Grabthar

Pretty sure we couldn't buy enough of anything to make a difference against the US in even the long term. Except nukes. Those are the only feasible deterrents we could use.

You're with WSJ? Yeah, you're fucked.

Why would this go to the US at all? They said it was a European issue and bowed out.

Agreed, but they can't seem to push Canadians' personal data into the hands of foreign companies fast enough. You'd think this would be a wake up call, but if our decision makers couldn't already see the threat before, I doubt they will ever figure it out.

They need to demand that the government dump AWS too. Probably Microsoft too, but Amazon's warehouse closures need to cost them.

IIRC, Riker prosecutes Data because if he opts not to do so, they will not have the trial and Data will immediately become the property of Starfleet. He does not want to do it, but is told that if at any point he is thought to be half-assing his duty, they will end the trial and find for Starfleet.

I don't think they have much experience with races that were built by other races being considered sentient and have been accepted by the UFP, so I can understand a lack of precendent here.

And I would think that if Worf pulled off Riker's arm, hilarious though it may be, there would be little doubt about the point he was trying to make between the difference in a painful dismemberment and the disassembly of a toaster.

It pains me to think that there soon may be a whole new employment field built around the demand for workers trained to muck out robo-vajayjay.

Trump just looks so weak here. So much for being a strongman. I guess he just likes being manhandled?

Never had a console growing up. Played Atari at a friend's place, but most of us had C64 as our main, and we pirated the shit out of everything we could get our hands on. By the time NES was everywhere, the most fun stuff for me was in BBS door games. Trade Wars 2002, Modern Warfare (yes this is what I think of when I hear the full name, though MW is always Mechwarrior to me lol), Pimp Wars, and Max Headroom were some of the popular ones in my neck of the woods.

Because that is just one use of the Mode button. Pressing it changes what the port LEDs indicate, so cycling it lets you see status, speed, duplex, PoE status, etc. without having to connect to it. That isn't easy without a raised button. Clear could have been separated as a pinhole and that would have been fine, but this stupidly placed button would still have been useless this way anyway.

We need to stop framing the solution as more transit, more bike lanes and congestion pricing and start talking about requiring people to work from home. Stop normalizing spending billions just to put butts in seats.

Aussie pilot.