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Comment Re:Trump cutting it off (Score 4, Insightful) 105

If you don't live in NY, you weren't paying for it. It was local money before.
He's meddling in local government and negatively impacting states rights.
If you don't understand an issue, and how it already didn't impact you, why would you take a position on it that opens you up to potential harm risk when future federal government decides they personally don't like something that impacts you?
Killing the local funding means more federal transit money likely will be needed...paid for by you. What did you think all the tariff increases raising costs on top of the higher taxes were for?

Comment Re:I'm red-green colorblind (Score 1) 80

Depends if you are missing the M or the L, if the former, nothing since that's all they stimulated.
If missing the L, their description matches where normally the S and L are lowest (cyan). If you take the L out of that equation, with no signal in the blue range you'd be left with the same as you perceive from green-red ranges would be my guess.

Comment It's complicated... (Score 1) 93

...I have plenty life left to live, so not currently, but when I'm older and have less to lose, maybe...

However, it takes a surprisingly long time to get up there, and get back down, the amount of time you are there is limited, that ratio from an entertainment perspective is not as good as other forms of entertainment.
Amusement parks provide the G-force sensations.
Underwater sex provides the buoyant sexual experience.
Virtual reality displays provide the visual experience and the more aesthetic/impressive visuals are perceived via telescope and astrophotography.

The cost of the taxation of the value of that gift would be unaffordable though.

Comment "Understanding" (Score 1) 114

Press keeps glossing over that LLM "AI" has no understanding, it's just a fancy autocomplete.
It's never making a mistake at all, it's just producing from the data provided.
Any mistake is on the user not vetting the provided info from the tool.
The tool has way of knowing or measuring the veracity at all.
A hammer doesn't understand if it's hitting a nail or screw, neither is a mistake by it.

Comment Re:Isn't this what all your shops do, too? (Score 1) 131

Yeah, US shops have to do that, in part as taxes vary from state to state (and sometimes community within a state) whereas MSRP are manufacturer specified. It's also legacy as there used to be price stickers which couldn't as readily be changed to match new tax laws for older inventory. Nowadays of course this has changed both with pricing guns and now electronic price signs.

There's also situations where untaxed items like clothing are taxed over certain values (luxury instead of poor necessity), which depending on discounts, may vary at the register.

It's similar to ordering something online or from a catalog, the shipping cost isn't known until after the items are cumulated instead of baked into the price. If those costs are included in the price the consumer typically ends up overpaying for that aspect.

(In recent times there's also tax amnesty days, like back to school clothing not being taxed for a week.)

Comment Spoiler (Score 4, Informative) 32

...The cheese created an aero effect that led to the rocket over spinning,” Marciacq explained to Interesting Engineering.

The clip of the hop test shows this to be the case. COLIBRI flew to its peak altitude. The rocket’s vector thrust control system then shifted its trajectory 30 meters southeast before it came down to land. As it lowered itself to its makeshift launch pad, COLIBRI rotated several times.

Thankfully, the rocket managed to remain stable and land safely. The Gruyère, a hard cheese, didn’t turn to fondue, but it was still edible, according to Marciacq.

Comment Gah (Score 1) 235

If I can't hear someone talking from the backseat, phone, whatever and want to turn down the fan, close sunroof, roll up windows, or turn down the radio, I don't want to have to wait for them to finish to not interrupt, then explain to them I'm not talking to them but the car, then command the car. Just let me reach over without looking and turn a f'ing dial!

Also losing your voice is a thing.

No touchscreens please.

Comment Re:I've never liked QRs (Score 2) 56

Before browsers started obscuring them, you used to see entire links before you interacted with them, and human readability was a feature. Ironically Slashdot itself undermined your example by prominently displaying the associated domain.
Many QR code interfaces are now displaying the underlying URL before proceeding to enable discriminating.

Comment Re:About #$%2 time. (Score 3, Interesting) 62

We've already done through three phases.

Us old folk who used to get physical media and an instruction booklet how to play the game. The concept of blowing $19.99 on a non-tangible item was horrifying. Games also were complete/less bug ridden.

Then we had younger folk who grew up more connected, they no longer purchased the item and understood they'd lose access to it, and would re-pay for the same item if they lost an account password or the like, willingly. Products would also be released incomplete, with bugs, expecting to potentially fix them in the future. There were also pre-release purchases, which surprisingly people spent on.

Now we have a new set of people who might pay for a game that doesn't make it and shuts down freaking out over losing whatever money they spent on it not understanding they only were paying for a temporary license.

Given that if you want to play, it's the only way to play for most nowadays, sales impacts are likely to be unaffected IMO.

Comment Re:Simple solution (Score 1) 235

No bank account, needed a husband or a father's endorsement (not just permission--they'd have access to the woman's funds).
No credit cards as no credit history, which was a real problem with more women entering the workforce and more single women. Would need a male cosigner for loans, and you could imagine what those males wanted.

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