That's only because Amazon doesn't deliver to Antarctica. But soon!

You're absolutely right. I'm apparently having a difficult time internalizing the fact that 1995 was 30 years ago!

Despite a ton of wind, the Russian launch capability is degrading

If Putin goes mass suicidal, he can create a pretty damned big mess even if Russia technically loses score-wise.

Tech ALWAYS fails.

It's why the Amish and Taliban will rule Earth after WW3 (if any humans survive).

Isn't there a default "holding pattern" if bleep happens? I think they talk among themselves to each pick a unique altitude level, and then circle there and wait for further instruction. When the problem clears, the jets with the least fuel land first (or land if just plain run out).

...See, I have the best mind ever, everyone says so!

Sell it. It's all worth money if you have the capital for the processing equipment.

To keep applications from using more than 2GB of RAM. It makes it possible to get by on a system with only 6GB installed. (PAE36 means your 32-bit kernel can still see more than 4GB of address space)

Complaining about Microsoft is part of my culturak heritage and you can never take that away from me!

Altered Carbon scratched the same itch for AI dystopias that Terminator and The Matrix sequels cannot scratch. Too bad it was canceled.

Guess I'll have to get my scifi from books like a fricken nerd.

Lip-Bu Tan got the message.

If one doesn't like #7 they don't have to fucking watch it. It might even be good, who knows. Star Wars is sometimes accidentally good under The Mouse.

false narrative that the possession of these nuclear weapons is actually making us safer when they're not.

I suspect it trades one kind of problem for another. While the world has been on average more peaceful after WW2*, it's also possible that a war between superpowers could wipe out the majority of humans and animal life in something comparable to the Permian Extinction Event.

Even as an energy source, nuclear power has often presented a choice between small continuous problems (like carbon smog) versus headline-making events like 3 Mile Island and Chernobyl.

* History is war after war, peace was a fluke.

Well, I would like a Stallman garden gnome.

Sadness.