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I've long envisioned a giant laboratory somewhere in the universe with a large room with many shelves. On the shelves are many, many large glass containers, each containing an experimental world. Ours is in the section marked "Failures".
As YBB explains, there are a lot of available options to that plan, but it might be beyond the purview of a general news reporter to even understand that. There are good financial reporters around (Paul Solman of PBS comes to mind) and it would like…
Free link to a current commentary from The Atlantic:
It would be awful to live in interesting times, but, fortunately, we don’t.
What a beautiful fall day it is. A beautiful day for saying nothing! That chill you feel in the air isn’t Pam Bondi sa…
In Assault on Free Speech, Trump Targets Speech He Hates
Following are excerpts from a current report in The New York Times. This should be a free link, and these excerpts are just a small sample of the NYTimes report, which is is quite lengthy.
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It's the first time in my life that I've found myself in agreement with Rand Paul, and Ted Cruz, of all people. Cruz called Carr’s threats “right out of a mafioso coming into a bar going, ‘nice bar you have here. It’d be a shame if something happene…
"Trans."
Look- does anyone really think that "trans", "gay" or any of the ever-multiplying permutations of sexual identity are anything new? That all of this just happened in the last ten years?
Let's get real. All of this stuff has been with us …
"I have to consider that the shooter was in a romantic relationship with his "trans" roommate. That would apparently indicate left-leaning political sympathies."
An interesting concept. It had never occurred to me that sexual preferences were influ…
"I recently read CNN could possibly be taken over by a right leaning owner."
Larry Ellison, I believe. A Trump admirer. And also in line for part of Tik-Tok.
U'mmm.... wow- this is the first time in my 86 years that I've been a terrorist! I hope that somebody knows more about how this works than I do.
What are we supposed to terrify next?
Yes, it's interesting that "old fashioned" mechanical/electronic drives are preferred to "all electronic memory (memory chip)" drives. Personally I still use all mechanical/electronic drives, They are inexpensive, easy to back up, and completely ind…
In the early days of the internet there were many competing technical "standards". The saying was "standards are a good thing, because there are so many to choose from". That would seem to also apply to the SEC "standards".
Another humorous "standa…
Routers communicate with the internet devices in your home two possible ways: via a directly wired Ethernet cable, and/or via Ethernet using a radio channel. If that radio channel is strong enough to broadcast outside your home (which is typical), i…
Evidently a problem developed with respect to the database which was in use. From information on the internet it can be inferred that WordPress is sensitive to this type of problem. One of the options for such a situation is to replace it from a bac…
Evidently a problem developed with respect to the database which was in use. From information on the internet it can be inferred that WordPress is sensitive to this type of problem. One of the options for such a situation is to replace it from a bac…
"Where will our lethal warfighters be?" Well, at least some of them will be occupying Los Angeles, Chicago, and now evidently also heading for Louisiana.
It's pretty hard not to believe that about half of the citizens of the United States would have felt very comfortable in Germany in the 1930s. Simply substitute non-white for Jews and Gypsies.
And I really wonder if under the right circumstances th…
@Junkster- Thank you very much for the compliments. My mental facilities may be a bit intermittent, but that's still a hell of a lot better than the present and preceding occupants of the White House.
As you suggest, a big part of the operation is …
@Junkster- dtconroe and I have pretty much the same situation and desires, so I take your advice to him very seriously, and I really thank you for keeping me (us) in the real world.
I'm thinking that the actual rate world out there is going to take…
@a2z- We have the complete M*A*S*H DVD set, and every weekend watch a bunch of those. What on earth have you got against Flagg? He'd fit right in with the current White House bunch!
Well, here's the thing: Trump can place all the henchmen he wants to be in charge of these government financial reporting agencies.
BUT: the people who work there will know damn straight if their work gets screwed with. And you can bet your life th…
" I have been a reader of SciFi since the early 1970's. And read much from the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Arthur C Clarke being my favorite of all time. It has been fun to watch some of it transpire."
Same here, but since the 50's. Agree re Cla…
