Right. Everyone knows it’s a series of tubes! You’d think his fellow republicans would have explained this to him.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes

Where do you think the Internet came from? It was a government project that began as Arpanet. And we would never have had it opened to the public if it wasn’t for Al Gore.

I’d say auto stop features and multiple camera views on reverse are a good selling point of a car. I certainly regret not getting the overhead camera view on the vehicle I purchased (and the blind spot indicators which don’t apply to pedestrians).

I’d also like to see the infra-red windshield overlays make it out of the prototype stage. This night vision/heat vision feature helps to alert you to deer, dogs, wildlife, and those dumb asses that insist on walking down the road at night in dark clothing in my neighborhood.

Nuclear might be better than coal or fossil fuels, but it’s still dirty and expensive.

Spent fuel recycling costs a fortune. Only France is currently invested in it.

“In 1996 it estimated that reprocessing of existing used nuclear fuel could cost more than $100 billion.”

Most waste is stored in underground salt mines and requires special transportation, handling, and storage. That storage includes providing space between the spent rods to prevent interaction (you can’t just stack them compactly together). So while you may read that we produce half a swimming pool worth of waste, it takes a lot more space to store the spent rods than a “grocery store”. We produce about 2000 metric tons of spent rods per year. In addition, there’s all the other waste created when you run a nuclear plant — that includes garments and other materials. That adds up to “160,000 cubic feet (4,530 cubic meters) of radioactive material from its nuclear power plants annually”.

Disposing of spent rod storage casks costs $1 million per cask.

And then there’s the waste produced when decommissioning plants, or when plants go awry.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nuclear-waste-lethal-trash-or-renewable-energy-source/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Isolation_Pilot_Plant

There’s a great video DW tv did on reprocessing and still having to store spent nuclear waste here:

https://youtu.be/hiAsmUjSmdI

There’s nothing clean about fission. It produces expensive poisonous waste that has to be stored for 1000 years. And in the US, no one wants it in their state, driving the price up further. And when you’re unlucky, you end up with superfund sites like Fukushima and Chernobyl.

The Omen is great but has a couple of beheading-style scenes if I recall right.

Dead Zone with Christopher Walken is amazing. Glad to see it on this list.

Some more classic Stephen King you might enjoy if you haven’t already seen it:

• Salems Lot (the original 1970s mini series)
• Carrie (the original Spacek version, not the remakes)
• Firestarter (original with Drew Barrymore)

Edit: The Fog isn’t Stephen King. But it’s still good. I don’t remember it being too gory because everything happens in “the fog” but there might be a neck slicing. It’s been a looong time since I last watched it.

• The Fog (original with Adrienne Barbeau)

Tucker and Dale is awesome.

Look into Plex. They are spinning their photos and music streaming into separate apps from video. PlexAMP is already out. You just have to set up a NAS or sever with port forwarding on your home network. I use an old spare PC as my server and it works great.

Depends on which part of the 90s. That whole “deep space nine” color palette was huge in the early 90s — lots of maroons and mustards and dark grays.

It’s like Nadella wants people to stop using windows.

Little Debbie Zebra Cakes all day long.

Do PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo next.

If Microsoft is paying for it, why do they need a loan?

Will Microsoft also be paying for any nuclear waste disposal?

Sounds like a bubble.

More brilliant decisions from Satya Nadella. 🙄

The 80s Dune movie has a stellar cast and amazing art direction.

Titanic would have been a better movie if they had cast someone other than Leo DiCaprio.

That’s a shame. I’ve had no problems with any of the non-sleep Anker earbuds I’ve purchased.

A product nobody wants or needs. Here’s hoping the rumors are misunderstanding what this is and it’s just a speaker dock for iPhones and iPads or something.