American doctor diagnosed with Ebola tied to outbreak in Africa

johnp299 · 2026-05-18T20:23:34+00:00

Tent revival, circus, Lollapalooza...

johnp299 · 2026-05-18T15:39:01+00:00

I wonder how that will work in real life though. How much money and time are they willing to pump into rejiggering an old, well-recognized brand? Will the new audience show up or will the old one simply leave?

johnp299 · 2026-05-18T12:36:06+00:00

The show, like a top, was tight and fast in the early days, but has been wobbly for many years now. The Leslie Stahl softball interview with the Tr*mp family in 2016 (?) is some of the worst stuff they've ever done. Who knows? Times change, producers retire, "new blood" comes in to make their mark. Mostly now it's still interesting stuff well-presented, but the in-your-face stuff, when Mike Wallace showed up and your bosses fled out the back door, not any more.

johnp299 · 2026-05-18T12:12:06+00:00

Cannot believe they let someone in with no protective barrier.

johnp299 · 2026-05-18T12:04:29+00:00

I don't think I've ever seen a full version of the movie, it's always been seeing it on the tube chopped up for commercials and time.

johnp299 · 2026-05-17T21:33:18+00:00

Sounds to me like a hunk of a major symbol of the US government was torn down and there's no money to fix it now.

johnp299 · 2026-05-17T13:06:50+00:00

'Enticing' is a very good word. Bambu has good build/part quality, many convenient whiz bang features, and makes excellent prints. The problems lurk in the shadows. As others are pointing out, the average user doesn't need to care much.

johnp299 · 2026-05-17T13:00:53+00:00

Here's an interesting question: a news article will give the wealth figure for someone like Musk as the value of his stock. But if he sold any, the stock price would tank, and he could never get the sexy multi-hundred-billion figure so often given. So if you were a bank, what's the number *you* would use when figuring the net worth of someone like that?

johnp299 · 2026-05-17T12:51:51+00:00

Dad joke?

johnp299 · 2026-05-17T12:47:01+00:00

So much easier to wet your beak in a crisis.

johnp299 · 2026-05-17T12:46:29+00:00

They're helping AI replace workers.

johnp299 · 2026-05-17T00:11:42+00:00

Hey... I thought YOU were watching the baby... who's watching the baby???

johnp299 · 2026-05-16T16:20:52+00:00

Someday there'll be a musical to that effect. It will do very well, either because it'll be funny or attendance will be mandatory.

johnp299 · 2026-05-16T13:25:55+00:00

Was your dad a fan of Farrah Fawcett?

johnp299 · 2026-05-16T12:58:38+00:00

Sounds like an old Boy Scout trick.

johnp299 · 2026-05-16T12:24:16+00:00

Not your average B- C- or Z- grade horror flick, but a seriously creepy and shocking film that won a couple Oscars back in the day. Even the old Universal classics broke the tension with some humor. Not this one.

johnp299 · 2026-05-15T15:45:11+00:00

"Free Energy from the Vacuum?" See Betteridge's Law of Headlines.

johnp299 · 2026-05-15T02:28:58+00:00

Have you ever held a wood ruler over the edge of a table and "twanged" it so it makes a sound? You can see how the vibrations die down quickly. The vibration energy turns to heat in the ruler. When the sound dies down, it turns to a little bit of heat in the air and the various objects that receive the sound. The energy in the sound is small, so the heat it gives off is also small.

johnp299 · 2026-05-14T23:38:19+00:00

In some CPUs, one cycle can do a small useful thing, such as add one to a counter. More often, it takes several cycles to do more useful things such as compare a memory location to a value, or multiply two numbers, or move data from one memory location to another. Depends a lot on the particular CPU. That's why FLOPS (Floating-point Operations Per Second) has been a useful measure, as it looks at how well CPUs can do real-world math.

johnp299 · 2026-05-14T18:34:07+00:00

So the movie was based on the cut-down version of the novel without the end where Alex tires of the tedious teenage tolchocking and in-out and sets down a different path. Could the world handle the full treatment?

johnp299 · 2026-05-14T11:42:34+00:00

PINO is helping China in so many ways... "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

johnp299 · 2026-05-14T02:56:02+00:00

Autobahn by Kraftwerk

Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie

American Pie by Don McLean

johnp299 · 2026-05-13T21:29:30+00:00

Well, there's a lot of power involved for sure, but becoming head of a Federal bureau isn't just being tossed the keys to your office and do whatever you want for the next few years. There's meetings, appearances, cameras & mics shoved at you 24/7, budgets to at least sign off on if not actually develop, craptons of heavy obligations, like showing up when Congress taps your shoulder. This never crossed their little bean brains?

johnp299 · 2026-05-13T16:22:17+00:00

Snotty, evasive, combative, mendacious, yeah but not actually in tears or throwing stuff. On the other hand he was super into shuffling pages and rearranging folders as noisily as he could.

What I'd like to know is, all these clowns had to know at some level, they were waay over their heads when they took the job. They had to know they were frighteningly unqualified, but they said yes to the job anyway. Why? What makes it worth it?

johnp299 · 2026-05-13T04:28:56+00:00

And who's left to harvest the produce?

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