The Own vs Rent debate rears its head- At current Used/Thrift rates of 20 cents - $1 USD, you could own 120-500+ CD's PER YEAR One dollar bins are common at monthly music/record shows around the US Midwest Going rates at yard sales are often 25-50 cents for even classic rock/jazz/classical Even worst case at $5/CD if bought Used/open/clearance on Amazon/ebay with shipping, that's 20+ a year to OWN That you OWN permanently. Can share, resell, rip and keep for backup

Stick with Sceptre - they still offer current tech dumb 4K TV's up to at least 75" https://www.walmart.com/browse...

re: "First Contact is (tentatively) scheduled for 2030. By 2050 it will be a known fact that man is not alone in the universe, and that FTL is indeed possible." Source(s)? Consensus estimate? MUFON/contact reports?

Audeze Mobius been doing head track for couple years. Bought them on crowd funding deal at launch https://www.audeze.com/product... Very nice sound, feature set and build quality. Brand well regarded among audiophiles

Apologies again- I see the Summary mentioned his Sulu stint...

Apologies for Subject Typos ;)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2... https://www.startrekcontinues.... The Real Final Season of TOS. RIP Grant, a true Geek's Geek and great real Engineer.

How do you think outside observers (Beyond Earth) would interpret this? The 2053 nuclear tests and explosions that took place between 1945 and 1998 are plotted visually and audibly on a world map. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Evaluate the efficacy of the eyewitness verbatim accounts Below. YOU are the juror. https://www.law.cornell.edu/us... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Witness testimony is a common form of evidence in law, and law has mechanisms to test witness evidence for reliability or credibility. Legal processes for the taking and assessment of evidence are formalized. Some witness testimony may be described as anecdotal evidence, such as individual stories of harassment as part of a class action lawsuit. However, witness testimony can be tested and assessed for reliability. Examples of approaches to testing and assessment include the use of questioning to identify possible gaps or inconsistencies, evidence of corroborating witnesses, documents, video and forensic evidence. Where a court lacks suitable means to test and assess testimony of a particular witness, such as the absence of forms of corroboration or substantiation, it may afford that testimony limited or no "weight" when making a decision on the facts. Evaluating the credibility of eye-witness testimony falls on all individual jurors when such evidence is offered as testimony in a trial in the United States Some cases everyone should be aware of: https://theportalist.com/7-mys... 1492- Columbus first voyage sightings recorded in ship logs (Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocS... http://www.historydisclosure.c... 1561 Nuremberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... 1600's Puritan reports https://www.history.com/news/a... 1700's http://www.thinkaboutitdocs.co... http://uforesearchnetwork.prob... 1939-1945 WW2 Foo Fighters https://www.youtube.com/watch?... 1947 Roswell- UFO Files episode with Stanton Friedman interviews https://www.youtube.com/watch?... http://www.stantonfriedman.com... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... 1947 Ken Arnold sightings (pilot in flight- this case coined the term "flying saucers") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... 1947 Maury Island From Think Anomalous TY channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?... 1952 Washington DC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... President Truman on UFO's http://www.presidentialufo.com... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... 1953 Kelly Johnson (SR71 and U2 designer & engineer from Lockheed Skunkworks) http://www.openminds.tv/multip... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... 1954 Eisenhower https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... 1961 Betty & Barney Hill case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... 1975 TV Movie with James Earl Jones (Darth Vader voice) on the Hill case https://www.youtube.com/watch?... 1964 Police Officer Zamora incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... 1968 Vietnam War officer reports https://www.huffingtonpost.com... 1969 Jimmy Carter (degreed engineer) sighting and report https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... 1976 Tehran Iranian Air Force pilot encounter https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... 1980 Rendlesham https://www.youtube.com/watch?... 1986 Japan Airlines over Alaska https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... 1989 Obama's personal pilot case https://www.youtube.com/watch?... 1989 Voronezh Russia https://www.youtube.com/watch?... 1996 Varginha Brazil https://www.youtube.com/watch?... 1997 Phoenix, AZ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... 10's of thousands of Phoenix residents described seeing the "mile wide" V-shaped ship, many describing the undersurface as it silently glided over their home. 2006 Chicago O'Hare airport case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... http://www.ufocasebook.com/bes... https://www.history.com/news/h... http://www.travelchannel.com/s... Nuclear Missile site shutdowns (also reported by UK and Russian officers/generals at their nation's sites and navy ships/subs) https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/e... https://gizmodo.com/apollo-ast... Triangle ship sightings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... http://dbarkertv.com/Allen_Par... (viewed in detail by aircraft mechanic) Phone interview http://dbarkertv.com/Allen_Par... http://www.ufostalker.com/sear... The best, most serious/professional TV series ever on the subject was UFO Files, IMO- many episodes on Youtube http://www.imdb.com/title/tt04... Also the more recent [B]Mufon [/B]series [B]Hangar 1[/B] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3... https://www.history.com/shows/... https://www.youtube.com/playli... Peter Jennings Hosted documentary Seeing is Believing https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Out of the Blue - top UFO Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Norwegian UFO documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?... In addition to eyewitness accounts, many events have recorded radar data, which may be considered evidence, as the craft performance (speed/agility/accelerations) and/or size are recorded. 2007 Alderney Pilots + Radar sighting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Dec 2017 Navy Pilot report https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1... 10 pilot cases https://listverse.com/2015/12/... Astronaut comments since the 1950's http://www.syti.net/UFOSightin... Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?... I prefer verbatim reports with hand drawings, coupled with some background info/credentails of the reporter to judge veracity, such as pilots (commercial, military and amateur), military officers, police and accredited PhD/MD researchers & engineers. Recent interview with a retired cop/detective/MP, great summary of the current state of affairs https://www.youtube.com/watch?... He describes an excellent case from 2014, Vancouver WA, starts around 26:30, example of the best kind of report From YT channel UFOHub [B][U]Databases[/U][/B], Continually updated, contributed daily Mufon last 20 reports- https://mufoncms.com/last_20_r... 100's of people "Coming out of the closet" every month reporting incidents from their childhood in the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and later May search by many criteria- location, date range, ship type, etc https://www.mufon.com/track-uf... Live UFO map, may enter/search MUFON case numbers, better user interface http://ufostalker.com/ Nice collection/database of cases, pictures, videos and witness accounts: https://www.ufocasebook.com/ https://www.ufocasebook.com/al... [B]Fringe/Alternative/"New Age" knowledge:[/B] http://montalk.net/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.youtube.com/channe... https://www.bibliotecapleyades... https://www.exopolitics.org/ http://galactic.to/TOREALF/ http://galactic.to/TOREALF/GIN... Lacerta https://www.bibliotecapleyades... Ummo http://www.ummo-sciences.org/e... [B][U]Bottom Line:[/U][/B] A poor picture/video would be dismissed. A clear picture/video with detail will be claimed a hoax - a model or photoshopped/CGI. Good physical evidence would be confiscated by military/governments. In the end, everyone must make their own judgement and form their own conclusions. At minimum, the centuries of anecdotal reports constitutes what the CIA/KGB would consider "raw intel" (collected information) I do not plan to argue or respond re: the merits of any particular case. YOU are the juror. https://www.law.cornell.edu/us... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... Evaluate the efficacy of the eyewitness verbatim accounts above. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Witness testimony is a common form of evidence in law, and law has mechanisms to test witness evidence for reliability or credibility. Legal processes for the taking and assessment of evidence are formalized. Some witness testimony may be described as anecdotal evidence, such as individual stories of harassment as part of a class action lawsuit. However, witness testimony can be tested and assessed for reliability. Examples of approaches to testing and assessment include the use of questioning to identify possible gaps or inconsistencies, evidence of corroborating witnesses, documents, video and forensic evidence. Where a court lacks suitable means to test and assess testimony of a particular witness, such as the absence of forms of corroboration or substantiation, it may afford that testimony limited or no "weight" when making a decision on the facts. Evaluating the credibility of eye-witness testimony falls on all individual jurors when such evidence is offered as testimony in a trial in the United States

