Visa and Mastercard branded debit cards have been a thing for the past 30 years.

Surprising that the deal was made with AMD when the U.S. government has an equity stake in Intel.

Really makes you think, huh.

Roundup (Diquat or Glyphosate) is not particularly useful for lawn care. It is a broad specturm herbicide, so it kills everything including the grass in you lawn. I use Glyphosate for killing weeds in wooded areas on my property (stilt grass, poison ivy and others).

Any significant tax on NEW items, will increase the price of used items.

I had a computer room in my middle school (grades 6,7 and 8) in 1978. It was only a repurposed coat closset. It had a teletype terminal for a shared school district mainframe, and as of the year I arrived in 1978 a brand new Commodore PET. Changed my life.

I think the success of Chrome had more to do with its improvements in javascript performance. Chrome changed the game on js performance and made Web 2.0 possible.

I was unfortunate enough to have to spend a significant amount of time in a hospital in New Jersey USA recently. I wasn't the patient, but someone close to me was. I was quite impressed with the technology in use. Many of the computers were on carts so that they could be moved around easily. Codes on drugs were scanned before they were administered to maintain a complete record matched with a patient. All lab tests were done this way also. During rounds the team of doctors would use one or several of the computers on carts to view all of this test data. They were also able to see X-ray images within about 15 minutes of the X-ray being taken. Similar for CT scan results which could be manipulated in 3-D if necessary. I am sure that the system had its issues and anoyances, but to an outsider it was really impressive.

I don't believe that the Saxons were the original inhabitants. The Celts were the original inhabitants (as far as we know today). The Angles and Saxons were Germanic tribes from Northern Europe that migrated/invaded the island of Britian 500 years earlier. Actually, it is considered likely that many of the Norman invaders were actually Celts who had been displaced from Britian several hundred years earlier. The source of my information is The History of English Podcast episode 29 or thereabouts as best I can remember.

There is no need for the card companies to be involved. My bank sends me an SMS message every time a charge is authorized on my credit card (it is a Visa card). Many times the phone in my pocket buzzes with a text before the clerk has time to hand me the printed receipt.

There is little hurricane risk in Atlanta.

This post from a week ago might have something to do with it. https://news.slashdot.org/stor...

I would not call it a hybrid exactly. They created a for profit company (capped profit actually) that was majority owned and controlled by a non-profit company. This seems to me like an inherently unstable arrangement, since the incentives and motives of the non-profit board were not well aligned with the minority owners of the for profit company. When the value of the for profit company soared, the instability increased and the whole thing collapsed.

One trillion in debt is peanuts. The US debt is so large that the annual interest payments are one trillion. Now that is a serious amount of debt.

He clearly drank the water.