But I miss Lingua Franca magazine. It served the purpose of cross-discipline communication informally.

in some mag about 25 years ago. "Hit this key or that key." Algorithm just will have significant predictive success because people just don't do random.

Thanks.Wisconsin. Do your Governor stop to think that a fraction of travelers might actually stop off in Wisconsin on the way to Chicago?

Used it to amuse myself on a weekend evening each of the last two summers when storms blew out the electricity.

The problem would be finding a BBS.

Worse ratio than I have but I'd take it. QWest currently only runs 1.5 mbs to my place. Today it's 600k for the FOURTH time in the two years we've lived here. Last time the tech worked on their box he tacked on an "indoor" charge that I had to have removed -- presumably because he was justifying the over an hour he spent figuring it out.

So we can continue to pollution the atmosphere for more decades like business-as-usual is sustainable?

Or does it people itself with a culture that wallows in it?

People talk about books vs. movies. I thought some of the AvP books were great action adventure and I had several minutes of a script in my mind that would have been kick-ass. I had such high hopes, and we received such a total piece of crap. Really? Couldn't they have slipped the book publisher and author a few bucks to use that universe? Apparently not, and apparently they had their own vision, and that was probably the problem. Less competent people follow the leader.

But there is potential.

"[O]xygen drops when bacteria respire methane"

What could go wrong?

I don't see Clippy. GnuGo is way more than adequate as a backend for my abilities.

this is why victims are _not_ the best experts on how to deal with a social problem. I believe I've heard spokespersons for MADD say that _anything_ should be done that would reduce drunk driving. Really? _Anything_?

It's much like media discussion of capital punishment. They put the parents of the person murdered in front of a camera to say, "Sure, fry the bastard." Well, duh. But there are _other_ reasons why capital punishment is a bad idea for a society.
 

Same old story. You don't expose the idiocies of power and expect a jolly response for your helpfulness.