I remember the end of the Cold War. I thought we would eventually start dismantling most of the nuclear arsenal that's cost trillions of dollars to build and maintain. (I'm not even going to mention the cost of cleanup at this point.) So why do we still have the massive stockpiles? I understand that Russian nukes are a problem. I understand that Putin is not the nicest guy in the world, to say the least, and may not be that amenable to reducing his stockpile. But god knows the Russians will need to save money. As do we. Our roads and bridges are crumbling, but we still maintain these ICBMs... for what exactly? It's up to Congress to change this. I say it's time.

2. Kiel.

1. Yes.

Just callin' it as I see it, nothing personal intended.

You would actually buy a phone that does not support any form of removable storage? That would be a show-stopper for me.

I responded to the post to which I was responding. Cheers.

Wasted attempt at humour. Nevermind.

Yes, but that happened in Mediaeval French when une norenge got misspelt as une orenge, well before the word passed into English (and similarly into Dutch, as oranje). By comparison, Spanish and Hungarian have naranja and narancs, respectively.

B-b-b-b-but that would actually make sense, and we can't have that.

...that at least one other person on the planet appears to be troubled by this.

Or spend less time on Facebook.

Oy! Rule #1 regarding the harmonic space toads is that we don't talk about the harmonic space toads.

Are you implying that Fusty is an APK sockpuppet?

Interesting theory. Please elaborate.

For that matter, who in their right mind gives their dog pork chop bones? Even if there's no meat left on them, they're great for making soup.

Although the attempt showed character.

Which leads us to... oh dear, pretty much where we are right now. Because there's no such thing as "free for the taking"; everything costs something to someone, somewhere.

The notion that at things can be taken from nature without any cost is (IMO) the central and fatal flaw underlying unbridled capitalism. See David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital.