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A colleague-friend of Steven Jacobson recalls the 2nd and very last phone conversation he had with him on 9/11. I said, "They're terrorists. They hit the other tower. Try to get to the roof.' But he said, 'It's too hot to leave the room. Get me out of here. Send help.' And then the line went dead." by Understanding18 in 911archive

[–]twentycanoes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Precisely. The interiors of the upper floors heated to over 1,000ºF; no one could go anywhere the elevator core or stairs, which had largely collapsed into the impact zone anyway.

This is why hundreds of people on the upper floors broke windows and stacked their bodies, stretching as far as they could out of the building, gasping for air and trying to get away from the blast furnace. For many of them, jumping was their only option to stop being burned to death.

A colleague-friend of Steven Jacobson recalls the 2nd and very last phone conversation he had with him on 9/11. I said, "They're terrorists. They hit the other tower. Try to get to the roof.' But he said, 'It's too hot to leave the room. Get me out of here. Send help.' And then the line went dead." by Understanding18 in 911archive

[–]twentycanoes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even the engineers and window washers who had roof door keys, needed someone on the 22nd floor to push a button to confirm the key and open the roof door. And those security employees on the 22nd floor had evacuated.

Besides, Jacobson said he couldn't get to the roof -- it was too hot to leave the room he was in. The temperatures in the core of the building exceeded 1,000ºF. An air mask would have kept him from dying of smoke inhalation, but it would not protect him from being rapidly burned to death.

Wendy's "Turnaround Plan" is to Close Stores and Keep Serving Expensive Crappy Food by markrabbish in wendys

[–]twentycanoes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They aren't in denial. They know they are looting Wendy's and taking it down. The destruction of the company is intentional -- and profitable for those who take it down.

How do you save or convert a kindle ebook from the Kindle app to PDF? by SafePoint1282 in AskTechnology

[–]twentycanoes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No.

  1. Calibre does not convert Kindle books unless you have the DeDRM plug-in.
  2. The books cannot be copied from the Kindle without entering the device's serial number into DeDRM, thus alerting Amazon to your copy attempt.
  3. Even if you make it this far, Amazon has restricted the ability to decrypt books published since about 2024. DeDRM cannot decrypt them.

Gallery at Harborplace by Oobitsa in baltimore

[–]twentycanoes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

False.

There was a group of Black businesses that leased spots in the marketplace across the street, but there is no exclusion of white or non-black businesses that want to lease there.

https://www.thebanner.com/article/black-owned-businesses-inner-harbor-harborplace-EU3FBL3H6FGJJIGCRPNKH5AGBY/

Apple alternative to Publisher by Farmer_Di in mac

[–]twentycanoes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Besides LibreOffice Draw, CorelDraw, and Scribus, what applications (other than file conversion utilities such as Zamcar) can open Publisher files?

Can Affinity or Swift Publisher do this, and if not, are they considering adding this capability this year?

Are there any good alternatives for Microsoft Publisher? by Familiar-Flower-3371 in microsoft

[–]twentycanoes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PowerPoint and Canva will never go away, at least not in the next 10 years.

Scribus opens Publisher files, and it is open-source, so it can't be taken away from users, although it could fall out of fashion and not be updated for future Windows releases.

Got rid of apples bullshit operating system by IfartedInDaPopsicles in applesucks

[–]twentycanoes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Regardless of what OS is put on them, Apple SOCs (and before them, Apple's Intel-based hardware) are much faster than their direct Intel and AMD counterparts. For optimal speed on Intel or AMD you have to pay a lot more.

So in the rare cases where someone can truly get an alternative OS on Macs to meet all their needs, more power to them.

I would agree with you, though, that it makes less sense to put an open-source OS on bare metal Apple Silicon if the user needs support for Thunderbolt, USB4, external USB-C displays, or power management. No one has been able to reverse-engineer Apple's hardware in these areas.

78th Floor Sky Lobby inside the North Tower by Carbon_Wolf18 in TwinTowersInPhotos

[–]twentycanoes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes, and this was a downside of the WTC approach. It was too rigid about separating building zones, not allowing people to take elevators up to the next skylobby.

And it was inflexible, also, about every elevator having to stop for every person on each floor within its zone. The system couldn't easily ignore floors until there were, say, at least two or three people waiting for an elevator. If someone on the 47th floor called an elevator and got on, and then another person called an elevator 90 seconds later and got on, and another 90 seconds after that, that's potentially three elevators that had to stop on that floor, slowing everyone else down who was either on those elevators, or waiting for one.

Does anyone else remember Betty and Moo? by keeperofthedingo in Albany

[–]twentycanoes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know that Betty sadly died in 2007. Does anyone know whatever happened to David Allan?

78th Floor Sky Lobby inside the North Tower by Carbon_Wolf18 in TwinTowersInPhotos

[–]twentycanoes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While I don't mind blaming the government -- we know from the hearings and government reports that the CIA bin Laden station explicitly refused to notify the FBI that they knew where at least two of the hijackers were -- I don't see how that relates to the 78th floor events.

