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I've been on high-dose statins since 1995. I still feed birds and squirrels in my yard, and most of my so-called neighbors are still alive and seemingly well. I must be doing something wrong :-)

I, too, was surprised at no black bar. This man had tremendous influence on computing. For me it was personal, since I began my career journey in IT in 1967 after being fascinated by a Teletype clacking away interactively with a GE timesharing system at my local school district. Perhaps it has been too many years, and people now are so familiar with the interactivity of personal computers and cell phones, that they have little knowledge of how revolutionary the concept of timesharing was in an era when nearly all computers operated in "batch" mode.

Credit unions often have alternatives to expensive payday loans. My CU, for example, offers a "Better Choice" loan of $500, payable in three monthly installments with interest in the range of a typical credit card. They will run a credit check and ask you to fill out a monthly budget form, but if you've been a member in fairly good standing (not routinely bouncing checks, etc.) for some time, the loan will usually be approved. It also gets reported to the credit agencies to help improve your score.

9 * 4 = 36-bit word.

Yep. It was kind of fun when they first added it, but now it is overused to the point where nearly every post has a heart sign, angry/sad face, etc. Even when there is hardly anything to love or be angry or sad about. I became so tired of it that I modified my F.B. Purity add-on to just not show them to me anymore.

People use Facebook for news? I mostly use it to find out the special flavor of the day at my local ice cream stand.

It's possible that GOP reps may let it slide just so it can't be used as a campaign issue by Dems for the midterms and later.

Not at all. They can take trains, just as some will ride as a passenger in automobiles, trucks, or vans. As long as they aren't sitting in the engineer's seat or doing the actual driving :-)