Axions are as elusive as WIMPS - they are only hypothesized and not detected yet. Yes, they make a lot of sense, but so did Supersymmetry, and now, particle physicists have given up on it, because they just could not detect any supersymmetric particles.

Hear, hear.

Have you ever been to the Bismarck, North Dakota area? Every bar is a cowboy bar. It's actually a pretty interesting mix of cowboys, "cowboys", college kids, and everything in-between, with the wide variety of Jukebox plays that accompany that mix.

You act like I'm ruining some cowboy looking dude's evening by making their friends briefly think "Mr. Garth Brooks" has a secret passion for Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. It's not like I'm throwing a 10-minute long metal rendition of "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" out there, ffs. I probably would have played the song I played anyway, so no harm, no foul. Don't worry, Skynyrd will be on next.

Is it a bit of a dick move? Eh. Fine. Sure. So is the "Play next" feature.

Honestly, I tend to agree with you: If the legal analysis is correct, complete, and accurate, than who I am I to disagree with three dudes that are far smarter than I am, and have vastly more information on the topic. That being said, I read this as the FCC did an analysis, determined the cost didn't meet the $100M, so the rules determined they didn't need a comment period. This panel of judges basically said "We didn't like your analysis, so we did our own. Suck it." Or am I missing a key point here?

Two Trump appointees and one from Bush V1, forgive me for being skeptical.

Everyone knows that's disinformation to hide how deeply rooted in history opposition to vaccines really is.

Lol. So I take it you've never been to a bar with a jukebox before? "I wonder if everyone will like this song" has never entered the conscious decision making process for a single song ever picked on a jukebox. My taste in music doesn't match yours, you can probably deal with it for 3 minutes. Maybe there's a song featuring tiny violins I can play for you?

As I said: There are proposed paths, but they have even more work cut out for them. In fact, I called them more elusive.

And LIGO can't test the small Black Holes hypothesis. It measures gravitational waves in the wrong frequency band. The lowest mass it can detect is about the size of a neutron star binary (~ 3 solar masses). Advanced LIGO will be able to detect masses down to a single neutron star (1.4 solar masses), still too large for the hypothetic small primordial Black Holes.

Yes, the "play next" feature in TouchTunes is dumb. It's not just limited to the app, you have the same feature available standing at the machine too. It's happened quite a few times where I'd queue up a few songs, then sit there for an hour while someone else is throwing crap in front of them. Just send a crabby message to TouchTunes, they'll refund the plays at least.

I do enjoy "music sniping" people with the app though. Wait till there's a pause in the music and someone walks up to the jukebox to put their selections into it. You can use the app to sneak in some annoying song, or just something that doesn't "fit" with the establishment or person that was just up there, before they get their selections in. You can occasionally overhear a pretty good "I can't believe you played this crap" type of reaction when they get back to their table. (Yes, I know. Stupid. But hey, simple pleasures in life.)

Following rules are only for republicans. Carefully dotting every I and crossing every T at every step of the rule making process. On the other hand Trump doesn't even cross the T in his signature on his executive orders.

Presidents only have power when kings... I mean republicans rule.

The Minesweeper strategy is in fact the only way to do Science. Each theory in Science can be formulated as a negative, as events ruled out by the theory. That's how falsification works. If something happens which has been ruled out by the theory, then the theory has a flaw.

Perhaps. But if the devices have never been used and are still sealed in the original packaging, then I don't see a problem. They aren't getting dusty, and no parts are wearing out.

The "Time to move on" call is all nifty and fine.

The problem is: Where to?

We have no obvious path, and the ones proposed so far are even more elusive. Physicists would love to move on, and the ones leading a promising new way will be hailed as the Newtons and Einsteins of the 21st century. Currently, we are in the process to mark out all possible places to look, and we are crossing out the squares we have searched so far. Each square cleared is a success, because it narrows down the places to look even further.

Are you sure?

There are dozens of models available on Amazon.

Several have USB to connect to a computer for conversion, starting at $19.

It looks like there are plenty of COTL solutions that do exactly what is needed.

You just need to train a monkey to load the tapes.