After transferring all his fortune to a charitable foundation, Uncle Scrooge retired to an isolated log cabin north of Yukon. He goes panning for gold every summer, just for fun. Needless to say, he throws back into the river any nuggets he happens to catch.
I have seen many reports of Trump's failed enterprises, but somehow this one was never mentioned. I would say that it is the most "educative" one, and should be the first of the list:
Random theory that occurred to me yesterday: poetry must be a rather recent and accidental invention compared to singing.
A poem is a song without melody. I bet that, before the invention of writing, there were no poems, only songs. But when writing was invented, and people tried to write down songs, they of course could not write down the melody. Only the lyrics, rhyme, and some of the rhythm could get through. Voilà, poetry...
BREAKING: Amazon announced that it concluded that operating its own datacenters is not cost-effective, and therefore will shut them down and re-implement its AWS service on Microsoft's Azure platform.
Also, in a separate announcement today, Microsoft informed that, for economic reasons, it is shutting down its private datacenters and implementing its Azure service on Amazon's AWS platform.
I once organized a sit-in consumer protest in one of their stores, demanding a 50% increase in the size of their free samples of mint-flavored beef jerky.
My emotional support animal is a tiger. (She is quite docile, actually; those incidents you may have seen reported in the news were not her fault at all.)
What is the proper general term for someone who is bent on imposing their religious beliefs on those who do not share them? Like the Taliban, Iran's Revolutionary Guard, the Spanish Conquistadores, ...
A decentralized communications technology that does not depend on routing digital packets through a physical network of towers, gateways, microwave beams, and optical fibers. The text to be transmitted is encoded with a multiband frequency/amplitude modulation scheme, transmitted by molecular density waves, and decoded with a pair of miniaturized spectral filter banks implanted under the receiver's skull. Range up to tens of meters.
A form of personal transportation, like a Tesla, but produced with simple bio-engineering out of proteic polymers rather than metal and plastic. Normally for a single passenger, but could carry two in a pinch, and some modest amount of goods. Totally green-powered, and could be recharged even in transit. Superb off-road agility and can drive through 3-foot-deep water. Drive-by wire and voice activation. Available in several colors.
Is there any country with official
(possibly mandatory) standards for minimum transportation infrastructure?
Like, "in every urban area with more than N inhabitants, there must be a bus stop for for each travel direction within D meters from each home, with buses every M minutes that will let one reach any place in the grid with at most one bus change" and similarly for metro.