If you think about it, Sears was the original Amazon with their mail order catalog - you would think that based on that history, they should have been in a good position to compete with Amazon in direct internet sales..
Actually, to give credit where credit is due, Montgomery Ward came before even Sears. But Wards died of its own stupidity long before Amazon even came along.
And to my astonishment, Wards has risen, like a phoenix, from the ashes. Who knew? I certainly didn't until this whole thread piqued my curiosity and I looked them up. http://wards.com/ Not the original company though, just another retailer that bought the name.
> Contrast this with Europe, which is more densely populated.
More like Europe generally has public transport networks, like electrified railways, underground railway, streetcar and bus networks in cities, bike paths for rapid non-motorized movement and building sidewalks is NOT optional.
Europe has those things in the cities
Frankly I'm surprised the rural Europeans haven't already jumped in to tell you how wrong your assumptions are.
The solution? Free trade. Poor countries should buy capital intensive crops like grain and legumes from America, and focus on labor intensive crops like tomatoes, strawberries, coffee, and mangoes.
Do you mean like my Argentine raspberries and strawberries? And my Mexican avocados and coffee? And my Chilean grapes? And my Guatamalan bananas? IOW I'm pretty sure we're already doing this.
That makes everyone better off.
Does it?
I'm not aware that much of central and south America have geography like the American and Canadian prairies – which we destroyed – that could be converted to growing grains and legumes in the industrial quantities that we do. I'm not totally convinced that America growing grain is what has relegated central American farmers to poverty. The banana plantations though, are a different story.
And oh, by the way, a lot of that corn (maize) that we grow is feed stock for cattle. Why? Cattle naturally eat grass, which is what the prairie was before we destroyed it. I'll tell you why? It's because they can fatten cattle for market on corn in half the time it takes on grass. Despite knowing that, n Argentina and Brazil they let their cattle graze on grass. The cattle farmers know it's better for their cattle. And almost anyone who has tried grass fed beef can tell you, it does taste better. It is better for the cattle; their digestive system evolved on grass, not corn. So it's better for the cow. It's better for you. But it's not better for the farmer's bottom line. Guess who decides. Hint, it's not you.
Well, except when they can sell their grass fed beef at a substantial premium. Which I've noticed they quite happily do.
The Linux kernel finally has KASLR enabled by default in the 4.12 kernel – in July 2017 [1]
The Fine Summary is poorly written, making it sound like NetBSD is way behind the times. But the truth is it's only three months later than Linux. Not bad IMO when you consider how many people work on the NetBSD kernel versus how many work on the Linux kernel.
Verizon, Comcast, TimeWarner, you name it. Twenty years ago when I was willing to pay for a la carte they said no.
I have an antenna, but even so I barely watch any OTA even. There's a few things I watch on streaming sites; I pay for Netflix and Amazon Prime, and I use the family share from my daughter's Hulu. I miss the days when "free" Hulu actually had good content. I get a lot of reading done. I work on other hobbies. I don't miss it.
Funding for this research was provided by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (R01CA178394), and awards from the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research, the Gabrielle’s Angels Foundation for Cancer Research, and the Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance. Partial support was also provided by the Albert Einstein Cancer Center, which is funded by the NCI.
I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. The one where the protocol is patented and licensed to a private company that will charge obscene amounts of money for the medicine.
Where's that story about the CIA having wanted a base on the Moon. Why? Because they thought it'd be cool to say, I dunno, I guess to the KGB or something, "But we have a base on the Moon."
But if even the CIA couldn't make it happen, then what do you suppose the odds are that little ol' NASA would be able to?
Then again, let's just start telingl everyone there's coal on the Moon. We'll be there in no time.
Then let private industry provide the funds for research.
Like all that research funded by the tobacco industry that said smoking was OK?
Or the research funded by the sugar industry that implicated everything except sugar as a contributor to heart disease?
You're conflating junk "research" and real science. What patents did Big Tobacco or Big Sugar get out of those "studies" ? And honestly, who believed them anyway? Nothing I said implied that publicly funded research had to stop – only that universities shouldn't be allowed to tie up discoveries made with publicly funded research grants.
If industry wants to flush its money down the toilet by funding junk science, more power to them. They can – and do – fund real science too. They have to answer to their share holders either way.
And if some fool wants to believe junk science, who am I to say they shouldn't? Just look at all the Essential Oils nonsense that's going on now.
