...A Guide to the Inhabited Worlds, Major Colonies, Settlements, and Space Stations. 

Is anyone here a regular on the PC version of Warframe?

I've been running fairly regularly with Terrence and Ankhani for several years now, but other interests/work seem to be pulling them away. So I was wondering if anyone else plays it.

If others are interested, but aren't sure, we have an awesome dojo, which means we have all the rare content researched and available for the player. And if you're good with the grinding and the in-game market, you never need to spend a dime. My roommate did it on the PS4, much to my surprise. With a bit of work, he was able to source all the rare stuff he wanted by grinding and selling other hard to acquire loot. So it is possible.

Federal judge rules Paul Manafort lied to the FBI, special counsel and Grand Jury.

Sucks to be him. Hope he enjoys spending the rest of his life in prison.

How many does this make now?

After 15 years, the Opportunity rover has signed off for the last time: https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/13/world/nas...index.html

.... It's every bit as good scathing and satirical as you think. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/...blackface/

ZING!!!

(02-13-2019, 05:21 AM)Labster (in the Intelligent Devices thread) Wrote: I wasn't actually aware that the costume belonged to a member of the cast. Based on the main thread, given that I just finished PMMM, I've seen or read all of the major source material... except the Montreal group, where I don't know any of them. I guess Seraviel and I have completely different tastes.

I mean, I'm watching Fate/stay night now, and it's okay I guess. But I can't shake the feeling that it might be better if it was at Inakano Middle School instead, and Wapiko's Servant was Pen-Pen.

Which might be a roundabout way of saying that maybe I should leave the costuming decisions to Tomoyo from now on.

The Register: Fun fact: GPS uses 10 bits to store the week. That means it runs out... oh heck – April 6, 2019

tl;dr: GPS uses a 10-bit number to track the week, which is necessary to understand the signal from the satellites. It's about to rollover again (the last time this happened was in 1999), so patch your GPS or have an expensive paperweight.

Remember how I keep telling people to check the numbers, get the facts, and don't listen to people who have a vested interest in getting you to think their way?

Well, here's a worked example of that approach.

Canada's forests actually emit more carbon than they absorb — despite what you've heard on Facebook

Which is simple logic, after all. The carbon that a tree takes into itself while it's growing gets released when it dies and decomposes - and (thanks to wildfires and insect infestations) there have been a lot more trees dying than being planted in the last couple of decades.

Does anybody have relevant statistics for other forests?

If you want to use trees to sequester carbon, you have to keep them from decomposing after they die. Build buildings out of wood, Buy and use wooden furniture. Buy books instead of using the Internet for everything - and keep the books (preferably on wooden bookshelves). And so on.

So I was checking out something on Crunchyroll, and naturally I got one of those "People who liked __ also liked these" arrays.  One of them was titled Nyanko Days.  Dear Arioch of Darkness, the kawaii is over 9000!  Fortunately, each episode of Nyanko Days is only two minutes long, counting the credits — as a couple of reviewers pointed out, you could binge all twelve eps in the same amount of time as a single episode of most anime.  You'd then die of sugar shock.  Including from the credits, which feature the statement, both spoken and in print, "Nyanko is Love!"

Yuuko is an ordinary schoolgirl too shy to make friends.  Her only comfort is coming home to her three nekomimi — Maa, Rou, and Shii — who're the size of house cats and always referred to only as cats, despite the fact that Rou often reads books, wears a mini school uniform, and gets out a towel to mop up the orange juice Maa spilled.  Also, Shii has been seen drawing pictures (not very skillfully, which made her cry).

Nothing at all deep here, but stress relief as long as you don't object to moe.

California to pull National Guard troops from Mexican border

Quote:Gov. Gavin Newsom says troops will be redeployed to combat fires, drug smuggling

Quote:In his State of the State address on Tuesday, the newly elected Democratic governor will say that border crossings had fallen to their lowest since 1971 and California's undocumented population had dropped to a more than 10-year low, spokesperson Brian Ferguson said.

"The border 'emergency' is nothing more than a manufactured crisis — and [California's] National Guard will not be part of this political theater," Newsom said on Twitter.

As a result, the governor would reassign about 360 California National Guard troops at the border to address the "real threats" faced by the state, including drug trafficking and wildfires, the spokesperson said in an email.

Newsom's office did not provide a timeline for the redeployments.

Quote:New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham last week ordered most National Guard troops deployed at the state's border with Mexico to withdraw, also rejecting the Republican president's contention of a crisis.

Grisham, a Democrat, called Trump's frequent declarations of an immigration crisis at the border a "charade." The troops were deployed by her Republican predecessor, Susana Martinez, last year at Trump's request.