A complicated question, but in short, yes, it’s finite. The amount is actually far more than we could ever use possibly, but the real limitation is accessibility. As we extract and use up the easier to get oil, it costs more to get the harder to get. At some point we won’t be able to get to oil that’s there, and what we can get will cost so much that usage will be limited.

In some cases we’ve still extracted from places that had a low or negative ROI, such as tar sands, because at the time investment was persuaded that it would pay off. Then there’s the changes that make hard to get places suddenly an opportunity, as the arctic areas might soon be.

We should be changing not because of supply, but because of what the use of oil does. But we haven’t changed in the right direction after decades of saying that.

Both. He’s always been racist, but dementia removes what filters do exist.

Adding the Jabba scene back in was fine, that wasn’t the problem. It was the corny stepping on his tail, and that done badly, that messed it up. Damn you, Rick Berman!

I’m sure that’s the condition, to use your data (that they protect of course) to better improve the browser. And I’m sure they are in a country where they don’t have to show logs (that I’m sure they don’t keep, yet somehow use your data).

They need to stick with just the browser, period. Stop trying to drift into other areas. Firefox has unfortunately gotten too heavy for what it should be, and adding even more features (good or bad) doesn’t help the core performance.

The other options out there have their pluses and minuses, but if Firefox keeps pushing people will live with the negatives of the browsers that seem to care about the browsing experience of their users.

Mine is now “The Bix is Back”.

Given how Trump has changed his mind on this war stuff so many times lately, I misread the title as him shutting it down.

The problem is it could be any of these guesses, depending on the region of the US. Even the hair style could have persisted into late 70s.

Assault now includes hurting their feelings.

“It would take three or more rockets!”

“In stages?”

“Yes!”

“…”

That’s what happened with ours. They were pushing to have longer and more complex passwords, which was great, since forever they had stuck with an eight character requirement (which I couldn’t believe, that’s breaking a few basic rules of security that I knew about, and this is a large corporation).

So I figure okay, I’ll make my next password something that’s finally decent. Except when I go to use the older terminal based systems that are still crucial to operation, they won’t take anything past eight characters… because that’s what they were programmed for. Turns out IT had jumped on the better security bandwagon before they either had gotten to migrating things at the core level, or they didn’t think that far until the tickets started hitting. Likely the latter.

It all works now, but it was funny having to go back to a less secure password for a while because of a slight oversight or assumption on IT’s part.

They are the real problem, and unfortunately even Trump falls into the “devil you know” classification. It would be a gamble whether or not we get a worse situation with a more capable person who has the same power and motives. It’s the time traveler’s dilemma of getting rid of Hitler and finding out the future is now worse because of who took his place.

Another one to add to the list when someone claims intelligent design. Approached from evolution, this makes sense - what works becomes a thing. And while it’s disgusting to us, it’s just a process and they’re doing their part to help the cycle. From an ID pov… what the living fuck?

That’s old, but how many here recall the old car radios where you manually set a station preset by pulling the selector out, then pushing it back in? I can’t even find a picture of one because of the age and trying to find the right search words.

I wouldn’t classify how it worked as simple though, still seemed like magic.

Was going to make some Titanic analogy jokes, but in trying to do so it’s just depressing.

This winning kinda sucks, not going to lie.

Imagine what anything could have been done constructively, domestically or internationally, with this money. But hey, we got to blow things up. Yay.

Money.

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.