laughing_man

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by laughing_man 5d ago
They've done the calculation. They'll lose X income because of subscribers who leave, and they'll get Y extra income from the ones who remain. If X < Y then implement policy.
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by laughing_man 5d ago
I disagree with the framing of your comment. For one thing, you get an old age pension for the extra taxes you pay when you work. What do I get for restrictions on my liberties in this case?
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by laughing_man 5d ago
Certainly there are people who shouldn't gamble, but that doesn't mean gambling should be illegal. For a lot of people it's harmless fun.
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by laughing_man 6d ago
This is all just smoke. Hegseth is not going to be impeached. Massie is upset because the Jews have been using their orbital mind lasers on the illuminati again.
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by laughing_man 6d ago
Flares. They fired flares at a Danish helicopter. It's possible the conflict will get bigger, but I doubt it. I think what's happening right now is all about internal Russian politics. The Russians will lose in Ukraine without
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by laughing_man 6d ago
And yet the Europeans have built one defense system after another in that time. I get why countries want to have their own defense industries. If I were running a country I would too. But the extent to which more of those systems haven&#
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by laughing_man 6d ago
There's no active war in the Far East, at least for the US. Of course you bring mobile assets to where the fighting is right now.
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by laughing_man 6d ago
That's the theory. I never ran across a project that used stored procedures which didn't have a code base split between stored procedures and whatever server language, with no rhyme or reason for what goes where. It's just
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by laughing_man 7d ago
Piercing the corporate veil is difficult to do in practice unless they've gotten very sloppy.
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by laughing_man 10d ago
No, it wasn't to keep slave owning states in the union. You're confusing the 3/5th compromise with the electoral college. The reason we have 50 little elections instead of one big one is to keep the largest states from dict
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by laughing_man 10d ago
That's just the way the US system is set up. You can't win the presidency by doing really well in the five largest states.
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by laughing_man 10d ago
I don't know why Trump's existence is evidence the US does not have a "real" democracy. As a group, we voted for him, and he went to the Oval Office. That's democracy. There are certainly governments outlawing pol
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by laughing_man 13d ago
Eh... I was thinking of harvesters, not tractors.
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by laughing_man 13d ago
To put this in perspective, a large John Deere tractor with a corn header costs in the neighborhood of $1.25 million.
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by laughing_man 14d ago
That's normal stuff for anyone producing a vehicle, isn't it?
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by laughing_man 14d ago
This is actually pretty widespread on newer models. There are cars for which you need a subscription costing thousands of dollars every year to put your parking brake into "maintenance mode", without which you can't fix your
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by laughing_man 14d ago
For a large commercial operation, $200/year is nothing, but it's enough to hurt the smaller guys.
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by laughing_man 19d ago
That OneDrive thing was what convinced me to finally get rid of Windows. I bought a new machine, copied my old desktop over, and only then realized all my tax returns and other sensitive documents had been copied to a Microsoft server some
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by laughing_man 20d ago
Part of the problem is we've essentially made corruption legal, at least for Congress. In the past if you gave a million dollars in cash to your Congressman, he stood a good chance of getting caught and arrested. But these days it&#x
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by laughing_man 21d ago
There is always a better choice than a 741 for new designs, but somehow people still use those things too.
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by laughing_man 24d ago
Not necessarily. Some of the most profitable games out there are not very fun to play, but they have their monetization strategy nailed down. People laughed at Blizzard when it came out with the mobile game Diablo Immortal , and I've
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by laughing_man 25d ago
If you take the king's shilling, you do the king's bidding. The law doesn't make boycotts illegal. It just says that you can't receive federal money if you're going to spend it on operations that engage in this ki
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by laughing_man 26d ago
That's great and all, but what they should have done was just scrapped the age-verification stuff entirely. You can't really justify having that kind of restriction on Windows and MacOS but not on Linux.
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by laughing_man 27d ago
How do people find jobs where they can spend this much time doing things that aren't part of their job?
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by laughing_man 27d ago
Same here. The thing that makes it so high stakes in EVE is you don't just respawn with all your stuff. It might have taken a couple weeks (or longer) for you to grind up the money for the ship you're using, and if the fight doe
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by laughing_man 27d ago
Yep. My wormhole corp would shoot just about anyone we ran across except Signal Cartel. You get a bad rep killing those guys.
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by laughing_man 27d ago
I played EVE for many years, and I really hated the addition of skill injectors. When I first started playing, the only way to get your skills up was to spend the time training them. Now it just takes real money cash. There's a legit
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by laughing_man 29d ago
I stopped looking into drugs when I stopped having problems.
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by laughing_man 29d ago
SSRIs and SNRIs just didn't work very well for me. If they had an positive effect at all, it wasn't enough to rise above the proverbial noise. Coming off of them wasn't too bad though. I got the brain zaps, but those were e
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by laughing_man 1mo ago
The problem is one of the alternatives they consider worse than homelessness is a life without opioids. I had cousin who was homeless in San Diego. Over the years she came into money a couple times, either from family members or through in

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