Number of hurricanes aside, the intensification rate of the storms is something to be aware of...

@#3 ... The real story is that the NHS predicted an unusually active season ...

Yeah.

We seem to be residing in the 15% that was outside their prediction.

More from the article...

...Why it matters: Ahead of the 2024 race and beyond, the settlement -- the third involving 2020 election coverage in the past two years -- shows the cost of airing election lies.

- - - Newsmax rival OAN settled another defamation suit by Smartmatic in April.

- - - Fox's $787 million settlement of a defamation suit by Dominion Voting Systems last year marked one of the largest media defamation payouts in history.

Driving the news: Newsmax and Smartmatic settled just as jury selection was underway for a trial set to begin in a few days. Details of the agreement were not made immediately available.

- - - "Lying to the American people has consequences. Smartmatic will not stop until the perpetrators are held accountable." a Smartmatic spokesperson said.

- - - Newsmax said on its website it was "pleased to announce it has resolved the litigation brought by Smartmatic through a confidential settlement." ...

@#18 ... I guess I missed the masses of Israel supporters demanding the extirpation of the Palestinian population. ...

Yeah, that is just wrong, imo.

This, I'll call it, situation in the Middle East is not a good one, by any means.

The issues and problems go back centuries.

The issues are not going to be resolved by warfare (e.g. Israel taking over large portions of Egypt in the "Six Day War" of 1967)

The issues will only be resolved by discussion.

imo, this is a religious war.

Religious wars are not decided by who is right and who is wrong.

Because both are wrong.

So, what is the solution?

@#2

Fortunately, here in Connecticut, there were local dial-up points.

But, yeah, your comment illustrates the barriers we had faced in order to be "online" back then.

And, for me, a 300 bps modem.

Wow. It is amazing we survived back then.

And, surprisingly, we had great discussions and exchanges of ideas back then.

But I did look forward, and upgraded to, a 1200bps modem when it was available.

@#1 ... "Uh, I don't know the situation." ...

Wow.

An admission of being totally clueless by a candidate for the Oval office?

Is this really the best the GOP has to offer?

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... Controversy erupted last week after reports emerged claiming that Robinson made a series of inflammatory posts to an adult website, including a description of himself as a "Black Nazi," praise for Adolf Hitler's Nazi manifesto Mein Kampf and a fond recollection of "peeping" on women in bathrooms.

Trump, who endorsed Robinson and praised him as "Martin Luther King on steroids," has been conspicuously silent on the scandal, perhaps due to North Carolina being a pivotal swing state that could decide a tight contest in this year's presidential election.

The former president finally weighed in on Thursday, telling a reporter at New York's Trump Tower the following when asked whether he planned to withdraw his endorsement of Robinson: "Uh, I don't know the situation." ...

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... In October of 2023, when Grace Carter was an 18-year-old freshman at North Carolina State University, she received a message on Instagram from the business account of the conservative dating app The Right Stuff. It was reaching out to ask if she wanted some merchandise.

Carter didn't know much about the app but was interested in a free hoodie. And as it turned out, she wasn't just corresponding with a brand manager but with John McEntee"the app's cofounder, a former official in the Donald Trump administration, and at one point, a senior adviser to Project 2025.

In messages sent to Carter and to another young woman and reviewed by WIRED, McEntee pushed conversations in directions that made them extremely uncomfortable and invited both, one repeatedly, to visit him in Los Angeles. ...

... Anyone else use CompuServe back in the day, paying those hellacious hourly charges? ...

[waving arms] me ... me .. me...

But, I would object to the hellacious hourly charges comment.

Back then, those charges were quite the norm. Yeah, if you dared to go online, it would cost you, by the minute.

But some folk went online.

I was one of those intrepid folk. :)

At a whopping 300 cps.

(yes, that is characters per second)

And I will also state that it was on the CIS forums that I learned about participating in discussions.

For me, I used a program called OzCIS that allowed me to log in to CIS (CompuServe Information Service) download all the comments in the forums in wanted to read, and then log off. I would then reply and comment on the messages that were downloaded. After i commented on those messages, I would then prompt OzCIS to upload my comments. So, my online time on CIS (and the cost) was limited.

When Wndows was released, OzCIS became OzWin.

Yeah, the online message forum world was quite different back then.

And, fwiw. CIS used the X.25 protocol, not Ethernet. At one point in my career, I was a system engineering in a company that provided a world-wide X.25 service. But i digress.

@#21 ... if you don't think Ivy League law schools frequently pump out Federalist Society goofballs you're goofy. ...

... and if I may add....

A radio station I enjoy every day, I hope it never goes to talk radio.

And what about (OK, there's that "what about" but in this instance I think it may be real) AM stations moving to FM?

@#9 ... Given the proliferation of other platforms and mediums, this is kind of a moot point. ...

I do not disagree.

So, should the AM radio band be eliminated?

@#6 ... But he is terrified of whatever putin holds over him becoming public. ...

Yeah.

@#1 ... Illegal*

*Except when Donald Trump does it" ...

Yeah.

That is the gist of what I've seen so far.

That gist seems to be, it is OK when fmr Pres Trump breaks the law, and he should be allowed to break the law, because, well because...

But if others break that law, then the hammer of Justice needs to fall on them.

@#1 ... Then the MBAs' (remember them, from the "yuppies" of the 80's?) ...

In case you need a reminder ...

... The National Transportation Safety Board is issuing "urgent safety recommendations" for some Boeing 737s"including the embattled 737 MAX line" warning that critical flight controls could jam. ...

OK, there are times when I am happy that I am no longer able to board an airplane due to my medical condition.

This is one of those times.

Stated differently... what has happened to Boeing?

It was once a most respected company.

Then the MBAs' (remember them, from the "yuppies" of the 80's?) seemed to have acquired the company and soaked the money, and the quality, out of the company for their personal wealth.

Kudos to the uber-wealthy.

A great American company seems to have been destroyed for the pursuit of the uber-wealthy.

@#4 ... inciting bomb threats against his constituents.,...

Is this what the GOP has become?

@#13 ... However what Corky is suggesting is that intensely negative coverage of Trump somehow benefits him. It's absurd. ...

First, please justify your current alias' assertion about what Corky is suggesting.

Is it what it is really suggesting, or your interpreting what it is suggesting?

Then, secondarily, justify why your current alias thinks it is absurd.

@#7 .. This whole article is propaganda ...

How so?

Please be specific.

thx.

@#56 .. No, but they are scared -------- of him so they have no choice. ...

Talk radio took over the AM radio band because most (if not nearly all) of the AM radios were not able to provide the audio bandwidth that some AM stations were given ("clear channels").

Why?

Because it was cheaper to manufacture an AM radio that sounded bad, than it was to manufacture one that had the ability to sound good.

(and, for the record, I have heard quality AM broadcasts. They can sound most excellently.)

But I digress...

So, then AM radio then progressed to a format that did not have to have good sound, but only deliver a message, i.e., speech, not music.

That is when the GOP swooped in.

They apparently saw the opportunity, and took advantage of it.

imo. YMMV.

... Smith's office confirmed Thursday afternoon that prosecutors sent U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan the information in advance of a 5 p.m. deadline she set. ...

Yeah, now we wait to see her decision on that evidence.

For starters, what of that evidence will be made public?

@#54 ... Sorry, Obama did his two terms. ...

Yup.

But who does the Republican offer to the Country for this election cycle?

A convicted criminal, awaiting sentencing?

I mean, is that the best within their party that they can surface for the Oval Office?

So, the current GOP campaign seems to be built upon more and more and more lies.