At the height of the Depression that Democrats call Great because it gave them power for 50 years, Yip Harburg wrote the lyrics to the song Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
The song is sad but laborers were not the only victims of the worldwide collapse of the economy. Their bosses went broke.
I remember a lawyer friend about two decades ago comparing-and-contrasting Thomas and then-Court-mate and conservative icon – the late Antonin Scalia.
My friend pointed out that when Thomas and Scalia disagreed on a case? Thomas was correct – and Scalia incorrect.
Of course, their disagreeing didn’t happen a whole lot. But when it did? My friend called it: Thomas was right – Scalia was wrong. By that I mean: Thomas’ were the more Constitutional and conservative opinions.
These last 35 years, the real sardonic fun is when Thomas is outvoted on a case X-to-1. (X is usually 8, but there are occasional vacancies and recusals.)
As someone who wants DC to be drastically smaller and less offensive? I feel like an X-to-1 all the time. So I admire Thomas’ perpetual adherence to principle – the popularity of his opinion amongst his colleagues be darned.
Elon Musk’s Grok tells me there have been 52 cases where Thomas was just such a party of one. But I’m not sure if Grok caught last Thursday’s ruling. If not? This is #53…..
SCOTUS Delivers 8-1 Blow to AT&T, Verizon in $100M FCC Case:
It's amazing to me that a major corporation can purchase the rights to a very popular character you've known all your life, and then when they create something "for a modern audience," you fail to recognize the character at all.
Yet, people turned on "Clarkson's Farm," never having met any of the ancillary characters, and yet you feel like you've known them all your life. You relate to them in a big way, and you realize that even if the show didn't have half the budget it did, you'd probably still watch it because you actually feel something for these people.
A billion dollars doesn't buy relatability. Nobody wants safe and sterile.
When Steve and Olivia visited their friends in Liberia, they simply saw it as a fun trip. They had no desire to become global workers—the thought had not even crossed their minds.
“I had no intention of becoming a missionary. I don’t like to go to other places and do new things,” Steve said. “So we went, and it was not a fantastic trip.”
Between the intense heat, power outages, and a few difficult experiences, nothing about the visit made Steve and Olivia eager to return. And yet, God was quietly at work, preparing a path they never expected.
Water Chlorination and Chloramination Practices and Principles
Published by American Water Works Association
Publication Date 2006-07-01
Pages Count 188
This AWWA Manual of Water Supply Practices provides a complete information resource on the uses of chlorine and chloramines in municipal water treatment.
The manual focuses on chemical properties, disinfection mechanisms, feed rates, handling, storage, and safety. Recent developments in equipment, disinfection strategies, and techniques to minimize the formation of disinfection by-products is also covered in detail.
Appendices include dechlorination practices, CT values for inactivation of Giardia and viruses by free chlorine and other disinfectants, chlorine residual test methods, and disinfection of facilities.
Right after completing the purchase process, you will immediately get a digital copy of this handbook / manual / guide which is:
Not Locked
Printable
Multi-User
High Quality Scanned
$ 31.00
The Oppenheimer Alternative
Oppenheimer, Einstein, Feynman, Gödel and the rest of the great 20th-century physicists race against time to save the world
- #1 Locus bestseller
- Winner of the Helicon Award for Best Alternate History Novel of the Year
"This book has everything a reader wants from Sawyer: Well-drawn alternate history, rigorous SF thriller, social commentary, redemption narrative — The Oppenheimer Alternative reimagines one of the most influential lives of the twentieth century." —Analog
Books by Hugo and Nebula Award-Winner Robert J. Sawyer
Buying My Books
The U.S. military has likely been quietly broadcasting codes for its global encryption network using public GPS for nearly 20 years, turning each satellite into a hidden “numbers station,” according to Steven Murdoch…
That means every device that uses GPS has been receiving hidden government information for years, and nobody outside the military knew it until now.
The IPFIREWALL (IPFW) is a FreeBSD-sponsored firewall application. It is a stateful firewall written for the FreeBSD system and supports both IPv4 and IPv6. The IPFW is included in the basic FreeBSD installation; you just need to load the module through the '/etc/rc.conf' file to enable it.
This tutorial will show you how to set up the Basic IPFW Firewall on FreeBSD 12.0. We will first set up the firewall with the default rules provided by FreeBSD and then with a custom rule.
PL-61302 Barfield Barndominium House Plans
2207 Heated square feet
943 square feet attached garage
4 bedrooms
2.1 bathrooms
1 Story
Mudroom
Media Room
Office
Open Concept
Holtzapffel No.1636 - Plumier
Holtzapffel No. 1636 is considered by many to be the finest rose engine ever built. John Jacob Holtzapffel, II delivered that judgement in 1886, some 48 years after his father had built the lathe, stating that it was the last of three rose engines...
Est. reading time: 9 minutes
Many other fine pictures of the complete lathe and tools may be seen there.
