Give me information. Not opinion, not yellow press nonsense, not articles that were copy/pasted from some online news source or some news agency, ...

I'd be okay with opinions as long as the bias was clearly stated and the facts were presented to support it.

Do an exclusive interview with an interesting person, a politician with a vision (who doesn't just repeat whatever bull his party wants to spew), report about stuff that matters, send a reporter there and ask the people around for their view.

And focus on the LOCAL material. What are the LOCAL politicians doing? What LOCAL impacts will there be? And it is fine to have a bias in that reporting. As long as it is a bias and not partisanship.

And do NOT turn it into a fake "fight" between different reporters. I do not care about reporter-A's opinion of reporter-B's opinion of politician-C's latest statement. I don't care for "reporters" repeating talking-points.

Ignore the "official" bull and dig deeper.

And always "follow the money". Follow the family connections.

... although we've read most of the national and international news online 1 or 2 (or sometimes even 3) days before, there are stories in Sonoma County (and parts north) that simply don't show up anywhere else.

That is what is killing the newspaper business (IMO). Anyone can get the AP stories instantly now. If something happens in Washington D.C. there will be dozens of identical reports about it.

If something happens in your town you might catch it on a local news show. Unless they're also busy covering what just happened in D.C.

A local paper can give you the local news and tell you what the local impact of whatever it was that just happened in D.C. will be.

But in order to do that, the local paper has to hire local reporters who have more knowledge/expertise than the average person. And it is cheaper to skip that and just buy the stories from the AP. And then fail because no one wants to pay for a paper when you've already read the content on your PC, iPad and phone.

IIRC it was called a "partnership", IBM wanted a piece of the Microsoft's O/S pie, MS told them it was down a dark alley. I recall seeing an early version at a trade show running four video files simultaneously, which believe it or not was an impressive stunt for a desktop back then. From what I've heard OS2 was reincarnated for use in ATM networks.

If it were centrifugal force the universe would have have a center of mass around which it rotates, as far as anyone can tell, it doesn't. Merry-go-rounds are 4 dimensional objects, 3 of space and one of time. A singularity has only one spacial dimension, "distance" does not make sense in one dimension which means motion (eg: spinning) is impossible, since motion is impossible time cannot exist. Also your speculation seems to assume space has always existed and the lumpy bits of the universe expanded into it. Also if it was CF we would not see the even expansion we do, the rate of expansion would be biased wrt the center of gravity..

The most interesting idea I've heard for a while comes from Roger Penrose, who points out that the ultimate fate of the universe has many similarities with a singularity. The expansion rate means that eventually even the radiation left over from the heat death of the universe will be stretched flat, the universe becomes dimensionless, time and motion no longer make any sense.

It worked really well up until the point corruption went wild, they had a massive real estate bubble, followed by one going on two lost decades where they've propped up their economy with massive public works projects and piles of debt. Of course lately they are printing money at a furious place to try to break the deflationary spiral they've been in for like 20 years.

They also have a demographic time bomb because young people have stopped having jobs, hope or babies so they can't support their rapidly exploding senior population.

Uh, I thought they all have, with the possible exception of Russia and China and a few smaller ones like Cuba, Venezuala and Ecuador?

BSD is the core of OSX and it's even older.

So they're just like little adults.

Remember folks its all about Bread and Circuses. Seriously I wonder why we bother to pretend that society still exists.

We are getting to a tipping point in the privacy vs security discussion. Insecurity is winning.

Actually, I missed that one somehow. And I'm a big fan of turn based strategy. And it's officially supported on Linux. Thanks for the recommendation!

Brains are computational devices that operate on signals from the environment. I don't understand why the emmission of signals from myself that will interact with brains in a manner determined by the laws of physics, and hopefully produce a change in behavior, requires any sort of free will at all.

You might as well claim that programmers believe that computers have free will, because they spend time using language to change the behavior of computers. The only difference in this case is that the brain computer is sloppier, and harder to program.

I don't want to make it easier for you to target me with ads.

I will find you through Google.

Huh?

Exactly. Blizzard breaking free from Activision would be much more welcome news than Activision breaking free from Vivendi.

The tens of thousands of uninsured who die in the US are just as surely murdered.