To the people pushing hlthis narrative that want to buy houses in a vacation destination cheap then rent them for $600/night.

If your business requires all its employees to be there to function, it’s understaffed.

People go on vacation, get sick, quit, have car trouble, and die. Your business needs to account for that.

We talking real football or the one where you use your feet?

I still run across them that charge at 1.0 speeds. I’m pretty sure if my phone isn’t turned off they can’t actually keep my phone from dying at idle.

I just add 1 to the number at the end of my password every time they force a change.

I’m on 18 right now.

Last time I went to one (2020), the shelves were 80% empty, and what they had was mostly karaoke machines on consignment sale.

It was super depressing.

It can be reproduced indefinitely without cost to the creator. It’s the first production that’s a bitch.

How is initial production funded if nobody is willing to pay for it?

They’re trying to argue that an EULA isn’t binding because they can’t sign away their rights, and thats legally incorrect in this case.

Recognizing reality is different than endorsing it.

And that’s the one we can refuse to buy.

But let’s be honest - people won’t. They’ll buy it in record numbers - just not on Linux.

What rights?

You’re buying a license to play a game. Rockstar is not obligated to ensure it’s available to you indefinitely.

They implemented this 10 years after the game’s release. It’s harder to vote with your wallet at that point.

There’s one critical issue with Teams that’s about to result in it being banned for government work.

You can’t save logs.

My small city just changed domains and went to 365 Government. As part of the process we had to migrate all our accounts and create new ones, and we lost all of our Teams history because there’s no way to save the logs.

Now if someone asks for chat history as part of an Open Records Request or as discovery in a lawsuit, we can’t provide them. Other government bodies are starting to realize this and everyone’s about to start getting “don’t use Teams” memos from the lawyers.

Most states don’t tax cars outside of sales tax.

They may have registration, but that’s different than tax and only applies of you use the vehicle on public land.

Property tax is usually school districts and municipalities, and is well-under 1% most planned.

They can be used as collateral because they are assets that have value. You can use your car or house as collateral too, and neither requires payment of federal income tax.

There isn’t a federal tax on most assets. It’s income that’s taxed. If your assets gain value they can be sold, at which point you pay taxes on that income, though often at a reduced rate (e.g. Capital Gains Tax for selling stock at a profit).

That works great unless you’re specifically looking for results in those frequencies.

It’s the equivalent of trying to look for a red laser pointer dot on a wall and some jackass put red floodlights in front of you aimed at the wall.

The problem is they have to come up with a new source of income now that it looks like Google’s payments to be the default search engine to them are illegal.

That’s like 90% of their revenue, so they’re panicking.

If Google takes money to host an ad that’s malware, they should be able to be prosecuted for it.

This is different than simply hosting community content that they can’t reasonably moderate. They’re being given money to distribute these ads, so they can afford to moderate them.

Which should be easy anyway. Ads shouldn’t be able to install third-party shit from the advertisers on user computers. Google can easily restrict what can be included on an ad package.

Force. Brain fart.

Was working on the tractor this weekend.

I’m not sure there’s an ethical way to kill a deer with torsion.

A lord/servant relationship is still a relationship.

I don’t want a relationship with my tools.

If my PC starts running slow I’ll tear the fucker item and start replacing shit. If the OS displeases me I’ll start disabling parts. If software starts interrupting me when I’m not actively using it I change its permissions so it can only do what I tell it.

I’m not gonna give my butler a lobotomy to make him more obedient, swap the Footmen’s hands out for serving platters, or kneecap the scullery maid so she can’t leave the kitchen.

If my phone dies, it gets scrapped and I replace it without shedding a tear. I can’t say the same for a loyal Valet.

I think Trump and the secret service keeps getting lucky that his assailants are idiots regarding their weapon choice. This guy was 300-500 yards away and had an AK.

An AK is a 4-5 MOA rifle at best, so even with perfect optics, a perfect shooter, no wind, and a steady position, you’re looking at a precision of 2 feet at 500 yards, and that’s ignoring that precision gets progressively worse at range.

At 500 yards, a 7.62x39 round has gone subsonic, lost 80% of its muzzle energy, and dropped 30 feet.

Anything under 1000 ft/lbs of torque force isn’t considered powerful enough to ethically hunt a whitetail deer. At 500 yards, a 7.62x39 has less than a third of that energy. It’s enough to be lethal, but not consistently.

And all that is the starting point for the first shot. It gets worse firing semi-auto.