I'm a former professional librarian. Left the field in 1985, but have never heard of anyone anywhere paying for use of the dewey decimal system. OCLC services is a different issue. You're paying for their provision of cataloging for your collection.

Here's one instance where they sued over this in the early 2000's.

https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...

The issue was with a hotel that numbered their rooms according to the Dewey Decimal System.

I was completely unable to get it to "scroll": iPhone, MacBook running Firefox or Chromium, trackpad, arrow keys, the handle thingy on the right edge of the browser... nix nada nothing.

US: Washington

It isn't for that kind of tech writer. It is "for pundits, journalists, bloggers, and assorted scribblers who write about technology".

Sorry...TFA? What's that?

The F*king Article

There is no ‘*’ in the word fucking.

I spend week-long visits at a remote cabin in the Central Cascades. During the winter I have to get outside and get some significant exercise every day. Outside. Exercise. Every day. Or I will go crazy. That's it. Think of the trappers who spent all winter in cabins in the mountains. Outside. Exercise. Every day.

Egypt to the Black Sea is UPSTREAM via the Dardenelles and the Bosporus. That's step one in the original route. It seems that a test run in the DOWNSTREAM direction will be less than convincing.

If you can walk with spices gems and minerals, build a ship, and sail back with bulk goods, nautical trade is proved viable.

Ditto. The Economist covers topics in depth that I don't see covered at all elsewhere. I also subscribe to 'The New Yorker'. I disagree vehemently with their politics but respect them as a source of good writing on diverse and sometimes tweaky topics.

I'm halfway there...not an engineer and my academic background is social sciences; but with a technical background occupationally. I'm here because it is an exceptionally diverse news source for all kinds of topics, technical and non-technical both.