A lot of his science fiction writing is available with a Creative Commons license, meaning that you can download and read it for free. I really enjoy his quirky, sardonic style.

https://craphound.com/tag/creative-commons/

Gets you to a page where you can download.

And born black. And a Muslim a Hindoo an Indian brown.

The Japanese government wants people to choose citizenship by the end of their 20th year, because 20 is the age of majority in Japan. But if you don’t say anything, they won’t ask, and you can keep renewing your Japanese passport along with your other nationality’s.

I’m a Canadian, and I was married to a Japanese woman. She was on the family registry, and our children were, but I was a comment. Way to show a commitment to treating all people equally, Japan!

I would imagine that it also has to do with the family registry. If a woman marries a man, she is taken from her own Family Registry and entered in her husband’s. I would imagine that upon the husband’s death nothing changes for the wife, but she has the option of returning to her own family registry.

I’m not 100% sure that this is how it works, or the reason for this termination, but it seems like a valid one.

You can also play at the Internet Arcade or Classic PC Games on archive.org.

The chainmail creators for tge Lord of the Rings movies made so much chainmail that they were their fingerprints completely off.

I have the set of Infocom text adventure games. I think the earliest ones came out in about 1981 or 82. I still fire one up now and then for a nostalgia hit. I bought a few when they came out, but couldn’t afford more.

You can play some of them online, in your browser. Of course there are thousands of text adventure games (a.k.a. interactive fiction) available for free. Definitely worth checking out! And look at Inform, a language and IDE for creating these games by using more or less standard English.

To protect against piracy, most of these games required physical objects that were included in the game box. They are known as feelies. There are plenty of places on the web where you can find all the feelings you need.

That is completely terrifying. You must be spending a large part of your life desperately dealing with medical bills and trying to juggle the unreasonable requirements of the various parties.

And of course, having health insurance through an employer binds you to that employer, so you are less free to switch even if the conditions are otherwise deplorable.

I’m just about to move to Quebec, which is based on the French Napoleonic code rather than English Common Law. I’m not an expert, but I understand that the French system does not rely on precedent in making judicial decisions, but everything has to be codified in the law.

Anyway, another one of the legal differences between Quebec and other provinces in Canada is that mandatory arbitration clauses are illegal.

The medical system may be imploding even faster than the rest of Canada, and my rights as an English speaker may be stripped from me by the time I move, but they do have some protections for individuals.

There is a modernized version called WordTsar (I love that name!). Still in alpha, but looking good. I think I can read all the old versions of Wordstar files.

It would be nice to have more people testing it and sending in bug reports, I’m sure.

I’ve been making a spreadsheet of my unused keys from humble bundles going right back to the very beginning. There are over a thousand of them.

To be honest, I’m not entirely sure what to do. Give them way to friends and family?

And they are still banned in Canada. It’s easy enough to tell US TV, because of the flood of pharmaceutical ads.

Of course the companies would claim that they are just providing information, but they certainly wouldn’t pay hundreds of millions of dollars, if not more, if it wasn’t helping their bottom line.

A couple of years ago, Canada required all carriers to cell unlocked phones, or allow them to be unlocked for free. Nothing bad has happened because of that. Our cell phone plans are still too expensive, and the companies are wildly profitable.

I just discovered Fernwood2Night and America2Night, which I haven’t seen since they were broadcast in the 70s. It’s a mock late night talk show that launched the careers of Martin mull and Fred Willard.

And I found that dilaudid (hydromorphone) did nothing for me, didn’t even help my headache!

My guess is, the concern is thinking that if Donald Trump is re-elected, he would pardon this guy.

It does happen in Japan.

In 2005, 106 passengers were killed and more than 500 injured.

They also practiced polygamy, so that rich and influential men would have multiple wives and poor men would have none. Imagine the rage when you were a Shepherd tending someone else’s flocks, knowing that you will never have a wife or family.

It makes sense to have occasional wars with neighboring tribes so that excess males can be removed from the system.

I have a Bip as well, and aside from the silly name I love it. Even after 5 years a single charge lasts more than a month.

It tracks my sleep and steps, and is always on (other smartwatches turn the display off to save the battery).

It doesn’t do all the fanciest things. I can’t answer phone calls or send text messages (it will display received messages), but the advantages far away the drawbacks.