No, not “and replace the damn things with ones that don’t get fucked after only a few months of use.” They replaced them with them same things.

Also the Switch came out 9 years ago…

The World Wide Web was never built for this, the Internet is just the physical network that connects it and everything else that’s online.

Wait until you find out how they used to fit shoes…

Only ED-Beta was capable of that and it wasn’t released until after TNG was on the air.

The GameBoy Advance had a 240x160 resolution and they released video carts for that. I wasn’t saying it was too low to see faces, just commenting on the technical details of TNG, etc.

TNG and DS9 (and early Voyager) episodes were mastered to Beta tapes which had a best case functional resolution of 280p. This is why the TNG Blu-ray’s took so much effort and why they haven’t done Blu-ray’s of DS9 or Voyager, there aren’t film masters to scan they have to be recreated from the original negatives.

I once saw a working coffee cup with a built in terp pen so I think that technology has existed for a while. Not to be confused with the cauldron/cup vapes that are all the rage right now.

This left vs liberal bullshit really needs to stop. The only people I have ever heard complain about architecture of housing projects are rich people.

sudo apt full-upgrade -U -y 

Should be all you need.

As I understand it George was the ideas man, part of the reason the prequels went off the rails a bit is because he removed himself from people who had helped the original trilogy be what it is, people like Lawrence Kasden. I’ve always been curious which one of them had them kiss and which one of them decided they were siblings as much of Empire was written by Kasden.

George always wanted it to happen, but if I recall correctly you are right, it wasn’t even called A New Hope or had the title crawl until It was re-released shortly before Empire.

Fun fact: it was intended to be a 12 part series, like the Flash Gordon or Buck Rodgers serials of the 1930s.

That’s a Kenworth logo on the floor mat. They make semi trucks which fits with the stick shift.

My parents are on Facebook every day and so are their friends. I’m pretty sure Facebook is what happened to all the Gen Xers.

Wax paper generally works pretty well for transporting stickers and tape.

When I was a kid my state had yearly inspections, but that was stopped like 25 years ago. Occasionally you still see one of the green stickers on the windshield of an old car.

Fun fact: the one on the left is (American) sign language for ‘I love you’. It’s a combination of the sign language letters I, L, and Y.

I believe she is the wife of the current leader of the church.

Well there’s always going to be penny pinching and greed, but because each team‘s job is singular and siloed, their success or failure is based on their only job. So there is a separation of pride. The launch team’s only job is to launch the rocket, they have no vested interest in the mission or how well it was built. So a cost saving move that would help the mission but hinder launching the rocket isn’t one that would be made by the launch team.

That being said, nothing says that this won’t change as soon as more privatization happens in this sector.

Fun fact: the Shuttle was intended to have ejection capabilities, they were removed by the request of the Department of Defense. They provided extra funding for the Shuttle on the stipulation that it reach very specific orbits including a polar orbit that was only achievable by an extreme weight reduction. In fact later Shuttles also had to be modified to even make it to the ISS with a valuable amount of cargo. Columbia, the first Shuttle to fly to space, was always too heavy to make it to the ISS. The reason this happened is the president at the time, Jimmy Carter if I remember correctly, made some interesting and specific threats about their own capabilities to the Russians. These modifications were to make good on those threats.

Luckily in this case, the people who build the rocket aren’t allowed to launch them for this very reason. Even NASA has a completely different team of people who launch rockets (in Florida) than who build them (Alabama, Mississippi, and others) or run the mission (Houston).

The actual launch range is run by the Space Force and they have the final say on when and where you can launch and where you can’t be during launch (officially called an exclusion zone).