spurtrenolds
See the comment below regarding concerns of misalignment, limit stops & containment for beams with the power to cause permanent blindness. I'm sure some venues handle this safely [1], but powerful lasers are being treated far to casually for my liking.
[1] Though I wonder what would happen if you asked for a copy of their risk assessment?
The K in knight appears to have turned up in the American pronunciation of "schedule".
That's almost as good as typing "wargames" on the BSD command line.
Shall we play a game?
Can you explain why giving a complete list of URLs you visit to the worlds largest advertising and data gathering company isn't dodgy? If you can't see why, then you appear to have drunk the SV Koolaid.
tldr; If millions of people do a silly thing, it is still a silly thing.
One would be far more likely to hear "Oi, cunt, the salt" here in Blightly than in the USA.
So much of our technologies have been built or adapted to enhance and/or fulfil our desires, including sexual desires, it is puzzling to me why you think women are somehow excluded from this. Your post smacks of a modern puritanism.
Very strongly disagree with this.
Yes there was some grumbling from the usual attention seeking (read 'shit-stirring') pundits in the right wing media, but to suggest the country was up in arms is simply false. The plan was rather welcomed, the only concerns being how best it fit it in with other NHS natal treatment.
I'm mildly amused you consider modems obsolete.
Here in the OT world and where systems need to be air gaped [1], modems are absolutely used to provide separated, secured links and non-IP links. They are not going away any time soon.
[1] Example, the dial-up time servers provided by the NPL for offline systems https://www.npl.co.uk/getattachment/products-and-services/Ti...