Like counting their Facebook followers? They sure aren't doing much of that "governing" stuff.

...which is the best kind of possible. Saturn is thought to have a solid core although I doubt we have the technology to build anything capable of surviving the conditions there.

Hypercard was basically an interface-first database app which let you build interfaces easily to do things with the records. You had a "stack" of "cards" and each card had properties. If you wanted to make your own custom address book (no one wanted to do this, in reference to your second sentence) or track the migratory habits of swallows, you could throw a bunch of fields on a page layout and boom you had a whatever tracking "application." It's been a while, but I remember mostly being able to add fields and images. You could add extensions that would make the software do more interesting things, but most of those cost money. You could script more interesting behavior than just filling in some fields, but that was beyond the abilities of most users without training — and more importantly, interest.

As it shipped, Hypercard was less useful than a decent address book and notepad application would have been to the average user. Apple really missed the boat there. If they had just had a drag and drop "scripting" system based on flowcharts, and given away just a little more functionality, Hypercard might have appealed to more users instead of eventually getting overwritten with homework. But hey, free floppy!

It probably will. Note that it's a ROG Xbox Ally and not a Microsoft Xbox [HandheldBranding]. This is just a Microsoft-guided ASUS product. Their existing device runs full Windows. They will not want to offer less functionality.

What I want to know is how well it will run Linux, or SteamOS. 24GB is actually respectable. That's a reasonable desktop replacement for most people. I don't care if it's Xbox branded. I won't buy it because it's from ASUS and their support has gone to crap. But I'm still curious about whether it's good for anything but Windows. If they are, then someday I will very likely buy one used. And that used interest will help them keep resale value, and therefore help justify their purchase price...

Open the pod bay doors Gemini!

I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.

Definitely much more dramitc flair than the lengthy explanation I was expecting about how it does not have any pod bay doors to open!

We should absolutely do ecological studies to determine the likely effects of eradicating the dangerous species of mosquitoes. However, given the benefit to human health we should absolutely not just assume that "bad things" will happen and abandon a plan that could save millions of lives. Indeed, it may be that the largest ecological impact will be human population surges in areas hit currently by mosquitoe-borne diseases like malaria and if that is the case I do not see how it is at all ethical to tell all those people that millions of them have to die to preserve the ecological balance.

Because the female mosquitoes from the mating are sterile but the males are fine and carry the trait. Presumably those males mate with unaffected females of their generation and produce another generation of sterile females and carrier males. This can continue until there are no remaining fertile females, then they all die out.

Thosands, if not millions, of species have gone extinct since humans evolved and not all of those extinctions are due to humans.I would agree that ecological studies need to be done before we try this but if we keep some mosquitoes in captivity we can always re-populate the species should the ecological rebalancing cause problems. However, I see no real possibility that such a rebalancing would be an existential threat to us. Indeed, we've already eradicated multiple species including passenger pigeons, dodos and wooly mammoths all of which were food sources and so far more likely to impact human existence than mosquitoes.

It's also not at all clear why we would know so much better in a few centuries - science can't deliver certainty and you cannot calculate the odds of something you do not know anything about occurring...but given that none of the species we have inadvertently eradicated - plus the few we have deliberately killed like the small pox virus - have had serious consequences for us it seems highly unlikely that eradicating the dangerous species of mosquitoes would harm us but, even if it did, we could still re-populate from those we have repserved in captivity.

That's too specific. The more general question we need to know the answer to is what would the ecological impact be of removing mosquitoes from the environment. It might be that some predator populations would decline but it may also be that some other species surges in numbers to fill the ecological gap left by eradicating mosquitoes. It would not be a great improvement if mosquitoes were replaced by some other, potentially worse biting insect or, if the population of predators relying on mosquitoes declined would that allow some other insect population to surge as a result?

We'd obviously need answers to this broader question before eradicating them but, provided we kept some mosuitoes alive in captivity, it is much easier to undo an eradication that it is to undo the introduction of a new species and given the potential benefits, provided we have this safeguard and the studies suggest no significant, negative ecological impact it would seem reasonable to try it.

Look up Richard Dodi and Paul Bennewitz if you want real evidence about how they will dispose of ordinary citizens for their military psyop campaigns.

It's a "UFO Story" but literally nobody investigating the phenomena believes that it was a real UFO story.

Still, a smart American entrepreneur died at the hands of military intelligence.

Dodi is now "on the UFO circuit" giving talks to chumps.

> the fact that killing off all mosquitos

Literally nobody is proposing this.

Viruses aren't really even alive, though. They're genetic coding errors that get copied when introduced to a biological system.

It would be a good point if they were alive. But they're not.

There are no known species that primarily feed on mosquitos, and swallows don't go after anything that small.

Spend some time observing swallows feeding if you're interested in it and your eyes are good enough.

No, QuickDraw is like DirectX, it's totally pixel/bitmap based and nothing at all like PDF or its actual precursor, PostScript. And a universal top-edge menu bar makes sense only for small screens, where it will always be nearby. When you have lots of windows with different functions on a high resolution display, it makes sense for each of them to have its own menu bar. And MacOS needed to make that easier to configure. There were some hacks which did it, but I found them to be flaky.

They might bring the owl back, but thanks to their AI, it'll have 6 toes and whinny now.