That makes sense, because the music is repurposed from a musical that Meat and Steinman were writing.

Perry Rhodan

Just be prepared to catch up. They have been publishing weekly novellas since 1961, so they are well over 3,000 issues.

Oh, and if you want to go past the first 140 or so, you will need to learn German!

Check out CloudFlare tunnels. I created a list of e-mails, and only the people who enter the confirmation code sent to those emails get into my home server.

That makes me think of Peter Sellers’ in-movie scene at the beginning of The Party. I love this movie when I was a kid, but I suspect that an English comedian in brownface playing an Indian would not go over so well these days.

If there was a way to predict how stocks would move, then I think it’s more likely the people with billions of dollars of computers, ai, and low latency connections to the market are going to figure it out and extract that money.

Like a casino, you may win once in a while, but on average most people lose. Who do you think pays for those Manhattan offices?

What you are doing is hoping that you will come out ahead by pure random chance, because any actual algorithm or pattern has already been predicted and detected by someone with much more money and influence than you.

It’s obviously to Lenovo’s benefit to have people believe that RAM prices will not drop, so that they will not wait out the current price surge.

The price will drop if supply exceeds demand, and if competition increases.

There are claims and counterclaims. Both sides sound convincing, but that’s what prosecutors and defense attorneys are supposed to do.

I can’t believe I’m reading this. Obviously universal healthcare is not without flaws, and there are many variations on the theme. Some work better than others.

But for a developed, “rich” country not to provide it to their citizens is a crime. Of course, the people most affected by the lack of healthcare are they working poor, while middle class people are generally insulated by employer-provided insurance, and the rich naturally have the best health care on the planet.

I think that this is another case of the majority of Americans not being able to conceive what life outside the greatest country in the world^TM is like. Ask anyone from another country if they would prefer us-style healthcare, and you will get a resounding “NO!”

John Bigbooty, you are the weakest individual I ever know!

Bigbooté! Bigbooté!

I see your nostalgia and raise you this: this

I actually had to learn to use a slide rule in high school, in the late 1970s.

One of my kids started to play the piano at about 13. By the age of 18, he was playing pieces that were Royal Conservatory grade 10 level, and he was accepted into several universities.

He only had one hour of lessons a week during those 4 years of high school, but usually practiced 2 to 3 hours a day, without any pushing on my part. In some of his lessons he wouldn’t even touch the keyboard, they would just analyze a piece of music or discuss the theory behind it.

In university, the professors sometimes told other students to watch him play. His technique, they said, was not great (he himself admits that playing scales early on would have helped), but his feeling was superb.

The rumor came from an email written by Epstein himself, so it’s either a malicious rumor or a fact.

I hate to tell you, but whatever the other company you went to is, it’s almost certainly Luxottica, the same people who make Ray-Ban now.

Why don’t Mennonites have sex standing up?

Because it could lead to dancing.

(Explanation: some Mennonite sects believe that dancing is inappropriate. Sex is not considered dirty, as long as it is within a marriage.)

The definition of dumb is very elastic.

There is one summer student who came to work at my software company. He was in a very specialized and elite program at a top-flight Canadian university. Both his parents were professors at this university.

One day he came to our boss, and said that his family always went to Europe for 2 weeks in the summer, and he needed time off. My boss explained that he had been hired because we wanted to do a special project during the summer, and it would be very difficult to not have him on the team for a significant part of it.

My boss asked the student when the vacation was going to start. The student replied, “tomorrow”.

At first, my boss was angry, but then realized that the student actually had no understanding that this was an unusual and onerous request. That’s about the time I started learning about autism (and later realized that I was somewhere on the spectrum as well, just not as far along it).

I was halfway through Googling this phrase before I remembered who said it and where. Well played!

Come to Quebec, where electricity is about USD $0.05/kWh. And over 99% of that is renewable (hydroelectric)!

That’s always been the deal. Google gives you free email and disk space, but they used everything you have for AI training and targeting advertising.

In my experience, Japanese baking tends to look perfect but fall very short on flavor and texture.

They also generally like things less sweet and less rich (i.e. butter, cream) than westerners and cheese is not even worth the calories.