I think the main problem would be the controls. I mean, you could put a tiny bridle on the rat to steer, but how do you shoot? Pull the tail? (How you avoid being bitten while pulling the rat’s tail is a separate issue.)

It’s a step up from fish playing pokemon, anyway.

It is, but it’s so divergent these days that 90% of Mozilla patches won’t even apply to the codebase (and presumably vice-versa). My conclusion is that Pale Moon and Goanna are capable of surviving if Firefox development ceases.

Sensible people had rather deal with ice than with ICE.

Being nabbed for dissent requires having a strong opinion on something that’s at odds with the preferences of the Powers That Be, and not being afraid to speak up about it. I would guess that that’s only a small percentage of social media enthusiasts—less than a third, and I’m being generous there.

Unfortunately, this won’t happen, because the people most interested in social media tend to be those with the least interest in privacy and least understanding of data breaches and how to prevent them. Would be nice, though.

To be exact, the geometry of a moose makes it so that a lower-built vehicle will hit it in the legs, knock it over, and cause it to land on the hood, and quite possibly on the people in the front seat. This is in addition to the deceleration from hitting a critter that can weigh more than 500kg. Best result, if you managed to brake before hitting it, is a completely shattered windshield and deformed vehicle hood before the moose gets up and flees back into the bush. Worst result . . . well, I grew up in moose country, and the uncle of one of my elementary school classmates died in a moose collision.

Rather like the proportion of spam to legitimate email.

You don’t, really, although “crime spree traced to out-of-work voice actor!” sounds like a plot from a Saturday morning cartoon several decades ago.

sysklogd is still around as well.

To be exact, there is a noun “affect” whose plural would presumably be “affects”, but it’s a term of art in psychology and absolutely not the word that is wanted here.

It seems unlikely that keeping this service would make a significant dent in their bottom line, so why?

Because they fired the QA department years ago, in favour of non-rigorous testing by users crazy enough to run whatever Microsoft’s version of a nightly build is. Because there’s no testing plan, some sets of conditions never do get tested.

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The “O” word, actually: oligarchs (or their relatives or best buddies). Chances are that at least some of them are under sanction in more civilized countries.

I doubt most owners of recent-model luxury-brand cars in Russia are average joes for which this is their only transport. I therefore find my sympathy to be somewhat limited.

Mirroring what happened in Ontario years ago. Used to be that northeastern Ontario had a bunch of mills. Now there’s only Kapuskasing left, and they’re not really viable—by my understanding, they’ve been hanging on by their fingernails due to being mostly employee-owned and so not having to do more than break even, but they’ve now had to approach the government for a bailout, and their future seems doubtful. The next-to-last was Espanola, which closed down a couple of years ago now.

If that’s the reason for things freezing up, the OOM reaper will come along and sort it out eventually, although it isn’t exactly quick on its feet.

Then they’ll complain about having nothing to complain about.

“Uttering threats” is an offence under the Criminal Code and, as I understand it, the requirements for it to be considered a crime are pretty steep—kids on schoolbusses wouldn’t qualify because their threats usually aren’t meant to be taken seriously. It’s more like “dude standing over you holding a knife threatens to stab you” stuff.