Shaved down to pass as a dime in the vending machines of the day.
What would "long-haul bear fund" even mean? A fund that's betting on a bear market longer than the longest one on record (just under 3 years,...
I remember being out one evening long ago with my small and non-verbal but sharp-eyed son, admiring Venus. I pointed to it, and said, "That's...
I'm not sure that I'd pick "the height of the Cold War arms race" as my desired target for military spending. In that period, it seemed like it...
I do pretty clearly remember it passing the $1900 mark, but not closing there. Then again, when the market is extremely volatile, I see pretty big...
What... what in the world is going on there? I've seen high-relief coins, but never ones with devices floating above the surface...
Things to be grateful for: Thomas Kinkade never designed anything for the Mint. :rolleyes:
Wow, it's JUST LIKE the Solar System -- except that if those are planets around the Sun, they got the number and relative sizes/brightnesses...
NO it HAS NOT. Quite. Yet.
Dingdingding! I should've said "built in the early 1980s, but with mid-1970s technology". Almost all 74LS TTL -- I think there was one 74H I used...
The big state show in our neck of the woods is scheduled for the first weekend in June. I can't see it happening, unless they can give the...
Nice. I've designed a certain amount of digital stuff on the hobby side (culminating in a video display card, but with early-1980s technology,...
C'mon, dish!
Well, then, perhaps you're just not cut out to be a Bee, kept or otherwise! ;) I like the "birds" analogy better anyhow -- the birds that come to...
Sitting in classrooms is not the most important part of the college experience for most people. The cost of party camp/frat-land/spouse-finder has...
Using Godwin's Law to illustrate Poe's Law. Nice. Fingers crossed for your community, but remember that by the time a case gets confirmed the...
Well, I'm hoping more for "kept like bees", or better yet "fed and housed like birds"...
Ah, that 'Uncle'. Edit... or is that "cousin", given that it's more local jurisdictions imposing property taxes?
I was confused by that email, too. I got it yesterday afternoon, and I'm ashamed to confess that my first thought was "unexpectedly low mintages!...
Heh. Around here you can sell wine and beer in grocery stores, but liquor is a state monopoly -- and since liquor stores are a State function,...
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