What does this "improve" over yum? What killer features does it provide?
For example, let's take where I work, with over 170 servers and workstations, a couple machines of one user running debian, and a couple belonging to another user running ubuntu. And *EVERYTHING* else running CentOS. What does snapd offer me, what killer feature, that would make me want to change?
So, they had access for how long? A year? I don't suppose there's *any* chance that the open access that Bernie's folks looked at - one of the first reports I read, never repeated, was the guy in charge of the 4-person team had them look, to see if Hillary had gotten *their* info.
And then the DNC "cleaned up"?
I now believe *nothing* the DNC says about its computer systems, or security, since if they'd *actually* cleaned up... they would have caught the Russians *then*, not the beginning of May.
As well as that I've read that 95% of what goes on in the restaurants, from where they get all the food, to the uniforms, and most of the profits go to... MacDonald's, Inc. And I mean, having to pay people a living wage just cuts into the CEO's bonuses and dividends *so* much....
Technology's going to replace government? Really? So the AI Congress and Senate really *didn't* budget any money at all to fix the Hummer-swallowing potholes on the Interstate, that came into being because some company sold them cheap concrete construction, and then the robots building the road kept going, even when the "concrete" was one bag of concrete, one bag of sand, and a 55 gal drum of water?
And don't you just *adore* the way that the robot garbage collectors leave garbage that fell out of your containers all over the street?
When cable was first coming in, late seventies and early eighties... and I am not making this up, I saw the ads... a huge part of their advertising emphasis was "buy cable, and you'll never have to watch commercials again".
And that was back when there *might* have been 10 min of commercials per hour.....
My first ereader was a used Kobo touch. I found I liked it, including that I could just plug it into my Linux workstation at home, and copy stuff on - it *does* run Linux.
Eventually, it started freezing, and I had to power cycle it to get back to reading. So I got myself a Kobo Glo (or whatever the low-end one with a backlit screen is). One week later, after spending several *hours* to read THIRTY OR SO PAGES, I started working on returning it.
Including a support-directed upgrade of the software (which I'd already done), this is what was happening: I'd read 3-5 pages, and suddenly a circle, which I imagine is supposed to be a magnifying glass, suddenly would appear, I couldn't make it go away, and after about 10 sec, it would resize the whole page to about 2 or 3 pt type. I had to go into the menu and resized it. Finally, I went into the options, and set it to not happen - I forget what the option was called), and it a) took several tries to get it to take, and b) I went out, then back in to make sure it was still the setting I wanted (I *am* a programmer and sysadmin), went back to reading... and the SAME THING HAPPENED AGAIN. And again. And again.
So, I called to return it. And got a runaround. I called the next day, asked for a manager, and I'm 95% sure it was "hey, does someone here want to play manager for this customer?") and was asked to send some info, which I did. And heard nothing, A third call, and asked for a mand was told sure, I would hear from someone, probably by Tuesday (this was a Friday). Tuesday came, and that evening I called again, and was given a runaround. Clearly, they did *not* want to accept a return.
Finally, on that Thursday - this is 6 days now - I took a break from work, and called, and demanded a manager, and "they're all in a meeting"; at this point I started talking about contacting the Better Business Bureau, and snail-mailing the head of the company, and talking to my lawyer. She gave in at last. Took some info, told me she was forwarding it to the department that dealt with returns for *cash*, as opposed to replacement, and I'd hear in an hour or two. It did, in fact, happen in about 1.5 hrs. I finally got my refund.
I tried for a while to find the email for their CTO, because he has *FAILED* in his asserted job of "bringing the best technology". Given what happened with the options, if was clear that the turkeys, probably Hot Stuff Just Out Of College, NEVER CHECKED to see if the option was set or unset before performing the action.
I won't buy Kobo again, not with serious bugs in the code, which seriously my ability to use the thing, and with the vehement "we will do anything but give you a refund" attitude.
