Gambling is very common in a depression economy.

I have issues with old DOSBox games. Has anyone ever gotten Star Wars Rebel Assault 1 or 2 running?

For anyone who expects their retro console to boot up and be playable, check to see if your console has known capacitor issues before powering it up. Even caps not part of the plague can leak if they’re old enough. If they’re powered on with leaking caps, it can be much harder to fix than if the caps were replaced before being powered on

Toss the chromebooks and let kids mess with the inner workings of the computer. Teach them to make their own backups and have restore drives available.

Pretty sure I got into it with him on an alt before a mod on You Should Know deleted everything. Weird as hell. Genuinely reminded of those crazy people who go between mumbling and screaming while walking down a city street. Seriously needs to be checked for schizophrenia.

The same way that investors in Theranos ignored their medially trained family members. They’re gambling addicts.

I’m not sure what you’re saying. You mean the piston and portal would compress the platform? Even if that’s the case, that still means force is being transferred through the portal.

It’s doesn’t matter really, this is a red herring.

This is not a red herring. A portal can be assumed to be massless and might not interact with anything. In theory, it could have infinite sharpness and cut though the piston when force is applied. But that’s not the hypothetical. The hypothetical has the portal fixed to the piston, interacting with mass. If it can interact with the piston, it can interact with

There is the problem with your logic. The box doesnt move, there is a shortcut in space that moves around it.

The box moves in relation to the portal opening. The reference frame is the portal opening. If, from start to finish, the box takes 1 second to enter the portal, it has to take one second to exit the portal. Everything works backwards from this. If traveling through the portal quickly would cause the box to be launched, then the energy has to come from somewhere and the piston is the only source.

If the box enters the portal at a certain rate, it has to exit the portal at the same rate. Unless there’s relatively involved, that has to be true and everything else follows.

How is the portal affixed to the piston? Whatever made up system that affixes the portal to the piston would also allow it to interact with the box.

The box has to exit at the same rate it enters and the law of conservation of mass and energy dictates that no new energy is created and it has to come from somewhere. If there is no way for the energy to be transferred from the portal to the box, then simply, portals cannot exist.

If the portal is being pushed down by the piston, that means it interacts with piston. A portal isn’t a lasso because lasso’s exist and have known rules to them. The only things we can know about portals is what’s presented in the hypothetical.

Trump’s had a grudge against Rosie O’Donnell for 20 years. Of course he’s that petty.

Regardless of the how the portal works, if the cube enters the portal at a certain rate, it has to exit the portal at the same rate and everything else has to follow.

The cube doesn’t interact with the piston, but it does interact with the portal and the portal is fixed to the piston. The same way that when I hit a nail with a hammer, I feel the resistance of the nail though the hammer handle. I don’t touch the nail, but the force is transferred through the hammer and in the hypothetical, the force would be transferred through the portal.

The hypothetical does not bring up the possibility that the portal has infinite sharpness at it’s edges and would cut though the piston head or the possibility that relativity is somehow involved and would allow the cube to exit the portal at a different rate that it enters. Wormholes moving at different rates is a theoretical form of time travel, but not at these speeds.

Since smart phones and Chromebooks really.

My experience with high school is that they would want you to cheat so the school’s numbers look good. The consequences of No Child Left Behind will be felt for a long time.

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As the cube enters the portal, it will take on energy from the piston, slowing the piston down in the process, and that energy will propel it out. If it enters the portal fast, it has to exit the portal fast.

I’ve been calling them Colonists and came here to make that correction.

Emphasis on “will of the people.” People need to start demanding change or burning things down like during the Civil Rights movement or in France on the Thursday.

All things are effectively legal if the laws aren’t enforced. Discussing loopholes is just pageantry when the will of the people aren’t demanding basic laws to be enforced.

The plan was always to over saturate the market with coders so the big techs could lower their wages.

They’re just robots when they’re giving speeches.