KentGeek

Get this: China sends us all this great stuff, and the only thing they get is OUR FIAT CURRENCY, which is essentially worthless. And then, what do they do with that currency? They buy our treasury bonds, which pay them interest in our own fiat currency. Not only that, but every bond they buy is more encouragement to help us keep the US economy strong and stable. The trade deficit thing looks like a great deal for us when viewed from some angles.

I've been saying that for decades. The concept of time zones became anachronistic when instant communication went worldwide.

I dumped TeamViewer a few months ago in favor of Google Remote Desktop. It satisfies my occasional low bar requirements, and doesn't make me feel guilty for using it without pay. I connect between iPad, Windows, Linux, a couple of times a month. Easiest thing I've found so far.

Mint, for the last few years. I honestly don't remember why I chose Mint after using Ubuntu previously. In any case, I'm not shopping for a change. It does exactly what I need.

This line may be crucial: "The cell model that we used in this study is a carcinoma cell line, with active DNA replication which differs from non-dividing somatic cells."

If this research can reduce the enormous cost of old age frailty, even if not extending life by much, the payoffs are there.

From those videos, it's difficult to be sure those are full size prototypes and not scale models.

You haven’t left yet?

I learned Spades in the USNavy, and didn't realize that it was intimately associated with African-American culture at all. I preferred Spades, but the most popular card game (at that time, in that setting) was Euchre.

And we will hear only crickets on this one...

I'm a little skeptical that the properties of palm oil that could raise the melting point of butter would survive the cow's digestion process. In any case, the experiments to prove the relationship should be almost trivially easy, right?

That original video looked phony to me two years ago, and in comparison to the latest, it looks even worse. Am I completely alone in this?