Tim H.

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• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  Thank you, that sounds like what I'd expect from the co-author of "Crown of Slaves"....
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  If memory serves, one of the goals of the displaced Americans in Eric Flint's "Ring Of Fire" series was to discourage European participation in the slave trade. I've only read a few of those, don't know if any of them...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  I believe the time frame I had in mind was 2002ish, and was not suggesting an install of WIN NT desktop in a phone, but a mobile OS built around the NT kernel, like they released in 2012. Not at...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  M$ has made use of the NT kernel in other operating systems, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone_8 Not exactly a power hungry application, and for myself, it and it's WIN 10 mobile descendant were the most pleasant varieties of that family of...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  Intel was not the only x86 manufacturer, and x86 was not the only CPU style NT was ported to, even back then....
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  A timeline where Nolan Bushnell runs Atari for another decade or two could be interesting. As well as one where M$ brings a 32 bit, NT kernel based, OS to the smart phone market ten years ahead of what they...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  We got the plastic to make bottle washers redundant. How to stop more plastic getting into milk will involve conflict with sales folk, reminiscient somehow of n"Bored of the Ring"...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  I would say that Putin wishes to play the game of kings at a lower difficulty level....
• Commented on Announcement time!
  I used a nail file to extend the useful life of breaker points, and a pocket knife to clean combustion deposits from spark plugs. Don't miss leaded gas either....
• Commented on Announcement time!
  .."adjust the timing belt with a dwell light"? I don't miss the old analog ignition systems, but I remember timing lights to adjust ignition timing and dwell meters for those who either didn't trust setting breaker points with a .016"...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  Of late, my preferred euphemism for flatulence is "Hail Donald"....
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  One might get the impression the "Elect" don't believe in a judgement day. To "Borrow" a phrase from a deceased evangelist, they need to "Let go and let God"*. Though I'm sure Mr. Graham didn't mean it that way....
• Commented on Announcement time!
  I had a test come back positive over a year ago, my symptoms were minimal, having had the Janssen vaccine and a booster earlier. I've had colds that felt worse....
• Commented on Announcement time!
  On the subject of streaming music "kansaspublicradio.org/podcast/retro-cocktail-hour" is worth a look for a certain sort of music, non rock & roll, sixties pop....
• Commented on Announcement time!
  What people get out of the bible says a lot about them....
• Commented on Announcement time!
  The behavior we characterize as neurotypical might be seen on reemergence as gauche. Indeed, it might not be so much majority behavior now as a loud minority who "Dare to be assholes"....
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Sounds about right, usually, the old methods have to comprehensively soil the bedding before they're reconsidered....
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  The usual suspects really need to try a consensual relationship... experience the entire woman. But that would require self-affirmation based on their own resources rather than relative position*. *Consider right wing reactionaries as a bent back to nature thing, they...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  I suppose I'm just wasting bandwidth to suggest more generous parental leave and affordable childcare would go further towards a goal of more children than establishing "Gilead". The usual suspects are unlikely to have read Mark Twain's relevangt quote on...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  One might speculate, a "What if?" that I favor is that the stillborn small American Ford that appeared as a Ford Taunus might have slowed imports, likely only until they upped their game. Even if, the resentment fueled anti-labor jihadis...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Under eighteens have yet to be entirely assimilated, and might vote sensibly. From time to time....
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  I suspect post WW2 German policy could be used to guess what FDR might've wanted the New Deal to be, if he hadn't had to work with Southern Democrats*. *And the resultant compromise was still too much for their Grandchildren...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  My bad, my only exposure to Canadians is through media, where they sound much closer to residents of the United, for now, States. Personally, regional spelling variations trouble me not at all....
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Why not "North American English"?...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  There would be some blowback,likely from Native Americans and Spanish speakers, to name two....
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Might written 'USian" English be described as "Simplified English"?...
• Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
  I found bicycles effective enough to impress my ,then young, mind with how vulnerable I was, a paranoia that served me well when I later rode a motorcycle. On "Slushbox" vs manual transmissions,contemporary automatics have gotten good enough that one...
• Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
  I wonder if JRRT didn't think about writing in more dietary issues in LOTR than Smeagol/Gollum's aversion to cooked rabbit, or considered it an unneeded diversion?...
• Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
  On fresh food, many years ago I had the opportunity to bake apple pies with apples that had been picked the same day, tasty!...
• Commented on Worldcon in the news
  They failed to jump off when the "conservative" movement was highjacked by reactionaries....