What made the NES great was that it brought the video chip bus out to the cartridge. It was incredible what could be done with the right mapper chips. That and Nintendo's control over who could make games, which was at least successful in avoiding the shovelware that caused the crash. Not that I cared, because I jumped that post-crash generation completely, and didn't get back into consoles until the Sega Genesis.

But SMS was a total loser in the US, partly because NES was a juggernaut, and partly because it simply failed to be interesting enough. At least Sega succeeded in making the Genesis run 99% of those games with an adapter.

And why aren't we replacing CEOs with AI, which can hallucinate and lie just as effectively?

I am reminded of the company in the World Trade Center that had off-site backups. Which they kept in the other tower.

Even worse, Texas has three main population centers, 200+ miles away from each other, with a lot of suburb cities in the DFW and Houston areas, that nobody outside that local area has ever heard of. Then the alerts get posted with the name of the individual city, and are broadcast statewide. Just where the fuck is "Cypress Hills" anyhow?

But Paul is dead.

In other words, "you're holding it wrong"?

$50 is a bit large. I start with a $200 or so in twenties, and as I need to use cash from time to time, I'll preferentially break the 20s and keep mostly 10s and 5s. I will also try use up my ones if I have much more than ten of them, or if they make change easier. I also keep a coin pouch along with the cash. My most important objective is in the rare case of eating out, I can have appropriately small cash for tips and for when the server isn't able to break the tab among multiple people.

With their performance on Ariane 6, I have serious doubts that they can do that in five years.

But you're okay with breaking news about the latest Pac Man clone games?

It's like they've reached the part of game theory where they don't expect anyone to return, therefore they play the "final move" to screw the opponent. They've gone so far from trying to attract customers that they've forgotten it's even possible for a customer to ever return again, much less that they might want to. So they're basically just down to strip-mining their customer base for a few more pennies of profit.

Yeah, it's time for CEOs and middle management to be replaced with AI. Nobody would notice the difference, they already lie and hallucinate like bad managers.

They rejected the concept of reusable rockets years ago when Falcon 9 was starting to eat everyone's lunch. Actually they didn't just reject it, they ridiculed it, saying that then they would have to fire all their rocket builders, think of all the poor unemployed rocket builders! You know, the ones who haven't been building too many rockets the past few years because Ariane 6 was fucking years late. And it's still expendable.

It is not a typo, you just don't know Atari stuff. 6502C is a custom bond-out of the NMOS 6502 with a pin to synchronize with the graphics chip.

So we should set safety standards based on a very bad reactor design (nobody but the Soviets used it), that was fucked around with by some "scientists" trying to see what happens if you turn off its safety stuff? And Fukushima was an old design that we really should stop using, but anti-nuke weenies keep preventing newer reactors with better designs from being built, so these creaky old reactors keep getting re-licensed for another 20 years.

Isn't colored glass the main problem with glass recycling? Once there's any color in it, you have to keep it away from clear and other colors. Most people are stupid enough that they would likely spoil the feedstock if they bothered to recycle glass.

Anyhow, I at least make an effort for aluminum (I get a free lunch or so worth of cash for three bins), and steel cans (city recycling). I will also put out big metal junk on the curb during bulk collection weeks, and it disappears before collection, as expected.

Texas is up to at least V in their current AAA-9999 series that they've been using for around 20 years. But it's no big thing. They interrupted an AA9-A999 series (if I recall correctly) before that after only a few years. Those plates had a background that went into the number area, maybe that had something to do with why they ended it, though it seems like a silly reason to suddenly start a new number series. I would not be surprised to see them resume it when the current series runs out.