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Good point, and I didn't know that about NKJV. Very interesting.

Or if said static data is a huge data set and unwieldy to maintain.

Or if that data is copyrighted, but allows free usage of small selections.

(not many people use NIV versions)

[citation needed]

NIV is always on the list of most popular bible versions, and is in heavy usage. KJV is by far the most popular, but NIV is still very popular.

NIV is a very popular version, and is copyrighted, as is NASB, ESV, etc.

I disagree. By not playing, you're protecting yourself from future retribution, deserved or (more commonly) not. And not being on social media - or more precisely, not posting on social media - doesn't mean you're out of touch or lacking in influence. Not by a long shot.

impossible to use for anything meaningful

I would posit that our definition of 'meaningful' has dramatically changed since the C64 days. Nowadays, if you aren't doing it online or collaborating with someone, it's not considered 'meaningful.' Back in 1983, this was not the case.

I think a better comparison would be to do the things a C64 was good at on a modern computer with modern workflows, and see which is easier/faster/more satisfying. I'm talking word processing, gaming, printing, etc.

I bet the C64 wins.

(Side note: you can get that C64 online and onto IRC or a telnet-enabled BBS; there are plenty of products to do that)

or at least not released.

Yep. I throw 30-40 year old lenses on my 10 year old E-PL1 and go out and just have fun with photography. I never worry about taking it out on the beach, or on a boat, or any other place that cameras die. If it dies...I just pick up another one cheaply and continue having fun, and because I'm not as concerned about it, I take it places and get shots that others don't.

It's like having a beat up old 4x4 pickup. It gets the job done, and if you bang it up a bit in the process...oh well.

Actually, this might be the time to pick up a fire-sale Olympus...

You're only hearing the transmissions they made (likely recorded via the ATC side). Any in-cockpit conversations/panic would not have been recorded, or at least not released.

maybe there is a market for a writing-only device, similar to a read-only eBook reader.

The article mentions just such a device[0]

[0] https://getfreewrite.com/collections/writing-tools

Any news article that mentions the number of new positive cases without mentioning the number of new tests is doing it for the clicks. One is fairly useless without the other.

150 cases out of 150 tests? Yikes! 150 cases out of 150,000 tests? Yawn.

This article goes so far as to flirt with the testing numbers without actually siting them. I really don't see what's so hard for news outlets to throw the total number of tests alongside the total number of positive results.

Look on YouTube for folks flying something like a Kit Fox (start with Trent Palmer). You'll find some fun videos of some cool spots they land. Also, STOL drags are cool to watch.

Can I tell you what you didn't say? You didn't say the local item was cheaper. That's an important bit of your argument.

People are buying the new products due to a lack of cheaper alternatives, which you said yourself (it's the whole reason they're carrying local items in the first place).

Once those cheaper items return to shelves, a significant portion of the shoppers will return to them.

I wonder what would be the police reaction if this were happening and made public.

Probably not much. A vast, vast majority of cops are just normal people doing a difficult and dangerous job. A vanishingly small number are power hungry psychopaths.

We really only see the bad stuff in the news, while the insane amount of great things they do go generally unnoticed, with a few exceptions every now and again.

There are several options; fetchRSS, RSS-Bridge, etc.

I personally have RSS-Bridge running on my local webserver, and use it for Twitter feeds, Instagram, Facebook, etc.

To extend that a bit, using something like RSS-Bridge[0] you can turn a Twitter feed into an RSS feed.

[0] https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

Dragnet is good, but I much prefer Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar

I dream of (and am actively working towards) a day where the computer's potential as a new educational medium is fully realized, rather than the current parade of attempts at transplanting a brick and mortar classroom into a remote asynchronous delivery system.

I assume you already know about PLATO, yes?

In addition, the US economy is rebounding faster than anyone predicted, indicating a strong foundation. Capitalism did that.

Heck, I still find sites that don't like "nonstandard" TLDs in your email address. Try putting an address that's not .com, .net, etc and it throws an error.

Running it on a USB stick will give you a great idea about hardware support.

I concur, it's nearly there for me. On my old Dell Inspiron 3847 (my daily driver), the only hardware that didn't work right was audio through HDMI, and bluetooth didn't find my mouse (though it did find my BT headphones). I can probably get to the bottom of those with a bit of digging.

The software side I didn't dig into much yet. I use my system for ham radio, so I would be compiling a lot of software in the future, some of it dependent on hardware things. Not sure how well that'll work, but I'm honestly willing to give it a try.

The biggest annoyance for me is the lack of a plug-in capable web browser; specifically having Bitwarden in the browser. I'll have to investigate if there's a solution.

And the WHO just said today that asymptomatic people are very unlikely to transmit the disease.

My big problem with schools making decisions now is there are too many unknowns, and the situation is too fluid. They really need to wait another month, month and a half.

Yes. I've found a strange inconsistency with some of the people calling for the defunding of police - they were until very recently saying citizens didn't need guns because the police were always close by. Now they're saying the police are bad and we can take care of ourselves.

the likelihood of violent conflict using a firearm is therefore higher

Violent conflict exists everywhere.

Not sure if this was your point, but you just made a case for keeping the funding. Funding went up between 1993 to today, and crime went down by 50k reports per year, even as the population increased. Read another way, funding doubled, while crime reports were cut by more than half, even though the population went up by 15%.

I know this is potentially a case of correlation doesn't equal causation, but if your goal is to argue against police budgets, these aren't the numbers to use.

The real-dollar cost per crime reported has gone up more than 5x.

Yes, but that's a terrible way to look at something. You're not trying to reduce the cost per crime reported; you're trying to reduce the crime reported itself. That's going to take more money to accomplish, so the cost per crime going up is a good thing. It means you're getting good value for money.

EDIT: Doing some simple math, the cost per crime today is way less than the cost per crime back in 1993, according to your numbers. Drastically less.

(for the record, I don't know enough about this whole situation to have an informed opinion; my gut feeling is reducing the funding of your peacekeeping force by drastic amounts in a short time frame during a time of unrest is perhaps not wise)

Huh, didn't know that. I bet I'm not the only one.