Or explained explosions caused by anti-ship missiles and/or torpedoes.

Make it very clear to the ship crews: screw around with the cables and it will be the last thing you ever do.

I was thinking the same. "If you need a free office suite, you could just use LibreOffice and not worry about ads."

CowboyNeal would approve.

Isn't "tedious, undifferentiated tasks such as learning codebases, writing and reviewing documentation, testing, managing deployments, troubleshooting issues or finding and fixing vulnerabilities" part of development? I don't do much coding anymore, but developing code involves all these things, not just entering lines of code into a project.

There is already an optical form of archiving--print.

Archive copies of data should not be working copies. Archive copies are meant to be put somewhere safe so they can be recalled if needed. Want searchable digital copies? Those are working copies, meant to be poked and prodded and searched. If they get corrupted or run into a technological dead end where they can't be converted to a new format, you carefully re-scan the archive copies. The archive copies go back into protective storage and the new digital copies go out into the world.

Printed forms of the data aren't convenient to search that's for sure--but properly made (archive-quality ink and acid-free paper, etc) and preserved they can last centuries. And you don't have to worry about the file format being impossible to read by future technology. We have already seen that digital archives can disappear like a fart in the wind.

Paper isn't perfect but in my experience proves to be a better archive vehicle of anything that can be preserved on paper than anything digital.

I'm in America and I'd say it is an issue but not as much of one as you might think. Yea it takes a little bit of planning but we've taken road trips of >250 miles with our EV. Now that Tesla is opening up the Supercharger network to mother brands, it will get better. I'm even planning a cross country trip in our Tesla, and the charging stops nicely align with my planned rest breaks.

Out of curiosity, where do you live that EV charging seems so easy?

That's like putting a Starbucks inside a Starbucks.

But aren't those executives whose bonuses are affected the very same ones who would have to enact the change?

As an (electrical) engineer myself there's no way I would want to be in upper management. If I did I'd be a manager not an engineer. But that's just me.

It's the "interesting offers" that are my biggest turnoff. I do not need the OS provider using my platform for their advertising. The only time I use Windows is in a VM for the few apps that I use that are only available via Windows...and even then I'm starting to use Coherence mode (I use Parallels on a Mac) so I don't even see the Windows desktop at all, just the application.

Airborne=aforementioned

You print it, it gets proper security/content reviews, and if it passes muster, you scan it into the unclassified system.

Efficient? Not particularly. Foolproof? No, there's probably some sort of microdot encoding that can get printed in amongst the legitimate text, but that would somehow have to pass the airborne security checks and also be readable after printing and scanning.

Where is "here" and what material are they made of?

I'm not trying to be a smartass and also not trying to sound dumb (I may sound that way anyway) but I'm going to assume you're not from the US. Here in the US a typical home roof is covered with asphalt shingles. The phrase "replacing the roof" typically only means removing and replacing the shingles; the underlying roof structure remains in place.

Some roofs use shingles that are so thick that they are called "100 year roofs." I have family that had that kind of roof, we would joke that the shingles would outlast the occupants.

Having said all that, if something went over my head and I wasted my time replying, I'll take my lumps now.

Who's the more stupid, the elected officials that do this or the voters who keep re-electing them?

While I may disagree with the intent of the legislation, I agree with the basic premise that law should not be open interpretation, depending on a court ruling to determine what they really mean... because a we have seen in recent years, the make up of the court can flip judicial precedent on its head at any given time.

If the courts determine that a law says X when it was intended to mean Y, then Congress needs to get off its ass, do its job, and rewrite the legislation to mean Y. Maybe there can be a process where the courts can be consulted to make sure that bill Y really means Y without violating checks and balances, and this judicial precedent as case law legislation from the bench shit can end.

Generally no, but those few who scream "my rights! 'Murica!" tend to do it way louder than the polite ones with restraint and self-control.