As for telco dereg, the media consolidation that followed wasn't what I'd call a net positive for humanity.
Well, I'd agree there are some mergers that I don't think should have gone through, but it did open up the market. Ideally, I do think there should be restrictions on controlling all of the media in a region.
Dereg is one path, and a lot of nations took it, but there are other paths that work as well or better.
I think that's a reasonable counterpoint. However, I would still say that telco dereg is conservative minded legislation that did improve things. Though, again, done during the Clinton administration. For all the sh*t Clinton took from the right, he delivered better for Republicans (with the exception of Supreme Court nominees though you can claim Bush Sr. only broke even on that point) than any other president since Reagan.
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More ovary-tugging, courtesy of Drew Brees and his son:
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HE * HE = SHE
25 * 25 = 625
And that is why I am the coolest kid around town.
Time Travel in San Francisco via Google Earth
Time travel is always fun, and Google Earth now makes it easy to do. The newest version includes a button that allows users to to view historical imagery to see how a place has changed through the decades.
I tried it out with San Francisco, where Google Earth offers views of the city dating back to 1946. Sometimes the changes are subtle, but at other times they are very stark.
The image at top, for example, shows SOMA and the original Bay Bridge approach on Fifth Street. Notice all the ships tied up at San Francisco’s then-active wharves.
Here’s the site of the former Seals Stadium, at 16th Street and Bryant, as it looked in 1946, before the elevated 101 freeway went in, and before it became today’s Potrero Safeway:
Thanks PC! The boy figured out the number of possible permutations, but got stuck on figuring the actual answer. Will see if I have hint him in the right direct now.
Boo, pool closed!
I think that you've gotten enough exercise for a bit.
You can see Google from here: a Zeppelin view of San Francisco
The video is pretty cool.
When we first heard about Airship Ventures, a company that's resurrected the Zeppelin for air tours of San Francisco and other locations, we said: Sign us up! Well, the company took us seriously, giving us a free ride on one of their airships for a quick flight around the Bay Area (such a ride typically costs about $500). The result: some top-notch sightseeing, and the only flight we've ever taken when it was okay to open a window on the aircraft. It's all caught by our trusty camcorder — experience airship travel via the video and continue reading for the full story on the Zeppelin.
Airship Ventures' particular Zeppelin (technically a Zeppelin NT), called the Eureka, is one of only four in the world. The company takes it on tours up and down the California coast. This is no blimp — what makes it an airship is its rigid frame, made of carbon fiber and aluminum. At 246 feet long, it's actually physically bigger than a Boeing 747 (see the size chart below). It has a lot of advantages over other aircraft — it doesn't need a runway and low noise in the passenger cabin being just two — but it does need a guy to stalk it with a big orange remote control for some reason (see video).
Thanks PC! The boy figured out the number of possible permutations, but got stuck on figuring the actual answer. Will see if I have hint him in the right direct now.
Since the last digits were all the same, E had to be 0 or 5 (...or 1...or 6...okay, I think I got lucky). But I knew any 0 numbers squared wouldn't give me the XHE answer, so I cycled through the X5 squares (well, I think I pretty much went straight to 25 since I knew that square). Anyway, that may help you steer him in the right direction. It was easy for me since I memorized the squares up to 25 in high school for Number Sense competitions, but I don't know if he's as familiar with them.
