Keep in mind that the "American Century" included nuclear nonproliferation. Which, to be sure, was already on life support. But it's dead now. We're all going to miss that.

It also included the US Navy guaranteeing freedom of navigation. We're going to miss that, too.

Whoosh.

Yeah, but it also lead to the kind of feature bloat that turned productive apps in overly complicated whales that were no longer usable for their original purpose.

Or a variant that's closer to Ebola Reston. Airborne, 100% fatality rate (so far only in a couple species of monkeys. So far...)

Google promised that you would never have to delete an email ever? That they would keep all of it forever as though they were doing you some kind of favor?

What are they hoping to achieve at this point?

Both ran without preceding ads. At both, just before the films started, I was thinking the theaters were awfully empty. Then, about 20 minutes in, people started coming in.

Wait a minute, they showed the Artemis crew a story about a guy who is drugged and kidnapped by his space agency and wakes up 11 light-years from home with the rest of his crew dead to bolster their spirits?

...on its face as it boots up?

Aaak. I think it was. That'll teach me to work off of decade old memories...

Well, it probably won't teach me.

Bitcoin doesn't generally provide perverse incentives for people to manipulate political events or assassinate political leaders so they can win bets online.

It may not be as much as we need or hope for, but I still about fell out of my chair laughing. Now I can make things shitty without even getting up!

...that this sort of thing was a possibility when the first ATX power supplies came out. I still say that if you can't disconnect the power source, especially if it's a difficult to remove battery for a laptop or phone, you can't really turn it off.