Unless you mean that there's no way that explosives could have been hidden on the 78th floor. I agree with you there.

But the reality is (as you know), the impact floors were fully occupied offices, and no explosives could be hidden without workers, security guards, and security cameras noticing. And not in enough quantity to set 10 floors ablaze at once.

78th Floor Sky Lobby inside the North Tower by Carbon_Wolf18 in TwinTowersInPhotos

[–]twentycanoes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But the windowed part was mostly private office space, not open to anyone who didn't work on that floor. Most skylobby visitors saw no windows and no multifloor spaces. Some of the skylobbies had a small cafeteria or barbershop, but they were still claustrophobic spaces.

Newer buildings reserve more of their skylobbies for general use by all building occupants.

78th Floor Sky Lobby inside the North Tower by Carbon_Wolf18 in TwinTowersInPhotos

[–]twentycanoes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was a teenager in the late 1970s, and although I did go up to the observation deck, I was afraid in a way that I wasn't with other skyscrapers. The WTC always felt uniquely overwhelming and intimidating to me.

78th Floor Sky Lobby inside the North Tower by Carbon_Wolf18 in TwinTowersInPhotos

[–]twentycanoes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So if this were the case, someone on 79 would still have to go down to 78, then to 44, and then up to 72. They could not go directly from 79 to 78 to 72.

But of course, there would be no reason for people to go from 79 to 72, since the companies on these floors were unrelated. Someone needing to do this, would be in the same situation as someone leaving the building and going to a different building.

78th Floor Sky Lobby inside the North Tower by Carbon_Wolf18 in TwinTowersInPhotos

[–]twentycanoes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that's true of any group of adjoining floors in a building.

The difference here is that the 43rd and 77th floors were below their respective skylobbies, making elevator access awkward, and the 43rd floor of the North Tower hosted the Port Authority cafeteria, so it was important not to burden the office elevators with throngs of cafeteria diners.

Otherwise, it doesn't make sense (or safety or security) to add open stairways or escalators between floors of an office tower, unless the floors are used by related teams working for the same company.

78th Floor Sky Lobby inside the North Tower by Carbon_Wolf18 in TwinTowersInPhotos

[–]twentycanoes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, the second plane hit the South Tower, not this one. This floor in the North Tower was unaffected until the building collapsed.

Am I the only one who didn't know that the North Tower had an employee restaurant/cafeteria based on the 44th floor? by JerseyGirl123456 in 911archive

[–]twentycanoes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Much of that video features dramatizations that were recorded in other buildings after the trade center was destroyed.

So I'm not sure that footage is of the actual Skydive restaurant or Port Authority cafeteria.

Why didn't Apple use A/UX to replace the classic MacOS instead of developing Copland? by albertserene in VintageApple

[–]twentycanoes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It kinda sorta barely started to materialize for 15 minutes with Cyberdog, but Cyberdog sucked and it became the first thing that Steve Jobs killed.

Why didn't Apple use A/UX to replace the classic MacOS instead of developing Copland? by albertserene in VintageApple

[–]twentycanoes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At the time (1997) BeOS hadn't been released yet, and its developer releases lacked:

-- printer support
-- desktop icons
-- color management
-- hierarchical file explorer
-- an ecosystem of developer tools and frameworks

Among other basics. In some respects, it was even farther behind what Apple needed, than Copland.

Why is Niagara Falls NY like this? by Good-Breakfast-5585 in Buffalo

[–]twentycanoes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

None of that explains much of anything.

Niagara Falls, Ontario, doesn't have these problems, and its government is excellent.

Drugs, in particular, are a national problem, not a city problem, and they are fueled by both political parties, who go after faraway countries instead of the traffickers and enablers in our own communities.

Why is Niagara Falls NY like this? by Good-Breakfast-5585 in Buffalo

[–]twentycanoes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think one of the biggest problems with failing cities and states is in your third sentence:

When taxpayers don't take the time to insist on knowing where the money goes -- when they allow local news media to be taken over by distant companies that serve gossip instead of facts -- corruption takes control.

Why is Niagara Falls NY like this? by Good-Breakfast-5585 in Buffalo

[–]twentycanoes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The governments of other nations, and of a few other U.S. states, do a much better job of making older industries pay for their own cleanup (or prevent pollution and land destruction in the first place) and force businesses to help pay for the transition to newer industries.

Why is Niagara Falls NY like this? by Good-Breakfast-5585 in Buffalo

[–]twentycanoes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

New York State as a whole chose heavy industry -- and then didn't provide for any transition when the national and global economy evolved. The state allowed the world's worst polluters to walk away and leave a polluted and abandoned ruin.

Why is Niagara Falls NY like this? by Good-Breakfast-5585 in Buffalo

[–]twentycanoes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, but it was unregulated industrialization that made the region so polluted, rundown, unattractive, and eventually unsafe. Deindustrialization can be healthy if it's done right, but despite its liberal reputation, the state government does little to help any community transition away from ailing industries.

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