When will Ubuntu for ARM be preinstalled on consumer ARM netbooks/smartbooks/ultrabooks like the Chromebook: https://plus.google.com/109993695638569781190/posts/b2fazijJppZ What market(s)? We don't want to rely on hacks and technical installs like https://plus.google.com/109993695638569781190/posts/b2fazijJppZ forever ;)

Given Google's internal use of Ubuntu, and the Linux underpinnings of Android and ChromeOS, what will Canonical do to leverage that relationship re: improving ChromeOS/Android/Ubuntu integration? Any plans to merge ChromeOS and an Ubuntu variant to make "ChromeBuntu" suitable for pre-installs on consumer PC's at retail?

Is there anything Canonical can do to increase the ease and likelihood of a normal consumer getting a refund on unwanted Windows licenses tied to notebooks, netbooks and desktop PC's when the buyer just wants to install Ubuntu/Linux? Could Canonical's relationship with Google be leveraged to approach the problem legislatively, i.e. anti-competitive or anti-consumer related laws that could improve the consumer's position in the general purpose PC OS choice?

The single biggest impediment to Linux adoption in the mass market is the lack of choices of netbooks, notebooks and desktop PC's with Ubuntu or any Linux distro preinstalled, at least in the United States. What will Canonical do to increase and develop OEM relationships to drive the option of Ubuntu peinstalls in the US market? Other markets?

The data appears to indicate Linux desktop usage is higher than indicated by stats like netmarketshare.com http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=9&qpcustomb=0 as the Humble Bundle data appears to show that Linux users are closer to Mac users in numbers http://support.humblebundle.com/customer/portal/articles/281031-prior-bundle-statistics How can Canonical and Linux desktop users in general do better with demonstrating their OS preference and real world usage to vendors?

It is trivially easy and fast to make your own open, standard .pdf eBook. It takes only 1 min per 20 pages (or less) to scan a book open face on a scanner. Or use a 8MP+ digital camera on a tripod shooting a well lit open face book, turning the pages as fast as the camera is ready for the next shot. Use gscan2pdf to do minimal post processing (rotate, crop batch operations) then Save As .pdf. http://sourceforge.net/projects/gscan2pdf/ For most books, this means only 20-30 minutes total, much less than people believe. For most people earning less than $50/hr, the effort is minimal, assuming your PC is doing other things at the same time.