This 1838 lathe cost 1850 pounds, or about $250,000 in today’s money. The chuck acts like a 3D Spirograph for ornamental turning.
Ornamental Turning, also called Complex Turning, is executed on a lathe with attachments which convert a plain circular section to variants of outline; these range from a simple series of cuts taken at intervals around the work (so producing grooves or bumps on the surface) to non-circular movements whereby the whole of the circular shape is removed to give a completely different form. Enjoy this wonderful history of Ornamental Turning.
Such shapes are achieved by various means, primarily thru the used of fixed or revolving cutters being introduced to the work in radial and non-radial paths. Movement of the work and cutters individually and or separately can achieve a nearly endless variety of patterns and shapes.
Hidden underground around the world lie 110 quadrillion kilometers of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks—webs of ultra-thin threads that, if connected in a single line, would stretch almost a billion times the distance between the Earth and the sun, according to new research published in Science on Thursday.
These fungal communities form intimate relationships with the roots of plants, which they provide with nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen in exchange for carbon, 1 billion tons of which the networks sequester underground annually, previous research has found. If the fungal network wasn’t storing it, that carbon would be warming the atmosphere.
In a Thursday blog post, Amazon claims its data centers withdrew “about 2.5 billion gallons” globally in 2025. That number sounds incredibly large at first glance, but it looks downright puny compared to the 117 trillion gallons of water withdrawn in the US alone in 2015. It’s also useful to compare Amazon’s number to stats from more water-intensive areas, from the 3.3 trillion gallons used annually on US lawns and landscaping to the 1.3 trillion gallons a year used in California almond orchards to the 531 billion gallons a year used just for US golf courses.
Amazon is just one company, of course, and a relative latecomer to reporting its data center water usage numbers. Google data centers withdrew about more than 6.1 billion gallons of water in 2024, on top of about 2.75 billion gallons from Microsoft and about 1.4 billion gallons from Meta in the same year.
The Great Lakes Ships of Frank E. Kirby: America’s Greatest Naval Architect,” by Richard Gebhart, Michigan State University Press, May 2026, 231 pages, $59.95 (Hardcover), $29.10 (Paperback), $29.95 (E-book)
From the 1870s through the 1890s most of the world’s ships not built in British shipyards were built on the North American Great Lakes, a vast interconnected yet isolated inland sea system. Of these Lakes vessels built during that period and for the first two decades of the 20th century, many, including the best designs came from the mind of naval architect Frank E. Kirby.
“The Great Lakes Ships of Frank E. Kirby: America’s Greatest Naval Architect,” by Richard Gebhart, is a biography of the man and a history of his ships. It charts his career, and follows the course of the shipyards he ran and the ships he built.
If you have Cisco 9300 model Ethernet switches and haven’t checked their OS versions lately, you should probably do that. Early releases of Cisco’s IOS version 17.x have an issue with flooding ports when a topology change is detected.
Topology changes like bringing a port up or down could cause flooding. When a port being used for WheatNet IP is flooded, the device connected to that port will most likely miss one or more network packets (potentially hundreds), resulting in loss of control signals and/or audio issues (including but not limited to distortion or dropouts).
Every port in your system should have the no ip igmp snooping tcn flood command applied. But even if this command shows up in your switch configuration, it is ignored in some versions of the Cisco operating system.
- Place the mini-marshmallows in the dish one layer thick.
- If your microwave has a rotating platform, remove it. We don’t want the dish to rotate.
- Put the dish in the microwave for 10 seconds.
- When you remove the dish, you’ll notice only certain parts are melted. (Time may depend on the microwave – if all or none of your marshmallows melted, adjust the time.)
- Measure the distance between melted marshmallows using your ruler. Measure in centimeters. This is half the wavelength of a microwave.
- Look for a sticker on your microwave that tells you its frequency in Hertz (Hz). Most microwaves are around 2450 MHz. Note: MHz = 10^6 Hz
- Use the following equation to find the speed of light: Speed of light = 2 x (distance between melted spots) x (frequency of microwave)
- The actual speed of light is 3.00 x 10^10 cm/s. How close were you?
View system information and VM configuration details
The VBoxManage list subcommands enable you to obtain information about the Oracle VirtualBox software, the VMs and associated services that you create.
NTP SERVER — SMOLNUT
smolnut.kml.lol • pool.ntp.org member • GPS-disciplined via NTP270
The goal is to make Syncthing easier to deploy, manage, and operate for families, teams, companies, and larger multi-device setups.
What syncding provides:
- Managed Syncthing instances for individuals, families, teams, or companies
- Syncthing kept updated and securely maintained
- Storage backed by ZFS
- Automated immutable ZFS snapshots
- Recovery of files, folders, or full rollback to earlier states
- Additional off-region snapshot replication
- Protection against ransomware through immutable snapshots
- Glass-break emergency access via SFTP or Rsync
- Centralized monitoring and administration