And I *REALLY* hope someone here does have an email, and forwards this to them.
a) America does *NOT* have the "highest corporate tax rate in the world", since so many of them get out of paying it. b) In 1972, the US federal revenue stream was almost 25% from corporate taxes, and 16.67% from individual income taxes. Today, it's barely above 10% from corporate taxes, and 44% from individual income taxes. And, of course, voting Republican and "conservative" Democratic means their payments (aka "campaign contributions" and "527"s) pay off handsomely. (statistics from irs.gov) c) If Apple wanted to do something with the money, rather than buy more power, oh, here's an idea off the top of my head: build fab plants in the US, and hire US workers (who would be paying more taxes, since they'd be better paid), and they could make the i-whatevers *here.
Nahhh, silly idea - they'd have to support the country they live in, and only suckers do that, and the libertarians who think this is a great idea, to not pay taxes....
First, based on some of the comments I see, a large percentage of slashdotters these days have no clue what sf&f actually is: 99.999% of it is *WRITTEN*, and has *NO* *RELATIONSHIP* to any movie, tv show, or video. None. In my personal library - I'm an average active fan - I have between 3,000 and 4,000 books... and *maybe* 20 or 30 0f them related to anything ever filmed.
Second, the whole concept of "what's your favorite book" is, IMO, asked by people who don't read. My "favorite"? In what subgenre? Cyperpunk? New Wave? Classic? Steampunk? Urban fantasy? Trad fantasy? Fantasy that plays off old myths, or totally made up worlds? Time travel? Space travel, or occurring on other worlds, with or without aliens.... I could keep going.
I can live with a list of books you ought to read (read Lotr, NOT THE FREAKIN" CRAP MOVIE), not Shanarra, or Ranger's Apprentice; read Asimov's robot stories, or early Heinlein, or Clarke. I can go on (I did make a list, long, long time ago, at the request of PSFS (Philly SF club).
"Among my favorites" I can deal with. FAVORITE, ahhh, no. Unless you can only hold one in your mind at a time....
The new, as opposed to the classic format, really sucks dead roaches. Zoom out, to get the area? Some of the time, what you're looking for is no longer marked. Click on the x, rather than , to get that annoying and overlarge Helpful Block in the upper left? You've lost what you were looking for.
And it keeps trying So Hard to be Helpful, that you constantly trip over it, 'cause it's in your way.
I won't begin to start on how they've ruined google search, apparently to please advertisers, rather than users.
1. More than *twice* as many nominating votes came in for the Hugos this year than last year... and last year was a new record. This year, over 4000 nominations. That's "shrinking" and "not representative"? 2. I went through the list a bit ago on file770, and one thing I noticed is that the puppies were also recommending folks who might well have been put on the list *anyway* - I mean, Lois McMaster Bujold? Neil Stephenson? (And, btw, I also nominated Slow Bullets, published by WSFA Press... of which club i am a member, and out GOH at Capclave last year.) 3. Last year, there were people who were put on, and then withdrew because they Puppies had pushed them... clearly repudiating the Puppies. If I had one up, I wouldn't withdraw it... but I would *sure* post something that told Vox Toilet what I thought of him and his schemes, and his stooges. 4. Worlcon was *huge* in 2014. I'm interested in seeing how big it is this year. So much for "shrinking". 5. If you don't like the Hugos, or Worldcon, GO THE FUCK AWAY, AND STOP BOTHERING THE REST OF US.
mark, been a fan since probably before you were born,
and have *zero* intention of being forced out
...the cheap crap engines they make for everybody else? Had an '89 Plymouth Grand Voyager, that we got in '93, that ran really, really well for years. In '03, I traded it in for a '97 Plymouth? Chrysler? Grand Voyage, and I have *never* spent so much money on engine repairs. An engineer I knew told me they'd gone from their own engines to Mitsubishi engines, and *then* he started ranting about the crap they were.
Based on my personal experience, with head gaskets (never needed one before), oil pan, which became pump and pan (and yes, I believe in the One and Only Provably True Religion: change your oil ever 4k miles or so), plug wires, I think it was generator or starter....
