I am not a native English speaker so I actually geniunely wonder:

1. Could you please tell more?

2. Could this be said for other -ism s as well? (Sexism, Racism, Ableism, Classism, Nationalism, Nepotism)

In the US ageism is illegal if you are discriminating against someone for being too old. It is not illegal in the US to discriminate against someone based on how young they are

I see, thank you for the info.

And is this only about the employment, or generally?

I'm guessing you never travelled anywhere else in your life?

> Japan ... has entry and exit controls on the borders, ... It is compulsory to carry identification documents if you are a foreigner.

This is true for almost all the countries in the world, especially the second part.

Are you sure about the Dutch part? AFAIK in almost all EU countries you have to have at least B1 language for permanent residency.

Happy for Hungary!

Unfortunatlely, half democracies (ie representative) are open to abuse and give too much power to presidents or governments. Combined with populism, lobbying and corruption, it allows people like Orban to stay in power for a long time. Glad it's over.

Happy for Hungary, the EU, the planet. The sooner the world falls out of love with populism and illiberalism, the better.

I wish the crew quoted "there is no dark side of the moon really. As a matter of fact, it's all dark."

It's true, too. Lunar albedo is 12%.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2015/08/05/nasa-releases-a-gif-...

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> guys former NASA Mission Control Web Tool Team and OCA here

Wow, very cool and lot's of respect!

But... why not use linux, unix, custom OS, iPad, Android, Nintendo SNES, Atari, Commodore 64... anything BUT Microsoft?

(Seriously though, why not Linux? I'd really appreciate if you could answer, thank you! )

Well as to why they were chosen back in the STS (shuttle) era (before my time) see a good history on the decision here: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=27043.0

1. In the space program decisions are made years before and changes are very difficult owing to a myriad of reasons from procedures to paperwork, eg there was a whole mirror lab setup on the ground To support them etc

2. Astronauts/Aerospace operationally often come from defense world - they are used to windows - see DoD -that battle was fought in the 80s/90s

3. Once something is a part of the space program it takes on a life of its own/ we had an IIS webserver onboard the ISS for example and also apache tomcat - we (myself wrote software for both) using .NET and Java

4. Training and operational software and docs were all MS Office variety for years (were talking from floppy disk era here)

5. Lot of other linux/unix based systems too this is is just crew support laptops - not considered mission critical

That gives me so many questions: Should there be a non-Earth timezone? How do you define a "day" in space? Is there a day light saving in space?

At least they are not travelling near the speed of light. That's a whole different can of worms.

> At least they are not travelling near the speed of light. That's a whole different can of worms.

Oh, they're building software and hardware for this anyway. The differences between earth clocks and moon clocks (CotS) would lead to large errors if you were to calculate distances. There was an article about this a while ago. Fascinating stuff.

At least the proposal let's time-zones go away, since "day" is completely artificial:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timekeeping_on_the_Moon#Coordi...

As long as you're not in the shadow of some celestial body, the sun never goes away. So they'd need more nightlight saving than daylight saving.

OMG, this almost became real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zpCOYkdvTQ

("Fuck Microsoft" scene from the Netflix TV Series: Space Force)

Unless I’m mistaken Space Force is a netflix series.

Oh, apparently you are right! Thanks for the correction.