A consumer mobile connection is about $30 a month. A car company could get it cheaper, not just by buying in bulk, but also because by not needing that much bandwidth for their connection.
It's been a heck of an unproductive day. Been trying to make myself do paperwork things, and none of that is getting done with any sort of functional progress at all. It is a little frustrating in its own way, since it's something that I've been struggling with for ages with, but also can't seem to be able to get any help with at all, which makes it particularly bothersome, since it does feel like being stuck in the gap between being able to get help because you're obviously and clearly struggling, or not need help at all.
Anyone got a tip to try and help with things, or at least, a pet to try and distract myself with?
I actually don't mind the space-magic aspects, but I'm also more of a fan of TOS, which leaned into the whole mysticism and space magic more than a lot of the later shows. Not everything has to have a scientific explanation, or at least, not one known to the Federation/viewer. We don't know how Q abilities work, for example.
Honestly, I'm not sure that the Borg would really take advantage of their abilities. For all their claims about collective technological and biological distinctiveness, we've yet to see the Borg actually make use of any of it, besides some vague lip service about suitability of purpose.
We don't see Borg drones from telepathic species use their telepathic abilities as communication, or weaponise those abilities, for example. They mostly just use their tech and brute force.
It is equally possible that there might be a metaphysical aspect to the abilities of the Vau N'Akat that the Borg are unable to tap, similar to the abilities of the travellers, which also don't have a replicable technological basis. If the Borg could do that, they would have expanded well outside of Earth in First Contact, given that Wesley once created and created access points to and from a whole universe.
I was having that problem, and eventually realised I need to take my glasses *off to be able to see close up now. I’m now both short sighted and long sighted, making finding a point at which I can actually see clearaly quite tricky.
Design flaw that having both doesn't cause them to cancel out, really.
faark this system - It shouldn’t be a privilege to be able to seek help.
It's expensive to be ill, unfortunately, and a lot of healthcare still seems to treat mental health as a cosmetic thing, like teeth, or eyes.
Although there is a bitter irony in that to get diagnosed and treated for ADHD, you need to make a bunch of appointments and things, which someone with ADHD would struggle with.
But if you're immortal, you can also think much longer term.
You can just keep working, or, if you're the truly immortal type, where you don't have biological needs, and are impervious to disease or injury, just sit back, since you don't need to pay for as much as a regular human.
Although getting to that point would be quite difficult. Someone being truly immortal is so far out there and so difficult to prove that it's much more likely to be something more mundane. Like identity theft, or a clerical error.
Although neither patient was alive at the time of the transplant.
I don't know if a full brain transplant would be feasible, or even a good idea. Not only would none of their senses and motor nerves work for weeks while the brain and nerves re-established themselves, but they would be walking around in a dead person's face, body and speaking with their voice. That seems genuinely horrific.
Yes, but they've got the advantage of having done it for longer, and not stirred the pot.
I honestly don't think it would have been an issue for Microsoft if they just decided to sit on Internet Explorer instead of trying to push everyone into using Edge.
You do what the police do, and provide a proportionate response.
A gun is only to be used if you are in imminent danger of your life. A robbery is arguably not that, unless they're trying to steal your organs or prostheses.
There's a reason your average supermarket security guard doesn't immediately whip out the Mini-Nuke the moment they see a shoplifter.
There's also something to be said about the place you're living in, where you're to be terrified of stabbists and robberers the moment you step out-of-doors. Do you live in a hive of scum and villainy?
Especially when it causes law enforcement to become so paranoid of the citizens they're ostensibly meant to protect, that a mere hailstone landing on the car roof immediately causes them to believe they're being fired upon.
That just sounds like a terrible time for everyone involved.
At that point, you're basically turning the constabulary into soldiers.
But not that much more.
A consumer mobile connection is about $30 a month. A car company could get it cheaper, not just by buying in bulk, but also because by not needing that much bandwidth for their connection.