Always remember to get a receipt when going to the bathroom.

Fuck Everything, We're Doing Sixteen Octects

Pro tip: Many automatic transmissions also start out in 2nd gear if you put the shifter in 2nd. They downshift to the selected gear as well.

ArduPilot is GPL3, dude.
Since the drones were end-user devices, you can direct your complaints to /dev/nul

What you need is the Soldierbot v2.1 license, but that has different, questionable, encumbrances.

Back in my day, I remember:

1. Dr Who figured out the plot using reason and logic.
2. He didn't run around waving his sonic screwdriver like a magic wand.
3. Less running around and explosions.
4. Occasionally he would have a companion not from 20th/21st century Earth.

Also, CGI has gotten so cheap and effective, it's being over used.

I've got my asbestos longjohns on as a precaution, but you know I'm right.

Maybe you went to a technical school with no humanities. Tech classes usually handed out exams with questions and response areas mixed together. Humanities classes with essay answers often used the blue books and separate question sheets. I assume that this is because essay answers vary more in length than technical computations so they didn't have to leave the maximum space after each essay question. Also, they probably wanted the notebook-style blue lines to try to improve the odds that the longhand writing was at least partially legible. (Back then, the available copy machines were all monochrome.)

Remember those little booklets of blank notebook-style paper they gave you in which to physically scrawl your exam answers under the watchful gaze of the proctors?

That was a blue book.

Canonically, we don't know that Data didn't self-accessorize after his construction. It seems like he would have been perfectly capable of doing so.

Not sure if we should hand this discussion to a grad student or AI.

I agree that robot designers should embrace carcinisation , but we must be pragmatic and recognize the obvious need for tentacles.

That must have been why flying was so much safer back in Ma Bell's heyday.

The difference doesn't mean a rat's ass to the customer. Either way, no phone call.

OK, but do you really want to go back to paying the current equivalent $10 per minute for the privilege of using a piece of dedicated copper for a cross-country call?

BTW, "nine 9s" is one just second downtime out of 30 years continuous service. I was there back in the day of analog long distance, and I can assure you that reliability was nowhere near that. For example, if you tried to make a call on Mother's day after dinner, your chances of actually getting through were often less than 50%.

Getting a "fast busy signal" when you picked up the phone was also a thing that happened at a couple of other random times per year for no apparent reason. I hate to admit it, but my current VoIP service piped over the crappy cable company's coax is probably just as reliable as our POTS line was 50 or 60 years ago.

Look at your own post. You didn't say anything about "generations" at all.

So you're saying that the only way to solve the climate crisis is to use ICE engines with genuinely carbon-neutral fuels.

That's going to be about $20/gallon.

In the worst case, there are workarounds for that, like smart clothes dryer circuit splitters.