Me neither but I ordered 3 dozens to take the RAM out of them and put it in my Beowulf cluster. At $1,299 for 1TB, it's really a steal at that price for 1TB

From TFS:

I'm gonna pirate your Pion, by changing it to Prion, (for the ARRRRR). ;-)

"prevent automation"

Buggy Whip Makers would like a word with you.

While your post has some interesting tidbits, some even worthy, the conclusions are incorrect. You're blaming government intervention while proposing government intervention as a solution.

The more government is involved in economic matters, the more screwed up things get, because that's the nature of regulations. We just need ONE MORE regulation, and that will solve all the problems (and somehow creates additional problems).

Supply Demand curves exist in all markets. Pushing them around artificially is a recipe to inefficiencies.

Correct: I do not grasp. I think you simply don't notice where the equator was, because it's so common for it to be below the centerline that nobody notices or pays attention.

I gave links to six examples of the common ordinary maps you see all the time; I could have given a hundred. Did not even one look famililar?

Here's a clue. If on a Mercator projection Antarctica isn't larger than all the other continents combined... the equator isn't centered.

You already explained where, and why. This is why they put the equator below the center:

With Passkeys, they have access to your stuff without any oversight by courts and discovery. There are ZERO 4 and 5th Amendment rights to stuff protected by passkeys. They can compel you to unlock your phone, and put your finger on the print reader, and facial scan you .... all without your permission or CONSENT. As much stuff behind that initial Passkey on your phone (ApplePay/GoogleWallet, Banks, everything).

Legally it is untenable how much access they have with Passkeys.

Passcodes cannot be compelled (XKCD hammer notwithstanding). 4th and 5th Amendments apply.

If passkeys are movable, then they can be duplicated and reused by nefarious actors as easy as this seems to indicate here.

I have not, and do not, and never will trust passkeys as primary security for anything.

Passkeys can be compelled legally, with and sometimes without a warrant. Passwords cannot be compelled at all. SCOTUS has already set the rules.

"Dark" just means "we can't see it". Anything that isn't either emitting light or other electromagnetic radiation, or reflecting light from something it's close to that's emitting light or other electromagnetic radiation, is "dark".

The data is, if you look at the motion of the stuff we see, and calculate the motion based on the masses of stuff we see, the trajectories deviate. The obvious thing to guess is that it's the gravity of something (or things) we don't see. This has worked before-- for example, this is how Neptune was discovered; it's how close binary stars were discovered.

An alternate hypothesis is that there's some other force pulling or pushing on them, or else gravity doesn't work the way we think it works. Either way, you're hypothesizing something unknown.

Every large galaxy is believed to have a black hole. Dwarf galaxies (like the Magellanic Clouds) may or may not.
  https://www.astronomy.com/scie...
  https://astronex.net/why-is-th...
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Exactly. That's what happens when you move the center of the map up above the equator; the bottom part of the map goes off the page. If you kept the bottom part on the page, the equator would be in the centered. By definition.

Did you not actually read what I posted that you're responding to?

A Mercator projection which actually showed the entire world would be infinite in size, because the north and south poles project to + and - infinity. Every Mercator projection leaves out parts of the world near the poles. However, the standard Mercator projections leave out more of the southern polar regions than they do of the northern polar regions. Which means the equator is below the center of the map.

Details bore me. Describing a person's outfit in detail is filled with information I could not care any less about. Its not that I can't visualize, because I can and do.

I do understand why people DO like that kind of stuff, it's just not me.

Don't need a search warrant to dig though the trash can. People spew their data all over the place, and they just vacuum it all up.

I never really enjoyed reading long fiction. I read a lot, just not fiction.

I was made to read fiction in school (a long time ago), and it always bored me to read stories that had nothing I wanted. I don't find it entertaining or even relaxing.

I've read plenty of books, and in my younger years, used to read those thick IT tomes on Windows and Linux and ....

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The lie (you've done nothing wrong) is revealed, by the factoid* that the average person commits several crimes every day, unwittingly.

*factoid: Assumed but never really provable

This is just a kindly reminder to NEVER TALK TO THE POLICE.

Ever.

"I respectfully decline to answer any questions. I invoke my 1,2,4,5 Amendment Rights. I do not consent to any searches. I refuse all roadside exams, and wish to have my lawyer present during any further interactions. BTW, here is my lawyer ... {pushes the button* on my phone}. My Attorney will represent me fully during this interaction, you may address them directly."

* https://www.attorney-shield.co...

Then STFU.

I am impressed by the fact that American Education is so bad that most people have no idea there are atlases with many different projections for different projections, and that you need Mercator to NAVIGATE as in "Know where the hell you are going".

For analysing land areas you use something else.

It is no good using a hammer where you need a screwdriver. And if you don't know anything KEEP YOUR BLOODY MOUTH SHUT!

We all know "you have the right to remain illiterate". We just don't understand why you think this is a good thing!