Chewie’s head on a robot spider-body would be bitchin’, but didn’t they already do that with Darth Maul in Clone Wars? or did I dream that up?
Now, Chewie’s head floating in an armored bacta tank on top of a massive Gort-like body would be pretty cool.
In a year or ten hence, the people that voted against this will turn their taps and get nothing but brown sludge, then howl “why isn’t the government doing something about this?!?!?”
Where does Frasier live?
Microsoft IN SHAMBLES after being SLAMMED by Internet Article.
I always thought of the Culture as the Federation, but super-hardcore. In the Culture, individuals can just upload their mind to a new, undamaged body if they’re sufficiently injured that repair isn’t an option. Even just popping the head off is enough to revive someone if they don’t have a backup and can catch it in time. If the repairs will take a while, they can drop into a simulated reality to do something else while they wait. Some individuals get tired of living and decide to just end it – no backup. Others get tired of living and have themselves warehoused until something interesting happens somewhere down the line.
But if they made Trek like that, I don’t think 80’s television audiences could have handled it. I’m not certain 21st century TV audiences are ready for that.
I wouldn’t buy another piece of Motorola/Lenovo garbage for any amount of money.
I seem to recall high end watches being a way to avoid carrying large amounts of cash across borders. Maybe even for money laundering (although that seems cumbersome).
People can carry tens or hundreds of thousands across borders in their luggage as personal wardrobe accessories. Once they arrive at their destination, find a dealer who will buy a watch for cash and they have loads of local currency without paying bank transaction fees or getting government haircuts.
Not that I think that’s what’s going on here, but it may be the media shining a spotlight on it for some reason.
“Exactly how big of a bunker do I need to ride it out?”
It’s a Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine"
What makes the RDRE so revolutionary is that it makes use of a sustained detonation circling around a ring-shaped channel, fed by a mix of fuel and oxygen which is ignited by each passing explosion.
Crucially, the RDRE uses less propellant fuel than conventional rocket engines, and is simpler in terms of its machinery and mechanisms. That means going into space becomes cheaper, and traveling further distances becomes possible.
Saved you a click.
Mine is in a safe deposit box in Budapest. You can never be too cautious.
“Now I really get it!”
I’m just happy for the red circle, without which I could never have completely understood this meme.
sensible chuckle
I once put off a 5 minute task for so long, it was already at the 6 month replacement mark for when I should have originally done it! Efficient!
I’m with you OP. All of this controversy the last couple of months not only sent me to decentralized social media, but finally made me pull the trigger on FOSS hosting projects. Currently working on selfhosted cloud storage for photos and documents. I already have my phone’s camera backing up to a RaspberryPi server in my living room, instead of to Google Photos.
The end goal is to decouple as completely as I can from Google - and the spider’s web of interconnected and interdependent online services - to something that I own (or at least have a measure of control over).
The downside is that it’s been a long time since I was in the server game. The learning curve is more like a vertical cliff face.
Tuskens finally take revenge for Anakin’s attack, Ben sees his opportunity and blames it on Stormtroopers, Luke wipes out the Empire based on a false flag.
“That’s right, buddy! Show that turd who’s boss!”
Can’t even sign into AT&T to view/report the outage. You can (conveniently enough) sign in to pay your bill if you want. AFAIK, the 70k number is the number of reports at Downdetector. It’s probably 100s of thousands affected, if not millions.