Possibly because they were working for a large landowner whom provided certain services in exchange for their work. If you want to subsistence farm, you need to work a LOT. Most Amish farmers, for example, work 10-14 hour days year-round.

I hadn't heard of Grawn, but I do know Chum's Corner and, right next door, Interlochen, one of the best performing arts schools in the midwest.

For the vast majority of human history, the only options were to grow food or starve to death. If you have to work to survive now, what would the other option be? Other people work to provide you with food, clothes, internet, energy, and entertainment and you don't have to do anything?

You are absolutely free to go back to subsistence farming if you want. It's backbreaking awful work and nobody wants to do it, but you'll own everything you make (except for what you have to give up for property taxes of course)

If the crash happened in some other county the joke would be funny, but this happened in Grand Traverse. Check out the median home price there. Mission Point is home to a few wineries, and Boeing execs from Chicago have their summer homes there. A few years ago Traverse City built a new pier that can accommodate the larger yachts, as that was apparently a problem.

Indeed. I built a Raspberry Pi Pico based controller for some flashing LEDs on my drone. It has red and blue LEDs and I wanted them to flash with the cycle of three short flashes then a pause; alternately the red LEDs then the blue LEDS. Took barely a minute to code that in python and dump it onto the board. In such cases it doesn't matter that the language is interpreted because the task is not demanding of the hardware.

The "Police Drone" still flies to this day! :-)

Assuming other countries haven't already deployed space weapons. We know Russia has military jamming satellites in very high orbit. I've always assumed that there have been some kind of satellite in orbit that can be weaponized, even if it's a regular military communications satellite that just happens to have some extra maneuvering fuel and a couple of extra thrusters that can be rammed into other satellites.

How interesting it would be to do a drive-around with an open wifi hotspot in the car -- just to see how many LG TV sets try to connect and find out what data they send.

Just saying, for a friend :)

Yes... we could destroy Putin's nuclear torpedo before it even made it to the UK coast! :-P

California tried that.. until 1989 when they noticed why this was not such a good idea.

From what I've heard, they scan for open WiFi networks and auto-connect to upload data. They don't tell you that they are doing this.

My son went through high school having been assigned a total of three whole-book reading assignments. Most of his reading assignments were newspaper articles, short stories, or single chapters of books. When I went to high school, I was expected to read at least two books every summer, then several more per English class.

It's a choice made by teachers. My younger daughter had one teacher had her class read four books throughout the year. It was middle school, so they were shorter young adult books, but she had read more than my son did throughout all of high school in one class.

Audacity has been on a very long journey to modernize itself. It wouldn't shock me to learn that they shipped it with functions that are being most widely used or easiest to carry over just to get over the hurdle of getting a major release out the door. It's a beloved tool; I know a bunch of people for whom it's a production linchpin, and I think the developers working on are aware of the number of edge cases where only some tiny fraction of their users make use of a feature. Those people can stay on version 3 for now.

IIRC, a lot of what needed to happen with Audacity was an overall change in user interfaces, which required a lot of deep thought about how people interact with the application. It may be that some of the unhandled features just don't align with the current user experience.

Best I've ever used is the old Syntrillium CoolEditPro, before Adobe screwed it up in the later versions of Audition.

Second best is Live. It's fairly intuitive for doing basic things. It gets iffy when doing more complicated track layouts, but all DAWs do.

It's competition. Keeps everyone on their toes. So now you have Boeing, SpaceX and Blue Origin all competing for contracts. Having one vendor is how you get Boeing's Starliner budget blowing up by 50% and nine years overdue. Why execute when the government will just keep paying you money as there's nowhere else to go? Keep in mind, most of the companies that built the old space capsules, and the space shuttle, are all part of Boeing now.

Then why support said hardware longer than any other cell phone manufacturer? They could have been just like Motorola or Samsung or Blackberry and provided two years of software updates then abandoned it. Seven years later my 11 Pro is on the latest version of iOS. Crap my 5S got an out-of-band security update a year after they dropped official support for it entirely. That's ten years after it was released, and seven years after they stopped selling it. Here's another fun anecdote. I bought a dirt-old $50 Intel iMac with a firewire port to play with some equally old firewire audio gear. Plugged in a network cable, started up holding CMD-OPT-R, and it happily connected to Apple's server, downloaded and installed the latest version of MacOS X for itself. This thing is old enough to vote and Apple still will install an OS on it.