During the Bush recession, I was out of work for years... and, before you twits get started, I *am* a better programmer and sysadmin than you. Do you *really* think someone with only schoolwork and a year or three of job work knows more than someone who's been in the field for decades? In most other industries, that idea is a non-starter.
Let me assure you that in my career, I've had to deal with plenty of code from you young'uns... and too many have *never* been taught extensive error handling and recovery. I've fixed something where the previous three people massaged the data once or twice a year, the *same* data, as well as new data, rather than arranging to HAVE IT FIXED AT THE SOURCE, so that it wouldn't come back again.
Oh, that's right: the longest term job I had in that dry spell was *after* I dyed my hair, and lo! I got a job!
Then there's a friend: she's in her mid-forties, and was between positions... then she died the few gray hairs in her head, and right after that she got a job.
Friggin' arrogant kids, who already know everything... they think. Y'all remind me of a friend's daughter, around 15 years ago: they were running Win98 *bleah*, and the daughter was 16, and *sure* she knew more than me, and wouldn't let me help... and would get made and think that having to reboot the computer once or twice a night was "normal"....
One small detail: what's the size of the US economy? Last I heard, it was *well* over $10 *trillion*. So, say the 0.1% paid a billion or five each, that's well over $100B.
What I've been trying to get people to talk about for something like 20 years is, what happens when most manufacturing and delivery is automated: what jobs are left?
Not a lot. Look at the US, where most of it has been offshored for cheap labor, and more and more people are working two or more low-paying jobs just to pay the rent and keep a roof over their heads. And now, scum like Carl's Jr is talking about completely automated restaurants, so they don't have to pay a living minimum wage.
Does anyone here want to argue that this is *not* happening?
Then there's the flip side of the argument: my late idiot, er, sister, was on welfare for a bunch of years before they finally granted her SSDI. Trust me, I was *glad* to pay taxes for her to not be working for anyone *I* needed or wanted to do business with (ok, maybe if she'd worked for the GOP....). Don't any of *you* have someone you wish was "no longer in the workforce"?
Askng, as one poster does, why someone in Iowa should pay to fight climate change to help someone they've never met, or will never meet, on the other side of the world is both amazingly ignorant and stupid.
Where do some of your food, or a lot of your clothes, car parts, computers and computer parts come from? So yes, it *directly* affects you.
Second... let me give you two reasons that will hit you, personally, says the guy who lived in Texas and Florida for some years.
1. Fire ants will move north. If you've never met them, I suggest you take a trip south, and walk over a nest.
2. Kudzu, aka "the vine that ate the South". As someone I knew put it, "it was imported from Japan in the 20's as cattle food. Turned out that kudzu liked the South a lot better than cattle liked kudzu." When they say it grows a yard a week, they don't mean 3 feet, they mean your whole damn yard. It kills trees. Now consider it getting to cropland, and not dying back over a winter with long, hard freezes....
Meanwhile, the climate change deniers, who all seem to be Free Markets Forever!!! can't seem to see *any* opportunities to make money in the switchover to renewables.
1. Are we talking 12 yr olds and younger, or 17 yr olds? 2. If the former... I have trouble believing that there's *that* big a market for it that it's worth all this effort.... Does *anyone* have any statistics (and I don't mean from funnymentalists or morons, er, Mormons.
First, saying that you live in Iowa (as one poster puts it), and don't know or will ever meet someone from the other side of the world is a) massively ignorant and downright nasty (where does some of your food come from? how 'bout your clothes, or cars, or computers or computer parts come from?), and b) did I mention "ignorant"?
I've lived in Texas and Florida. I'm in the DC metro area now, and the weather's starting to remind me of Texas. Which I find horrifying.
Why, you ask?
Let me give you two reasons that *will* affect you in Iowa.
1. Fire ants will move north. If you've never run into them, I suggest you take a trip south and walk over a nest. That, alone, should convince you that you *don't* want winters with hard freezes.
2. Kudzu, aka "the vine that ate the South". As someone I used to know put it, "it was imported in the 20's, thinking it would be good cattle food. Instead, kudzu liked the South a *lot* better than cattle liked kudzu." Growing a yard a week doesn't mean 3 feet, it means your whole damn yard.... I would *not* want to see it getting to large food croplands.
