Well if there are delays the result will look very much like what happened in the House in 2018 where each day more and more democrats kept on winning.

Sad, but true. We came around to the conclusion that our kids do need social contact.

You're just jealous of the big hair.😄

https://politics.theonion.com/trump-attempts-to-pivot-narrative-away-from-coronavirus-1845302213

Maybe it’s organic bamboo polymers. Corn fed.

You live in the USA and you want wealth? Earn it.

You don't live in the USA and you want wealth? Move to the USA and earn it.

RIP Mr. Ford

The beer drinkers hall-of-fame has lost one of their best

Link to video

Ouch.

Horace is going to love your little foray into pop culture. What's more, he's English!

He actually did a pretty good job with that song.

@Axtremus said in The Supreme Court does tech:

@xenon If you can call LEGO’s toy block interface “the product,” why can some other technology not call their API “the product”? At best this argument can only say that this Oracle v. Google case is not a good case to support copyrighting API, not generally show that copyrighting API is a bad idea.

As for “concentration,” I think the real remedy is to just break up the companies that have grown “too big.” Tinkering with patent and copyright laws will not effectively address “concentration.”

Not disagreeing. As I said, I can see the legal rationale.

I guess I reacted strongly because I think the application of the letter of the law is out of sync with the spirit of the constitutional underpinnings of patent law.

It's like if every nail manufacturer could patent their nail design - and regulations made it such that you needed an approved nail design to build anything you wanted to build. It'd lead to a bunch of vertically integrated real estate developers.

Anyways - not a perfect analogy. I just think tech has been hobbled patent law. There's a better solution out there where there'd be more innovation, inventors still get paid for their innovations and there'd be overall more and cheaper SW development.

That's sort of a non issue since the nation won't be standing after a couple of years into her first term.

Windows has to support everything in the world.

Apple doesn't have to support anything, including their own stuff. And if you don't like it - too bad.

@bachophile said in I almost had a cat scan today:

July 21, 2048

I figure when I’m 90 I’ll start. Get in ten pack years and quit at 100.

That has been my plan too.

