You don’t have to imagine! It’s already an option!

I mean… if you live there do you really need a hotel? There are lots of businesses that cater specifically to tourists.

Our local weather person said on air that the cuts had affected the model accuracy. Something having to do with weather balloons not being sent up.

I was saying that my theory is that this functionality is broken or being bypassed on Windows such that when it gets hit by for instance the Network Discovery or “Do you have this update already downloaded?” ping from another Windows computer it wakes up to have a chat. I meant other systems are looking for active machines and those pings are waking it up or keeping it from going to sleep. I may have chosen a bad slang since ‘ping’ is a net command.

This theory is based on my understanding that computers don’t go all the way to sleep anymore and reenabling S3 restores normal sleeping. I included WoL because I have a machine that doesn’t have the S3 option but disabling WoL seemed to help on that one.

Right but my point was that doesn’t matter if your machine is in S3 or S4 instead of S1.

I’m not sure what you are trying to say.

I have had some luck disabling Wake-On-LAN on the systems that don’t need it, or enabling higher sleep modes on the systems where that is available. My pet theory is that a lot of systems are constantly looking at what is active on the network and those pings are keeping the machine awake.

I think people forget that the 19 year olds voting for him were 10 when the “Grab ‘em by the pussy” shit happened. Not that it’s an excuse to not pay attention but a lot of the people who voted for him didn’t have the benefit of hindsight and spent the entire pandemic alone in their rooms listening to Joe Rogan and Andrew Tate.

Native Americans…

Just wait until they add the bonus Great Depression reenactment!

Whatever your and my feelings are regarding national vs federal governments aside, I feel it’s important to point out that the expressed purpose of the electoral college is to guarantee that the states and not the people elect the president. It’s a specifically federal institution doing exactly what it was designed to do.

I think a big part of the problem is that as states have become less democratic people have turned to the federal government expecting it to act like a national one when it isn’t wholly. All of this attention on DC has taken attention away from things like gerrymandering which happen at a state level. This coup started at the bottom not the top.

Every single one of these assholes were simply in the right place at the right time. Many with a leg up from money and cronyism. None of them are any smarter than the people you deal with every day.

Both the Satellaview and its competitor the Sega Meganet allowed for direct downloads. As did the US version Sega Channel.

What you are describing existed! The Satellaview. You are correct, while some have been preserved, most of the games were lost to time.

No it’s Windows ME, the universe just doesn’t have ACPI compatibility.

Anything not currently open should be fine, is reverting to a previous restore point an option?

Are we really so worried about saving things that we needed a graceful shutdown? This feels more like a ‘flip the switch on the power strip’ kinda situation.

On the one hand it’s an interesting idea and there are already people like myself with dual citizenship between the States and a Native American Tribe. (Not to mention that part of Trump’s birthright shit aims to strip indigenous persons of citizenship.)

On the other hand the US has always been a hybrid between federal and national government systems. Past experience has shown that human rights really can’t differ between states and still have everybody get along. Moving to a paradigm where the Equal Protection Clause all of a sudden has a citizenship sized hole in it seems like a very bad idea especially with the most recent Supreme Court rulings.

It worries me that they think we will need them soon.

See also: Ronald Reagan