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..cash register.. ? ..billfold.. ?

It depends on the application. There are applications with license key files that are time (date) limited. The motherboard has a built-in real-time clock (RTC). It has a battery (therefor you need to replace it from time-to-time when it is exhausted). The operating system can be configured (and usually is) to update the time from the Internet (if you have network access). 1:1 is binary mirror created by dd on Linux mentioned in the other thread. Disconnect from the Internet, change the date, restart the computer and work a bit (a few days) on it and the installed applications, you will see if they work or not, without the Internet connection. Some applications verify the validity of the license key over the Internet.

You can make a binary mirror of the entire disk. To do this, you need.. Linux. And use the dd command. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix) Usage: dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb iflag=direct oflag=direct bs=16M status=progress Where /dev/sda is your source device, and /dev/sdb is your target device. It will save also MBR with partition table. Read the Wikipedia article for other examples of use. Such copy is indistinguishable from original. i.e. every byte and bit will be in the same place as in source. It can copy all sectors of an HDD/SSD from one device to another (equal size or bigger is required). You don't need to install Linux on any disk. All you need is a Live Linux flash drive. e.g. Kali Live. The procedure for creating such a bootable flash drive is described in this article: https://www.kali.org/docs/usb/live-usb-install-with-windows/ Obsolete 2 GB flash drive is needed if you will use Kali 2019.4 Light ("Lite") version. Obsolete 4 GB flash drive is needed if you will use Kali 2020-2023.2 Live version. Obsolete 8 GB flash drive is needed if you will use Kali 2023.3 Live version. The latest one at the moment. It depends on the application you are trying to copy. In a simple application you don't need to copy any registry and it will work fine, a complex application will fail miserably because it requires and has many dependencies, such as classes, services.. You can experiment without worrying about destroying the main system on a virtual operating system created by VirtualBox, for example: https://www.virtualbox.org/ Working in a virtual environment and copying the virtual disk file is a common practice to store/restore the state of a virtual machine. A complex application can check the computer's specifications, e.g. processor, graphics chip, and install only the necessary parts, which means that copying application files from another computer with different specifications will not succeed..

Isn't death the ultimate punishment for an atheist?

To paraphrase you, "What are the benefits of the existence of an A.I creator, asked by an A.I?" "What are the benefits of a parent's existence, asked by a child?

..in trace amounts.. https://www.google.com/search?q=iron+in+seawater https://www.google.com/search?q=iron+in+mainland+water

Have you heard of Tiberius Gracchus? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius_Gracchus "Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (c. 163 – 133 BC) was a Roman politician best known for his agrarian reform law entailing the transfer of land from the Roman state and wealthy landowners to poorer citizens."

Baronial landowners did not allow princesses to be reigning queen after the death of a king who had no male descendants. Leaving a male descendant to the currently reigning king was always in their minds. Centuries passed when the first ruling queen appeared and was accepted by male barons without mutiny. I understood you quite well from the first post. I was simply continuing the discussion and expanding on it..

..and you think more abstractly.. Husbands voted against their own wives, daughters and mothers. An example of self-interest.

Isn't the red color on my map exactly an example of what you are talking about? They wanted to maintain the status quo, that is, not to allow women to vote.

Past democracies? We don't have to go back in time that long.. Women in the US gain suffrage just in 1920. For majority of the existence of the United States, they were not admitted and treated as second-class citizens. "Black people were theoretically equal before the law, including theoretical suffrage for Black women from 1920. Black men were given voting rights in 1870, while black women were effectively banned until the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_suffrage It is interesting to see a picture showing which states voted in favor and which against:

In a direct democracy, laws or executive orders are voted on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy In the 20th century and before, representatives were needed because of the inability to gather all the people in the country in the same place. In the 21st century, representatives are not needed anymore because everyone has a method of communication (smartphone/computer) that connects people to remote locations in real time..

All you are saying is indirect democracy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy Where all eligible citizens elect their representatives from time to time. The representative (whatever is called) expresses (or usually lies about) his beliefs and makes election promises. IIRC I heard in the past we had a case a person sued his representative for not keeping his election promises (or even doing the opposite) and lost the case. Bizarre. So basically, anything a representative tells you to get elected can be full of nonsense and lies and will not be punished for it.

What do you know about Pythagoras' triangle/theorem? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem There is everything... Just read the Wikipedia article from the link above. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_trigonometric_functions

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A good quiz question cannot have non-ambiguous answers.

There is a fairly inexpensive thing called an endoscope. You plug into a micro-USB and/or USB-C port on a smartphone or laptop. e.g. https://www.ebay.pl/itm/295610266250 You can record video and take photos of better quality than from a distance. Search the web for the phrase "USB endoscope led lights". Alternatively, you can connect your smartphone to the selfie stick and start recording video or take a photo from a distance with the button.. Extends up to 1 m-1.5 meters. Taking pictures in a dark place requires the use of a flash and/or an external light source to illuminate them.

Wavelength of light of orange and blue photons? 😛

I told you that a single website is built from dozens or hundreds of requests that are all over the world. You click on www.xyz.com, but it could be data from all continents. You have no control over that. The authors of these sites have no control over it. The Internet (WWW) does not exist without the ability to connect to any data via TCP/IP at the same cost as locally. The location of the server (and thus the distance to it) is irrelevant. You, as the customer, connect only to the nearest cell site (if you use 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G). The ISP (Internet Service Provider) does not have the ability to warn the user before making a long-distance connection to a server on the opposite side of the globe. You would have more warnings per second than you are able to read them all.. The whole idea is childish and stupid and only shows a lack of understanding of how things work.

Did you mean that the Internet should not exist? That's what you say, but you use different words.

Tritium is the fuel-to-be for future fusion reactors. The decay product of Tritium is Helium-3, which is also a fuel-to-be for future fusion reactors. But unlike Tritium it is stable. Even if it would not be used as a fusion fuel it can be used for the same purposes as Helium-4.

Like: ..send them to Donald... 😛

https://www.google.com/search?q=microwave+oven+and+heating+oil "Oils have a specific smoke point and heating them beyond their smoke point can result in losing the nutritional benefits of the food as well as the oil. Also oil does not heat easily inside a microwave, it is the container that gets heated first and heats the oils. Thus, it is best to avoid heating oils in a microwave." "Can you put oil in a microwave? Yes, you can microwave oil for a very short time. Oil does not contain any water, therefore the oil itself does not heat, but rather the container holding the liquid." ps. There are also conflicting threads on the web on this topic.. ps2. Do you have any microwave oven safe thermometer that you can put on the oil to check its temperature while "frying"...? You can create an Excel chart with time in one column and temperature in the other column. https://microwavemealprep.com/can-you-put-oil-in-microwave/

I am always "shocked" when I see Gordon Ramsay use inaccurately peeled garlic.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuSdvpevaw0&t=149s I use only properly peeled garlic. Why "or"? I often use both garlic and onion at the same time.. Fry the meat on one side, then as Gordon did in the tutorial above, add the garlic and onion, switch sides of the meat and fry them together. Tricks? Do not over fry?