the contingency fee sounds unlikely.

Last I checked, they are only legal *at all* in the US, and a crime in all other Common Law jurisdictions.

And even in the US, they are illegal in divorces, save in California.

hawk, esq.

Gingrich served four years as speaker, to Clinton's eight.

it's 94-96, the end of Clinton's terms, and the beginning of Gingrich, when they were competing that produced the deals that actually balanced it. It did *not* happen while Clinton had Democratic majorities, nor did it happen later with Republican majorities under Bush.

On the bright side, we have a whole new round of entertainment coming, with the ongoing stream of, "we're as good as apple now" . . . "well, *this* time we are" . . . "no, we mean it this time" . . . "ok, we've said it a few times now, but *this* time" . . . a veritable treasure trove of nostalgia to be!

no, that meant it stayed in the unit.

the upper disk pack could be removed, so you could swap in a different pack of platters. I believe that the heads remained in the base unit, rather than being part of the pack.

The first hard disk I met for a microcomputer was a 5meg drive for the apple ][.

It presented itself to the computer as 35 or so 143k floppies on the same controller card, so it could use the regular DOS at the time. (there might have been a patch, but I don't think so).

And, iirc, the drive was an 8" drive.

That was 1981; the following year, I had a 10meg drive assigned to me for development on an Osborne. It appeared as a single CP/M drive!

[but you could specify about 14 "users" on CP/M, and only see those--but that didn't stop you from overwriting files you couldn't see if you used the same name!]

>It looks like the cars have some steerability

some?

*full*

that's a restraining rail, not a track. It stops you from leading the road.

It does have the practical effect of forcing the car to go the right general direction if you *don't* steer, but in normal operation, you're not even touching it.

yeah, it couldn't *possibly* be the weight difference . . . :)

>given that they run on a track.

but they're *not* on a track, the way some other rides are.

There is a road, and a limiter for how far the car can go. The car isn't usually in contact with the limiter.

To use it as an electric source would require some kind of flexible arm, which would make it a much more complicated system.

Note, though, the two year limit to military appropriations.

Then again, this doesn't apply to *naval* expenditures.

[the Founding Fathers viewed a standing army as a threat, but not a standing navy].

The *existence* of domestic capacity can reasonably be seen as necessary to either force (and can also be reasonably argued].

30 or 40 years ago, people were asked to bring in any of the (supposedly) endangered desert tortoises, they found, for preservation.

In one of those things that you just can't make up, so many were brought in that they euthanized many of them!

>How to you tag bees?

verrry carefully!

I was surprised, after tolerating an underground hive of honeybees for years, to find that they don't pollinate tomatoes. [now they're gone; a punk kid ran through several yards, and the county paid to kill the hive so that the police could look for the gun, having narrowed where he dropped the murder weapon to three yards. {it was such a nice neighborhood when I moved in 30 someodd years ago . . .}{they don't even test here; they presume africanization}]

bumblebees, however, do. [and apparently, it's more about shaking the plant than transfer, knocking the pollen loose. Tomatoes self pollinate, but wind & insects can improve yield]

>I don't know (literally, I don't - totally welcome to links to some
>details) if that's the same for the native species.

Inquiring grizzlies want to know!

but that will still take *significantly* more time and effort!

A drill to go through a crossbeam, if needed, and a knife. All in all, a couple of minutes (not counting attic crawling).

And won't drilling the concrete mean dealing with its dust and need air filtering?

>Plumbing and electrical works the same as in a wood frame
>structure - you have places where wires and pipes pass through.

yeah, but . . .

my house was built in the sixties, wood frame. Notions of "internet", "cable to bedrooms", and the like, just weren't around.

I have gone into the attic and can simply drilled small holes to drop cables down where I want them for *today*, and made cutouts in the interior drywall to accommodate them.