Of every tv show where a bomb has a convenient countdown clock on it. In the old days it was an alarm clock wired to the bomb, then it was changed to a red digital timer because progress.
Anyone remember the movie V for Vendetta? Conveniently, V's bomb in the control room had a countdown clock so the guy who had no idea what he was doing knew how many seconds he had left.
If you can't read code, you shouldn't be programming!
If you can't provide context for the program that you wrote, then you shouldn't expect anyone to try and read your code.
But "Star Wars: The Last Flop" lost the thread. Instead of a plot that was even more epic and had even more galactic significance, it just doubled-down on the family drama and kind of lumbered around, getting us nowhere new.
Not entirely true. We got improved light speed tech that could take off from inside the loading bay of a freighter and stop right above the surface of a "planet".
But if you want to see a really distopian world, ban federal law enforcement from accessing these local systems. And then watch them install their own.
While the law is still respected, they literally can not install their own. This mass surveillance is an end-run around the Constitution and everyone involved is treasonous.
Unfortunately, the law is not very respected anymore, so these things will continue growing.
What is it with the addiction our governments have to mass surveillance?
The need for power and control. Everyone is born with it, many never grow out of it.
Because people who drive by school buses which have their lights on could be the next person to crash into a school bus full of kids.
Make they pay now rather than later.
How in hell are we going to hold this thing together?
By turning programming into an actual engineering discipline? I dunno. Might be more effective than seat of the pants programming that we encourage now. But wait, yet another language will make it easy to program again.
Lazy and undisciplined. What do you think will happen? Exactly what we are seeing?
The owners are Dutch citizens. They would have been made incredibly wealthy. It is your own fault if you interpreted that statement to mean all Dutch citizens.
Most of the US wants a regime change.
And most Russians want regime change in their country. It won't happen, because the masses DO NOT MATTER. Your life is forfeit to those who have power over you.
The whole point of all of these gyrations is to remove control from you over your own hardware. Nobody really gives a fuck about age verification, or if they do, they want to ensure they are getting minors to exploit.
It's a taxi union.
Congratulations.
"A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten." -- Doug Larson
