Proposition Infinity (generally referred to as "Proposition 8"), which banned same-sex marriage in California in November 2008. The title of the episode is derived from Proposition 8, turning the 8 sideways to create the symbol for infinity (∞), hence "Proposition ∞". Though the episode satirizes arguments for same-sex marriage, it leans favorably toward the idea of allowing same-sex marriage. The theme of the episode revisits the social taboo of robosexual relationships presented in earlier episodes "Space Pilot 3000" and "I Dated a Robot". Openly gay actor George Takei of "Star Trek" fame, who married his partner in California during the debate over
Sideways address space methods are: removing chips from the board and placing them into an expansion board that occupies the chips' original sockets, and: fitting a RAM module in a ROM socket with a flying lead connected to a write signal elsewhere on the motherboard. The 64kB model B+ had 12kB of "special" sideways ram. This used the sideways address but was selected by the high bit of the rom select register and could not be used to load rom images. The 128kB model B+ had an expansion board with 64kB of "regular" sideways ram in addition to the 12kB of "special" sideways