I know, I thought I’d expand on it

Hmm…a troll domain.

“httpscolonslashslashslashdotdotslash”

Fair enough! I’m also Old Enough that hearing about my childhood as “the 1900s” kinda hurts. Just feels wrong somehow, y’know?

Eh, WWW started in '91. What milestone happened in '95? Only thing I can think of is Windows 95, but that was a general computer thing, not an Internet thing.

As for early Internet era…to me that’s the mid to late 70s up through '91. TCP/IP dates back to '74, so that’s a workable starting point (or maybe ARPANET, ha).

The list of people so dangerous they can’t be allowed to fly, but too innocent to arrest.

I’d call it self-preservation more than generosity (or Beyond Generosity, heh). The point of forgiving is to let it go as an emotional burden that you carry with you. It’s incredibly hard to do, but it’s necessary for one’s own sense of peace.

I know Trump is fat, but it still wouldn’t count as a mass shooting!

I’ve read the Expanse (and loved it), but that’s definitely not what I was thinking of here.

he doesn’t do female characters well

Understatement of the century?

I cringed so hard reading “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” that I nearly DNF’d it.

But, for the time it was written, it was probably one of the more progressive things published.

No. I’ve read “The moon is a harsh mistress” (oof, it did NOT age well), but I’m thinking of a different novel.

Doing a search now…it might have been “Farmer In The Sky”. I remember the theme being a pretty heavy “move to the frontier, throw yourself into back-breaking work, prosper” type thing, along with one character in the book making a big deal about apple trees.

I think I read a novel with the bread basket theme at some point, but I can’t quite place it. Heinlein, maybe.

I was thinking poetic justice, personally

IIRC that was because the Predator video feeds were intended to be viewed in-theatre by officers right there on the front, and military protocol around encryption keys would have made it so no one at the front would have been able to decrypt the feed.

Considering they were designed in the early 90s, i.e. before public-key cryptography took off with SSL, that explanation always seemed plausible to me.

Add a comma? Also hell,

Perfect

I read that as “number 5 taters”

In the United States? They certainly can, and “fired for lying about credentials” gives the employer a reason to contest unemployment. But apparently there are enough employers that don’t cross-check that it can work as a strategy.

I’m not sure how I feel about that. On one hand, I value honesty and want to see dishonesty deterred. OTOH…if you can do the job, what’s the point of having the degree as a checkbox on the job application? Bullshit metrics should be removed.

Personally, I felt like a “real adult” at age 30.

This question makes me think of a scene from one of the Little House On The Prairie books where one of the characters, a teenager (Mannie maybe?) is registering for a homestead in a new settlement area. The government agent is asking for his details: Name, birthplace, age.

“Oh, you can put me down for 18” wink

And I would move 560 more… 🎵

To a new town about 4 hours away. I was 8, we moved because my dad got a new job!