This depends considerably on the paper. Acidic paper, widely used because it's cheap, oxidizes in a few decades and degrades as you have seen. Because of this, acid-free paper has become increasingly popular. Your newer books are in fact likely to last much better than the ones dating from the 20th century.
Indeed, most of the tickets aren't so much that a middle class type can't afford the occasional one. One doesnt need to be a billionaire to not care.
The heavy lifting is you connecting 'if paid' to the statement you quoted.
Picture a Musk, Gates, or Bezos type. They have virtually unlimited ability to speed or run red lights for what is to them a trivial sum.
It's not difficult - Iran must be balkanized if Israel is going to conquer the Middle East and expand its proper borders to "those promised by God". They will demand a regional empire beyond their borders as a "buffer zone".
The Eschatological Christian Zionists want them tp destroy the Al Aqsa Mosque and build the Third Temple so Jesus can come back. Much of the Senior Brass at DoD (or Department of War Crimes) believes in this.
Is it all absurd and crazy? Doesn't matter, it's what motivates the people with nukes.
That and Trump being blackmailed with Epstein Tapes. The news says it's specifically an audio tape of a phone call between those two.
This is what the people who want peace in the world are up against. We can't counter what we deny.
> when your investigative toolkit is journalism
Exactly. The English Majors went where other investigators have previously gone and ruled out.
The stack of blockchain, Merkle Trees, halvings, etc. show a level of insight a quantum above Hashcash.
There's noting wrong with being "quite good" but "engineering genius" is something different.
Besides, Satoshi would never have stood for not funding mining with txn fees. The BTC chain is in danger of being unmineable very soon.
I bought some paper books from Amazon in 1998 and they still work like the day I bough them.
Excellent support after 28 years.
Also, would anyone like to buy a bridge?
Nope. Trump will just blow it up.
It’s a success because he says so and then Fox repeats it. Cult followers hear the gospel and it’s fact.
They love the taste of Kool-Aid in the morning
So let me get this straight (pun intended) -- we spent billions of dollars bombing Iran. They still are able to block the Strait and are now charging a tax that didn't exist before, to pay to repair things we bombed. Trump says there's "Complete and Total regime change," but the leader of Iran is still named the Ayatollah Khamenei. I'm not sure how any measure shows the US campaign was a success. On the contrary, it is likely a pyrrhic Victory that will embolden Iran, strengthen their Islamist regime and defiance, and fracture US alliances like NATO. What exactly was accomplished here? The end result seems like we're now giving Iran money and allowing them to dominate the Strait officially.
Don't forget that Iran still has their stockpile of uranium and enriched uranium, and some unknown quantity of drones and ballistic missiles (and can build more). And Trump suspended sanctions on Iranian (and Russian) oil sales, to soften U.S. fuel prices. I get the feeling that, despite all his talk, Trump doesn't really understand the word, "winning". But, hey, the U.S. blew up a *bunch* of stuff and used/wasted a large portion of our super expensive Tomahawk missiles and other ordinances, burned through a ton of fuel and lost pretty expensive F-15, A-10 and E-3 AWACS planes and a couple of other aircraft in the rescue for the downed F-15 pilot - not to mention got 3 U.S. service people killed and hundreds wounded, as well as kill thousands of Iranians.
Asked on Monday whether he would accept a deal that would allow Iran to take fees from ships to traverse the strait, the US president said: “What about us charging tolls? I’d rather do that than let them have them. Why shouldn’t we? We’re the winner. We won.”
and with echoes of the Mexico border wall:
The White House said last week that Trump is considering asking Arab countries to pay for Washington’s expenses in its war on Iran.
So... Trump muses about the U.S. imposing passage fees/tolls on a foreign body of water, totally unconnected to the U.S., and Arab countries reimbursing the U.S. for a war he started on a whim (apparently talked into it by Benjamin Netanyahu, who's had a 47-year hard-on for this). Also, continues to misunderstand "winning". Classic Trump.
So sorry to disappoint you, but it appears that he is not only profoundly and immeasurably stupid, but also his cowardice matches his stupidity.
I didn't see the OP, so you'll have to be more specific with this Administration.
Hmm. I wonder if this is a chance to offload my NFTs.
Maybe they'll take these?
When you have a product made from leftover rejected parts the supply is guaranteed to be limited.
So you hype it as "for a limited time" and people go hog wild with FOMO.
coming soon: "The Neo is Back."
Yeah, "LLM's are gods" and "statistical ML networks are good at finding defective code patterns" are extremely different claims.
The people who are True Believers on both extremes look pretty silly.
I appreciate really good closed captioning while having no use for chatbots. Both ends get to call me a heretic!
"I have not the slightest confidence in 'spiritual manifestations.'" -- Robert G. Ingersoll
