As a guy who remembers a world without space travel, the internet, the PC, the microwave, the VCR, the digital clock, integrated circuts, fuel injectors, and a host of other stuff we take for granted today, I'm wondering what weird and wonderful things are coming in my second 50 years (5 of which have alas already been spent).
We appear to be of an age, but there were '57 or '58 Chevys with fuel injection (no microprocessor control, of course), and for that matter the fuel injector is at least as old as the Diesel engine. And you left the biggie off of your list, the remote control.:-)
As for what wonders may come, I look forward to some, fear others, and expect that pop music is only going to continue to get worse (from my point of view).
You will note that I said "Democratic", not "democratic". The real live genuine official name of the party is "The Democratic Party", not "The Democrat Party".
Newt Gingrich and company started pushing the idea of saying "Democrat" instead of "Democratic" at every opportunity not because they prefer poor grammar and usage (well, not just or primarily because of that), but because they wanted to turn "Democrat" into an epithet. Their deliberate corruption of the language has spread to others who don't necessarily share or even know about their agenda.
You sound as though you believe that there is "a way that things are supposed to be", which is usually the province of those who don't believe in evolution. You aren't planning on pushing Stephen Hawking's wheelchair off the deck of the cruise ship, are you?
"Why else would employers be involved in this sideline that's totally irrelevant to their core business?"
Because during World War II wages and prices in the U.S. were frozen by law. Companies who faced labor shortages--because so many people were in the military instead of the job market--had to find a way to compete with each other for employees in some way other than offering higher wages.
That way was the broad category of inticements referred to as "fringe benefits". The ability of a large company to get a volume discount on health insurance compared to what individuals would have to pay made said insurance an especially effective and economically feasable "fringe benefit" to offer. By the time the war ended and the price-wage freeze was lifted, employer-provided group coverage was pretty much the norm.
The event on MSNBC wasn't a presidential debate. It was a debate between one party's contenders for votes in upcoming primary elections. Those people aren't running for president yet, they're running for the position as their party's nominee, and only if they get that nomination will they actually be running for president.
That fluttering when driving is known as "picket fencing".
Early television receivers suffered something similar when airplanes flew overhead and bounced back the signal, which arrived at the antenna slightly later than that which was coming straight from the transmitter.
We could start by only having one channel that plays friends and scrubs all day, instead of three.
Which would free up a channel for all the various flavors of "Law and Order" and another for "CSI-wherever", and I could program out both.
Of course what I really want is for anything to do with Donald Trump (and I mean anything, including any mention of him by others) to be confined to one particular channel, and then I can install a notch filter right where the cable hits the grounding block at the demarcation point.
What kind of crony does this Michael Copps think he is if he readily admits governmental mistakes.
The Democratic kind (of which there are currently two) which result from the rule that only three of the five commisioners can be from the same political party.
Every commissioner is...a Bush Appointee, does that tell you anything?
Well, maybe, but (because of the way the law splits things between the majority and minority parties) two of the five are Democrats (and one of them celebrated his appointment by jamming on harmonica with one of the Chambers Brothers on C-SPAN:-).
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We appear to be of an age, but there were '57 or '58 Chevys with fuel injection (no microprocessor control, of course), and for that matter the fuel injector is at least as old as the Diesel engine. And you left the biggie off of your list, the remote control. :-)
As for what wonders may come, I look forward to some, fear others, and expect that pop music is only going to continue to get worse (from my point of view).
Crafted? Do you mean a plug with some other electronic parts wired in? If so, what parts wired to which pins?
Newt Gingrich and company started pushing the idea of saying "Democrat" instead of "Democratic" at every opportunity not because they prefer poor grammar and usage (well, not just or primarily because of that), but because they wanted to turn "Democrat" into an epithet. Their deliberate corruption of the language has spread to others who don't necessarily share or even know about their agenda.
"Democrat" is a noun. As a modifier of the noun "candidate" what you needed here was the adjective "Democratic".
Well, that would depend on the target audience.
You sound as though you believe that there is "a way that things are supposed to be", which is usually the province of those who don't believe in evolution. You aren't planning on pushing Stephen Hawking's wheelchair off the deck of the cruise ship, are you?
Because during World War II wages and prices in the U.S. were frozen by law. Companies who faced labor shortages--because so many people were in the military instead of the job market--had to find a way to compete with each other for employees in some way other than offering higher wages.
That way was the broad category of inticements referred to as "fringe benefits". The ability of a large company to get a volume discount on health insurance compared to what individuals would have to pay made said insurance an especially effective and economically feasable "fringe benefit" to offer. By the time the war ended and the price-wage freeze was lifted, employer-provided group coverage was pretty much the norm.
The event on MSNBC wasn't a presidential debate. It was a debate between one party's contenders for votes in upcoming primary elections. Those people aren't running for president yet, they're running for the position as their party's nominee, and only if they get that nomination will they actually be running for president.
Early television receivers suffered something similar when airplanes flew overhead and bounced back the signal, which arrived at the antenna slightly later than that which was coming straight from the transmitter.
Which would free up a channel for all the various flavors of "Law and Order" and another for "CSI-wherever", and I could program out both.
Of course what I really want is for anything to do with Donald Trump (and I mean anything, including any mention of him by others) to be confined to one particular channel, and then I can install a notch filter right where the cable hits the grounding block at the demarcation point.
Except that you may have accidentally and unintentionally made a very good point about how to get the media giants to protect our cultural heritage.
The Democratic kind (of which there are currently two) which result from the rule that only three of the five commisioners can be from the same political party.
Well, maybe, but (because of the way the law splits things between the majority and minority parties) two of the five are Democrats (and one of them celebrated his appointment by jamming on harmonica with one of the Chambers Brothers on C-SPAN:-).
Allow me to also suggest that there is not always a correlation between something's importance and your knowledge of it.
...political talk radio (which esentially didn't exist before 1989 when their number one target started it)...Started it? Joe Pyne was doing it over 20 years before that and I wouldn't be surprised if there were someone else before him.
One suspects that you may have confused the late, much missed, Ms. Ivins with Linda Ellerbee, who closes broadcasts with "and so it goes".
Allow me to submit my usual plug for the Armstrong biography Man of High Fidelity:Edwin Howard Armstrong by Lawrence Lessing.
Oh, how I wish that were still true.
So, tomato or vinegar?
Yeah, that 6 part Masterpiece Theater she starred in really put the nail in the coffin. Sheesh!
And yet Radio Shack has somehow managed to stay in business anyway :-(
(although the percentage of customers who know anything about electronics has probably gone down every year, along with the parts selection)
RSI?
As do I. I much prefer physicians as a physician :-)
(my brother the ER doc probably has even fewer nice things to say about lawyers than do you).
Actually, you can, you just have to move like a knight instead of like a bishop.
Well, that, and basically no access to the Windows source code.