The beauty of open source projects is that if they are abandoned, other people can pick them back up. Sure it may be difficult, but if it wasn’t FOSS it wouldn’t even be possible.

Yea, that’s the right term

Star Trek is one of if not the most prominent Science Fiction series in our culture.

Star Wars is one of if not the most prominent “Science” based Fantasy series in our culture.

They really aren’t at all similar on the most fundamental level. They just use similar set dressing.

TAS: hits bong

I’m gonna go watch Beverly get horned up by a plasma ghost again

I dunno, I think I’ve seen him do that in the show

The right to silence was born out of the religious persecution that was rife in Europe in the 16th and 17th century, where coerce confessions and forcing people to incriminate themselves, even if it was bullshit, was commonplace

I think that’s what he was talking about. His argument is that the Founders did things that could incriminate themselves to their old government, and there were no protections in place to shield them from, for instance, self incrimination. The ‘validity’ of the law, I think, isn’t particularly germane.

Can we change it so we run things well instead of profitable?

That guy sounds like the type of person to go all in on phishing emails

Counter-Counterpoint. If you call someone, you should understand that they may be unable to answer to phone at a that specific time, and you should use the tools at your disposal, such as voicemail, to facilitate further communication.

What does someone’s personal life have to do with their work performance? Why does he want to get to know who they are “as a person” rather than know how they are qualified for the job? This has a bunch of red flags as far as I’m concerned

That scope will narrow as time passes.

Now it’s brown poor people. Soon it will be trans people. Maybe next brown rich people, or Muslims, or Socialists. Y’all know the poem.

They’ve already “declared” Antifa a terrorist group and fentanyl as a WMD, that’s all the justification previous republican presidents have needed for starting wars and civil terror campaigns.

I heard a lawyer argue something like this once in court, regarding the the fourth and fifth amendments:

These laws are not meant to protect the innocent, they are meant to protect criminals. The founding fathers who penned it were traitors and seditionists who fought a war against their own country. They wrote these laws so that guilty people would be able to avoid punishment if proper procedures aren’t followed, and certain rights aren’t upheld.

I’m not sure how much I agree with that, but it was definitely an interesting take.

If I’m not mistaken, Trek was on air during the Summer of Love

Trek has always been political. Trek has always been progressive. Trek has always been sexy

I wanted computing to be fun again. IMO XP was the last version of Windows that was actually fun

Companies tend to be rather picky about who gets to poke around inside their products

Once I buy it, it’s my product.

Q: “Very funny Mr. Worf, eat any good sausages lately?”

Did I do it right?