And, of course, all the climate-change deniers, who claim to be Free Markets Forever!!! can't seem to see any business opportunities in the changeover to producing renewables, and the equipment for creating renewable energy generation.
I mean, I understand that there's something called Section 7 rights, that *does* allow "professionals" to organize a union.
And if you think one person can wield the documentation hammer, and not be escorted out the door, and the rest made to pick up for them, you're a sucker.
They *do* have the right answer. And, if they do organize, then they've got a stronger case for unfair labor practices.... and a union to help with lawyers and court costs.
I timed myself, in my teens, as maxing at about 250 wpm. Speed reading? Hell, I'd never be able to keep myself in books! And, from all I've heard and read over the decades, you certainly don't get it.
I don't like voice books. As fast as I can read, I sometimes want to glance back a paragraph, or a page, so that something makes sense.
How can the thing in the picture have *four* 250hp engines on it? Where, in a bag of holding?
And then there's how much fuel *four* 250hp engines would burn per minute.
Go 100mph? Have any of you ever stood up in a convertible going 60mph?
Finally, *why* would it need the four engines? I'd be less disbelieving if they said 25hp engines, and 25 mph; with their claims, he crashed because he was out of fuel in five minutes.
Skimming the article, I don't see where he says he was donating *any* of the profits to the Sanders campaign. That sounds like a not-unreasonable reason for the lawyers.
mark "can I sell Mickey Mouse t-shirts without cutting Disney in?"
Of course, the National Cancer Inst, part of the US's National Institutes of Health, has an *annual* budget just for itself of $4.9 *billion*. And a good bit goes to researchers around the US, such as colleges.
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What does this "improve" over yum? What killer features does it provide?
For example, let's take where I work, with over 170 servers and workstations, a couple machines of one user running debian, and a couple belonging to another user running ubuntu. And *EVERYTHING* else running CentOS. What does snapd offer me, what killer feature, that would make me want to change?
mark
So, they had access for how long? A year? I don't suppose there's *any* chance that the open access that Bernie's folks looked at - one of the first reports I read, never repeated, was the guy in charge of the 4-person team had them look, to see if Hillary had gotten *their* info.
And then the DNC "cleaned up"?
I now believe *nothing* the DNC says about its computer systems, or security, since if they'd *actually* cleaned up... they would have caught the Russians *then*, not the beginning of May.
mark
As well as that I've read that 95% of what goes on in the restaurants, from where they get all the food, to the uniforms, and most of the profits go to... MacDonald's, Inc. And I mean, having to pay people a living wage just cuts into the CEO's bonuses and dividends *so* much....
mark
I mean, this *is* a troll, right?
Technology's going to replace government? Really? So the AI Congress and Senate really *didn't* budget any money at all to fix the Hummer-swallowing potholes on the Interstate, that came into being because some company sold them cheap concrete construction, and then the robots building the road kept going, even when the "concrete" was one bag of concrete, one bag of sand, and a 55 gal drum of water?
And don't you just *adore* the way that the robot garbage collectors leave garbage that fell out of your containers all over the street?
mark
When cable was first coming in, late seventies and early eighties... and I am not making this up, I saw the ads... a huge part of their advertising emphasis was "buy cable, and you'll never have to watch commercials again".
And that was back when there *might* have been 10 min of commercials per hour.....
mark "they lie, like a rug"
My first ereader was a used Kobo touch. I found I liked it, including that I could just plug it into my Linux workstation at home, and copy stuff on - it *does* run Linux.
Eventually, it started freezing, and I had to power cycle it to get back to reading. So I got myself a Kobo Glo (or whatever the low-end one with a backlit screen is). One week later, after spending several *hours* to read THIRTY OR SO PAGES, I started working on returning it.
