When you (correctly) said a few days ago that OHMSS dies when Diana Rigg isn't on screen? That's how I feel about FYEO & Caroline Bouquet. Melina's quest for revenge is compelling & the men-on-a-mission sequence in the climax is a fun setpiece, but the rest is the worst excesses of the Moore era.

"It's the next logical step for you!"

He's practically there already; those Extraction movies for Netflix were better received than any attempt to make him a butts-in-seats movie star outside of the MCU.

Software utilities, I think, must be treated the same way: regulated (including price) and operated under oversight. Otherwise, they're just a robber-baron monopoly with a stranglehold on the economy.
4/5

When half the internet doesn't work because of a failure of a single vendor, that vendor is a utility, in the same way that power, water, and, back in the day, the phone companies, are/were utilities.
3/5

Probably some actual scholars already articulated this, but I've been nursing a theory the Tokugawa shogunate invented the modern nation-state during the Edo period two centuries before Europeans did.

Looks like the best of all possible biscuits to me.

I feel he doesn't have an official rank but is more of the Emperor's Favourite, a high-status courtier granted resources and authority, which the military would resent. It's clear in ANH Tarkin is the only person in that boardroom he respects, and Tarkin is the only one who respects him.

Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.

And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.

My phone has full optical character recognition of 47,000 photos. I can search individual words.

I cannot search three words in quotes.

Computers used to be powerful. That power meant something. It was power for making your life better in sovereignty to your own interests.

And now we have this.

am i just reposting some shit my friend sent me in an imgur link? you bet—THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW