American domestic terrorist

You’re talking about some other character and not Rambo, right? At least in the first movie…that is a definite ACAB movie.

looks for tin foil hat

There’s so many things, but I think the best one has always been Obama being President much longer than the Confederacy.

As long as the driver actually gets the money.

When a drive is close to full capacity, those MBs lost due to units or secondary partitions from the format are the least of the worries. It’s time for an additional or larger drive, or look at what is taking so much space.

That’s just when the realization of it all sets in. Your 20s are when you begin adulthood and all the decisions to affect your life, but often times we get caught up in life and figure there’s plenty of time to do all that. So at 36 the lines from Pink Floyd’s “Time” hit hard.

And then one day you find Ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run You missed the starting gun

Mass production and its effect on unit cost is amazing sometimes. But what is also lost is the transactions between each of those steps. Usually the ones that farm aren’t the ones milling, baking, packaging, etc., so there are layers to consider as well, all reducing the unit prices because of the large scale.

Playing semantics. If you want your head canon to be there never were lyrics at all, that’s perfectly justifiable, as they were created for money and never aired. They still exist though.

Yeah, like that one better. The french horns remind me of James Horner RIP. A french horn is the signature sound for a starship in my opinion.

Here’s a sort of decent attempt, no one ever actually sung it officially. The lyrics are in the comments.

That shot was a glancing blow and would have gone through had it been a direct hit. The stupid part (done for the movie effect) was him taking it off and looking at it, as he clearly was in sight of someone shooting, maybe a sniper, and he should have taken the lucky bounce as a warning he was an easy target. But also, that beach was a slaughterhouse so the odds were still not great to survive even if he had taken cover.

Now do STFU.

Any Star Trek fans that wander in here…if the theme had been an instrumental version, perhaps even orchestraed up, would you have been fine with it? A reminder that TOS had lyrics as well, mainly as a copyright thing to profit, but they exist. And they are far worse than Enterprise’s lyrics.

I like my job in the sense of the overall purpose fulfilled each day, and I enjoy the logistical challenges I often face. What makes me not like coming to work and more and more looking forward to retirement is dealing with the people. Some of the workers, most of the management, and having to make things happen despite higher up decisions made for the company.

The great thing is that for the most part each day is its own thing, so I rarely have to walk into the next week and dread a continuing issue rolling over. It’s always new problems for that day to resolve, and I don’t mind the ones that normally come with the job. Just the ones created by those in charge that seemingly have never set foot in the field to see how their spreadsheet numbers really affect things.

Reminded me of a character in one of Niven’s Ringworld books, whose pledged his life to journey to The Arch. The Arch being the perspective of the Ringworld rising from the horizon as seen from the surface, and not something reachable.

White Plague by Frank Herbert.

I thought this was a beautiful way to see our progress out in one frame. Then I thought, what about human object reach? So Voyager 1 would be about three more log ticks up at 25 billion km (about the top of the nav buttons) with other probes falling below that at their appropriate times.

Correct answer. Getting there is difficult overall for some societies that are built on that dependency. Every individual can try to do what they can, and some do manage to make it work. Most cannot, and there lies the problem. And before I get bombarded with a list of things, note that I said some people and places can make them work for their situation…but until a majority can make them work, they’re as good as any other solution that shifts the fix onto the public and consumer rather than tackling actual change to our civilization.

It also speaks to the nature of the crypto industry that someone could have $25 billion worth of something that literally did not exist 24 hours previously.

Old Man stock market looks up and chuckles “That’s my boy…line go up.”

Throw a flare our way to get our attention.