It's just typical Disney. Take a popular franchise, and then milk it for everything its worth. To Disney it's not "bad" if it's bringing in more money than it cost to make it. Sure, some of it maybe didn't make as much money as they would have liked, but I don't believe Disney has actually lost money on any of it (ignoring the Hollywood accounting tricks). So expect Disney to just keep cranking Stars Wars stuff out until everyone is thoroughly bored with it.

Other than hoarding up the houses, everything is pretty general Monopoly strategy I figured out a long time ago. Basically try to get a monopoly ASAP and then develop it ASAP. I've found that strategy to be good, but it depends a lot on luck. Sometimes despite everything you try, the only monopoly you can get are those horrid green properties and you're pretty much doomed.

That's assuming if Biden was to issue such an order as things stand right now.

If Biden really wanted to abuse his newfound powers of immunity, his very first official act would be making sure the supreme court won't be standing in his way for any subsequent official acts.

Right. If you were to attempt something like this, you'd be better off with something like a chunk of granite than plutonium.

Maybe the old, discontinued on-premise version. The cloud version of JIRA is a huge step back.

With that said, Teams is not a good product either.

Any new computer sold that has a copy of Windows preinstalled means Microsoft is getting a cut.

Probably the biggest threat to us would be the rogue planet kicking some largish objects out in the Oort cloud into new orbits as it passed through. Some of the orbits would go into the inner solar system and could intersect with the Earth at some point.

I especially like how they've always loaded the full page in the background behind their popup with their little ultimatum. So they've already paid the costs in bandwidth and resources to serve up the page anyway, only for me to just close the tab on them.

The games that are going to be the hardest to preserve may end up being many of the mobile games that are popular now.

These games are usually installed through an app store, so if the app store pulls it, that could be it for new installations of the game unless the game can be extracted off an existing device. And even if you manage to extract the game off of a device, in order to get it onto another mobile device will likely require some way to side load it.

Many of these games also depend on a server so once the server is turned off that's another way the game to die.

The mobile devices these games run on aren't built for the long term either. They are essentially disposable devices meant to last a few years and then be tossed. They aren't built to be serviced or repaired. Eventually the batteries will die, and while you can replace the battery, there's no standardization of battery packs and eventually replacement batteries won't be available either.

Even if you can get an old mobile device going, there's no guarantee that you'll actually be able to do anything with it, because the device itself may depend on some remote server just to function that could someday be shut off. There's already old phones today that if you factory reset them, it effectively bricks them since they need to contact some activation server as part of the initial setup process and that server is long gone.

Of course, many people may ask - who cares? Perhaps so, but I'd bet a lot of people said the same thing about the old Atari and Nintendo and Sega and MS-DOS games that were popular years ago and are still popular today.

It's kind of interesting that pretty much all the games I played as a kid are still accessible to me today - in many cases the original game is still playable on the original, still functional, hardware. But a lot of kids today growing up today playing mobile games on a phone or a tablet, when they are my age, could very well have no way to ever experience those games again that they grew up with as kids.

When the US retired the F4, a number of the planes were converted into target drones. Probably the bigger hurdle would be to get these planes airworthy again.

That reminds me back when some time ago, I was tired of dealing with sketchy, and often broken, websites and programs for downloading videos from Youtube. I figured these sorts of programs must be doing something along the lines of downloading the Youtube page, parsing through the massive pile of HTML and Javascript to find the stream, and then saving that to a video file. That seemed like something I could do myself with Python, so I set out to see if I could figure out how to do it.

A few minutes and a couple of web searches later, I discovered that someone else had figured that all out already and I just needed to do "pip install pytube".

I'd say the same thing about "Sunshine" and "Interstellar".

Some movies I might consider including, in no particular order:

• Moon (2009)
• 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)
• Silent Running (1972)