QuoteI don't disagree; the final product will not look like this because this is not sustainable from an environmental, energy, cost, or people perspective. I would argue that none of the "life-changing tech" that we have been sold over the past 50 years has remained entirely the way marketing has promised. Self-driving cars aren't there yet. My Roomba is no robot maid. Ramen from the microwave is not a food replicator.

Don't know if you were watching to robot Olympics this weekend but; damn.
 

Gary is overwhelmingly black and has been drastically underserved for decades. If it were a country it would have the fifth highest murder rate in the world, on par with the highest in the US (USVI). I don't know if reporters feel safe going down there to cover something they don't even care about. 

I'm in the Phillipines! I have you all beat! Trust me. I die in the brown outs and the AC goes off. We go sit in my car. Lol! 

But most people here live without AC. I visit my GFs family and feel like a wimp. I am way more used to the heat though after the last year plus. I sweated my ass off the first couple months. 

The weird thing is it's the rainy season right now. But it's hot as hell. Supposed to be El Nino for another two months. Really unusually hot. But even in the rainy season and it's pouring down rain all day. It's still hot. Your still walking around in a t-shirt and shorts.

Quote from: airballrad on Today at 11:01:15 AMDo you have an EPUB reader app?

Quote from: Moab on Today at 05:26:25 AMI don't do well with audio books. Prefer to read. The internet archive version is a limited release. Only part of the book. And you can rent the entire thing.

I have the Google play book app now. Does that read epub?

I found it on Google Play Books!

Do you have an EPUB reader app?

Quote from: Moab on Today at 05:26:25 AMI don't do well with audio books. Prefer to read. The internet archive version is a limited release. Only part of the book. And you can rent the entire thing.

I'm in Bluffton Indiana about 3 hours east south east of Gary.  There are lawsuits against the power company stating they failed to have trees trimmed before the storm that is one reason for the power issues in different parts of the state. Like Dark said those storms been in Kentucky, Illinois, Michigan, even where i used to live ( outside Dover Delaware) has had tornadoes from these storms. The Delaware tornadoes went down rt 13 south dover ( about a mile or 2 south of the race way) damaged 2 hotels and one took part of the back wall of a Kraft foods warehouse. Then back to Indy in  Anderson IN, Berne I,N Indianapolis IN major flooding. There was a videos of a guy jet skiing down the road in Indianapolis.   I know in Garret a transformer caught fire and they lost power, with everyone going to help the bigger problems they don't have people local to respond so even a small problem that is normally 2 hours turns into a 2 day issue because resources are scattered .

The one stepson works as a road flagger and has been out all over the state flagging for clean up, flooding and utility work. Not sure if he has been to Gary i know he has gone west to the state line. He is liking the money but misses sleep.

Quote from: MacWa77ace on Yesterday at 04:44:43 PMAmazon has it free with trial audio book membership.

I don't do well with audio books. Prefer to read. The internet archive version is a limited release. Only part of the book. And you can rent the entire thing. 

Looks like it's also available on Archive.org:  https://archive.org/details/worldwarzoralhis0000broo_e1k8/mode/2up

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Quote from: DarkAxel on Yesterday at 11:39:47 AMEven that unlocked article requires me to put in my email address to see it. The NYT is harvesting email and cookie data and selling it to data brokers. I'm very careful about opting out of such garbage when I sign up for things on the web, and it took me a lot of time and work to almost eliminate the amount of spam and scam emails I was getting everyday. One day I made the mistake of giving the NYT my email address to read an article, and afterward I was deluged by the kind of crap I didn't want junking up my inbox. I'm still working to fix the damage from that one article.

That I didn't realize.  I'll stop sharing those links.

It's no worries brother. Frustration was not directed at you at all. You didn't know.

I've had to block several news orgs in my Google news feed for this practice. Selling your data is slimy. But just the hassle if getting directed to a story you can't read is just annoying. Especially when hundreds, if not at least dozens, of other outlets are probably carrying the same story. Where you CAN read it without this hassle for free.

Yeah, not aiming any anger at MajorHavoc myself. The NYT on the other hand...


Those same storms that have been pushing through Indiana have also been pushing through my area in SE Kentucky. We even had a suspected tornado last week, and we've been dealing with sporadic power outages, but my folks here have been lucky and we've only had to fire up the genny one day. Other areas in this and surrounding counties have dealt with two or three days at most. If limited power crews in this rural area can get the power back on in days, what does that say about Gary?