What "excellent film adaptation" are you talking about? There's one old animated adaptation, and that's is. There's also a movie that bears the same title, but it's apparently a coincidence: nothing except the title and names of some of main characters matches, thus I don't see how it could be relevant to Tolkien's books.

The first thing about adapting a book is reading it at least once, and Peter Jackson skipped that step.

You misspelled "intrusive".

That's a blockade done against human drivers, who (usually) know how to drive off the railway track, and the blockaders are only protesting rather than actively trying to murder. They stop cars from passing but don't trap them on the tracks.

What GP suggests is that by people simply standing there, the self-driving car's software will stop on the track without aggressively trying to escape.

Here in Poland we have campaign teaching people how to get out of a railway crossing if you get stuck. A bunch of differently-smart humans didn't even contemplate driving through the bar gate, and in some cases didn't even evacuate the car either. The bars are designated to break easily when forced by a car, but somehow in a stressful situation drivers regard them as sacrosanct. As Waymo cars behave that way in about every potentially dangerous situation, I'm afraid they'll do the same when on a railroad crossing as well.

He had WiFi or 4G on the aircraft carrier? I don't think so.

And if the Strava app uploaded the logged run later when it got connectivity at port or something, by then the ship was long gone.

> "The cloud" just means "Somebody elses C: drive"

Nah. Nobody is dumb enough to run a cloud service on Windows.

Another piece of evidence: a link in the summary goes to https://support.microsoft.com/ which is currently tits up. Apparently they're hosting that site on Windows and/or staffing it with their employees.

Keep your energy to provide it to Canadians for cheaper. The US has plenty of oil and coal I've been told.

and all the disgusting corporations putting profits above people's livelihoods along with it.

That is all.

I run Debian 13 and Chromium has been available as a package for a long time.

So I'm not sure why you would want to wait for Google to release Chrome on ARM, since it's essentially Chromium with Google's nastyware added to it. Just use Chromium.

Now I definitely know I don't want a Galaxy phone as my next phone.

The policy changes have been rolled back. Heck, it even looked possible that Russia would have its first non-rigged election in their history, but for obvious reasons that couldn't have been allowed to happen.

They don't need to stall forever -- there are only two important dates: 2026 midterms and 2028. Afterwards, even if Reps win your election, it won't be Trump's administration, and he doesn't care who ends up paying as long as it doesn't interfere with his opportunities for graft. If he can continue his gravy train till 2028 and his and his friends' ill gotten gains don't get taken back immediately after, all is good.

Well, it's Dems who have been the more racist party, both historically (1860 1910 1960) and today. But then, both of your parties are very very similar. They do have some disagreements on social issues, and they fight violently _which_ of their donors deserves more of public money, but their core platforms are pretty much the same: insane corporatism.

It's kind of like claiming that brown socialism and red socialism are opposites when they're factions of the same side.

Compare with eg. the country that I just received another lecture to not call them "Russia" -- which went from communism to fascism without any change to internal policies.

There's plenty of mirrors. For example .ax, .es, .mx, .fr, .lol, .info are all online and not domain-squatted.

Big Tech will buy the latest and greatest in power generation / suppliers, and the general population will be left with the legacy power infrastructure that will keep on aging and becoming more and more obsolete, because domestic power isn't where the big money is.