Only $100 million?

In my case, they keep sending me pictures of my neighbors house. Oh well.

I want to reply to them telling them they should be paying me for my dick pics, but they are either using spoofed emails or compromised Gmail accounts. (They wouldn’t care about a reply, even if they go to the trouble of looking for one.)

Seriously, I wish they would at least check my linked in profile first, which is yet another pointless ask because of the automation that is probably involved. I guess they don’t want to talk to someone who has been in security for +20 years who’s side hobby is wasting email scammers time with virtual machines that are goatse themed. Sigh.

I called that out. It was the weight of the earth… on earth.

The earth is estimated to “weigh” 13,170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds. (That is weird when you think about it. The weight of the earth being based on what something weighs on earth, I mean.)

Mt. Everest is only about 357,000,000,000,000 pounds and is just a tiny fraction of the mass of the earth.

So. My point is that we need a better way to portray scale of things in the universe. AUs work to a point but then we have to quickly move to parsecs. Parsecs quickly give way to light years. (Or vice-versa, depending on how you visualize things better.) Light years kinda work, but only for between 14-26 billion years. Even after all of that, I can hardly still fathom the size of Mt. Everest. (This was a rant, but not an angry rant.)

the sound from my sub £100 2.1 soundbar which obviously puts the TV speakers to shame.

Absolutely don’t start writing music then. Once you do, it’ll destroy your perception of how sound bars simulate 5.1 channel audio. (Most consumer grade Atmos sound bars have a pair of speakers that point up from the center channel to reflect sound off your ceiling. I would be able to hear that “trick”, unfortunately.)

My “studio” is super simple and I only use 2.1 audio but with proper monitor speakers that have a mostly “flat” sound. While sound bars are great for limited space, I’ll never use one again. For music and most movies, 2.1 is all you need. Rear channels are nice and everything, but kinda pointless in a living room. (If people want a real theater experience at home, good luck buying a proper +30 channel system.)

When it comes time for you to invest in new headphones, buy some ATH-M50x’s. Once you hear what relatively flat sound is like, you’ll probably end up throwing every other speaker you own in the trash.

If you think that is confusing, this will blow your mind!

Also, they tend not to award British pounds in the US either.

Good analysis, but you failed to point out that the truck will be towing the whole assembly. Pushing this contraption in reverse could be a hair problematic.

If he is actually towing it, there is probably an 80% chance the actual truck would detonate the AT mine first, depending on how touchy the trigger was and if it’s ran over directly. (The rig would probably deflect more of the blast back through the truck.)

That’s funny how Dolby Atmos is in all caps. It’s a protocol and that’s it. Dolby squeezed out existing tech with a new protocol because marketing. There is nothing about this that couldn’t already be done. If it couldn’t already be done, not many people are going to hear the differences anyway.

However, if you are going to watch the movie in your professional studio or private theater, because you just just trashed all your perfectly good equipment just to have the Atmos logo, you’re set.

This just seems like a meme template.

Just be glad he didn’t bust out the black sharpie.

I watched through Day of Honor a couple of times today, but it was kinda choppy for me since I had to work.

I just want to clarify “give herself up” in that you mean she is willing to become part of the Voyager “collective” and puts aside her need to return to the Borg?

If my above assumption is correct, then yes. She is growing exponentially personality wise, but there are significant challenges in doing so.

Personally, I have been around engineers my entire life. Some people I know could rattle on for hours over something like p vs np even if they just learned about it a few hours ago. Put that same person in a complex social environment and they are absolutely clueless. It’s similar to Seven.

Assuming I didn’t know anything about her timeline after Day of Honor, my guess would have been it would take years for her to learn how to operate in a complex structure like we are accustomed to. Janeway seems bright enough to understand that as well. So yeah, it would be a very long time before she could make the kinds of decisions we take for granted and Janeway would have to do that for her like a parent.

Fast forward a bit to Picard, you can see how long it took for her character to develop into something that didn’t resemble a robot. (I am willfully excluding some later episodes of Voyager that were kind of odd, btw.)

Standby. I remember the episode but not with enough detail to discuss.(I’ll get it rewatched now.)

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Really? That was your takeaway? ROFL!

It was totally fine. Borg implants or not, she was still human. She also didn’t have a choice about becoming Borg at such a young age. When her connection was cut with the collective, she basically became a child again making her Janeway’s responsibility. (That was close to Janeway’s logic I believe, and I agree with it. It was a human decision for another human who was incapable of making decisions.)

The biggest thing is that Seven has already signed a contract with UPN, so she was kinda stuck for a few episodes anyway. Janeway knew this, so after thinking about it over a 50 gallon drum of coffee and a few packs of menthol Kools, she decided to just run with it and make it dramatic. (The Borg attorneys failed to overturn the terms of the contract even after several weeks of absolutely phenomenal work.)

There are about a million different flavors of how to download and execute a shell script. Regardless, you need to redirect the output of curl into bash with the -s flag. Bash needs to know that it is reading from STDIN.

Here is an over-thought stackoverflow page on it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5735666/execute-bash-script-from-url

Also, if the script is not being read properly, that might explain the dpkg lock issue. Running two instances of dpkg simultaneously is likely causing that collision you are seeing. (If one instance is running, it will touch a lock file and then delete it when it stops. It prevents “bad things” from happening when two instances of the same app want the same resources.)

That is odd if your path is broken. It curl should be in /usr/bin and ‘which’ should find it. Are you somehow launching another shell inside a shell? Like zsh inside of bash, or something in that flavor? (In some rare cases, that would break paths and profile configs for your active shell.)

Regardless of why curl isn’t being found, or only partially found, or something, learn “env”. You need to get a decent picture of what your working environment is and why something as basic as curl “isn’t found”. (‘which’ is about as a baseline of a command as there is.)

The script is complaining that it can’t find curl? What is this script that you are using? It’s probably got a super-basic check for curl (in the wrong location) that can be modified. (Type in the source URL for it here, or something.)

However, running any script without fully understanding it is not advisable to begin with.

Typing in ‘which curl’ at the command line should give you the proper location of the existing binary of curl.

You missed this one?

My status is “Fuck you!”. Good enough?