Seems pretty obvious to me... Lab-grown MEAT... drop the M, use the L from Lab, and have a pun with L337 which shows "superiority", in this case to meat (arguable, but I'm sure the people pushing this stuff would consider it so); it is a name and a slogan all in one. Easy. Feel free to contact me for naming rights.

I noticed this myself during Prime Day, some of the image links for antennas went beyond just exaggerating range and quality to implying premium cable channels like HBO could be magically conjured by antenna. I'm REALLY surprised the author of the article didn't make a point of it, as it would have bolstered his case even further, and he came sooo close, as an image he included consisting of 18 Amazon antenna links happened to capture one such example (look at the top row, far right, HBO is the first thing listed underneath 4K). Funny enough, I think whoever used the HBO logo knew it would be going too far to suggest it any more than that, as there is no sign of it on the sales page itself, it just appears on the link that takes you there...

What widely used "internet" from the early '90s are you referring to? Might I advise that you don't let your "facts" get in the way of facts... Also, maybe read what you're responding to, just a thought.

This reminds me of when they made the Top Loader NES and used "statistics" to decide to make it RF only (as that's how many people hooked up their original NES and just left it that way, from before VCRs and non-RF-only TVs were the norm; absolutely not representative of the current market), while the Japanese counterpart was the very first Famicom to feature A/V jacks... Just blindly following statistics doesn't always lead to good results.

I can't say that I've sampled much in the way of Canadian media outlets, but in neighboring U.S.A. being "rigorous, robust and respected" has not been any kind of priority in a long while, and what sheer veil they may have propped in front of that reality for a while they let drop a couple of years ago when a big election went in an unexpected direction. All reporting outlets in the U.S.A. are now wearing their biases on their sleeves. Until media outlets can be forced to staff and promote from the "Left" and "Right" equally, then no individual outlet can be even remotely respected and the best we can do is what we're doing right now, having the two big biases battle it out with their various lies, spins and checks... I don't see how going out and telling us to blindly accept whatever we're told is supposed to be taken as a good thing, or even expected to make the person saying it come off any way other than just dumb/incompetent...

No.

(It is requiring I be more original in my comment, so...) Apple isn't an industry leader unless we let them be, the notch should have gone down as a stupid one-off, rather the rest of the industry is deciding to validate that decision, and will probably result in it sticking around for a good while longer than it originally would have. Following the leader isn't innovating (nor is it a good idea to anoint a competitor as a leader).

If you've ever been to Japan, especially iconic locations like Tokyo, you'd pretty quickly realize that, for how otherwise clean and tidy the Japanese are, the rats nests of power lines depicted in anime are basically true to life. Ubiquitous powerlines (even the type seemingly haphazardly strung between buildings like neglected spider webs) are a normal sight there, so when mirroring or representing reality, it isn't a surprising detail to include to give just that little extra grounding. For those on the outside looking in, it could seem exaggerated, but it is hardly the case.

Obviously AIM isn't an aspect of the buyout they were particularly interested in...

I had a friend back when it was really popular that steadfastly insisted on using the official AIM client, that is, until it woke him up in the middle of the night with ads, he was on Trillian in no time flat after that. Hard to say if it is really OUR fault their client didn't see more usage, they kind of had their chance on that one and blew it themselves. It is hardly anarchist to want to use something that just works, they still could have leveraged us in some other way, they had an installed base with active user accounts, they could have drawn us in to some other neat concept(s) down the line, with one login that can do many things (look at Google's umbrella of services that require just a single sign in). But no, they really AOL'd that one.

(Oh, and the return I did provide was in keeping other people active on the service [I'm not in control of how they connect], sort of like how my friend, um... going away for a little while... negatively affects my needs of the service, my leaving would have given others less reason to stay. Not that anyone is stupid enough to run their client... if they even offer an official, up to date client anymore.)

Anyway, I had been talking to people in an IRC group (I'm doing my part in keeping that alive, too!) just recently about how my need of AIM might actually go away before the service does... and now they're apparently trying to beat me to the punch, but luckily my friend's unlucky break has made the transition much easier (but not for him... hopefully he hasn't dropped any soap yet).

I've kept active on this service for many years now, through third party clients like Pidgin in Linux. I've never been a supporter of AOL, but use of the AIM service was almost standard for a while there, and I've since used it to converse with a number of friends who have thus far refused to embrace many other options. With the death of AIM, there's a real chance that my communication with some of these stubborn friends will take a step backward to indirect, less immediate interaction such as email. The only consolation of all of this, strangely, is that one of the main persons I've kept in most frequent contact with through AIM just got himself a prison sentence of a duration I'm not yet certain of (possibly multi year), so I've unexpectedly just lost one of my main needs for the service already this last month. So, strangely good timing, but really it is overall unfortunate, especially since they should just hand the service over to the open source crowd and let it grow in unexpected ways or die naturally, rather than just killing off something that not everyone has an acceptable alternative to.

People keep saying everyone was dead the whole time on LOST, which is just the most inaccurate interpretation possible. Here's an actual spoiler for you, not the usual rant from people who ether didn't watch the show or really weren't smart or attentive enough to follow what was going on: at the end of the last episode everyone met in the afterlife, yes, BUT that was AFTER everyone died in their own way whenever their own time came, and "time" in the afterlife is portrayed as non linear to our living perception of time. Everything that happened on and off the island in the show happened to those characters while they were alive. The afterlife depiction was about friends waiting for everyone (and they very clearly stated how much longer those who stayed behind on the island as its keepers did in fact LIVE). The point is everyone dies eventually, and these people had such a strong bond that they didn't want to pass beyond a purgatory type of afterlife and go on to whatever is further beyond until they could meet up with their friends and loved ones again. The all met up and went on together. But everything in the show happened in, and mattered to, the living world, they just had an artsy statement at the end about how everyone and everything in the world dies eventually.

Watch the show, it was quite good, lots of really interesting details throughout to piece together how everything and everyone across the whole show are deeply related.

Exactly the kind of comment I was combing these comments to find after reading that name!

What does this mean for Windows versions other than XP, 7 or 10?

Yeah, I think I've seen this before; doesn't go well if the old people want to go to the beach.

This should be replaced by a Canadian vessel, named--in keeping with Star Trek numbering--the Enterprise-eh.