Is it a chicken egg if it came from a chicken, or contains a chicken?

Maybe

The Animatrix described it fairly closely

I’ve seen this before, but didn’t realise they got milkdrop working. I bought an MMX compatible processor specifically to be able to run this, back in the day.

Innocent until proven guilty

And he also made false teeth

Better than cow tools?

https://youtu.be/0MDQp3fG4OI?si=tiVqzoE0m4p8F2Iu

Sorry it’s a short, couldn’t find a proper clip

Alan Davis?

Piss poor management for decades has finally been noticed.

Yup, been there, but the other side of it. Was hired to do research and then teaching suddenly appeared as an expectation.

Sure, that would work. Or government grants available so anyone who wants to be an editor can apply for funds to get it going. Papers are rarely printed on paper nowadays, so the main costs would be paying editors, paying reviewers, and web hosting.

I didn’t say it was the publisher’s paying the salaries. My point is that researcher are paid to research, and publishing results is part of that.

Not to argue on behalf of publishers, but the papers aren’t written for free. It’s part of the job of being a researcher, it’s a significant KPI for which you’re hired and receive a wage.

Reviewing for free is pretty much bullshit though. As is paying to read them afterwards, if your research institution doesn’t pay to publish in an open access journal

In the UK it’s quite unusual to have a fixed rate mortgage that goes that long. Normally you’d get a decent rate for 2-5 years, at which point the rate changes to whatever the current default is, and you get the opportunity to fix for another few years

There’s literally food in restaurants in London and if you eat it a dude rocks up and informs you it’s like £15 to eat it.

I’m not sure what you expect here. A charitable or government service to provide you with deck chairs for free?

I haven’t been offline in about 15-20 years. It’s not affecting my life negatively because it’s my life. Being offline would negatively affect my life as it would be a drastic change from the norm.

Does anyone know where this is from?

We’d probably need a few people to keep track of things, but that’s quite a powerful position so we’d need a system to switch them out for better people if they start making decisions we don’t like. And if some people are growing corn and others are catching fish, should they just trade them directly? Maybe some system to keep track of how much of next year’s corn you’re swapping for the fish I gave you last week… And grandma is pretty old now, should we feed her? Can I ask my neighbours to help feed her?

Technically it would be fine for the moon to be bigger or closer and you’d still get a total eclipse.