Well, you can’t break something that’s already broken.

Only $100 million?

Considering that navy ships are ~90% weld, that’s going to be a pain to fix. (I am kinda joking, but considering the standard way to service major components is to literally cut through the bulkheads, it’s not far from accurate.)

In my case, they keep sending me pictures of my neighbors house. Oh well.

I want to reply to them telling them they should be paying me for my dick pics, but they are either using spoofed emails or compromised Gmail accounts. (They wouldn’t care about a reply, even if they go to the trouble of looking for one.)

Seriously, I wish they would at least check my linked in profile first, which is yet another pointless ask because of the automation that is probably involved. I guess they don’t want to talk to someone who has been in security for +20 years who’s side hobby is wasting email scammers time with virtual machines that are goatse themed. Sigh.

Check back later. This is a government IT system we are talking about here. (Not knocking government IT workers I know… There is usually bad policy and old processes in play.)

I called that out. It was the weight of the earth… on earth.

The earth is estimated to “weigh” 13,170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds. (That is weird when you think about it. The weight of the earth being based on what something weighs on earth, I mean.)

Mt. Everest is only about 357,000,000,000,000 pounds and is just a tiny fraction of the mass of the earth.

So. My point is that we need a better way to portray scale of things in the universe. AUs work to a point but then we have to quickly move to parsecs. Parsecs quickly give way to light years. (Or vice-versa, depending on how you visualize things better.) Light years kinda work, but only for between 14-26 billion years. Even after all of that, I can hardly still fathom the size of Mt. Everest. (This was a rant, but not an angry rant.)

It looks like she is holding a pistol.

the sound from my sub £100 2.1 soundbar which obviously puts the TV speakers to shame.

Absolutely don’t start writing music then. Once you do, it’ll destroy your perception of how sound bars simulate 5.1 channel audio. (Most consumer grade Atmos sound bars have a pair of speakers that point up from the center channel to reflect sound off your ceiling. I would be able to hear that “trick”, unfortunately.)

My “studio” is super simple and I only use 2.1 audio but with proper monitor speakers that have a mostly “flat” sound. While sound bars are great for limited space, I’ll never use one again. For music and most movies, 2.1 is all you need. Rear channels are nice and everything, but kinda pointless in a living room. (If people want a real theater experience at home, good luck buying a proper +30 channel system.)

When it comes time for you to invest in new headphones, buy some ATH-M50x’s. Once you hear what relatively flat sound is like, you’ll probably end up throwing every other speaker you own in the trash.

If you think that is confusing, this will blow your mind!

Also, they tend not to award British pounds in the US either.

Good analysis, but you failed to point out that the truck will be towing the whole assembly. Pushing this contraption in reverse could be a hair problematic.

If he is actually towing it, there is probably an 80% chance the actual truck would detonate the AT mine first, depending on how touchy the trigger was and if it’s ran over directly. (The rig would probably deflect more of the blast back through the truck.)

That’s funny how Dolby Atmos is in all caps. It’s a protocol and that’s it. Dolby squeezed out existing tech with a new protocol because marketing. There is nothing about this that couldn’t already be done. If it couldn’t already be done, not many people are going to hear the differences anyway.

However, if you are going to watch the movie in your professional studio or private theater, because you just just trashed all your perfectly good equipment just to have the Atmos logo, you’re set.

She is Ukrainian-American, btw.

This is the second. It’s different location than the one from a few days ago and is deeper into Russia.

This just seems like a meme template.

Just be glad he didn’t bust out the black sharpie.

I watched through Day of Honor a couple of times today, but it was kinda choppy for me since I had to work.

I just want to clarify “give herself up” in that you mean she is willing to become part of the Voyager “collective” and puts aside her need to return to the Borg?

If my above assumption is correct, then yes. She is growing exponentially personality wise, but there are significant challenges in doing so.

Personally, I have been around engineers my entire life. Some people I know could rattle on for hours over something like p vs np even if they just learned about it a few hours ago. Put that same person in a complex social environment and they are absolutely clueless. It’s similar to Seven.

Assuming I didn’t know anything about her timeline after Day of Honor, my guess would have been it would take years for her to learn how to operate in a complex structure like we are accustomed to. Janeway seems bright enough to understand that as well. So yeah, it would be a very long time before she could make the kinds of decisions we take for granted and Janeway would have to do that for her like a parent.

Fast forward a bit to Picard, you can see how long it took for her character to develop into something that didn’t resemble a robot. (I am willfully excluding some later episodes of Voyager that were kind of odd, btw.)

Yeah, so it’s probably regional. My family from your part of the world doesn’t use the colorful language I learned in NC. In many ways, it’s it’s more than just a dialect difference, it’s an entirely different language. Idioms are much more common, or at least, more colorful.