Then let private industry provide the funds for research. Or if the University wants to patent it and license it then they shouldn't take federal grants in the first place.
if the money comes from all of us the research should benefit all of us equally.
When someone who doesn't (and shouldn't) need my SSN but insists on having one, I give them my number but with the middle two digits replaced with zeros, i.e. xxx-00-yyyy. The zeros guarantee it's not a valid SSN number, or IOW nobody else's legit number and it gets the ignoramus who's telling me that the computer requires it off my back. Problem solved.
WRT mosquitos in the food chain, wouldn't it be possible to simply break the Malaria cycle?
Once there's no Malaria to spread Anopheles populations could be allowed to recover. There's no reason (other than hating mosquitos) to eradicate the whole species. Or even try.
Malaria has been eliminated in Europe and North America – by draining swamps and spraying. Are there really no more Anopheles left in those parts of the world? There are certainly plenty of other mosquitos left.
"Open source software isn't what it used to be," writes Doug Dineley, the site's executive editor. "The term used to conjure images of the lone developer, working into the night and through weekends, banging out line after line of code to scratch a personal itch or realize a personal vision...
Pffft. Not sure what planet you were on. I was using gcc-1.33 or so and X11R3 way back in 1989. Both were too big to be done by lone developers and that not withstanding they were clearly the work of many people.
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What I want to know is: when to use a (thorn) and when to use an ð (eth)
Of course you can't actually see the thorn (but you can see the ð, wtf?) because /. is stuck in 1967.
Seems to be missing the point IMO
Java is fine as far as that goes, but native apps would be much more interesting in this context.
The balloons have been within range of 100K people.
Not 100K people have actually used it. Or even been able to use it, if they even knew about it.
If you think about it, Sears was the original Amazon with their mail order catalog - you would think that based on that history, they should have been in a good position to compete with Amazon in direct internet sales..
Actually, to give credit where credit is due, Montgomery Ward came before even Sears. But Wards died of its own stupidity long before Amazon even came along.
And to my astonishment, Wards has risen, like a phoenix, from the ashes. Who knew? I certainly didn't until this whole thread piqued my curiosity and I looked them up. http://wards.com/ Not the original company though, just another retailer that bought the name.
Need I say more?
Merlins – built by Packard – also powered the P51 Mustangs.
So, no Tom Bombadil? Again?
Or Ghân-buri-Ghân?
Anyone we know? Or just a retirement fund or mutual fund? I'll have to look more closely at my 401K annual reports this year.
What would it take to get ABC to reboot that. But it needs to be done well.
You had me right to the end, up to where you wrote that the host has to smoke.
Why exactly does the host have to smoke?
Because Serling smoked? No. If we can make concessions to the modern world, one of them can be not smoking.
> Contrast this with Europe, which is more densely populated.
More like Europe generally has public transport networks, like electrified railways, underground railway, streetcar and bus networks in cities, bike paths for rapid non-motorized movement and building sidewalks is NOT optional.
Europe has those things in the cities
Frankly I'm surprised the rural Europeans haven't already jumped in to tell you how wrong your assumptions are.
As a conservative, I'm all for getting rid of them.
As a progressive, I'm also for getting rid of them.
But I'm also for continuing to subsidize solar.
Go read the stupid thing before you go shooting off at the mouth and making an ass of yourself.
Are you claiming you've read it? Already? And you think you understand it?
The solution? Free trade. Poor countries should buy capital intensive crops like grain and legumes from America, and focus on labor intensive crops like tomatoes, strawberries, coffee, and mangoes.
Do you mean like my Argentine raspberries and strawberries? And my Mexican avocados and coffee? And my Chilean grapes? And my Guatamalan bananas? IOW I'm pretty sure we're already doing this.
That makes everyone better off.
Does it?
I'm not aware that much of central and south America have geography like the American and Canadian prairies – which we destroyed – that could be converted to growing grains and legumes in the industrial quantities that we do. I'm not totally convinced that America growing grain is what has relegated central American farmers to poverty. The banana plantations though, are a different story.
