It's not just the papers that print news.

A friend of mine owned and operated a paper that printed free classified ads. The classified ads were free and he made his money by selling business display ads in the paper and by selling the printed paper itself.

After 26 years of operation, he just printed his last issue and closed up shop a couple of weeks ago. He said that the whole classified ad thing has moved online and there's just not enough demand left for what he was selling.

You're going to buy a multi-hundred dollar phone just to use it as a mp3 player?

Remember, not everyone buys one of those things to carry it around. They also get used for such things as background music in homes and offices.

Reasonably priced and good quality MP3 players are surprisingly difficult to find now.

The best were Sandisk but that entire line has been discontinued.

Now you have a choice between $30 cheap junk that may or may not work for a week, and Sony players that are probably pretty good but the price will blow you away.

I try to write in a 1940's manner. Admittedly it's an affected style, but it works well with that kind of story.

style

n. 25B6; noun
        differing styles of management: MANNER, way, technique, method, methodology, approach, system, mode, form, modus operandi; informal MO.
        a non-directive style of counselling: TYPE, kind, variety, sort, genre, school, brand, pattern, model.
        wearing clothes with style: FLAIR, stylishness, elegance, grace, gracefulness, poise, polish, suaveness, sophistication, urbanity, chic, dash, panache, elan; informal class, pizzazz.
        Laura travelled in style: COMFORT, luxury, elegance, opulence, lavishness.
        modern styles: FASHION, trend, vogue, mode.
25B6; verb
        sportswear styled by Karl: DESIGN, fashion, tailor.
        men who were styled Â'knightÂ': CALL, name, title, entitle, dub, designate, term, label, tag, nickname; formal denominate.

I write hardboiled detective stories, usually involving fairy tale and mythical creatures.

http://goldendict.org/

I have 17 dictionaries and thesauruses aggregated into goldendict and that program is open pretty much 100% of the time that I'm writing. When I've almost got a word or description I want, viewing synonyms and definitions in goldendict can be truly inspiring.

So goldendict is open on my desktop pretty much 100% of the time when I'm writing, right beside my text editor. (Vim, if you're interested in that.)

If anyone else had their entire fleet of vehicles stalled out and blocking traffic for hours in the middle of the city they would be given hefty fines for obstructing traffic and told to take their cars elsewhere.

But not Waymo, who for some reason are exempt from the rules that everyone else is expected to follow.

The end of the article says that if Google wins their lawsuit then serp data will be harder to obtain.

What is serp data and what would we want it for?

The US and NATO have not been trying to beat Russia for nearly four years now.

They give Ukraine just enough to keep going but never enough to actually win because they don't want to see what would happen if Russia actually was on the way to being beaten.

This is what having nuclear weapons does for you, and why dictators like Kim will never give them up. Nuclear weapons are the ultimate guarantor of your state and/or dictatorship continuing to exist.

It's also why Ukraine was foolish to return their nuclear arsenal to Russia after the breakup of the USSR. Had they kept them, this entire situation would not exist.

A friend of mine once told me that he figures LG must stand for Low Grade. :)

So you would be prepared to fly to Tasmania and take the donkey caravan to the remote village where their office is located to deal with this matter?

No?

What about if the shoe is on the other foot... what should the chap who lives in that remote village do if he needs assistance from a physical office in New York City?

That actually happened to me.

My business (and me personally) have never had a Facebook account.

Imagine my surprise about ten years ago when I discovered a Facebook account for my business that had apparently been automatically created by them. I looked into this a bit and discovered that if enough people say they are at your business (somehow, they note their presence through their own Facebook account?) then Facebook creates an account for your business automatically.

I just ignore this thing that they created on their own. I don't have a Facebook account and my business doesn't either.

The TikTok divestiture law, officially known as the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, mandates that ByteDance must divest its ownership of TikTok by January 19, 2025, or face a nationwide ban.

The law contains no provision for extending or changing that deadline.

Trump has no authority to extend or change the deadline since that date was written directly into the law.

Note that the date is almost a year ago now....

Times New Roman is not a Microsoft invention. It was commissioned by The Times in 1931 as an update to their former font Times Roman, also known as Times.

The update from Times Roman to Times New Roman was intended to address more modern printing techniques and aesthetics.

But neither Times Roman or Times New Roman has anything to do with Microsoft; it was all done decades before Bill Gates was born.

I guess I'm not seeing the problem here.

In a "standard" investigation the police might get an eyewitness account of a crime where the suspect is described in detail.

At what point do they need a warrant?

According to your logic, a warrant would be required before they knock on the eyewitness's door and ask if he's seen anything suspicious.

It might stop him from increasing the number of victims.