Friday, March 2, 2018

@11:50, 3/1/18

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1
Style

Hi Hi Good Morning Hi I Love You It’s Me

WhatsApp connects families around the world in amazing ways, and also is a complete nightmare.

I do not want to join such a chain.

2
Business Day

Adidas Prevails in ‘Three Stripes’ Trademark Case

The decision affirms earlier decisions that would allow Adidas to oppose a Belgian company’s registration of two parallel stripes on shoes as an European Union trademark.

I find I am in agreement with the European Court.

My disagreement is with the lack of a reasonable time limit.
When the protected mark is out of production for two years protection should lapse.

Copyrite should lapse with the death of the next generation.
An author without children is another problem.
Copyrite should certainly lapse when the work goes out of print.   Files should be protected by Copyleft.
Artists should be paid for their work.

3
Magazine

Most House Salads Are Terrible. Make Yours Shockingly Superb.

Marinated tomatoes and cold, crisp iceberg meet up beneath a pungent vinaigrette.

Iceberg lettuce is not a salad green. 

4
Real Estate

Bunny Williams, Doyenne of Cozy Chic, Lists Upper East Side Home


ugh.

5
Opinion

Trump’s Worst: The Winners Are In!

The guys who like legroom stand out in the administration.

The race to the bottom continues.
Clowns in responsible office.

6
World

Heaviest Snow in Decades Batters U.K. and Ireland

A rare Siberian storm front is hitting Europe with unusually cold, snowy and windy conditions. Britain’s forecast warned of “risk to life,” and the country faces a natural gas shortage.

Spring is coming.

There is nothing to be done about this weather now.
Halting the use of fossil fuel will begin to fix the weather in fifty  years.

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Magazine

Judge John Hodgman on Keeping a ‘Pants Chair’

Where should trousers go when you’re not wearing them?

The dressing room is the bedroom.
I must mend my ways.

8
Business Day

Ackman Ends His 5-Year Fight With Herbalife

The activist investor William A. Ackman has unloaded his remaining positions in the company — a bet that at one time had been valued at $1 billion by his Pershing Square Capital Management.

"Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent"

Faith moves markets.

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Real Estate

Triplex Fit for a Prince, and Owned by One, Finally Sells

A Saudi prince sells his triplex at Heritage at Trump Place doe $30 million; Jon Bon Jovi and Seth Meyers each sell West Village condos.

I do not want to know these people.
I would always be a dependent.

10
Technology

Bit by Bit, Whole Foods Gets an Amazon Touch

It has been six months since Amazon took over Whole Foods for $13.4 billion. Here are a handful of notable changes Amazon has made to Whole Foods so far.

Groceries are being forced to be commodities.

Fine restaurants go to the markets.


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1
Opinion

Chemicals and Consumers

The American Chemistry Council takes issue with a column by Nicholas Kristof.

All Robert Simmons points are true.
None of them address Nicholas Kristof's concerns.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/23/opinion/columnists/poisons-in-our-bodies.html

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Reader Center

Are You a School Resource Officer? We Want to Hear From You

School resource officers are an important, but rarely heard voice in the debate over school gun violence.

As long as the law ignores the meaning of the second amendment there will be mass school shootings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Text

Membership in a "well regulated militia" is a necessary precondition to keeping and bearing arms.

3
Style

Hi Hi Good Morning Hi I Love You It’s Me


Life is a precondition to communication.

News is content.

4
Opinion

The Dog in My Life

Readers describe their happy existence with dogs.

I would not inflict my dog on others.
I will avoid euthanasia if I can.

Slaughter is a necessary part of eating meat.

I do not want the job.

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Magazine

Most House Salads Are Terrible. Make Yours Shockingly Superb.

Marinated tomatoes and cold, crisp iceberg meet up beneath a pungent vinaigrette.


It may be better than some.

Those fruits are not tomatoes.

6
World

Not the Worst Hotel in the World, Perhaps, but ‘the World Is Very Big’

With 500 rooms, one guest, pigeons on the top floors and many cockroaches, the Grand Hotel in Kosovo reflects the travails of a new nation.

Close it.  
There is no way out of the trap but higher taxes.
The government must pay the cost or eliminate the cost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo#Geography

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kosovo/@42.562916,20.5751217,10z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x13537af354bf7df1:0xbfffeedfabc31791
!8m2!3d42.6026359!4d20.902977

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Opinion

The Root of White House Chaos? A Weak President

Trump is a bystander in his own administration — and that could be more trouble than the woes of Hicks or Kushner.

Donald Trump was elected to shrink the government.
That means shrinking the cost of government.
That means doing less.
Trump is trying to do less.

8
Real Estate

Bunny Williams, Doyenne of Cozy Chic, Lists Upper East Side Home


The search for a greater fool continues.

9
World

U.S. Ambassador to Mexico to Quit Amid Tense Relations Under Trump

Roberta S. Jacobson is one of the most experienced Latin America experts in the State Department, having spent most of her 31-year tenure focused on the region.

Her other choice is to seek refuge in Mexico.

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Magazine

Judge John Hodgman on Keeping a ‘Pants Chair’



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