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I suspect I'm violating the topic drift protocol. - oops - computer nostalgia I have no memory of the CBM 64. My recollection of the Timex Sinclair, it was trim, orthogonal, black. In contrast the Commodore 64 looked bloated to me. I never tried either one. The "XT" in IBM's XT stood for...

For dozens of U.S. presidencies, literally for centuries, those that served as U.S. president were White men. Little wonder. For much of that time women couldn't vote. And White men therefore comprised a plurality if not a majority of the electorate. BUT ! Then Barrack Hussein Obama was...

For centuries securing the Constitutional rights of dark-skinned Americans was left to light-skinned Americans, and the rights of the dark-skinned languished. Integrating dark-skinned Americans into the process has coincided with substantial progress in promoting enumerated 14th Amendment equal...

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Marge! How's it goin' ? [Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.)] says Trump told her if her ‘son were to get killed,’ it would be her fault Sophie Brams / Thu, April 16, 2026 at 10:30 AM GMT-5 Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said during a recent podcast appearance that...

"What do we want!? Low flying airplane noises! When do we want 'em? NEEEEOOOOWWWWWWWW!" —chuckcm89 chuck really?

President Donald J. Trump's presidential style is a substantial departure from the conventions established by nearly 250 years of U.S. history. The white house East wing for example has been demolished without formal congressional approval. Is this what Justice Thomas has warned U.S. about ...

Indeed. That's a major portion of my reasoning for: $Money is fungible. And btw, the notion that "NEVER AGAIN" means only for benefit of Israelis, or Jews is a shocking, tragic misinterpretation. That Israel / Jews are now the perpetrators compounds the horror.

Certainly, unquestionably, the law matters. AND ! When the law is wrong I favor setting the law right. BUT ! There's more to humanity than a courtroom. The conspicuous absence in this 77 page thread: how do the non-trans competitors feel about it?

Having a legitimate owner is essential, but insufficient on its own. For Israel to legitimately buy, the legitimate owner would have to be willing to sell. I'm not sure that's going to happen. BUT ! In centuries past scorned minorities could be elbowed aside, outcast to no man's lands. Is...

Did you use them to run commercial software? Not sure what software it could run. My IBM PC may have had an 8088 processor (same as NASA's space shuttles iirc) & 128k RAM, & two sloppy-disc drives, 5.25" 360K capacity. It ran Sargon III to play chess on an ASCII display screen. I bought it with...

Alright. To whom should payment have been made? To the prior owners? OK Do they have a deed?

Some say the U.S. should suspend U.S. support only for the offensive weapons Israel is using for this carnage, but should continue to support Israel otherwise. I don't have enough information to pass final judgement, but it seems to me the U.S. should indefinitely suspend 100% of all U.S. aid...

Doesn't it? For the OED? For the NYT? Perhaps FOX made the bidness calculation that FOX couldn't compete against The New York Times or PBS on the proverbial "level playing field", so made the business calculation of going over to the dark side. I sincerely do not understand how FOX spew can be...

And as the land they farmed goes fallow / non-productive, the 100% whole is reduced. The result, the population continues to increase as the food supply diminishes. Such divergences when minor can cause food inflation, "supply and demand". But as the ratio of food to mouths diminishes further...

In the U.S. there's an aphorism: "Politics ain't bean-bag." In Canada there's a corollary: - Not on your side of the border perhaps. - "Mad a a hatter"? Trump's irrationality traces back to the confluence of Trump's profound ignorance, and unbridled greed and insatiable craving for attention...

Words to live by! Therefore, skip the tylenol ! Bring on the Jack ! Doesn't an entire bottle of tylenol take care of most of that? Psycholgist Joy Browne calls suicide a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

"He with two masters serves neither." axiom However FOX News may have started, it has chosen the dark side abandoning the pretense of objective news reporting in favor of feeding the MAGA horde their daily fiction pablum. Two masters? Fidelity to truth, a prerequisite to legitimate...

The software varies widely. I came close to trying A.I. a month ago when you and I discussed the Trabant. I thought of creating an A.I. image of a Trabant doing aerobatics. BUT ! There were strings attached. So no. As you know, hardware evolution has caused a revolution. I got my first desktop...

This is the problem with hiring a president OJT.