I have absolutely no sympathy for someone being killed by a train.

That's one interesting number of "rather than" associations :-)

I remember, long long ago (back in the 80's) seeing a new version of Windows suddenly able to handle .zip archives (create, open, etc.). Curious, I did a search of all the Windows files and found a reference (buried in something 'orrible and binary and all) to "Info-ZIP", the online Usenet news letter we were using to create and distribute a public domain version of Phil Katz's ZIP and UNZIP utilities. It didn't stay there for long; later Windows updates apparently cleared that out). But I often wonder if good old Bill just swiped our source code, stuffed it into Windows somewhere, and just missed an Info-ZIP reference we had imbedded in all our binaries :-) No harm, no foul: we intended to spread the zip archive process as widely as possible. But we would've appreciated at least a credit or two :-)

No problem, Bill: we forgive you. Well, at least I do. I donno about Greg Roelofs, who took over the Info-ZIP duties when I finally burned out. https://infozip.sourceforge.ne... Ah, good old Greg. He kept a sense of humor throughout, don't ask me how.

Interesting times, and a very challenging objective: to have zip archive functionality on everything from Commodore C-64's to Cray supercomputers! We did it too! Even the encryption capability, which gave NASA such fits that we had to "import" the code from a kind donor in France :-)

Years ago I talked to a lot of people who were WW II vets (male and female, surprisingly), and used the GI bill to go to college. I was very surprised to learn how little that paid, but then again how little college cost if you just watched the living expenses.

Nothing like that now, of course. The Army helped a bit with the tuition for the Continuing Ed classes I managed to squeeze in after / between my duties at Army ROTC, UMASS. But just a bit: it didn't even pay for it all :-( No way I could've afforded to go to college full-time if I decided not to reenlist. And I often marveled at how some of the students there managed to continue their studies. UMASS was a state school, one of the old "Land Grant colleges." But it still wasn't cheap, and living in the Amherst area wasn't cheap either. Still, they managed. And I suppose I could've managed too if I'd really wanted to.

But by that time staying in was the wiser course: half way to my retirement, still getting _some_ education, enjoying my work, etc. I never did get that BS in Psychology (maybe 2 courses short, but they were high level 4th year courses that needed a decent resident school, and I just couldn't manage that). But that's okay: after retirement, I went into computer programming (self-taught), a field that didn't need any education at all! Because all the old Computer Science and Programming courses were outdated, all designed for the big old-fashioned mainframes, etc. And I could see that Microsoft and microcomputers were the way it was going. I never got rich (despite the temptation to sell the house and move to Washington State), but I learned a lot, contributed some, did some interesting stuff. And didn't have many of the problems that my compadres that retired around that time were having.

I wouldn't have used a single bit of all that Psychology education either, but that's okay. Learning to study, expanding horizons, all that sort of stuff: that's what really mattered.

Remember that place? Prime real estate (buildings, parade fields and all; never mind the duds on the artillery and mortar ranges) ... right outside Monterey and Seaside? I've seen people using the roads and houses for some TV shows; place is abandoned but not in bad shape apparently. No idea what others are actually doing with it, but it would probably be one hell of a good deal!

https://www.abc10.com/article/...

I'm not really surprised to see all the videos available about e-meters ... and the many devices and books related to them available on ebay.

and the horse they rode in on. This tempts me to start writing some fanfic :-( I certainly won't be the first. Do a search for "Star Trek fanfic" for a huge list of archives. Like https://www.fanfiction.net/tv/...

There was a British detective show I watched once (don't remember the name nor the channel). Events were occurring in a small remote village. I could understand NO ONE except the main detective character and his girlfriend. All the locals were completely unintelligible. And I'm no ignorant provincial either: I've been all over, usually have a good ear for a language even if I don't know what the words mean. But THIS lot? Ugh :-(

Agreed. If you want to take advantage of safe, fast, kind of convenient travel over what may be very long distances, prepare to pay the cost. The _whole_ cost.

Given that the LetMeSpy people got all that data by stealing it in the first place ... I somehow find little sympathy for them and their "loss." [ptui]

Karma's a real mother, isn't it?

I see carbon black selling for about 25 bucks for 500 grams. I wonder how much that would add up to, with a 10% mix? Those are artists' rates too, I suspect; might be cheaper in industrial quantities.

I like this very much.

And, despite the math errors, the new machine is accomplishing exactly what? Nada, zip, zilch. I haven't heard of a single thing related to quantum computers' capabilities that seem at all useful ... except maybe the unproven threats to encryption.

They just need more golf courses, like Palm Springs.

Until someone starts kidnapping those rich gringos! Live in Colombia? Are you nuts?