Now we just need to determine the world's saddest song to play on it...

Very insightful. Very few things are truly a zero-sum game in life,
that attitude completely discounts any win-win situations stupidly, selfishly and needlessly.

Yet, the firings and beatings will continue until morale improves!

Correct. This was stating the required ride fee for any potential hitchhikers that might get picked up. It was meant as a joke (mostly).

Gentlemen!

We CANNOT have a Quantum AI Space Laser Agile Computing Constellation GAP!

"Cow Corn", or Field Corn, as it's properly known, mostly goes to produce a large amount of a little product you might have heard of - automotive fuel - Ethanol, or "GASOHOL" as it's sometimes called.

Plus, it's still used to feed cows as noted, so land to grow Field Corn is not a waste by any means, it's use is more important than ever.

"Cow Corn" - it's not just for dinner anymore! (moo)

The only remotely interesting thing was about Apple making them change the computer since it became evil. I had heard before that they are militant in movie productions about not letting the "Bad Guys (TM)" have an iPhone!

I thought about that and it came to me that it was a huge spoiler for a suspense movie, a double agent having an Android would be a dead giveaway!

Also, I can't believe they're going to call the supercomputer "Colossus"! Holy fuck, did anyone of them even watch that movie?

What does the Time Variance Authority have to do with all this?

Mewbits?

Well stated. Thanks!

It was caused by laser rot, or Laser Diode degradation. The early players had lasers in them running as hard and hot as they could make them at the time, and over time the power output would decrease and the players would start skipping, or only work on their side, and it would get worse over time.

I had 3 of the Sony D-5 original "Discman" players and they all did the same thing, they lasted with daily use for about a year or so then started to exhibit the problems. This was only a problem for the first few years of CDs, by the time re-writable CD's came out, the the lasers were capable of much higher power and would last much longer at the lower power (playback mode) settings.

We could go live nestled up close to a red dwarf that has tens of billions of years of life left. We could dyson sphere it.

I'm using "could" very loosely here.

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Some "QRP" or low power experimenters as you state play with very low power (under 5W), but most of the 900 MHz activity is simple analog or digital repeaters, like APCO/P25. If they are using standard LMR (2 way radio, like public safety) repeaters, they are using power levels from 35 to 300W TX Power typically. The antenna gains used give them 1x to 10x gain (from unity to ~10dB), so that gives typical total ERP values of 35 to 3000W.

Most amateurs using this band do not use full legal power there, unless they are playing with EME (Earth-Moon-Earth) stations or other specialized point to point applications.

Also, 900 MHz ham operations are not that common, in my state they are almost exclusively only in large metro city areas, and for example there are 500 repeaters total on all the various ham bands, and of them there are only maybe 25 total 900 MHz systems, state wide. Most systems are on the 2 meter or 70 cm (440 MHz) bands, with 220 MHz as the next most popular band.

Note that there are protected "weak signal" areas of the band reserved for those "QRP" or ultra low-power operators and for things like satellite signal earth station works. There are distinct "preserves" or areas of the band that are designated for that low power use only and repeaters or any other signals exceeding 1 or 5 W max are very much prohibited in these parts of the band.