Including a support-directed upgrade of the software (which I'd already done), this is what was happening: I'd read 3-5 pages, and suddenly a circle, which I imagine is supposed to be a magnifying glass, suddenly would appear, I couldn't make it go away, and after about 10 sec, it would resize the whole page to about 2 or 3 pt type. I had to go into the menu and resized it. Finally, I went into the options, and set it to not happen - I forget what the option was called), and it a) took several tries to get it to take, and b) I went out, then back in to make sure it was still the setting I wanted (I *am* a programmer and sysadmin), went back to reading... and the SAME THING HAPPENED AGAIN. And again. And again.
So, I called to return it. And got a runaround. I called the next day, asked for a manager, and I'm 95% sure it was "hey, does someone here want to play manager for this customer?") and was asked to send some info, which I did. And heard nothing, A third call, and asked for a mand was told sure, I would hear from someone, probably by Tuesday (this was a Friday). Tuesday came, and that evening I called again, and was given a runaround. Clearly, they did *not* want to accept a return.
Finally, on that Thursday - this is 6 days now - I took a break from work, and called, and demanded a manager, and "they're all in a meeting"; at this point I started talking about contacting the Better Business Bureau, and snail-mailing the head of the company, and talking to my lawyer. She gave in at last. Took some info, told me she was forwarding it to the department that dealt with returns for *cash*, as opposed to replacement, and I'd hear in an hour or two. It did, in fact, happen in about 1.5 hrs. I finally got my refund.
I tried for a while to find the email for their CTO, because he has *FAILED* in his asserted job of "bringing the best technology". Given what happened with the options, if was clear that the turkeys, probably Hot Stuff Just Out Of College, NEVER CHECKED to see if the option was set or unset before performing the action.
I won't buy Kobo again, not with serious bugs in the code, which seriously my ability to use the thing, and with the vehement "we will do anything but give you a refund" attitude.
And I *REALLY* hope someone here does have an email, and forwards this to them.
mark
a) America does *NOT* have the "highest corporate tax rate in the world", since so many of them get out of paying it.
b) In 1972, the US federal revenue stream was almost 25% from corporate taxes, and 16.67% from individual income taxes. Today, it's barely above 10% from corporate taxes, and 44% from individual income taxes. And, of course, voting Republican and "conservative" Democratic means their payments (aka "campaign contributions" and "527"s) pay off handsomely. (statistics from irs.gov)
c) If Apple wanted to do something with the money, rather than buy more power, oh, here's an idea off the top of my head: build fab plants in the US, and hire US workers (who would be paying more taxes, since they'd be better paid), and they could make the i-whatevers *here.
Nahhh, silly idea - they'd have to support the country they live in, and only suckers do that, and the libertarians who think this is a great idea, to not pay taxes....
mark
What next, are they going to feed them complete transcriptions of soap operas?
"Oh, you want to search that, but I just canNOT BEAR such a search (esp. since it doesn't let me give you a sponsored ad)!"
mark
First, based on some of the comments I see, a large percentage of slashdotters these days have no clue what sf&f actually is: 99.999% of it is *WRITTEN*, and has *NO* *RELATIONSHIP* to any movie, tv show, or video. None. In my personal library - I'm an average active fan - I have between 3,000 and 4,000 books... and *maybe* 20 or 30 0f them related to anything ever filmed.
Second, the whole concept of "what's your favorite book" is, IMO, asked by people who don't read. My "favorite"? In what subgenre? Cyperpunk? New Wave? Classic? Steampunk? Urban fantasy? Trad fantasy? Fantasy that plays off old myths, or totally made up worlds? Time travel? Space travel, or occurring on other worlds, with or without aliens.... I could keep going.
I can live with a list of books you ought to read (read Lotr, NOT THE FREAKIN" CRAP MOVIE), not Shanarra, or Ranger's Apprentice; read Asimov's robot stories, or early Heinlein, or Clarke. I can go on (I did make a list, long, long time ago, at the request of PSFS (Philly SF club).
"Among my favorites" I can deal with. FAVORITE, ahhh, no. Unless you can only hold one in your mind at a time....
mark
The new, as opposed to the classic format, really sucks dead roaches. Zoom out, to get the area? Some of the time, what you're looking for is no longer marked. Click on the x, rather than , to get that annoying and overlarge Helpful Block in the upper left? You've lost what you were looking for.
