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echodot, to gaming in You know what? I'll just wait...

There’s absolutely no evidence that this is going to be the case. All that happened is that the CEO made a dumb comment and CEOS are always making dumb comments doesn’t mean anything.

echodot, to risa in How not to spot imposters...

So you’re after the J then?

echodot, to risa in It's true.

Isn’t she Bashir’s mother?

echodot, (edited ) to risa in Do they ever work at all?

Tea Earl Gray hot, in a pint glass.

echodot, to risa in Do they ever work at all?

It works on swiftkey. Can you replace keyboards on iOS? I’ve never had one.

echodot, to piracy in Once a pirate, always a pirate

I get what you’re saying but copyright is necessary otherwise nobody would create anything. If you can’t get compensated for your work then why put the effort in?

Hollywood wouldn’t exist without copyright and you might say oh well Hollywood doesn’t produce much good, but it does produce the vast majority of media you probably consume. I’m not saying you’re completely wrong but I don’t think you can just go Copyright = Bad, and leave it at that.

I know that’s treason talk

echodot, (edited ) to risa in With all due respect, Captain, I am the head of Starfleet IT, and I have it on good authority that if you try to replicate a replicator, you can break the space time continuum.

If you have enough capacity to power 10 you can’t replicate an 11th because that would mean that you would have more replicators than you had capacity.

echodot, to upliftingnews in Dog leads family to missing cat that fell into 30-metre mineshaft

Very well dog, you may rescue me if it makes you feel better, I’m gracious like that.

echodot, to risa in Weird, right?

It kind of works though because it’s a prequel to things like TOS and TNG. We’ve already seen those shows, so we know they’re basically wondering around what will become their own backyard in a couple of hundred years. There really isn’t that much that’s dangerous there. Mostly it’s about interpersonal situations and meeting new species for the first time.

It would be fine if Archer wasn’t such a dumbass.

echodot, to risa in Sorry, I'm bad at memes.

We all know it’s just rounders but with extra prestige. You’re not fooling anyone

echodot, to gaming in Gatekeeping for profit

I used to work at an airport and they had a internal tracking system for passengers with special requests (mostly for unaccompanied kids).

Anyway it’s programmed in assembly and only works on one particular type computer. Even if it runs on a different era appropriate processor apparently this app won’t work. So there was a buttload of old motherboards in a store room somewhere so that we could just swap the board out if the computer ever died. It’s critical infrastructure that there is no backup for.

So basically I’m pretty sure the way the world ends is because somebody threw away an important floppy disk, and now a nuclear reactor is going into meltdown.

echodot, to risa in Space is 2D, right?

The ships can land and take off at least some of them can but they don’t fly around in the atmosphere they just go up and down they’re either on the ground or they’re in space but they can’t really manoeuvre.

Except for that one episode of Voyager where they just kind of forgot about that, but I think that was hand-waved away by saying that they just made the shields into a bubble and so essentially from the air’s perspective the ship was a sphere. That’s apparently what the shuttlecraft do too, which is why they fall like a brick whenever they’re shot down.

echodot, to risa in Space is 2D, right?

I don’t think I’ve ever seen combat in Star Trek that takes place over a distance of more than a couple of hundred kilometres.

What’s the range on a phaser or a torpedo, can it even go that far.

Long range weapons are so rare in Star Trek that when they do turn up they’re basically what the whole episode is about.

echodot, to risa in Space is 2D, right?

Well the guy is wrong, we can’t just believe it.

echodot, (edited ) to risa in Space is 2D, right?

Sure but there are star systems that are above and below the exact ecliptic of the galactic plane. We’re not on the ecliptic that’s why you can’t see the milky way as well in the southern hemisphere because we’re kind of below it.

If a ship was travelling from Sol to Arcturus it would travel up (relative to the galactic plane) because we’re slightly below it and it’s considerably above it. The galaxy is very thin compared to its width, but it’s still of thousands of light years high.

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