In this throwaway, instant satisfaction society? It’s all about the price point. And the marketing.

The profit on torches is the rebuy for more. You don’t need to sink a lot in material, it just has to burn bright enough to sell.

Thanks for the link. This has just what I was looking for, even county level. The only thing I don’t know yet is how well it updates, that was an issue in the past between different interfaces and their refreshing. But that was a different internet too.

Anonymous. Sign in to take it. “Requested”.

My default now is to assume it’s real. Haven’t been wrong lately.

Every vote is important.

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?” - David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

So a game of Hangman is the next level to compare AI to humans, above the Turing test.

Why didn’t they just make one Clear and make another Backspace? The concept of erasing the last character had been in typewriters for a while by then, and this is far more obvious. Maybe erasing a single digit in earlier software/hardware was much harder than just clearing it all?

It’s not hiding when it’s supposed to be a secret. A woman voting her own beliefs should be the first step out of that kind of controlling relationship.

I ran into that before with my parents. It hits hard when you realize they are just people with their own flaws.

Pretty useless without the DHD. Must be meant as a one way dumping gate to send people to Ohio.

One missing period created a wonderful visual.

Nvidia Riva TNT, because the onboard graphics were only going to play EverQuest (beta) and Rogue Squadron like a painful slideshow, if at all.

“MY socialism. Not theirs, no one else can have it.”

If you’re doing more than just voting and forgetting, then the message wasn’t about you. I won’t stop asking people what else they’ve done, because how else is awareness of the need of democracy and public involvement supposed to be spread?

If I ever run across an arcade I will first search out for a Galaga to play. Usually is one, which says something. No, I’m not as good as I used to be, but it’s okay. I can lose even a few levels in of brief play and still feel I had fun.

If someone tells me they voted third party, I just tell them that’s great and ask what they’re going to do now. Never get much of an answer.

Handwaving tech and physics is easy. I’m not touching linguistics, other than to say I don’t think you can explain it away. Languages are hard, even if by some magic all species everywhere have some common base, which I doubt.

It’s unAmerican to not want everyone to have their chance to vote. Another example of how the Republican party hates people in general. It gets in their way of power.

Because that’s the punchline. Only when he says it, he has a straight face. He should do standup.