@Axtremus said in The Bizarre Resurgence of Barnes & Noble: I haven’t visited a Barnes & Noble for a long time. I will make it a point to visit one soon just because of this thread. From the article @Aqua-Letifer linked earlier: … the lesson is so simple. // If you want to sell music, you must love those songs. If you want to succeed in journalism, you must love those newspapers. If you want to succeed in movies, you must love the cinema. Perhaps there are limits to this “simple lesson.” I cannot quite see a resurgence of Block Buster stores based on love for the movies or the cinema. On the political front, does it follow that “if you want to succeed at governing, you must love the government (institutions)”? This would suggest that the “the government is the problem” crowd will not succeed at governing, no? Your lack of reading comprehension is amazing. He wasn't talking about customers, he was talking about the people in leadership positions at companies. Honestly, if you can't be bothered to even read the article, don't comment on it.

It makes perfect sense, but I imagine it’s a bit of a sausage fest. Especially in blue states.

Hey, at least he believes in evolution. That's a definite step in the right direction! Because if people think that politicians were intelligently designed by an all-powerful, loving creator, it would actually be pretty worrying if you consider the results.

Pwned: https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/194564

By the way, I sit on an OSMB for an NIH-funded trial. In general, like with their grant review process, they staff these things with mostly academics in the relevant field. NIH people do attend but they obviously aren’t necessarily experts in every subject where they issue grants. (“OSMB” or “Observational Study Monitoring Board”, is the equivalent to the “Data Safety Monitoring Board” used in drug trials, the difference is OSMBs are for observational studies whereas DSMBs are for interventional studies. )

@Mik It’s their problem if their corrupt local officials did what corrupt local officials do all over Russia. Besides it’s Altai, mostly Kazakhs and unlimited supplies of firewood to heat their yurts.

Science FTW!

@Axtremus said in An interesting statement by JMS on physical media.: Say, @kluurs, how do you feel about physical media? I still acquire some CDs but not very often. Though I have my sights on a boxed set of Walter Gieseking's music that I might acquire. I never purchase DVDs though there are some films that are only available on that media.

An auspicious course that shows great promise.

It’s based on the report The NY Times published last month.

@George-K So much gloom and doom in that list. He sounds like he's running to be leader of the Sunshine Club.

Lol.

Watching now

Thomas and Alito are the only two septuagenarians on the SCOTUS bench and they are the oldest. If we go by age, perhaps these two are the most likely to vacate their seats. :man-shrugging:

@George-K said in Hey Mark! And other PC geeks: Is there an advantage to display port vs USB-C? Not necessarily an advantage, just that "display port" is designed to support one thing -- displays, while USB (including USB-C) is designed to support many different things. So if all you want to do is connect displays, maybe display port the specialist can do a better job than USB the generalist.

@brenda said in Erin Go Braless!: @LuFins-Dad said in Erin Go Braless!: @jon-nyc said in Erin Go Braless!: I hope these braless women get their comeuppance. Oh, and Jolly, thanks for keeping us abreast of this trend. Wow, normally you are calling @Jolly a boob. I’m glad this topic has healed the cleavage between the two of you. I hear the combined cleavage of those two is really outstanding. Really? @jon-nyc told me their cleavage was a little bit of a bust…

They don't live longer; it just seems like it.