Technically, you’re only entitled to child support if a judge determines you are. While pregnancies from one night stands will usually require the father to pay child support, there are some exceptions (like if another parent adopts the kid.)

Additionally, those funds are only supposed to be used for the kid, and not for anyone else, so if the other parent is found to be neglecting things, they may lose custody altogether and instead owe child support.

I think you might be confused as to the reference- Fat Man was the nuke dropped on Nagasaki, and was larger than Little Boy, which was dropped on Hiroshima.

which makes these two not-actually-fiction.

They suck.

Either they’re not actually hybrids or they suck tremendously at both.

Too many trade offs to get the other side working.

No.

• energy requirements will always be higher vs surface transit

• mechanical complexity will increase mechanical failures. these mechanical failures are much more likely to lead to death or severe injury or extensive damage.

• you think self driving is bad now? It’s not. Planes can largely fly themselves, but that’s not the hard part. It’s the everything else, including maintaining safe patterns and separation. If everyone jumped to air travel in a city congestion just moves into the air, and you’ll have shit loads of accidents. Throw in improperly maintained air craft because that shit is expensive and you have a recipe for 9/11-level accidents on a daily basis.

Mass transit is the way to go.

Is that a rousing game of space invaders?

“But how do they taste satueed in butter?”

(Sorry. I’m hungry)

Nope.

No Kings is going on today.

Yeah. You know it’s bad when introverts like me get out

this is solved by seatbelts.

It’s just cheaper to have a one screen that can be configured with a code change to do everything rather than physical buttons that need a full hardware change to do something else.

…you can remap your buttons to do other things…

I’ve never seen a klingon disruptor pistol do that. Have you? or Cardie, or any one else’s (though there was that time Quark was trying to sell some shoulder fire artillery…)

we don’t know what kind of range or power they really have. Just like how their starships aren’t warships, but they out class most other faction’s warships.the other factions don’t hide what they are though. (and the kind of firepower that can take out damns from miles away is simply unneeded in any battlefield at that level of accessibility.)

Let’s be honest… the fact that hand phasers are able to blow up damns from miles away….

Says a lot about the values of the federation.

every year is the year of linux if defenestrate windows

what and hang with all the lovecraftian horrors?

Well. can’t be any worse than certain humans.

(Shamelessly stolen from this very community.)

this is why he can’t find his mouse.

Pick one. Use it for a while. Try a different one.

If you just want something that works out of the box and are very new to Linux, I’d grudgingly recommend Ubuntu, and highly recommend Debian-based mint.

(Ubuntu is easier to get started but I’m not a fan for a few reasons.)

If you’re familiar with Linux or don’t mind jumping into a learning curve, Endeavor OS is my current driver, and I’m liking it.

Well, not an engineer myself, either, but generally speaking that would greatly increase the systems complexity, which generally increases maintenance costs, down time, and the initial cost of the system.

You might be able to eke out a bit more power, but there’s more to the decision than total output and how efficient it is.

What I would imagine were a fusion-powered MHD being useful would be as a front end to fusion-based plasma propulsion. (Basically something like the VSIMR, Hall effect or whatever plasma thruster, where the fusion reaction generates both some power to create the thrust and its exhaust plasma is also the reaction mass.(I mentioned I’m not an engineer… right? Just an incorrigible nerd who likes sci-fi.)

i mean, they can run the plasma through some magnetic fields…

But it’s less efficient that boiling water.

If they refuse it’s not because of the currency. It’s because donations that large typically come with strings, and they may feel weird about it.

Anything can be stolen, but they’re usually fairly careful about that.

Somebody tell RFKJ…. They’re blowing up his second favorite cream!