Is that just directly or does it include data that can be purchased through third-part brokers? 'Cause some agencies seem to be using the latter.

Not a lot against the guy, but he should be #5 .. he merely continued the trajectory set by the others.

As opposed to half-assed improvements? Obviously updates/patches pushed to end-users should be "production ready". It's sad that it had to be specifically stated that Microsoft actually worked on these. I imagine people will remain dubious anyway.

So much better than those updates designed to do the opposite. /s

Ironic? Yes. Surprising? No.

I guess it is more complex then:
- eat once a month
- have special hormones/peptides

After all, the snake has energy and is pretty vital again after a few days of digesting. No one would assume the rest of the meal is just shitted out again, it is stored somehow, and can be accessed later. So the interesting question is: how does the snake store energy for 2 or 3 weeks until it hunts again.

On top of that, Pythons are pretty clever. For example they recognize their owner, or house hold people around them. If they are fed, they do not hunt your pets, they know what feeding time is, and what/where to eat.

Personally, I've noticed myself suddenly getting naggingly hungry upon just seeing food...I was fine seconds earlier.
That can happen easy if you have a deficit of some sort and your body "thinks" what you are seeing is helpful.

I had a pretty badly injury about 2 years ago. I am not really such a chicken fan (well, kind of I am, but I am not running around eating chicken from char coal every day), but at that time: I ate nearly every day the whole thing. Including the bones that I could chew, and definitely all the "jelly" around the joints.

My body simply demanded that I eat that. Sometimes I ate 2 half chickens same day, one as lunch and one as dinner.

So for months I only ate meat and fruits, lol. Or very meat heavy Thai dishes (kind of salads) like Tab Wan or Mhu Manau.

Does not really matter what "kind of balanced diet" you eat.
If you spice up your meal with ketchup, drink eat stuff with artificial sweetener ...
Mix the "correct food" together in the wrong way ... and so on.

It does not help to eat healthy stuff over the course of the day: every meal has to be healthy.

You eat fat and sugar same time, with to much sugar, or to much carbs that quickly converted into sugar: your body converts the sugar to fat, more or less instantly. And it stores the fat in your blood, in the fat cells: more or less instantly.

So, your healthy steak with a fatty edge, perfect nutrition, and the oven potatoes - which would not harm: become a fat bomb with a little bit of ketchup. Ooops, the sugar in the ketchup makes the potatoes become sugar faster, spike the fat and sugar levels in your blood, and the insulin makes your body store the nice and healthy fat edge of the steak in to your fat cells.

The government wimped out and pulled funding repeatedly on re-usable launch systems even ones that were showing success.

The ass side of the Sun. Happy? You wanted the answer.

Anyone have any good commentary from flat earthers and moon landing deniers on this? I'm in need of some laughs.

Maybe Amazon can use drones to deliver things ... -- oh, wait. :-)

Since the issue seems to be attorneys not reviewing/checking their sources, I suggest the punishment be along those lines. Perhaps a week of extensively fact-checking *everything* the President says, for each offense.

Makes me think of this from Galaxy Quest: :-)

I play two over 20 year old games.

There is no damn reason that a game stops working, unless you upgrade the OS and for some reason it does not run on the upgrade. That is pretty rare on windows.

So yes, a game company has the fucking obligation to make their game run for ever, just like Word, Excel and Thunderbird, Chrome or Firefox or "insert what ever product" you are using has.

There is no damn reason a game stops working ... it is fraud if it does.

License is ownership.

From what retarded country are you?

In Germany first quarter this year, electricity from renewables was 53%.

That would add the requirement for the central repository as infrastructure which is probably not worth it bandwidth/storage-wise when so many gaming PCs are likely to be online at any time, but the possibility of a malware vector (or some kind of sabotage, maybe people would try to DoS a game by sharing corrupted compiled shaders as a form of protest) is worth considering with or without it.

BOINC protects against errors or sabotage in their distributed computing system by having 2 random different users both run the same task and ensuring that the results from both match before accepting the result. This requires centralized infrastructure, but a duplicated work verification system like this could work. Imagine the centralized system acts as a trusted private torrent tracker, only verifying a shader and making it publicly accessible once multiple uploads match. That would make uploading invalid shaders almost impossible since a group would need to conspire to do it with exclusive earliest-possible access to the game/driver/hardware combo.