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.

"if" ?

it's been happening for fifteen years or so, since the mortgage crisis.

>Clinton paid on the debt.

labeling that as "Clinton" is a bit much.

Neither Clinton nor the Republican Congress provoked by his first two years could have done it without the other.

Republicans proposed balancing in eight (?) years in the "Contract with America." Clinton called it "reckless."

Then, after they won, Clinton proposed a year less.

They saw that year, and raised him another.

The collapse in interest rates, largely caused by the drop in present and future borrowing, knocked about another year off.

It was a *good* result from political competition, and they actually worked together. We really haven't seen anything comparable since. (there was some precedent in Reagan and Tip O'Neil working together, but that didn't reach *this* level).

Now, if most of the members of the house would realize that if they simply ostracized the Dingbat Caucus on the left, and the Arson Caucus on the right, and put aside voting purely from party discipline, they'd realizer that they have 70-80% in the middle that could, well, *govern* instead of voting against their own agenda when the other party proposes it . . .

[ok, time to wake up]

hawk

>You think SpaceX cooked up a tax on themselves?

while I doubt it in this case (but wouldn't rule it out without evidence), requests for regulation are a *classic* move by entrenched oligopolists to raise new barriers to entry.

While the tax *does* fall on the existing entries, it reduces profits, but (in these cases) not as much as further competition would.

When this came up in a graduate economics class, and I popped off with, "*please* don't throw me in the briar patch!", once the Americans (including the professor) stopped laughing, he had to explain it to the Chinese students.

Anyway, the best know case is probably taxi regulation, which in most towns, is entirely about keeping new entries out. (in the 90s, I got the first new taxi/limo license in Las Vegas in 30 years issued for a client!).

Hairdressers are another one--regulations that stop hair braiding without the full course of beautician license, for example.

but sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar . . .

hawk, attorney and economics professor

the profits on light trucks dwarf those of economy models. GM makes money on trucks, corvette, and cadillac. Ford on trucks and (maybe) mustang. the rest are close to breakeven.

gosh, is he putting the ejection seats in just to get his eyepatch?

and does this mean a convertible model, or a power passenger side sunroof? :)

hawk

location is everything.

around here, walmart is usually faster than amazon (as well as less expensive).

hawk

it also seems to be the only surviving vendor of car stereos, save for the itty-bitty places. Or at least the only one of any size that installs.

swap?

Drums were primary storage.

And you had to take into account the timing of the address you needed passing by to read or write!

I think it was a numeric field, but multifinder on Mac also had this in 1987.

(and even before that, with switcher, but that allocated memory between entire system & app bundles, which took away some of the advantage)

>People who don't understand hyperbole

It wasn't hyperbole.

Rather, he used excel to calculate, and, well . . .

bah.

pansies.

If you want retro, you should have a manual choke, an unsynchronized transmission, and manual spark advance! (I'll give a pass on the battery for the spark system, as it's a royal pain in the ***, and for starting with a crank, as it's a good way to end up accidentally dead).

hawk