As if solar and wind plants are substantially easier/cheaper/longer lived than hydro.

Ignoring the cost/kWH of construction, wind generation requires more than a lot of maintenance, and solar similarly. The relatively massive upfront cost of hydro is offset (or amortized, I forget) by the longevity of most dams, associated infrastructure, and generators. Mind you, the hidden costs of hydro power include displacement of the people who lived in the impoundment, the other life such as wildlife, forests etc.

No enterprise of Man is without impacts, noticeable, hidden, and future, and the responsible equation is the cost-benefit equation. Real costs, real benefits. Forward-looking.

Yes. There are some who run on ARM64 and would use this.

It is the foundation of Communism that social and economic classes deprive the 'lower' classes of their rightful share of economic output.

It is the effect of Communism that, having been instituted, a new class is formed, that of ruler. And they operate to their own benefit, usually with little benefit for any other class.

Unlike Capitalism, Communism will resort to physical violence when the rulers are threatened. Capitalism has this interesting feature of self reinvention. New classes spring up where opportunity arises. Though in this context, 'classes' is more like ' members', since classes are generally not so fluid.

But it is an old trope, somewhat that the rich get richer. As old as the urge of Man to rule others, and such urge should resisted at every opportunity.

You are pure frakking spam. In fact you are the current more offensive form of spam.

And you should know better. So go flush your workstation and get the virus out, or repent.

Mac I've been interested in buying in 30 years.

Nope, I didn't buy that one either...

Citation, please. I'm reading the keyboard with Touch ID is just a hardware purchase, no subscription.

Prove it, prove me wrong, and watch the mod points valorize

You've overlooked the obligatory Microsoft- or Windows-bashing.

Remember when iot was 'Winblows' or 'WIndoze'? And those responses to questions about software that did-not-exist in the FOSS universe, as if berating you for doing things that could not be done on Linux (BCD being the red-headed stepchild of FOSS at the time) was useful.

Sure felt good, though. For them. I lost interest when my Novell answers were greeted with 'NT Server roools!' drivel. You can imagine the catcalls for Token-Ring help.

FTL drives are stupid and dumb. From there on, interstellar Sci-Fi is all stupid and dumb, and you either come for the story, or you come for the lulz. 'Believable' is something i define as 'willing to suspend disbelief...

But I mostly go for the popcorn. So long as the flick isn't dependent on gore and woke fantasy I'm probably ok.

BTW, you gotta go see EPIC. It is.

Concerts are too expensive for me.

I've ripped my CDs in several formats. And held in several different spaces, including local.

Buying more CDs at yard sales etc. is my filling in the library. Of course desirable music is harder and harder to find, but I had a substantial library before streaming was possible.

But lots of us do not want to bother with ripping media to be enable it for our portable use, with the device of our choice.

Perhaps what Spotify has figured out is that I, for one, do not like what they *want* me to like. I let DJ X choose sometimes, and the selections are bizarre. They are selling me either what they have, of what they can sell cheap. I wonder of the Beatles catalog gets more revenue per play than today's new cute saccharin.

So the root cause is bad/missing input sanitation? Or is the defect the inability of the vendor to maintain the code to current standards and needs?

Any image from this failed Starliner mission might serve.

If you demand physical evidence, you're shortchanging yourself. But I understand your concern. The root causes of this failed mission, management decisions, is influence greatly by selection of the management team. If they are chosen for primary qualifications other than knowledge, skill, and experience, well that's a problem, distinguished only by severity. And in this example, little decisions have big consequences. Diverting attention and resources away from mission safety and success, no matter what they are, is an impediment to success. And NASA exists only to be successful in its stated missions.

If you were paying attention at the time, you would have known that their successful docking at the ISS was, in fact, influenced by chance and luck as much as engineering and system performance. I haven't read this incident reporting, but it became evident that the failures on approach posed a real danger to the ISS.

Inexcusable management failures. This ought to stop, the Shuttle program was sufficient warning that space is hard, but bad decisions are inexcusable.

Try going into a hardware store and buying a bit of pipe for your zip gun. Or to 'finish' your 3D printed pistol.

If you do not tell them, they know not what you are doing. It's just a piece of pipe.

OTOH, try asking around for a plan for a sheet metal, 'welded' AR-15 lower receiver. Then ask your local machine shop[ if they would cut these for ya. An afternoon of learning to stick weld and you are well on your way. Ask for two of every piece, so your first attempt need not delay you much.

The 2A world considers this topic one of 'if you can't make one, you can't own one'. Study the concept before you go all AC and whine about misunderstandings.

'I have written(*) '

'(*) Okay, conceived.'

And you're what, deceptive? Or just trivializing this thread?

Damn it, I fell for your clickbait.