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Thanks for creating awareness. 

#NASA #1960'S #chalkboard
 

There was a time in 1982 when there were only three ".com" addresses. (symbolics.com, bbn.com, and think.com)
The full article from which that picture above is taken does a much better job overall:

But the NSF actually made predictions in 1982 that came a lot closer to reality for the year 2000, not so much about gaming, but the effects of the Internet in general:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/04/26/bold-predictions-about-the-internet-from-1982/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d82663905c80
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We don't call it "videotex," but this sounds about right. The National Science Foundation report in question also made some surprisingly solid predictions about the Internet's broader societal and economic impact:

They never take the signs down out in the backwoods. From last year:
 

It may be that she said something nasty to the Pres and she has been tagged for ‘Abuse.’

Does she have to wear that A around her neck for the rest of her life?
(Not sure if that's a reference to Samuel Taylor Coleridge or Nathaniel Hawthorne. I guess it all depends on what the meaning of "A" is.)

@James Thomas Rook Jr.  Similar to the Aristocrats in France lecturing the Parisian factory workers on the importance of cleanliness.
While the lesson may be true....
It may not be an option for a vast majority of common people.
"Let them eat cake!" 

Facebook said it stored millions of Instagram passwords without the proper security measures.

Why would anybody care?

Very true.
I wish I had enough money to never have to buy ANYTHING on credit ... but sometimes I have to pay to rent the future.
I would much rather have 60 million dollars in liquid assets, and a credit rating of ZERO.
 

Hello every one here in the Aviation Club, thought i would post pictures of the airport here in my home town of Birmingham, AL.
Please feel free to comment
The old
 
And the the new, only could find a few pictures.

My flight simulator picture of the Birmingham Int, Airport.
 
Thanks.

https://youtu.be/xWCy32Lb-SI
Deutsche Bank shares have recovered some ground after hitting 30 year lows. But as Hayley Platt reports, concern about the health of Europe's banks in the face a global slowdown is growing.
 

According to the 2018 Global Wealth Report from Credit Suisse Research Institute, you need a net worth of $871,320 U.S. Credit Suisse defines net worth, or "wealth," as "the value of financial assets plus real assets (principally housing) owned by households, minus their debts."
More than 19 million Americans are in the 1 percent worldwide, Credit Suisse reports, far more than from any other country, while "China is now clearly established in second place in the world wealth hierarchy," with 4.2 million citizens among the world's top 1 percent.
  To be among the top 10 percent worldwide, you don't even need six figures: A net worth of $93,170 will do it.
And even if you have just $4,210 to your name, you're still richer than half of the world's residents.

I guess I would call this the "Upper-class"

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-world/national/article87531457.html
 

I remember the story of the man who met this girl he liked, and after dinner on a Saturday, they went to a NYC Jewelry store and he picked out a 3 million dollar necklace for her, and wrote a check saying to the Jeweler,  " I will pick the necklace up Tuesday, after my check clears the bank". 
The Jeweler was fine with this, and the man and woman spent Saturday night, Sunday, and Monday "wearing each other out!". 
Tuesday afternoon the store called the man and told him the check had bounced for insufficient funds.
He grinned, and said "It cost me $35 bounced check charge, for the best long weekend I have EVER had."
There is a difference between "fetching" 90 million dollars, and GETTING 90 million dollars.

via .ORGWorld News

The FDA Drops the Hammer on E-Cigs
"Oh that? That's just a thumb drive, mom."
Some of those e-cigarettes that have taken off in America's high schools could soon be banned for everyone...precisely because they've taken off in America's high schools.
"The number of teenagers we believe are now using these products...has reached an epidemic proportion," FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said yesterday.
Per the CDC, of the 3.6 million middle- and high-schoolers who identify as tobacco users, 2.1 million (or ~58%) used e-cigs. So here's what Gottlieb's doing: The FDA told major e-cig manufacturers (Juul, Logic, MarkTen, blu, and Vuse) they have 60 days to come up with strategies to address use among teenagers.
And if they don't...regulators could force e-cig companies to drop all flavored tobacco products that appeal to kids (say goodbye to crème brûlée or fruit medley e-cigs).
Juul, which has captured ~72% of the $2.3 billion e-cig market, says it advertises to adults looking to quit smoking. But Gottlieb's take? "I am willing to narrow the off-ramp for adults to close the on-ramp for kids."