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https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

25840^2 + 43776^2 = 2584043776

which led me to Numberopedia. https://sites.google.com/site/numberopedia/

Another benefit is that, because it takes little time, you're much more likely to do it.

About a year ago I walked into "my" bank (hah!) and a guy pulled me over to his desk and "invited" me to sign a form (he said was mandatory) accepting or rejecting a $35 "overdraft insurance" fee. I "invited" him to check his computer and see how many overdrafts I'd had in the past 10 years ... and that my "insurance" was keeping my checkbook balanced.

Not sure what game was afoot there, but I'd bet that some of the people who were treated to that strong-arm tactic resigned themselves to paying that monthly graft. Vampire squid indeed.

Somebody needs to engrave that in huge letters on all that glass covering NSA headquarters.

Also thoroughly enjoyed both Cory's works, esp. LB.

Healthcare, education, housing ... what's next?

See also: Donora death fog. http://www.fluoridation.com/donora.htm

Yes I spend a lot of time on the net: unlike the TV which consumed thousands of passive, scripted hours in my youth, the net is interactive, the outcome within my control. For most of my life, the many things I couldn't learn more about for lack of time or helpful resources were out of reach; the amplification is awesome. For most of my life, I had to imagine being connected with communities of shared interests, never imagining having the focussing luxury of needing to choose from among them.

Those changes in my life are all positives. So while teens are doing teenish things with this tech, they are learning - just as we adults are. And when they become parents, they'll know from experience (just as in the middle ages and in the 1800s and 1950s) the impact of these new things.

The social impact of emergent technologies has always been unpredictable. Luckily humans adapt. And so far, ever since the first piece of flint changed lives, we've muddled on somehow. Not that worry-warting is worthless; reflection is in fact the mother of adaptation.

OSM http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=10/51.3825/-68.5375 (I don't see anything on the St. Lawrence River either...)

Mapquest http://mapq.st/18F1XnO

Looking at LARGE bodies of water away from populated regions, I'm seeing very few labels anywhere.

IIRC before that time GM were thickly populated with WP icons, and that diminished over time.

I should be such an 'idiot'.

Similar things seem to have been happening at OpenStreetMap ... the gradual fade of a certain kinds of detail. Zoom in on a region and see what kind of luck you have identifying bodies of water. (Same problem at Google.) I've had to switch to the MapQuest version for that.

Maybe that was because too many of the principals in the Manhattan Project were dead. Or, maybe, we don't learn from history, and never will.

Fred was very much a pioneer, and if you look through his few-dozen blog posts (93-year-old blogger!) of the last year or so he shares stories about the early SF conventions (#71 just ended).

Energy's partly responsible. But there's a more important reason that NoDak didn't suffer at all during the recession: its publicly-owned State Bank. It remained sane and stable and crime-free while those traits were rare in the other 49 states. Check it.

Sanity alone explains their remarkable success. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. Money is a symptom.

That and (towards the end) a couple of kings who had absolute power. Like ... Stalin.

Touching distance? This writer clearly does not understand the subject at all. (Or else it's a crappy translation from an ESA item in a foreign language.)