much more likely to be reading on grade level by 4th grade than if you don't.

I for one get some private pleasure by reading technical non-fiction that won't benefit me except by the pleasure it gives me to read, analyze, understand, and privately (in my head) critique it.

I think we share the same goal, almost. I would replace "must be" with "very strongly encouraged to" - after all, any network capable of supporting an Amiga with only IPv4 would be capable of supporting a modern Linux system that had IPv4 turned on but IPv6 turned off. If I own said Linux system, why should my ISP or government be able to tell me "not allowed" while allowing the Amiga system to be on the network?

I think our main difference is that I want to make this change as painless as possible for those who aren't on IPv6 yet. Cutting them off the internet for 24 hours is much more painful than necessary.

Also, from what I've seen in the overall discussion, it looks like many of the people who are on IPv4-only are there because their upstream doesn't support IPv6 or doesn't support it properly. You don't want to knock out all of the customers of an ISP for 24 hours just because you are doing a worldwide test. If you can, find a way to test the network without most of them even noticing. If you must, knock them offline for a few minutes, not an entire day.