Yes, that's true, you can enjoy any climate or terrain in the USA. Mountains, snow, desert, lake.

International flights or trains are trivial here though. And, like I said, people will cross a border to go to a cheaper shop!

Yes, abroad = leaving the country

But I might misunderstand your comment?

I don't think windows was a real OS until NT.

Yes, I know. I lived through that.

At one time I was writing assembler for four bit microcontrollers.

My first computer had 4K of RAM, and 8K of ROM and cassette tape storage.

My smart watch has millions of times more flash/rom.

Unix and other real operating systems existed at the time.

DOS was basically just a fancy bootloader, a thin layer above the bios, with very basic filing system (early versions of DOS/FAT didn't even support directories!)

No processes or threads, no memory management, no separation of OS vs user space, almost no device drivers, no semaphores or locking, no network, no logging.

Just a single character based console.

OP didn't actually say it was the USA

DOS was barely an operating system, in the true sense.

If you look at the windows kernel and the core system libraries and tools, they provide key features such as device drivers, process separation, memory management, storage and file systems. The device drivers allow different devices from different manufacturers to be controlled in a common way at the application layer. So to some extent it doesn't matter which sound card you have. Obviously, some have more features, but the base level of functionality is the same: make stereo sound.

DOS didn't do much of that, except the filing system, keyboard and character console. Each application had to have its own drivers for sound, hi-res graphics and even a mouse! Some hardware became a standard due to popularity, and were supported by many applications.

People take their children on holiday/vacation abroad all the time here in Europe. Our son had a passport aged 7, daughter 5, to go to Disneyland/Paris.

Free trip to Graceland, and medical treatment for obesity from eating too many crisps.

That article links to this research paper

https://wjmh.org/search.php?where=aview&id=10.5534/wjmh.220203&code=2074WJMH&vmode=FULL

Your father is the fuckup.

You did well not to get into a major fight.

OP is a brand new account, but this story has become a common trope

I've been wondering if they should use cameras which can see into the infrared and uv, to give the image processing more information to work on.

Specialist limbs with tools would be useful, like Inspector Gadget.

I think we're close

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200430110321.htm

I've pondered whether it's possible to attach a prehensile tail to the human coccyx, link it to the nerves in some way to make it fully functional.

Some time ago there was this: https://www.theverge.com/2012/9/21/3367130/neurowear-shippo-tail-brain-wave-hands-on

But what about a fourth thumb? Why stop there. I could make good use of a third arm!

Yes, only the central part of your retina, called the fovea, has the best high quality vision for colour and resolution, that's part of the macula. This relies on light sensitive cells called cones.

The outer retina uses cells called rods which are more sensitive to light with a faster response time, and are better for night, but only offer monochrome vision. This is thought to be a survival trait, to see the movement of predators at night in your peripheral vision.

So, that full colour vision you have? Your brain is faking it.

https://www.kenhub.com/en/library/anatomy/photoreceptors

Parts of the USA really do want to become Gilead!

Lifetime warranty. Only the person using it at the time it fails can claim.

Lucky not to have a criminal record... Yet?

And who only seems to care about having been caught.

There's lots of gossip about funeral transport but I think it's hearsesay

I'll amend my answer.

Maybe you enjoy sports ball? Fans often need only a hint to get talking about their favourite team.