And it keeps trying So Hard to be Helpful, that you constantly trip over it, 'cause it's in your way.
I won't begin to start on how they've ruined google search, apparently to please advertisers, rather than users.
mark
How many ways can you manage to be *wrong*?
1. More than *twice* as many nominating votes came in for the Hugos this year than last year... and last year was a new record. This year, over 4000 nominations. That's "shrinking" and "not representative"?
2. I went through the list a bit ago on file770, and one thing I noticed is that the puppies were also recommending folks who might well have been put on the list *anyway* - I mean, Lois McMaster Bujold? Neil Stephenson? (And, btw, I also nominated Slow Bullets, published by WSFA Press... of which club i am a member, and out GOH at Capclave last year.)
3. Last year, there were people who were put on, and then withdrew because they Puppies had pushed them... clearly repudiating the Puppies. If I had one up, I wouldn't withdraw it... but I would *sure* post something that told Vox Toilet what I thought of him and his schemes, and his stooges.
4. Worlcon was *huge* in 2014. I'm interested in seeing how big it is this year. So much for "shrinking".
5. If you don't like the Hugos, or Worldcon, GO THE FUCK AWAY, AND STOP BOTHERING THE REST OF US.
mark, been a fan since probably before you were born,
and have *zero* intention of being forced out
It looks like a mobile ATM.
I am waiting, though, for the first prankster who expoxies a toilet plunger on the front.....
mark
...the cheap crap engines they make for everybody else? Had an '89 Plymouth Grand Voyager, that we got in '93, that ran really, really well for years. In '03, I traded it in for a '97 Plymouth? Chrysler? Grand Voyage, and I have *never* spent so much money on engine repairs. An engineer I knew told me they'd gone from their own engines to Mitsubishi engines, and *then* he started ranting about the crap they were.
Based on my personal experience, with head gaskets (never needed one before), oil pan, which became pump and pan (and yes, I believe in the One and Only Provably True Religion: change your oil ever 4k miles or so), plug wires, I think it was generator or starter....
I don't own one anymore.
mark
During the Bush recession, I was out of work for years... and, before you twits get started, I *am* a better programmer and sysadmin than you. Do you *really* think someone with only schoolwork and a year or three of job work knows more than someone who's been in the field for decades? In most other industries, that idea is a non-starter.
Let me assure you that in my career, I've had to deal with plenty of code from you young'uns... and too many have *never* been taught extensive error handling and recovery. I've fixed something where the previous three people massaged the data once or twice a year, the *same* data, as well as new data, rather than arranging to HAVE IT FIXED AT THE SOURCE, so that it wouldn't come back again.
Oh, that's right: the longest term job I had in that dry spell was *after* I dyed my hair, and lo! I got a job!
Then there's a friend: she's in her mid-forties, and was between positions... then she died the few gray hairs in her head, and right after that she got a job.
Friggin' arrogant kids, who already know everything... they think. Y'all remind me of a friend's daughter, around 15 years ago: they were running Win98 *bleah*, and the daughter was 16, and *sure* she knew more than me, and wouldn't let me help... and would get made and think that having to reboot the computer once or twice a night was "normal"....
mark
One small detail: what's the size of the US economy? Last I heard, it was *well* over $10 *trillion*. So, say the 0.1% paid a billion or five each, that's well over $100B.
mark
What I've been trying to get people to talk about for something like 20 years is, what happens when most manufacturing and delivery is automated: what jobs are left?
Not a lot. Look at the US, where most of it has been offshored for cheap labor, and more and more people are working two or more low-paying jobs just to pay the rent and keep a roof over their heads. And now, scum like Carl's Jr is talking about completely automated restaurants, so they don't have to pay a living minimum wage.
Does anyone here want to argue that this is *not* happening?
