Was it not metal contamination? The cows had screws and worms in them or something.

libertarians to move to New Hampshire

Isn’t that the place that ended up with a bear problem because of a libertarian town privatising all its services? So no-one took the rubbish, and then came the bears.

EDIT: It was!

Even from the picture, that’s clearly not 100 cars for a four-way intersection. 12, maybe.

100 (25 per side) would be a massive queue.

Copycats might also be an issue. I remember that when Douglas Wreden published his book, he had to deal with numerous AI-generated copycats popping up one after the other, using his name and face, trying to trick people into buying their book, because his had become popular.

Yes, Saint Olga of Kyiv.

ITAR has severely restricted access to nav system tech export, but there was always this open question about reckoning position by visual cues rather than GPS + dead reckoning. We all knew it was technically feasible, but we assumed that having “visual” cues was further out because AI at the time wasn’t up to the task.

There’s always going back to the old-fashioned method of having a trained pigeon inside of the device instead of a sophisticated computer vision system.

Microsoft seems intent on pushing people to alternatives. Not only did they quietly remove the higher RAM recommendation, but now the OS is more expensive.

So what people are likely to get an underpowered computer that costs more if they have to buy a new laptop. On the tail of Apple recently releasing a relatively nice and cheap laptop to much fanfare, no less.

It sounds like we’re about to see a repeat of the Windows Vista days. Where people hate Windows because it’s slow and horrible, and it is slow and horrible because it’s running on an underspecced machine barely meant to run the previous version of windows.

Especially since if you’re choosing that, you usually have the device handy. At which point a direct transfer is easy to do, and that’s been a feature for a while.

It’s also good advertising. “We’ve powered this data centre with our solar panels, think of what it could power for you”.

There’s a horror in having to haggle for the price of your healthcare whilst in the hospital.

Did telegrams use full-stop? They pretty much only used STOP, no?

It seems more likely that your man picked it up from a British influence, like a friend or something.