Very yes. They could reveal their location for starters, which could spoil a mission and put lives at risk, but if they use the same device on both this and the ships network, you risk compromising the ship’s network or even the Navy itself, giving our enemies all kinds of sensitive info.

We are in the midst of a world war being waged in cyberspace and the US is losing. Incidents like this are a genuine threat.

Finally we get to see the whole Jackie Jormp-Jomp story.

“Million to one shot, doc”

Honeywell, the the same company that made my desk fan?

This isn’t a mystery, it says in a few historical farming guides that when your livestock get a boxy look, you’ve done a good job and they are ready for slaughter. Artists take this idea and create an unrealistic ideal. It’s no different a phenomenon than giant anime tiddies.

Some people make up an L in “both” and pronounce it “bolth”. Like an ass.

It takes me 2 hours to travel by bus where it takes me 30 minutes by car in my city. I can’t afford to drive so I cycle. Badly planned routes by for profit bus companies is not how to create a useful transit service.

The real kicker is that the same company does the buses in the neighboring cities with more social clout and they are really good and win awards. People with cars there bus most of the time. They know how to make a good bus network. They choose not to. Our city has more people, even, but they alienated the drivers so thoroughly, it would take a generation of completely overhauled good service to rebuild a trusting ridership base beyond the desperately poor. They’ve built themselves this super expensive problem just to save a few bucks 40 years ago.

Director makes a great film because they want to make a great film. It does so well, Hollywood sees this as a “working formula” and spend millions and millions on market research trying to ensure that they can repeat that working formula again and again. They pass these scripts around to ensure it hits the metrics set out by market research, no one is reading it to see if it is good. Good is subjective, market research is concrete and on paper, connected to profitability.

But movies are art, not fast food. They don’t work like Hollywood tries to make them work. Good movies are made by good movie makers. The Golden Age of TV started by the Sopranos ended when they started telling people like Aaron Sorkin and David Simon to change their scripts to meet market research.

Ablism.

That’s how I roll too.

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I loose weight by eating 2 big meals a day. My go to seems to be frozen pizza (1000 cal each) and and curries (500-600 for curry, another 200 for my naan in butter). I eat 1600-1800 calories a day and feel like a glutton while my scale keeps going in the right direction. 50lbs down so far.

Quest is an economy headset and Index is a premium one. Different markets. The ancient rift s still has a huge number of owners because there is no economy headset as good as it, including all the Quests. If Meta made a headset with a display port instead of streaming blurry video to each eye over wifi, they’d get a lot bigger market share. But they only care about their standalone users, PC is secondary at best.

Taking other people’s creative works to create your own for-profit product is illegal in every way except when AI does it. AI is not a person watching videos. AI is a product using others’ content as its bricks and mortar. Thousands of hours of work on a project you completed being used by someone else to turn a profit, maybe even used in some way you vehemently disagree with, without giving you a dime is unethical and needs regulation from that perspective.

The Wandering Village?

That’s so funny you say that, Jedi Knight is where I first got to appreciate 3D acceleration, too. I must have racked up hundreds of hours in that game once upon a time.

2000 gamer: Yes, I can get this game to run in 1024x768!

2024 Gamer: At what FPS?

2000 gamer: No it’s an RTS.

The Western New England accent is very different from your classic Foggettaboudit east coast accent. Unless you’re an academic linguistics researchers, it’s basically the same as American standard. He was luckily born into his accent.

Their accents are different. Bob has a Midwest touch to his speech, as is standard for Illinois kids like him, Steve speaks classic Western New England, typical of his Massachusetts upbringing, which is almost exactly the same as American Standard.

But these two came up in the New York comedy world around the same time. They weren’t close but had many mutual colleagues. It might be more about a similar performance style than a regional accent you’re noticing.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Again. So good.