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https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a4288/4318625/ says the average age of the people in the control room and back room at NASA when Apollo 11 returned to earth was 28, so quite comparable.

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Years ago I made ice cream using liquid nitrogen (see https://www.instructables.com/id/Liquid-Nitrogen-Ice-Cream-1/ ). I worked in a science building with free LN2 available (in <10L quantities) from a large dewar in the basement.

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Along similar cheeky lines, I could easily see it being used as a default value during test, and the test settings were accidentally used in production. Sure, it could be a hacker. My comment is that we shouldn't immediately jump to that conclusion and consequently believe that Canadian Tire is hiding things when it could easily be a sloppy or goofy mistake. Personally, I think having it come up as "hacksaw" would be more grey hat.

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Internal developers make goofy mistakes sometimes. Years ago, a co-worker worked for the Chicago E-911 system. They did a database update which ended routing all calls to one location, rather than the nearest one. Read enough RISKS Digest and you'll see that fat-fingered coding isn't so uncommon that one should immediately assume hacking.

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12 is a very small sample size, and most people are not "young, healthy, heterosexual couples".

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It reminded me of a couple of stories about people dressed up as car seats: https://newatlas.com/ford-disguise-car-seat-autonomous-vehicle/51346/ (to test people's reactions to a self-driving car) and https://www.businessinsider.com/one-time-a-mexican-man-attempted-to-illegally-emigrate-to-the-us-by-disguising-himself-as-a-car-seat-2015-9?op=1&r=US&IR=T (to enter the US illegally).

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Before any of that, we need to figure out how to have a (nearly) self-sufficient ecosystem. Otherwise, feeding and providing air to those Martians will be very expensive. Building rockets is the easy part - we had that basic technology in the 1970s.

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"Ain't no rule says a dolphin can't play football." - more at https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnimalAthleteLoophole

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I don't think the author is using the term "monopoly" the right way. At least, the description of "The Nutcracker", while certainly interesting, doesn't meet any of the definitions at https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monopoly .

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To answer the title's question, likely no. Even leaving out the indigenous JDs, I would be astonished if the children in Puerto Rico, St. Augustine, and Santa Fe (in 1620 about 100, 50, and 10 years old, respectively) didn't include some JDs.

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I recall my Dad saying - this must have been around 1980 - that people once predicted the future interstates would all be simply grassy strips for hovercars to go on.

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Their web site lists only 1398 jobs across all Big Lots stores, all for "Temporary Part-time -Store Associate/Stocker" - that's barely enough to employ my high school graduating class.

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"Printer ink costs two times as much as Chanel N°5." .. in small consumer-oriented printer cartridges. But ink doesn't cost anywhere near that much at scale, otherwise the ink in a newspaper press will be protected like vault.

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As kids we played it until it was obvious who was the likely winner. Also, I've read that the real rules are different than most people play it (at least, not the way I play it). Apparently, if you land on a square and don't buy it then it's supposed to go up for auction. http://www.criticalmiss.com/issue10/CampaignRealMonopoly1.html .

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Nope!

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