As Weird Al says, It's All About the Pentiums:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Sorta like the "Just In Time" inventory system including off-shored materials and manufacturing that saves companies millions, assuming nothing disrupts the supply chain like a global pandemic or the Russians invading some other country.

Back in my days, that was called a Light Switch.

I bet he keeps his money in USD too.

Zimbabwe has a nice history of worthless currency. Look up the Zimbabwe Dollar. Their inflation rate is down to 255% now, at least. The $2 and $5 notes are being removed from circulation because they're only worth (as April) 1.4 and 3.5 US cents. Currently 1 USD == 322 ZWL so that would now be $0.006 and $0.015 (USD) respectively.

In the third round of New Currencies (they're on the fourth now) banknotes of up to $100,000,000,000,000 ($100 trillion) were issued in early 2009. (This is 1000 Doctor Evils.) You can get the $50 trillion for about $40-$50 and the $100 trillion for about $130-$150 on ebay as collectors items.

There was a good (IMO) 1969 movie named Marooned about the recue of 3 astronauts orbiting to see how the body handled extended weightlessness. Their retros malfunctioned and they couldn't initiate their deorbit burn.

Peck - Crenna - Janssen - Franciscus - Hackman

Look at a daylight map. As you approach high latitudes the days are longer during the summer and shorter during the winter, peaking at 24 and 0 hours respectively north of the Arctic Circle.

Here's a static example for a northern hemisphere summer:
https://academo.org/demos/day-...

John Spartan, you are fined one credit for a violation of the verbal morality code.

I don't know about there, but here in the US and in many other more-populated regions this is where HAM radio operators shine.

Since software is "licensed" instead of "sold" (also applies to DVD/Blu-Ray/Downloaded-but-Protected media files) and the publisher has decided to use DRM then if that DRM blocks a legitimate licensee (should be "owner" but it isn't) from legitimately using that software, then the publisher should be liable for breach of contract. The publisher should have to pay losses plus penalties.

While for a game losses may be minimal it is possible that DRM'ed software could be used in more critical applications. Also, if something like this were to stop some eSport event then the publisher should have to pay all associated costs with rescheduling the event. What if some component in an airline ticketing or dispatching system suddenly caused an airline to have to ground some of its planes? Yep, the publisher who chose to use DRM that illegitimately blocked a proper licensee from using the software should be liable for that too.

Until DRM is as onerous to the publisher as it is to the user this will never get better.

In China they will be able to build wherever they want in the desert.

In the US, there would be environmental lawsuits out the wazoo to protect desert tortoises, soil crust biomes, etc. This has already happened with solar and wind projects. (They DO have SOME argument since due to its nature a desert environment is very slow to repair itself). Throw in resistance by the Nuclear Is Always Bad Regardless people and there would be a good deal of opposition.

Interesting little history lesson.

I would disagree with continuously-falling housing prices being good for society though since a lot of the wealth of the "common man" is in the house they own, at least in the US. If housing prices were to continuously fall then one would be an idiot to buy a house, especially with a mortgage.

Also saying that landlords invest nothing to increase the value of their property and just reap the benefits of other things increasing the amount of rent they can charge is simplistic. To make a property suitable for commercial use requires quite a bit of infrastructure improvements.

If my choice is to stay on an old OS that won't get security updates or install Linux I know what I'll do.

I have Linux on one low-end junk laptop right now. I have Windows on four other PCs varying from an i7-920 to a i7-8700K. The last one is a gaming PC with an Aorus Z370 MB with a TPM header but not the chip. Later I MAY but the module when prices calm down (if I can even find it) so I can go to Win-11. The others don't meet the processor requirements so it'll be Linux for them. If I build a new gaming system by then I probably won't buy TPM hardware unless it's really cheap.

It's a Tulip Bulb. Except you can't eat it when nobody wants to buy it.

Remember when the Left was pushing to restore the Fairness Doctrine to use against Right Wing Talk Radio? Funny how with the rise of the left-leaning social media platforms that disappeared and now government control of the content of private-but-corporate-controlled (via ownership of the "microphone") speech is now considered a Bad Thing by the Left and a Good Thing by the Right.

When can I buy my Chryslus?