Then there's the flip side of the argument: my late idiot, er, sister, was on welfare for a bunch of years before they finally granted her SSDI. Trust me, I was *glad* to pay taxes for her to not be working for anyone *I* needed or wanted to do business with (ok, maybe if she'd worked for the GOP....). Don't any of *you* have someone you wish was "no longer in the workforce"?
mark
Askng, as one poster does, why someone in Iowa should pay to fight climate change to help someone they've never met, or will never meet, on the other side of the world is both amazingly ignorant and stupid.
Where do some of your food, or a lot of your clothes, car parts, computers and computer parts come from? So yes, it *directly* affects you.
Second... let me give you two reasons that will hit you, personally, says the guy who lived in Texas and Florida for some years.
1. Fire ants will move north. If you've never met them, I suggest you take a trip south, and walk over a nest.
2. Kudzu, aka "the vine that ate the South". As someone I knew put it, "it was imported from Japan in the 20's as cattle food. Turned out that kudzu liked the South a lot better than cattle liked kudzu." When they say it grows a yard a week, they don't mean 3 feet, they mean your whole damn yard. It kills trees. Now consider it getting to cropland, and not dying back over a winter with long, hard freezes....
Meanwhile, the climate change deniers, who all seem to be Free Markets Forever!!! can't seem to see *any* opportunities to make money in the switchover to renewables.
mark
1. Are we talking 12 yr olds and younger, or 17 yr olds?
2. If the former... I have trouble believing that there's *that* big a market for it that it's worth all this effort.... Does *anyone* have any statistics (and I don't mean from funnymentalists or morons, er, Mormons.
mark
First, saying that you live in Iowa (as one poster puts it), and don't know or will ever meet someone from the other side of the world is a) massively ignorant and downright nasty (where does some of your food come from? how 'bout your clothes, or cars, or computers or computer parts come from?), and b) did I mention "ignorant"?
I've lived in Texas and Florida. I'm in the DC metro area now, and the weather's starting to remind me of Texas. Which I find horrifying.
Why, you ask?
Let me give you two reasons that *will* affect you in Iowa.
1. Fire ants will move north. If you've never run into them, I suggest you take a trip south and walk over a nest. That, alone, should convince you that you *don't* want winters with hard freezes.
2. Kudzu, aka "the vine that ate the South". As someone I used to know put it, "it was imported in the 20's, thinking it would be good cattle food. Instead, kudzu liked the South a *lot* better than cattle liked kudzu." Growing a yard a week doesn't mean 3 feet, it means your whole damn yard.... I would *not* want to see it getting to large food croplands.
And, of course, all the climate-change deniers, who claim to be Free Markets Forever!!! can't seem to see any business opportunities in the changeover to producing renewables, and the equipment for creating renewable energy generation.
mark
I mean, I understand that there's something called Section 7 rights, that *does* allow "professionals" to organize a union.
And if you think one person can wield the documentation hammer, and not be escorted out the door, and the rest made to pick up for them, you're a sucker.
They *do* have the right answer. And, if they do organize, then they've got a stronger case for unfair labor practices.... and a union to help with lawyers and court costs.
mark
I timed myself, in my teens, as maxing at about 250 wpm. Speed reading? Hell, I'd never be able to keep myself in books! And, from all I've heard and read over the decades, you certainly don't get it.
I don't like voice books. As fast as I can read, I sometimes want to glance back a paragraph, or a page, so that something makes sense.
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How can the thing in the picture have *four* 250hp engines on it? Where, in a bag of holding?
And then there's how much fuel *four* 250hp engines would burn per minute.
Go 100mph? Have any of you ever stood up in a convertible going 60mph?
Finally, *why* would it need the four engines? I'd be less disbelieving if they said 25hp engines, and 25 mph; with their claims, he crashed because he was out of fuel in five minutes.
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Skimming the article, I don't see where he says he was donating *any* of the profits to the Sanders campaign. That sounds like a not-unreasonable reason for the lawyers.
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And what financial stake do they have in this?
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Of course, the National Cancer Inst, part of the US's National Institutes of Health, has an *annual* budget just for itself of $4.9 *billion*. And a good bit goes to researchers around the US, such as colleges.
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