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Nor was anyone looking to go to the Arabian Peninsula on their vacation 30 years ago, and yet here we are.

Or they use a device like a Tablo to get free OTA TV with all the advantages of streaming to devices, no subscription needed. I've done this for several years. I can be out working in the yard and pull out my phone to watch couple minutes of a football game on ABC or whatever, as long as I'm in WiFi range.

The conservative perspective is not, and has never been, that poor people deserve to stay poor. It is that I can and will give my money to poor people, and you're free to do likewise, but we're not going to point a gun at old Steve and make him do the same.

Now that gun-pointing redistribution programs are fully entrenched, some people are still trying to have some say - ANY say - in where their money goes.

Apropos of nothing, I notice that your comment is post number 30 000 000 on Hacker News. Congratulations, I guess?

I did that once, 10 years ago or so. My reddit account is coincidentally 10 years old now. Beware of unintended consequences.

Viasat also heavily throttles video streams, so as not to allow a user to accidentally reach their monthly data cap in the first day or two.

I currently average 25-30 Mbps on speedtest.net and 700 kbps (not a typo) on fast.com. And still I reach the data cap in two weeks or less. Fortunately (?) it's a soft cap, not a hard one. All it means is no streaming anything in the evening till the month rolls over. (And, perversely, you don't want to do any large downloads until after hitting the cap!)

I'm just tired of "commuter" EVs that don't have enough range for my 30-minute commute (17 miles each way).

I'd need at least a 60 mile range to be able to get to the farthest reaches of the nearest city and back. That seems to put me in Tesla territory, and the price doesn't make sense for the purpose.

> A professor naturally speaks with the authority of their corresponding institution

Does she though? She had every reason to believe her choice of email address would remain private.

By a similar token, I am currently working for <REDACTED> (on lunch break) and using a computer belonging to said entity. If you managed to work out what <REDACTED> is, would I retroactively be considered to be speaking for it?

Is he starting to memorize jokes from Centurion Vilhelmus's Whiz Bang?

One of Red Alert's hacks was making dogs (the unit) distinct from dogs (the projectile). That is, a dog was a dog until it began its attack. At that point it transitioned into a dog projectile, which looked like a leaping dog but wasn't targetable. Then when it collided with the enemy (infantry only), the enemy was insta-killed and the dog transitioned back into an interactible unit.

What this meant is that you could use rules.ini to make an anti-infantry submarine that launched dogs, if you so desired. Or a dog artillery. Or a dog man that used his dog gun to shoot dogs at men.

I'm currently behind a corporate firewall which blocks Imgur. Not being very familiar with Futurama, I thought the entire joke was that the quote for episode 1 was "Episode 1", the quote for episode 2 was "Episode 2", and so on.