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How did San Francisco get the internet? Was it voted on and approved or was it pushed on it by some bureaucrat?

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Thanks. I’ll be trying this real soon now.

In the meantime, does the agenda view include something like org-agenda-files or just the visited file?

This cries for blind taste tests.

Is your code still running? Did it suffer significant downtime? Did anything else break because of the new code? Did anyone do without water?

mail, pipes and grep?

All those fancy-pants semiconductors...

Here’s a real computer. http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~harry/Relay/

I learned as a young sailor that if you always had a broom in your hand, nobody would find something for you to do.

The 2016 election predictions are still posted. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/...

Long distance charges may apply.

I grew up in Ashtabula, Ohio, and the closest access numbers made the toll charges the greatest cost.

The author was interviewed on the Econtalk podcast last year.

http://www.econtalk.org/jerry-muller-on-the-tyranny-of-metri...

“Nevermind” is longer ago from today than “Rubber Soul” was from “Nevermind.”

Time is cruel.

Modell moved the team in 1996. The new Cleveland football stadium was built three years later for the new expansion Browns.

You might be conflating the football stadium with Jacobs Field, which was built for the Indians. (American League Baseball)

The original Browns played at Cleveland Municipal Stadium until they became the Baltimore Ravens.

It’s the data that is on them.

Miss my Yacht Boy. Had it sitting on top of my car, while listening to a ball game. Forgot got it was there, and drove off. It hit US Route 11 at approximately 65 MPH after serving me faithfully for many years all around the world.

RIP little Grundig.

The Pacific Ocean is neither privately owned nor land. If people do not have access to some part of the commonwealth, it is no longer part of the commonwealth. Different polities have different ways of dealing with this problem. California has chosen to make most shoreline public.

Comments are toxic anyway. Disable them and post a link to a subreddit or other place that is willing to deal with them. Or just disable them.

Also,the major social media companies are rather prudish. Want to post a selfie from the beach? You better be covered up!

Yes. It's "Roderick on the Line" that makes me think of him as a raconteur.

Don't forget about "Friendly Fire", the war movie podcast. His love of history comes through in that almost as much as in "Omnibus."

Omnibus with raconteur John Roderick, and quiz kid Ken Jennings is one of my favorite podcasts. Light-hearted,odd history.

https://www.omnibusproject.com

GNU deprecates man pages in favor of texinfo, not no documentation at all.

https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Documentation.h...

In the US, there is a presumption that you have a right to be where you are. It's up to the authorities to demonstrate otherwise. Supposedly.

And costs $14, at least in Ohio.

My local library in $SMALL_MIDWEST_TOWN lends Verizon portable hotspots for free.

I remember reading that book in 1996 and finding it incredibly elitist. His alternatives to the internet were visiting libraries, book stores, art film theaters, going to concerts, strolling through parks... But, he was living in Berkeley!

The internet was a god send to most of the population who didn't live in the intellectual centers of world. Still is.

The commutes would stop being a problem for what is still a minority of workers. If you are in manufacturing, retail, construction, food service, etc. telecommuting is just not an option.

"Type-A people are descending on the ancient practice of meditation and tweaking the quest for inner peace to suit their hard-charging needs—racking up streaks and broadcasting their running tallies to the world. The result, for some: Meditation has never been more stressful."

Maybe we should have "Non-Monsanto" labels then, instead of "Non-GMO."

Thanks for this. Really, thank you.