And oh, by the way, a lot of that corn (maize) that we grow is feed stock for cattle. Why? Cattle naturally eat grass, which is what the prairie was before we destroyed it. I'll tell you why? It's because they can fatten cattle for market on corn in half the time it takes on grass. Despite knowing that, n Argentina and Brazil they let their cattle graze on grass. The cattle farmers know it's better for their cattle. And almost anyone who has tried grass fed beef can tell you, it does taste better. It is better for the cattle; their digestive system evolved on grass, not corn. So it's better for the cow. It's better for you. But it's not better for the farmer's bottom line. Guess who decides. Hint, it's not you.
Well, except when they can sell their grass fed beef at a substantial premium. Which I've noticed they quite happily do.
The Linux kernel finally has KASLR enabled by default in the 4.12 kernel – in July 2017 [1]
The Fine Summary is poorly written, making it sound like NetBSD is way behind the times. But the truth is it's only three months later than Linux. Not bad IMO when you consider how many people work on the NetBSD kernel versus how many work on the Linux kernel.
[1] https://kernelnewbies.org/Linu...
Verizon, Comcast, TimeWarner, you name it. Twenty years ago when I was willing to pay for a la carte they said no.
I have an antenna, but even so I barely watch any OTA even. There's a few things I watch on streaming sites; I pay for Netflix and Amazon Prime, and I use the family share from my daughter's Hulu. I miss the days when "free" Hulu actually had good content. I get a lot of reading done. I work on other hobbies. I don't miss it.
Streaming FTW.
Aerocebo style on dark side maybe.
The dark side? Perhaps you mean the far side? Which is lit half the time.
Too much Pink Floyd in the 80s?
Would it be grants from the U.S. Government by any chance? Kinda sounds like it.
From http://www.einstein.yu.edu/new...:
Funding for this research was provided by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (R01CA178394), and awards from the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research, the Gabrielle’s Angels Foundation for Cancer Research, and the Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance. Partial support was also provided by the Albert Einstein Cancer Center, which is funded by the NCI.
I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. The one where the protocol is patented and licensed to a private company that will charge obscene amounts of money for the medicine.
Your tax dollars working hard for you.
Where's that story about the CIA having wanted a base on the Moon. Why? Because they thought it'd be cool to say, I dunno, I guess to the KGB or something, "But we have a base on the Moon."
But if even the CIA couldn't make it happen, then what do you suppose the odds are that little ol' NASA would be able to?
Then again, let's just start telingl everyone there's coal on the Moon. We'll be there in no time.
Then let private industry provide the funds for research.
Like all that research funded by the tobacco industry that said smoking was OK?
Or the research funded by the sugar industry that implicated everything except sugar as a contributor to heart disease?
You're conflating junk "research" and real science. What patents did Big Tobacco or Big Sugar get out of those "studies" ? And honestly, who believed them anyway? Nothing I said implied that publicly funded research had to stop – only that universities shouldn't be allowed to tie up discoveries made with publicly funded research grants.
If industry wants to flush its money down the toilet by funding junk science, more power to them. They can – and do – fund real science too. They have to answer to their share holders either way.
And if some fool wants to believe junk science, who am I to say they shouldn't? Just look at all the Essential Oils nonsense that's going on now.
Then let private industry provide the funds for research. Or if the University wants to patent it and license it then they shouldn't take federal grants in the first place.
if the money comes from all of us the research should benefit all of us equally.
When someone who doesn't (and shouldn't) need my SSN but insists on having one, I give them my number but with the middle two digits replaced with zeros, i.e. xxx-00-yyyy. The zeros guarantee it's not a valid SSN number, or IOW nobody else's legit number and it gets the ignoramus who's telling me that the computer requires it off my back. Problem solved.
WRT mosquitos in the food chain, wouldn't it be possible to simply break the Malaria cycle?
Once there's no Malaria to spread Anopheles populations could be allowed to recover. There's no reason (other than hating mosquitos) to eradicate the whole species. Or even try.
Malaria has been eliminated in Europe and North America – by draining swamps and spraying. Are there really no more Anopheles left in those parts of the world? There are certainly plenty of other mosquitos left.
Mosquitos are just the vector.
Maybe we should release a GMO Home Sapiens that's more resistant and less able to mate and breed instead.
"Open source software isn't what it used to be," writes Doug Dineley, the site's executive editor. "The term used to conjure images of the lone developer, working into the night and through weekends, banging out line after line of code to scratch a personal itch or realize a personal vision...
Pffft. Not sure what planet you were on. I was using gcc-1.33 or so and X11R3 way back in 1989. Both were too big to be done by lone developers and that not withstanding they were clearly the work of many people.