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True, but I would appreciate a little integrity/honesty. He flies all over the world, multiple times in a short time span, and then makes his money "complaining" that we are using fossil fuels, when he could have just as easily been there via a teleconference. I don't mind people that walk the talk, but Al Gore avoids that.

The very last line of the article explains it all; this is to promote his soon to be release movie. As always, it's about the money.

While I agree with the sense I get in general that modern, digital catalogs are better for search than the older, analog catalogs, I feel it has gotten worse for myself, and possibly others like me exist, that were not looking for something specific. I enjoyed the discovery possible by browsing through a card catalog - with lots of information without having to walk and scan through the stacks like I was looking for something specific.

Improvements are always being made, but my memory of the first digital catalogs are that they were highly specific, so other than finding other books by a specifically searched for author, discovery was severely limited. I hated digital catalogs at first. And for many smaller libraries, I find walking through the stacks easier than trying to discover something via the digital catalog.

What's really going to blow your mind is when you realize that everything belongs on both lists - it just depends on your point of view when thinking about that particular list item.

Interesting that you see a difference. Who do you think the democratically elected are? "Wealthy ..."

As with many others, "Eeny, meeny ..." was for selection. I remember using the School House Rock lyrics/rhyme for counting by 5 for counting (Who's not ready, holler I) during "Hide and Seek".

My problem with apropos (and man, for that matter) is related to how at least one major distribution handles the man pages. Rather than bundling the man pages with the applications, the man pages for many applications are bundled together in one base package. When this is done regardless of whether or not the application is actually on the system, apropos and man continually return information on applications which are not on the system.

> Dr. DeConto and Dr. Pollard do not claim that this is a certainty

Boil 'em in oil, the stinkin' deniers.

Oh, wait, that's the scientists that this did this study about a time a century in the future.

More sensationalist journalism just stirring up emotions.

Thanks for the link!

This is one of my favorite desktop distributions, even if it isn't meant for a desktop. It fits most of my minimalist needs. I think it would be my first choice if I could just figure out how to setup full disk encryption.

Thanks for the link. Good advice for anyone asked to look at some statistics.

From the family stories I have heard, my great-grandmother raised rhubarb, so my grandmother had it because my grandfather was used to it. I was encouraged to take a stalk whenever I wanted growing up, which, at times, was twice daily.

As for location, I grew up in Illinois, my grandmother was from Arkansas, and my grandfather and his mother, while being from Illinois, traced their family roots back to Pennsylvania Dutch.

I still prefer the raw stalk to anything else.

Thank you. Very informative for the newbie that I am. I've used Linux for some time but never delved this deeply under the covers.

It's funny to me how comments on an article on digital librarians has strayed so far down a rabbit hole.