I can think of a reason why someone would want this. The people running it are building a cardboard toll booth in hopes of catching a few pennies as rubes pass by.

Oh, you mean why would any user want this?

Helium-3 on the moon is the ultimate midwit trap. Not only is it hard enough to fuse that we would already have to have working fusion reactors for 20+ years, it's so sparse on the moon that getting uranium from seawater looks good. If you really want Helium-3, just stick some lithium in a fission reactor, or collect a bunch of tritium and wait a dozen years.

What would be the purpose of having a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve?

Don't worry about it. I'm still embarrassed by a flaunt/flout mixup I made a decade and a half ago.

they could sell all your DNA info on the open market!

Finally, a chance to complete the reproductive act!

It was no 2007, but still quite a year, more than the average (about 1.0) number of years long.

I like the original too. I really like how rough it is cinematically, not like the eternally polished turds that Hollywood poops out these days. And it's fun. Most people don't know that theaters were forced to show it to get some other movie that was expected to be big, but quickly forgotten. Its success was completely unexpected.

The other two (ep5 ep6) are okay, but I completely passed when Episode 1 came out. I still haven't watched it, and don't care. I never even saw memes from it other than "now this is podracing". I ended up with the DVDs from cheap thrift store buys, so I could watch 1/2/3 if I wanted to, but I've never had a reason to sit down and watch it.

I also gave up Star Trek when the reboot happened (blowing up a planet, really?), only watching the CBS broadcast of the first episode of STD and not liking it. Orville was much better. I also ended up with DVDs of those two ST movies cheap, still no reason to watch.

They started because of a little girl named "Amber" who got kidnapped and murdered back in the '90s. Then, just like adding "-oholic" or "-gate" to everything, the trope became "${COLOR} Alert".

That's just because Texas is so big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to Texas.

The trouble is, they're usually from another part of the state. And at least one area (either Houston or DFW) uses local city names in their alerts that nobody out of town has ever heard of. Houston and DFW both have a lot of suburb cities. This in a state where the three major metropolitan areas (if you loosely count Austin and San Antonio as the same area) are at least 100 miles apart at the fringes. So you see a Silver Alert from some generic name like Shiny Valley or something, and have no idea where the fuck that is other than "not here".

I don't mind having a shitty president all that much. That someone like Trump would become president, isn't a complete disaster. Every president has probably disappointed every citizen, in at least some way. And as someone whose political platform since 1992 has been little more than "civil rights uber alles," bitter defeat has been the familiar status quo.

But I hate that Trump, the specific individual, won't ever serve the criminal sentences he's earned (especially in the stolen-documents case). His supporters call the criminal cases "lawfare" but ALL of us are subject to that same thing continuously, and if we did the same things he did, we'd go to prison.

So why aren't the people who call enforcement of our laws "lawfare," condemning the law itself? They should be screaming "let's repeal the Espionage Act!" or trying to legalize all forms of fraud, legalize asking a state to provide incorrect vote counts, or pass an amendment to strike the emoluments clause from the constitution. If you think these laws are unfair, then try to do something about it, even if all you can do is advocate. Bitching on the internet is all I'm asking you to do! Take a stand, even if you otherwise don't really do anything.

But they don't. They want these laws to remain, but their guy should be a lone exception to enforcement. Well, then, fuck you!

I had the same gripe about Bill Clinton's perjury. I didn't really care about the perjury and I thought the question he gave a lie to, was irrelevant to what was being investigated, but there was a catch: I knew if I had done same the same thing, I'd be punished. The person who signed the fucking DMCA expects me to obey it, even though I think the law has no merit? Then I expect that same person to comply with the prohibition on perjury, even though they think the question they're asked under oath, has no merit.

(At least Bush and Obama's use of deadly force against suspected terrorists, was a gray area which could conceivably be part of their legitimate duties as commander of the military. Had they ever faced criminal trials, I honestly don't know what a good-faith jury would decide. But the cases against Bill Clinton and Donald Trump would be easy, non-nuanced slam dunks!)

With Trump's rather obvious (no gray areas here) and easy-to-prove violations, I was hoping to see one of these people finally die by the same sword they heartlessly wield against the public. I want politicians to be terrified of getting caught disobeying the rules they swear to inflict upon everyone.

But once again, that's not going to happen, so I'm pissed off.

Maybe I'm just jealous that they get to be criminals without risk.

It's not even a great fuel for space transportation. It's got great Isp, but not great thrust, and then you have to add equipment to keep it cold enough, and the extra mass makes the extra Isp less useful. As a first stage fuel its lack of thrust is awful without boosters (hello Challenger!), and it needs insulation between the LOX tank to keep it from freezing the oxygen. Methane is second-best, but without all the annoyances of hydrogen. And hydrogen is an asshole to liquefy too.

Ha ha, that's a good one! We all know that civilization will end after a Y2038 bug causes all the nukes to launch!

...but at least people won't be buying new cellphones for stupid money then.

Don't forget, those kids can make voice commands too!

...not to mention the problems with different languages. Too bad if it doesn't know yours.

"But we'll support all the languages!"
No you won't.
"Well, all the major ones... English, Spanish, and (Canadian) French!"
The more languages they try to support, the worse it will perform.