cardiffspaceman

In the fine article it had nothing to do with midterms:

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This week has an echo from 1896. The day after William McKinley won the White House that November, the Dow jumped about 4.5%, then gave back about 2% the next session.

Hamilton didn’t waste her shot

I’m not sure why the abbreviations were used. California and China.

> will erase literally any crime.

It would be a shame if your car ended up in the the subduction zone

Can we put Bezos on a PIP?

I used to fantasize about using computers to print stuff. I ended up at a little company that made desktop publishing software. While I was employed there, I went on vacation in Chicago and found myself in the basement of the former Donnelly printing plant where Sears-Robuck catalogs were printed. They had an exhibit of old printing presses, and at least one of them functioned. The docent told small groups how they worked. I told him my occupation, and he played off me as he lectured. He printed a souvenir for me, a little bit of paper with “Quality isn’t quick” written on it. Except there was an upside down ‘n’ where a ‘u’ belonged.

The organization used an antique letterpress to print up invitations for weddings and such.

From USA, one mainly needs WhatsApp to chat with Latin Americans. Judging from the billboards I have seen in Argentina and Uruguay, there are a lot of Latin Americans getting WA free. So of course, why pay more?

The video of the assassination of the UHC executive revealed to one viewer that the assassin had practiced thoroughly, because when the gun jammed the assassin recovered deftly.

I wonder how a would-be striker could do this work while factoring in the goalie behavior.

I kept thinking of the sketch in which contestants in a quiz contest attempt to summarize Proust. IYKYK.

The question marks are because it’s practically a trope that the most interesting subjects disguise their importance by driving Civics and such.

West Asia is a less Eurocentric than “Orient” or “Middle East.” I like it.

I told someone about UBI and they hadn’t heard of it, 4 or 5 years ago, despite being an executive at a charity that is supposed to help people with food money.

I saw that Virginia and Maine have a little bit of momentum towards balcony solar. This is the video I saw that in: https://youtu.be/2RqhK2w8rrA

On the other hand, sometimes the naive approach does work. I bought something from a Ukrainian via Kickstarter, and expected that some sort of difficulty would emerge, but no, it did not. From the tracking information, it appears that from his location, it was handed over to the Post, and it went through the usual steps to me in California.

In fact there was one unusual event, compared to my daily experience, which was an event that blew the windows of his shop. So he divided his works across multiple locations for geographical diversity and carried on.

The capitalists who own them shut them down.

If your NASCAR car had a sticker, you’d have ad money from STP/Pennzoil/RainX/whatever.

Those folks can FRO. The teacher my wife would have had for a Pascal class in high school refused to let her apply, saying it was not for girls. Her father said, you can take it at community college.

And well known to fans of Dr Demento. This is the Wikipedia about “Hancock Park” the city park that contains the tar pits and museum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_Park

There is also a district of the city that contains NIMBYs and other fossils, by a similar name.

When news was transmitted by flaky telegraph systems, the first paragraph evolved to be a concise version. The ensuing paragraphs provided layers of detail. If the connection was lost, whatever got through would stand as enough. That is more or less how I write emails for work. The other thing is, tell em what you’re going to say, then say it, then tell em what you told them.

If the app is meant to defeat counterfeits or reselling the Dodgers won’t be willing to accept printed tickets.

What’s the value of having a civilian SecDef if he blathers on like this?

Yep! I own both a pair of AirPods and a pair of Beats. The Beats were designed for a lower price point, without noise cancellation, than the AirPods so I can’t offer a head-head comparison.

Yes to get really seasick, you need stabilizers and seven wine pairings.

>> "I now have to spend the entire day talking about Hitler."

… ironic result

Starting in the CompuServe era, and ending in about 2001, I was a voluntary member of the MVPs for Windows programming. You would get swag, including a full MSDN subscription. My reason for joining this and for otherwise posting hopefully helpfully on forums was to lower the barrier to Windows programming.

I was idle vis-à-vis this by about 1999, and was excluded from the benefits as a result.

Then I posted on several threads within rec.autos.bmw and I got an extra year or two of benefits.

I have been happy with the serendipity of YouTube’s algorithm generally. I followed an external link to a YouTube video about an exotic piano, and played a few related videos afterwards. These were videos about other unusual musical instruments, such as very high-pitched and very low-pitched wind instruments. And somehow that was part of a process leading to Japanese metal bands.

Dopamine-driven behavior in ourselves is certainly to be watched for.

I worked with CFG80211/MAC80211 on an old Linux kernel years ago. I don’t think time of day is in any packet.

As an aside, because it would not be germane to automotive safety…

In the Coast Guard Auxiliary “Sailing and Seamanship” class that I attended, targeting would-be sailboat skippers, we were told the USS Ranger nuclear-powered aircraft carrier had the right-of-way.

In Encinitas, California, that sign would have no more than 20 MPH. In adjacent Carlsbad, I believe 25 is normal.

I vividly recall a shot within a commercial, in which a driver was shown in slow motion, chucking his coffee into the passenger foot well in order to have two hands on the wheel for an emergency. I don’t remember what was about to happen to the car or the world around it. I’m pretty sure that a collision occurred.