Rhaedas

Had a C-64 version of it. Not quite as many windows, larger grid. Same objective: bring peace to the galaxy. One photon torpedo at a time. :D

A friend had a game on their TRS-80, same concept, but zero Trek references.

Can't risk sending military equipment into places where it might be attacked.

Can't make this up.

Why DID is the correct phrasing? And there were reasons then. More bad than good, but that's the advantage of being first, then biggest.

Why trust them now? It's not trust when it's what's embedded everywhere, required by most large companies. The licensing that was Microsoft's key into everything became dependency. And dependencies can be broken, but that takes time and effort. There's been movement...

If they keep doing this Co-pilot shit, they'll be helping the cause.

I feel the pain anytime I look at a video outside of my browser. So if it becomes where I can't find a workaround, then I'll just have to go elsewhere. And there will be other places. There are other places, it's just hard to get people to not go to or be on the big one. Push people hard enough, they'll leave.

What's old is new again. I'm pretty sure I've heard some recent baby names that I would place more in the turn of the 20th century. Reusing older, creating totally new, or taking known names and spelling them oddly. They'll all have critics.

Aside from the several good twists, what gets me about this story is thinking about the scale of time. If a normal person likely can't remember what meal they ate last year on this date, imagine that x1000 (and more). Such a great concept.

This may be a common human thing to do. The difference is the buffer zone that someone has before things become unbearable. Not an excuse, the right thing to do in a society that's interconnected and educated is not to wait until that point to take action. But... we could probably argue how interconnected and educated people are with echo chambers and propaganda designed to keep them in control.

At some point things do break, regardless. Hopefully sooner than later.

Eisenhower warned us. The US took what it learned from how WWII sparked the country's growth and embraced it fully. And then it became even worse, looking for opportunities. Creating them even.

The point we're at now is making the past exploits look tame. WTAF are we doing?

Deep Thought: "LOL"

Then Britain and friends jumped in and drew new borders for everyone because that's exactly what wasn't needed.

Correct, it's all about what's closest to the scale of movement you're needing. Close to a body, you'll likely line up with its rotation if nothing else. Away from a body, you use the next frame of reference that makes sense. That could be the next closest body's plane of rotation (which could be the same as the solar system, but not a given, i.e Uranus), the solar system itself, or if approaching another system, line up with its plane. You don't have to do this, a polar orbit is just as valid as one within the plane.

In contrast to the other father, who when asked if they had a cable or screw or whatever it is that would fix the problem, says, "I did, once. I was told to throw out that junk."