GreyEyedGhost

And there's that presumption. Just like the idea that a Faraday cage will block a magnetic field such as the earth's. And unless your suggestion is that the poster just has to store his archive on the moon or farther, it will still be subject to influence from another magnetic field. And everything I've read puts bit rot at about 1% per year, which means, even with aggressive error correction about 50% of the archive will be lost within 70 years without an active refresh of the media. That's not what's generally meant by archiving. If it was, we would be talking about a process and a commitment by third parties to keep some random person's archive intact for a century, unless what you're really trying to suggest is that the real trick to building an archive that will last over a century is to live even longer?

There are far worse songs about trying to change your partner, which is still a better theme than desperately trying to convince someone they should be your partner. But a catchy tune can make up for some pretty pathetic lyrics.

Are you sure you just like one song? I like a number of their songs, but they all sound a lot alike...

These discussions always amuse me, and I have two responses about it. First, the customer is always right in matters of taste, and what can be more about taste than appreciating art? And second, for such hated bands, they sure sell a lot of records...

Sure putting in a lot of engagement for someone who says they'd rather before alone...

You keep talking about every vote not mattering in a vote that was won by 200-some-odd people with over 3000 write-ins. That person who can make a measurable impact wouldn't have been in the position to do anything if just a few hundred more people had believed it was hopeless and just stayed home. So how do you justify that with your beliefs?

I get that the presidential election is broken on many levels, and many people's votes have little or no bearing on the final outcome, or that any likely outcome will even be ideal, but the implausible has happened before, depending on how people vote.

The one thing that has never improved the outcome is to shrug your shoulders and do nothing.

It's hardly surprising that a problem that was 40 years in the making can't be fixed in one election cycle.

The federal housing building program ended in the late 80s. Since then, we have had a trend which has culminated where it is today. Here's just one link that discusses it.

Highly presumptive on many fronts, as well as conflating the ability to reliably write with the ability to read data over the same time span. So, tell me of the connector on this hard drive that you have that is older than me. And what do you use that drive for beyond as a curiosity?

I think it would make more sense to replace cost-effective with cheap. It may be cheaper to use a process that makes it likely 80% of the population dies in 35 years, but that's a huge (non-monetary) cost. The overarching issue is our current economic system ignores those costs that take a generation or more to come due.

HDDs aren't written physically onto the plate. They flip magnetic fields. Anything relying on magnetic fields to store data is going to have a lifespan measured in decades, at best.

The labeling referred to was nutritional, not food safety. Why would its inhospitability to pathogens mean we don't need nutritional labeling?

Now, you mentioned lobbying, which is a valid reason if not a good one. I also have no skin in this game, since beer is one of my least favorite alcohols.

The first heat engines were fire pistons, which go back to prehistory, so 12k to 25k years sounds about right. The next application of steam to make things move happened about 450 BC, about 2.5k years ago. Although not a direct predecessor to the ICE, they all are heat engines.