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...Zelinskyy Vodka

...or are you just happy to see Siri?

NPR: "We asked them for this interview, but neither responded by the deadline."

They are "personal helicopters", period.
 

Reality ain't popular. It's why politicians lie their asses off.

China's geezer party leaders probably got jealous of all the young whippersnappers having fun, so had to reign it in.

Theory is that's also why the Old Testament was written. "If my wanker no longer works, those wippersnappers are no longer allowed to snap their whips either! Parity of misery, Hallelujah, pass the wine!"

That's a good point. Between cards and phones and watches paying for things, people rarely carry cash anymore anyway, let alone coinage.

Not disagreeing as I'm not going to bother looking them all up, but there are a LOT of ways to do rounding! Recently had to read up on "Round half to even"[^1] when `sprintf` was providing results I didn't expect (it does round half to even). For example:

$ for i in `seq 1 4`; do echo -n "$i.5 : "; printf "%0.0f\n" "$i.5"; done
1.5 : 2
2.5 : 2
3.5 : 4
4.5 : 4

That's also called "Banker's Rounding", so I have no faith that everyone everywhere will do it in the same sane way.

[^1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The judge shouldn't allow open-ended searching. NYT should submit candidate search phrases to be used during discovery.

When is Microsoft going to face a similar situation in biz-ware? I doubt MS can change its spots back to nimble quick enough, and will go the way of IBM (who is strangely still alive, barely).

The quantities of water and salt involved are not on human scales.

Not yet, but we are getting fatter.

FWIW, I'm not in favor of going to a dollar coin. Just noting that it's not as straight forward as, "Bills are cheaper to make". The difference would add to up billions... but as the next posted noted, there are other contributing cost issues that may offset or reverse that savings.

Your personal lifecycle of a coin would change. If there were no bills, you wouldn't choose to carry bills over the coins. I doubt you'd make an argument to move quarters to paper bills, but that's the same argument, especially since the dollar continues to lose value (a quarter in 1920 had the purchasing power of over $4 today; A dollar today has a purchasing power of about 6 cents in 1920).

Ironically Iceland is green, and Greenland is ice, relatively speaking. Greenland was allegedly named by a shipping marketer trying to downplay the ice.

Here's a fix: sell them to Trump just before they start really freezing over. Since Trump doesn't believe in climate change, he'll deny he's being duped, believing the current cold is just random weather that will change back.

(Some argue he knows, he just wants stuff here and now to brag while alive, the future is Eric's problem.)

...not enough people or nations will do anything to prevent this. I'm just the messenger. There are basically 3 categories of people:

1. Those who care and are willing to sacrifice money or time to do something about it.

2. Those who care, but get distracted by other concerns such that they mostly ignore it.

3. Those who believe subject matter experts are liars or exaggerators, and thus ignore the problem.

Each of these is approximately 33%. Thus 2/3 (#2 & #3) won't do much about it, and this reflects leaders who happen to be charge of a nation at any given time.

If we get lucky, we'll figure out geoengineering without accidentally breaking something else. Otherwise we are hosed, figuratively and literally.