Their top guy Murphy is heading up the re-write. :-)

There are more explations, including the likely correct one. Both wind projects mentioned were blocked by the department of the interior before they ever mentioned national security. The Empire Wind project is off Long Island and the other one is off Martha's Vinyard. Both places are where rich people have seaside estates and both projects have had NIMBY opposition from people who don't want windmills spoiling their view.

Trump himself put it this way: "STUPID AND UGLY WINDMILLS ARE KILLING NEW JERSEY. Energy prices up 28% this year, and not enough electricity to take care of state. STOP THE WINDMILLS!" and has said similar things about a windfarm that's visible from his golf course in Scotland.

Does he irrationally hate windmills? I doubt he really cares. But some of his rich buddies care very much, so....

By the time any merger is completed, though, Trump's term will be almost over -- this one anyway. :-)

Agreed. Thanks for expanding on that.

They do. Equation 9. It's basically income corrected for cost of living.

Trump has anyway, though I'm also guessing the next (Democrat) administration will remove all decorations he's done - useless gold trophies and filigree plastered everywhere, pointless signage ("The Oval Office"), the Presidential wall of fame (currently deriding past Democrat Presidents), his name on the Kennedy Center (which is probably unlawful as the old name was set by law), etc... Hopefully the Mar-a-Lago patio and ridiculous ballroom will go too. I will admit, though, that the signage is probably useful for now so Trump knows where he is and what room he's in. :-)

This administration has figured out that "National Security" are magic words to skip (or forestall) legal scrutiny, like here with his ballroom: Trump administration says White House ballroom construction is a matter of national security

Also noting this humorous bit: Trump Admits No One Wants to Build Him a Monument

Humans aren't analog. Neurons generally fire all-or-nothing action potentials and adjust their frequency. Photo receptors actually do have analog outputs but the ganglion cells use action potentials so the signal to the rest of your brain is limited by their firing rate. That maxes out at about 400 Hz in a dish but is a lot slower in an actual eye, more like 20 FPS. It can go faster in bursts though, which is why 24 FPS is fine for movies but people can still detect brief changes or occasional dropped frames in higher framerate video.

Sure, but a Fiat 500 and Ford F150 are completely different types of vehicles from a functional standpoint. A Sun vs. HP workstation or SystemV vs BSD Unix vs. Linux, are less so, from a functional standpoint anyway.

On the other hand, I have a 2001 Honda Civic Ex Coupe and 2002 Honda CR-V EX (both 5-sp manuals) and the interior controls are almost identical.

s/Linux/BSD/

Well, I'm a simple guy. :-) But, to be fair, they (still) work just fine. Newer isn't always better.

My Windows 10 system is a Dell XPS 420 a friend gave me (that then had Win7 on it) and it runs Windows well, even with just 8GB RAM. I did replace the HDD with an SSD (and added a SATA-3 PCIe card for it) when the HDD looked like it was going to (finally) flake out and that did give me a good performance boost. My Linux Mint system was built using an ASRock Z77 Extreme3 motherboard, and EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2 PS, a friend gave me, on which I swapped in an Intel i7-3770 and added 32GB RAM and SSD; works great and easily handles a VM or two. Haven't found a use for my Dell PowerEdge T110 w/32GB ECC RAM yet, but will. I have an old HP a6130n (Athlon 64 X2 (B) 5000+, with 8GB RAM), from somewhere, that I repurposed, in a smaller case, as my router with OPNsense after my D-Link DSR-250 router was flagged with an unfixable (meaning, won't fix) security issue. It pulls a little more power than an appliance, but I have the Linux Power Mode set to "Adaptive" and that toned it down a LOT - as measured by a Kill-a-Watt meter.

I'll grant you that many (most?) people get their PCs with the OS pre-installed and go from there and are intimidated by the thought of installing something from scratch - with the associated anxiety of transferring their files, etc... but it's not actually an impossible, or even super difficult, task. When I do this for (or with) friends - installing either Linux or Windows - I always use a new disk so they know their old system isn't destroyed, and then I/they keep it for a while in case anything got missed, and that seems to help a lot. In the process, they do seem to learn a little and get more comfortable with their system.

I'd buy that as an additional argument to an Energy Star certification being an independent assessment - that (other) companies can't lie about. Having to pay for the certification is part of the equation, and not having one would be a detriment when comparing a product to one that does, as well as the various values among those that do.

And this helps explain all the clips of dogs and cats (apparently) actually watching TV. They need even higher frame rates to perceive motion, which many modern flat screens offer. A quick Google search returns various sources saying dogs need at least 70-80Hz and cats at least 100-110Hz to perceive motion, also noting that they, like many animals, see colors differently than humans.

So... Cameron's saying people flocked to it for the frame rate, not the story? :-)