Sure, but that’s usually done through a UPS cabinet, not on an individual device level.

Appliances that don’t depower when unplugged sound like an incredibly bad idea.

Do they, or did someone put a road through a bear’s outhouse?

They shot it at the crowd during a moment of silence.

Heh, the “Mike becomes a commie” series is his masterwork.

Pierson also does great work, I was some 200 in myself when I trailed off.

It’s a pity he didn’t carry on into Byzantine history. Though his Revolutions is also superb.

More like “tried to follow procedure, but the establishment broke it over and over to stop them until nobody had any faith in the system left”. “Storm before the storm” by Duncan is a great book covering it.

More like a formed plastic sheet with contact pads glued on the underside. The whole keyboard was just a PCB, plastic casing, and a button sheet.

“There is no cloud. There are only other people’s computers”

it is the near-universal consensus among economic historians and economists that slavery was not "a system irrationally kept in existence by plantation owners who failed to perceive or were indifferent to their best economic interests

Well, I’ll be damned.

So what you’re saying is, the complaint about China spying on people boils down to piracy?

Frankly, it’skind of the opposite: the slavery part of the argument is obvious, simply because IIRC the model of chattel slavery the US south operated on was only viable through the constant flow of new people to feed into the meatgrinder. The “better off” part is kinda dubious.

Oh, sure, especially if it’s the same few users. It’s just mildly surprising to not even run into them.

Really? You never ran into the endless “…furthermore, .ml must be defederated” posts?

There’s always the worst possible option: they’re true believers. They genuinely believe the rest of the world is freeloading on the US, and that (atlas) shrugging them off will make everyone else collapse.

Yeah, it’s not a joke, it literally happens all the time, and an error after block close generally means the system doesn’t think it’s closed, usually because a bracket isn’t paired off.

Nah, it’s because they can change you for the battery, but you could sue them for drinking the juice.

Another reminder that France, Spain, and Italy forced the Bolivian president’s plane to land in Austria because they thought Snowden was on it.

I would have thought his part in contraception would be being 70.