And how is this any more compelled speech than having to show proof of your age to buy tobacco or alcohol? In all cases you have a choice: prove your age to the seller's statisfaction or don't buy.

It sounds to me like the idea behind that law is to make it possible for parents to control what their children are able to use on the Internet while keeping enforcement for the most part up to the parents. That way, if the parents really want to prevent their children from seeing any adult content (Good luck with that!) they can keep their credit cards and other ID away from them and let them register at those sites if they have a more relaxed attitude about it.

To give you an idea where I'm coming from, I went through puberty and adolescence in the '60s well before there was a WWW that random people had access to. Dad had a subscription to Playboy, and didn't care if I read it. I didn't realize until later that the reason that all of the adult pictures had the model's pubic region concealed was to avoid censorship issues with some of the more restrictive jurisdictions.

I do. Of course, I've been retired for almost fifteen years and don't have to use IMAP for work or because it's the only protocol offered. IMAP can be great if you need to have all of your email available on multiple boxes in various locations but at this point I've got no use for that.

I wonder if Putin has decided yet which kindergarten or hospital he's planning to bomb in "retaliation"?

I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that he simply drew a location out of a hat and bombed it.

I can well remember the LA County Health Dept. offering to give any resident who had standing water on their property a breeding stock of some species of small fish (I don't remember them ever specifying which species.) that preys on mosquito larvae to keep them under control. Does anybody know if health departments are still doing that?

Try saying that. /s

I take it, then, that you've never run across Destination Gobi, an early 50s movie about a Navy weather station in Inner Mongolia early in the Pacific War. It's based (loosely) on a true story, and may have been the inspiration for McHale's Navy. I don't know if it's available any more, but it was quite popular in the 50s when many TV stations used old movies to fill out their schedules.

I'll add the Arctic Convoys to that, with most of their actions taking place inside the Arctic Circle including several actions big enough to be named and at least one German battleship, the Scharnhorst, being sunk by the Duke of York. Also, some of the ports in the White Sea were near enough to Occupied Norway that the Germans were able to bomb them with short range bombers.

And as far as South America goes, the U-Boats were ordered to "punish" Brazil for cooperating with the USN, and did such a good job that Brazil declared War on Germany.

No. The main character's name is Ralph Kramden and he's a bus driver in New York.

Nacelle Company posted this four months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

To get proper context, you need to know that this was from the '50s TV show The Honeymooners and was Ralph Kramden's (Jackie Gleason) regular reply to his wife's (Audrey Meadows) put downs or sarcastic remarks. And, the line always started with "One of these days, Alice, one of these days..." Yes, he'd generally make a fist as he said it, but he never threw a punch. Many of the episodes revolved around his get rich quick schemes, and he once told Alice that they were all to give her the better life that she deserved.

Red Hat is still pretty independent. Call them Big Purple Hat on a forum or Reddit and you'll get Red Hat engineers bristling.

How about if I call them DeadRat? Is that OK?

Lots of people still use it. :/