Countries Currently At War 2020

Rank Country Population 2020

1 China 1,439,323,776

2 India 1,380,004,385

3 United States 331,002,651

4 Indonesia 273,523,615

5 Pakistan 220,892,340

6 Brazil 212,559,417

7 Nigeria 206,139,589

8 Bangladesh 164,689,383

9 Russia 145,934,462

10 Mexico 128,932,753

11 Japan 126,476,461

12 Ethiopia 114,963,588

13 Philippines 109,581,078

14 Egypt 102,334,404

15 Vietnam 97,338,579

16 Dr Congo 89,561,403

17 Turkey 84,339,067

18 Iran 83,992,949

19 Germany 83,783,942

20 Thailand 69,799,978

21 United Kingdom 67,886,011

22 France 65,273,511

23 Italy 60,461,826

24 Tanzania 59,734,218

25 South Africa 59,308,690

26 Myanmar 54,409,800

27 Kenya 53,771,296

28 South Korea 51,269,185

29 Colombia 50,882,891

30 Spain 46,754,778

31 Uganda 45,741,007

32 Argentina 45,195,774

33 Algeria 43,851,044

34 Sudan 43,849,260

35 Ukraine 43,733,762

36 Iraq 40,222,493

37 Afghanistan 38,928,346

38 Poland 37,846,611

39 Canada 37,742,154

40 Morocco 36,910,560

41 Saudi Arabia 34,813,871

42 Uzbekistan 33,469,203

43 Peru 32,971,854

44 Angola 32,866,272

45 Malaysia 32,365,999

46 Mozambique 31,255,435

47 Ghana 31,072,940

48 Yemen 29,825,964

49 Nepal 29,136,808

50 Venezuela 28,435,940

51 Madagascar 27,691,018

52 Cameroon 26,545,863

53 Ivory Coast 26,378,274

54 North Korea 25,778,816

55 Australia 25,499,884

56 Niger 24,206,644

57 Taiwan 23,816,775

58 Sri Lanka 21,413,249

59 Burkina Faso 20,903,273

60 Mali 20,250,833

61 Romania 19,237,691

62 Malawi 19,129,952

63 Chile 19,116,201

64 Kazakhstan 18,776,707

65 Zambia 18,383,955

66 Guatemala 17,915,568

67 Ecuador 17,643,054

68 Syria 17,500,658

69 Netherlands 17,134,872

70 Senegal 16,743,927

71 Cambodia 16,718,965

72 Chad 16,425,864

73 Somalia 15,893,222

74 Zimbabwe 14,862,924

75 Guinea 13,132,795

76 Rwanda 12,952,218

77 Benin 12,123,200

78 Burundi 11,890,784

79 Tunisia 11,818,619

80 Bolivia 11,673,021

81 Belgium 11,589,623

82 Haiti 11,402,528

83 Cuba 11,326,616

84 South Sudan 11,193,725

85 Dominican Republic 10,847,910

86 Czech Republic 10,708,981

87 Greece 10,423,054

88 Jordan 10,203,134

89 Portugal 10,196,709

90 Azerbaijan 10,139,177

91 Sweden 10,099,265

92 Honduras 9,904,607

93 United Arab Emirates 9,890,402

94 Hungary 9,660,351

95 Tajikistan 9,537,645

96 Belarus 9,449,323

97 Austria 9,006,398

98 Papua New Guinea 8,947,024

99 Serbia 8,737,371

100 Israel 8,655,535

101 Switzerland 8,654,622

102 Togo 8,278,724

103 Sierra Leone 7,976,983

104 Hong Kong 7,496,981

105 Laos 7,275,560

106 Paraguay 7,132,538

107 Bulgaria 6,948,445

108 Libya 6,871,292

109 Lebanon 6,825,445

110 Nicaragua 6,624,554

111 Kyrgyzstan 6,524,195

112 El Salvador 6,486,205

113 Turkmenistan 6,031,200

114 Singapore 5,850,342

115 Denmark 5,792,202

116 Finland 5,540,720

117 Republic Of The Congo 5,518,087

118 Slovakia 5,459,642

119 Norway 5,421,241

120 Oman 5,106,626

121 Palestine 5,101,414

122 Costa Rica 5,094,118

123 Liberia 5,057,681

124 Ireland 4,937,786

125 Central African Republic 4,829,767

126 New Zealand 4,822,233

127 Mauritania 4,649,658

128 Panama 4,314,767

129 Kuwait 4,270,571

130 Croatia 4,105,267

131 Moldova 4,033,963

132 Georgia 3,989,167

133 Eritrea 3,546,421

134 Uruguay 3,473,730

135 Bosnia And Herzegovina 3,280,819

136 Mongolia 3,278,290

137 Armenia 2,963,243

138 Jamaica 2,961,167

139 Qatar 2,881,053

140 Albania 2,877,797

141 Puerto Rico 2,860,853

142 Lithuania 2,722,289

143 Namibia 2,540,905

144 Gambia 2,416,668

145 Botswana 2,351,627

146 Gabon 2,225,734

147 Lesotho 2,142,249

148 Macedonia 2,083,374

149 Slovenia 2,078,938

150 Guinea Bissau 1,968,001

151 Latvia 1,886,198

152 Bahrain 1,701,575

153 Equatorial Guinea 1,402,985

154 Trinidad And Tobago 1,399,488

155 Estonia 1,326,535

156 Timor Leste 1,318,445

157 Mauritius 1,271,768

158 Cyprus 1,207,359

159 Swaziland 1,160,164

160 Djibouti 988,000

161 Fiji 896,445

162 Reunion 895,312

163 Comoros 869,601

164 Guyana 786,552

165 Bhutan 771,608

166 Solomon Islands 686,884

167 Macau 649,335

168 Montenegro 628,066

169 Luxembourg 625,978

170 Western Sahara 597,339

171 Suriname 586,632

172 Cape Verde 555,987

173 Maldives 540,544

174 Malta 441,543

175 Brunei 437,479

176 Guadeloupe 400,124

177 Belize 397,628

178 Bahamas 393,244

179 Martinique 375,265

180 Iceland 341,243

181 Vanuatu 307,145

182 French Guiana 298,682

183 Barbados 287,375

184 New Caledonia 285,498

185 French Polynesia 280,908

186 Mayotte 272,815

187 Sao Tome And Principe 219,159

188 Samoa 198,414

189 Saint Lucia 183,627

190 Guam 168,775

191 Curacao 164,093

192 Kiribati 119,449

193 Micronesia 115,023

194 Grenada 112,523

195 Saint Vincent And The Grenadines 110,940

196 Aruba 106,766

197 Tonga 105,695

198 United States Virgin Islands 104,425

199 Seychelles 98,347

200 Antigua And Barbuda 97,929

201 Isle Of Man 85,033

202 Andorra 77,265

203 Dominica 71,986

204 Cayman Islands 65,722

205 Bermuda 62,278

206 Marshall Islands 59,190

207 Northern Mariana Islands 57,559

208 Greenland 56,770

209 American Samoa 55,191

210 Saint Kitts And Nevis 53,199

211 Faroe Islands 48,863

212 Sint Maarten 42,876

213 Monaco 39,242

214 Turks And Caicos Islands 38,717

215 Saint Martin 38,666

216 Liechtenstein 38,128

217 San Marino 33,931

218 Gibraltar 33,691

219 British Virgin Islands 30,231

220 Palau 18,094

221 Cook Islands 17,564

222 Anguilla 15,003

223 Tuvalu 11,792

224 Wallis And Futuna 11,239

225 Nauru 10,824

226 Saint Barthelemy 9,877

227 Saint Pierre And Miquelon 5,794

228 Montserrat 4,992

229 Falkland Islands 3,480

230 Niue 1,626

231 Tokelau 1,357

232 Vatican City 801

I'd blame the virus for the red dotted line. The rest you can analyse as you see fit, but it was already trending down. Both Bush and Obama had mixed results, too.

Maybe it's actually the American people's fault?

@jon-nyc said in Lids:

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Actually you can do that. Best way is with a pressure cooker and a vacuum pump, but you can use a brake bleeder...

The estimated delivery times, here at least, are still really messed up. We've been buying a ton of stuff from Amazon, and they're all over the map. Frequently they arrive a week earlier than predicted. A small number have been delayed, and one got lost completely, only to show up a couple of weeks after Amazon gave us our money back.