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Like most Scientology celebs, he was carefully taken care of by the church. I doubt he was ever aware of how shitty they treated his staff.

Corea's touring group was all sourced from Scientologists. It allowed him and the church to manipulate his staff. A colleague of mine helped on an overseas tour and accidentally incurred a $18,000 cell phone bill (international roaming charges out the wazoo.)

They dumped her when she complained, and found another church member to fill in. An actual tour manager would have cost more money and would have had a contract to get expenses like that paid.

I'm surprised about the relative space. I once toured a Los Angeles-class sub (sorry, no photos) and I never felt I had enough headroom. Seeing all that open space in "workout area" and the "lounge area" and a lot of headroom was very strange.

Australia has done remote instruction for decades. It boggles my mind that we are not borrowing existing and proven educational technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_Air

BZflag, the tank game, is named after "Battle Zone", the original Atari tank game.

Don't forget Notch. He took his money and bought a mansion and became a DJ.

TBH, if I made a pile, my interests would change dramatically. And running a successful company would not be nearly as validating.

See, this is the main problem about buying new technology. The device is marketed as a graceful solution for all your "paper needs."

My principle need for a tablet has always been ebook consumption. The ebook readers on Linux I've seen all look like hot garbage. Sure, Calibre allows you to manage massive ebook collections. Now let me have a book experience that doesn't look like 1999.

Does the ReMarkable have an ePub reader? My existing ebook collection is mostly DRM-free ePubs.

I've just deleted every Adobe app from my phone and tablet.

I'm not going to trust this corporation.

Not recent, but very good: "Cowboy Bebop." It's good anime SciFi that works on many levels.

I thought Provenance was a lot weaker than the rest of the Ancillary series. It was still good though.

The 2018 Hugo novel field was REALLY good. There wasn't a klunker in the group. My favorite was Kim Stanley Robinson's "New York 2140" but it was a very hard call.

I got a sublet for a fantastic price from a AirBnber who wanted to get out of a zero-income property.

40% off the market rent. Oh, and because he didn't actually live there, he left everything. Dishes, pots, a bed.

"We didn't get our cut" should only apply if they add value.

What value does the App Store provide Hey?

No one has ever hired me based on my college grades. The first job I had checked to see I graduated from college. Every other job has been based on experience and my record of performance.

From 2009:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/03/frenc...

My favorite quote:

"Moving from XP to Ubuntu, however, proved very easy. The two biggest differences are the icons and the games. Games are not our priority." -- Lt. Col. Guimard

Trad clarinet isn't terribly difficult compared to post-bebop jazz. Pee Wee Russell and Benny Goodman were probably the best at it in the 60s. I don't think I have any post-1930s Mezzrow recordings to make an assessment.

Mezz Mezzrow was a Jewish C-list Jazz clarinetist from Chicago that was active during the depression.

He was also a successful marijuana dealer to the Jazz community. He married a black woman, moved to Harlem, and called himself a "voluntary Negro." When he was arrested at the Worlds Fair (60 marijuana cigarettes with intent to distribute) he convinced the cops he was black and thus was housed with black prisoners.

He was good friends with Louis Armstrong and has such a cult status among Jazz fans that there's a NYC Jazz Club named in his honor.

As Dylan wrote "To live outside the law, you must be honest." Especially so when conformity was life-threatening.

It _started_ even earlier. In 1948, Strom Thurmond ran for President as a Dixiecrat (Democrat for Racial Segregation), which is one reason why Truman v. Dewey was so close.

In 1952, Robert Taft wanted to run for President using the "southern strategy" to woo disaffected Democratic voters, but Eisenhower decided to run, and that put an end to that strategy until Nixon was more successful in 1968.

Basically, the south became squishy on Democratic Party once northern Democratic Mayors (and FDR) realized that African-Americans were a strong labor voice and a powerful voting block. "The Party of Lincoln" (GOP) had been ignoring African-Americans since TR was in the White House.

There used to be steam-powered and battery-powered cars in the early 20th Century. There was an Edison-Westinghouse war in electricity distribution.

Typically, a consensus is reached based on technical and economic limitations.

For example, nuclear-powered aircraft? You need shielding to protect the human crew. You also need a reactor that can survive a crash. That's why they use nuclear fuel for unmanned probes. There are no humans to protect, and it's a one-way trip.

Goodreads. Duh.

I WANT TO GO TO THERE

One alternate way to do a book club:

1. Meet every 3 to 6 months.

2. Everyone bring books to swap.

3. Everyone bring a list of books they really loved.

4. Each person takes turn talking about the books they loved while sitting around a dining room table with snacks and drinks.

5. It's fun if other people have read the same books. It's even more fun if they disagree.

6. Last time I did this I added 10 books to my "To Read Pile" and traded books with friends.

7. Everyone wanted to do it again.

I stopped using Grubhub because the majority of my purchases were to the same neighborhood Pizza joint. I just phone it in and literally cut out the middle-man. It takes two extra minutes.

The Ottomans controlled Greece during that time. I don't think it was the Greeks that didn't give a damn.

Yes. And since the Greeks still have many of the acropolis marbles in their museum, it's fatuous to assume that they couldn't protect their own heritage.

Half of the marbles from the Parthenon survive in the Acropolis Museum. In other words, the Greeks know what they're doing. The Elgin Marbles were taken when the country was owned by the Ottoman Empire.

I really wish you would do some research before spouting off with ill-informed opinions. The Nazis and Italians conquered Greece during WW2, they didn't take Acropolis marbles.

Considering they were looted from the Parthenon in Athens, which is still standing, I would say "yes."

I always used to say "On that side of the desk" and point to the interviewer.

For example, the word "balls" have many uses that should not be censored, yet it is always expurgated.

Y'all just need to load up a fresh Realms server in Minecraft. The tweens in my house figured this out weeks ago.