DrBob

Also "fruit fly".

I live there too - or in a space just like it. It's heavily rural so between the temperatures and the distance we will be the combustion engines last stand.

Sadly yes.

Rumpelstiltskin

Lol. Maybe I'll scan the chapter when I get a chance. Until then enjoy another page.

Yes. Also me trying to take a legible picture of an old fashioned book.

I keep the O'Reilly user's guide to the Internet around just to show young people this chapter...

I regret to inform you that the internet was alive and well in 1989. I can personally attest to downloading dirty pictures from newsgroups, even if the larger ones required multiple pieces and we had to clip the headers and concatenate the files. The online guitar archive for tablature was also available and 100% free.

I read the article. We have turned to China because our trading partner, with whom we have a free trade agreement, has gone insane. That is the context in which the current negotiations are taking place.

My point is that we have to ship goods or we can't pay for our own social structures. In the absence of the US, China is looking like a reliable market. It's just a matter of realpolitik that we may have to limit our asks because our own negotiating position is a little more precarious than it was during Fast's time.

We need to do business, and the US is a less reliable partner at the moment. China may swing a cudgel, but it's at least strategic and not an arbitrary bullying. Remember Fentanyl? Or the claim that the US was in a trade deficit because they chose to exclude services and classes of goods from the calculation? The entire current economic structure is at risk for absolutely no bloody reason. So Ed Fast can get stuffed.

The National Energy Program. The West lost their minds and privatized the profit. Alberta took a slice for the Heritage Fund which Lougheed looted and here we are.

Yes. We have been talking about it for 30 years at this point.