It was also mostly made up of leftover stories that didn’t make it into the original series.

That and they would have had to pay the author to use it. That’s the whole reason they de-canoned the books in the first place.

It’s technically true. They want those bots to pay for that access.

They needed a show runner. Someone there who at least knew the gist of the whole story and had the authority to override director egos.

Bad design is a constant. So it is unfortunately your obligation to deal with it if you want the paycheck.

Now, at home, nothing from Microsoft is allowed to touch my computers.

I have given up and just use the web version of outlook. It genuinely works better as sad as that sounds.

Not Chinese, but yes, every modern car has a data only cellular connection of some sort. They can easily afford it because they’re selling your data to anyone who will buy it.

All humans are animals. The idea that any of us exist outside or above nature is simple sophestry.

Originally, yes, but it’s not a deal breaker anymore if you’re wealthy enough. So, progress, I guess…

Each half of that sentence is diametrically opposed to the other.

Ironically, that guy was probably the closest any politician at the time got to understanding what the internet was.

That has only ever applied to wealthy land owners.

Dude, you don’t eat spicy food with your eyes.

Well, he had pepper sprayed in his general direction. Given the lack of reaction, I’d say it missed.

That will likely end up being 15 minutes total.

You have to radiate it. If you vent, you run out of whatever medium you’re using to cool in a few minutes.

Or Apple deliberately slowing down old iPhones to get people to buy new ones.

The holodeck is better than having an ancestral Irish cottage in some random village on a colony planet somewhere.

No holodecks, or more accurately, the ship’s computer, are fantasy AI. Chatbots will never be so cool.

Mostly agent provocateurs.