@jon-nyc Canada, eh?

@Horace Nah, there are alternatives that have nothing to do with Face ID.

@George-K said in BoJo visits: Can you imagine the security for something like that? I imagine Mr. Trump called the Kremlin and requested BoJo's safe passage. No big deal.

Yes, great for the compost.

@LuFins-Dad what? Rick is gone?

That is great news for many men out there.

Being a backup QB he probably didn't have his helmet on.

@jon-nyc said in Election in France: Normally it wouldn’t bother me that much but in the midst of Russia/Ukraine it would be very unfortunate. Same with me as well. But either way France will be the first to surrender and LePen is prepared to form the new Vichy regime.

Never understood that Continuum is a very fine album

Money to be made in that business. A friend of the family, "Don" did well with that. My nephew still plays golf with his kids.

@Axtremus said in The Business Model: @Jolly said in The Business Model: @Axtremus said in The Business Model: What did the author expect? Moral leadership from a private enterprise in the entertainment business? When Walt ran the company, yes. Is the author unaware that Walt has not been running the company for quite a while now? So, what does that mean? That they should become depraved like all the other entertainment businesses? Moral leadership is OK. It is good. It should be encouraged and expected.

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I think that the most of the immigrants to any country are for economic reasons. The percent of "true" immigrants fleeing persecution in their home country is probably pretty small. As I have said before, I am very much in favor of expanding legal immigration policies, but also being strong against illegal immigration. But I am sure that there is some relation between the labor shortage in the "service" industries and the reduction in immigration (legal or illegal). I dont know how much, but there must be some. The only reason the US is growing in population and what really sustains alot of economic growth is immigration. Natural births are not enough.

Literally.

@Larry said in Trump’s latest sinking ship: @taiwan_girl said in Trump’s latest sinking ship: @Larry said in Trump’s latest sinking ship: @89th said in Trump’s latest sinking ship: It's not like you started a company and it went bankrupt after 2 months. See, this shows either a single minded stubbornness or an inability to learn. No matter how many times it gets poi Ted out to you that Trump didnt do that either, you continue to cling to your same old destroyed narrative. Trump didn't start Trump Steaks. He didn't ruin Trump Steaks. He didn't do a fucking thing except sell a license to his name to The Sharper Image. But you don't understand that. It shows a serious lack of reasoning skills 9n your part. To the point of it being ridiculous. Trying to have an honest discussion with you is a total waste of my time. QUOTE Trump struck up a relationship with Buckhead Beef, a specialty meat company that was purchased by Sysco, the largest marketer and distributor of food service products in the United States, in 1999. According to Jack Serratilli, a Buckhead Beef sales manager, Trump first approached the company when he opened his first casino in Atlantic City. Buckhead had already been servicing other casinos in Atlantic City, supplying beef for their restaurants, and they began to do the same for Trump. Beginning around the mid-2000s, however, Trump’s Atlantic City projects began to suffer financial blows, culminating, eventually, in a 2004 Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. According to the filing, Trump Hotels owed Buckhead Beef $715,240, related to their partnership with the casino. Two years later, on August 6, 2006, Trump filed an application to trademark Trump Steaks. A few months later, in October, the New York Inquirer published a story reporting that Trump had entered into a partnership with Buckhead Beef to sell the steaks. The now-trademarked Trump Steaks name was first used in commerce, according to filings made to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, in December 2006. To start, it appears as though Trump sold his steaks through a direct sales website, housed at www.trumpsteaks.com. A few months later, a licensing executive with the Trump Organization approached Jerry Levin, CEO of the Sharper Image. The Trump Organization had been looking for a place to sell their newly trademarked steaks, and the executive, who was a good friend of Levin’s, thought that the product could be an interesting fit for the stores, which until that point had been better known for electronics than food products. The idea of selling steaks, even those bearing the Donald Trump name, seemed instantly odd to Levin. “The idea was certainly an unusual one,” he said, calling the connection between Trump Steaks and the Sharper Image “truly a non sequitur.” Levin explained that the licensing executive likely picked the Sharper Image because he and Levin had a pre-existing relationship (though Trump, in the sales commercial, refers to Sharper Image as “one of [his] favorite stores, with fantastic products of all kinds). “I asked, ‘What is it they want us to do?’” Levin recalled. “And they really only had two criteria to the licensing agreement itself: Donald wanted his picture on the front of a Sharper Image catalog when we introduced this, and he wanted his picture in every one of our stores when we introduced it.” UNQUOTE (https://archive.thinkprogress.org/a-definitive-history-of-trump-steaks-e0e6fc31b689/) What a load of horse shit.... BWaaaaahahahahahaaaaaaaaa What is incorrect in what was posted? For example: US Trademark application (https://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4805:k6ayyz.2.1)

@Klaus said in The "W-Boson": Also, without particle physics, we wouldn't have CT scans, MRI, PET, proton therapy, accelerator-based cancer treatment, And years ago, without understanding (sort of) relativity, televisions would be impossible. That's because the electron beam which is scanning the screen takes just that much longer to go to the edges than it does to the center of the screen.

Really interesting to read these schedules, although @Copper (ok, maybe @George-K ) wins. @LuFins-Dad I can see why that is one blur of a schedule. @Aqua-Letifer yours has a lot of stuff I think you probably appreciate now, and will even moreso looking back on it. Good work, daddio. Last summer when our (then 10-month old) kid was at the stage where he could walk but would either need to have his hand held or would fall every 3 seconds was exhausting. Even being in the back yard trying to do ANY chore felt like 1 minute of progress for 10 minutes of non-work. This year it's better since the kid is more stable, although now he likes to get into rocks, throw them, and climb every thing in sight. Anyway....he also is teething and doesn't sleep well so the days are long but there are pros and cons to each phase of life it seems. While I look forward to eventual retirement and playing golf daily, or traveling, or whatever... I know that also comes without having a 1 and 3 year old who are really a blast to play with right now. "Daddy, let's play monster chase!" is something I hear every 5 minutes from my wife.

@Doctor-Phibes said in Pelosi positive for COVID: @89th said in Pelosi positive for COVID: With all due respect to the elderly... mother EFF it's like watching a nursing home bingo night sometimes. There needs to be a change in the political culture to stop people working so long into old age. Either that, or put the retirement age at 70 and be done with it. Jobs where people routinely work until they drop are typically going to attract the type of person that wants to work until they drop, and to be honest I'm not convinced of these people's sanity. Certainly they're not normal. Also, if so many people can still do this job when they're 80 years old, how hard can it be? You know, I don't have a problem with that, although term limits may accomplish the same goal with less muss and fuss.