I knew this had to be bullshit. It's NOT the organic farming but the (not happening) land clearing. GMOs do not increase yields and pesticides take out pests such as humans. This alleged 'study' was a hatchet job. Who paid for it? Eat proper food and be healthy (RoundUp in organic grains notwithstanding).

I watched the eclipse for more than an hour and a half. Here's how... I sat on my balcony and caught the reflection of the eclipse on the screen of my turned off iPad. I watched that with my polarized sunglasses. Worked great!

> gatekeepers standing between them and their customers.

Yes! Exactly correct! Now if we could just squeeze out TicketBastard too. The 'convenience fees' on my McCartney tickets amounted to more than I spent to see the other 3 Beatles individually at 3 separate shows. That's not 'convenient' at all!

If we're gonna be the data they sell, their services should be free of charge to ISP users.

> Ubuntu on Windows is not Windows running Linux by any stretch of the imagination. It's Windows running a Linux app.

Read his post again. I think that's what he's really looking for. "I can do Linux and do it still running Windows!" ;)

But it makes an even better macOS machine!

Hey! Ubuntu has made its way into Windows. Get on board! ðY

Yes! Of course. Absolutely. To both questions. Can't believe that anyone even needs to ask!

George Lucas and Star Wars stopped me from going to the movies (and I want to tell him that). I went to Phantom Menace and when I got home I was *still* infuriated about having to sit through about 50 commercials. All I could remember about the movie was the racial stereotyping. It was years before I went to another movie. I've seen about 6 films since that experience (The Prestige, Avatar, Storm Surfers, August Osage County, a Star Trek, and Snowden), all of them because someone with me wanted to go (except Avatar and SS; I wanted to see the new era of 3D and the surfing).

I NEVER even THINK about going to the movies because they charge you to ruin your afternoon or evening. If the price of admission was given to me by them, I still wouldn't go. That said, I really enjoyed Snowden and there was NO COMMERCIALS! I was stunned, but happy. Sad to say, they never turned out the house lights so my gf couldn't give me one without being seen. I really want to see Dr. Strange but will only go if I know they'll turn the lights out. ;)

> Canadean

Geez Louise, manishs! It's *CANADIAN*! Now write it out 500 times. :P

The 2 biggest threats to YOU, where you are right now, are Fukushima and GM food. Nothing else comes close.

> Circa 1976/1977

No, no. It was earlier than that. In fact, when the Batman show was on the air in the '60s, Burt Ward (who played Robin) was said to be a graduate of Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics and a MUCH speedier reader than is claimed for the system today ($700. http://www.ewrd.com/ewrd/evely... ). The claim was VERY high, like 10,000 wpm, equivalent to reading Hamlet in 1 minute.

I read avidly before I went to school and was pretty much a black hole for text until the Interwebs went public and text became a black hole for me!!! So I've been FASCINATED with the idea of such overachieving reading since I first read that Robin could do it. Sadly, it was well out of my price range (and still is!) though I dearly wanted to read that fast. Thanks for bringing the system up and letting me find out its status today (still too pricey).

Top 10 [anything].

Let's see... Xiaomi. I note they use Mi as a stand-in for English "my". If used as a stand-in for "me" and xiao meaning little, the company's name signifies... Mini-Me! That's hilarious!

"countries with which the United States has a non-espionage pact. Those nations include Britain, Australia, Canada and New Zealand."

What a joke! The U.S. doesn't have to spy on those countries. They are already *willfully* a completely open book to ANY U.S. data-gobbler. Started decades ago. Has everyone (including Angela) forgotten Echelon? Old news!