They already look for it because they don't want to get sued, so again, the tattoo does nothing. They are not required to go through your file cabinets whether they think you have a DNR or not. I've been trained on this, what's the basis for your statement?
Voice recognition... in an elevator... in Scotland?
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If tomorrow I owe a $30000 repayment, then my business is bankrupt and I go under, even if I still made a profit.
There is no justification for not calling a loan payment an expense. Even if you use the narrow accounting definition of "a cost that a company incurs to generate revenue" they still ostensibly took that loan for the purpose of supporting their revenue generation schemes.
They did eventually start manufacturing digital cameras, I owned one or two along the way. But it was too little, too late.
I had a Kodak digital camera once. It had, bar none, the worst interface I've ever experienced on a camera. What's more, both the physical controls and the digital ones were trash.
It wasn't just too little too late, it was also too bad.
What on earth is an AI PC?
Why don't you ask a search engine? It's more efficient than asking Slashdot. There will be a cached result in front of you before you can get your hand away from the enter key.
I can run a rather large deepseek or openai model locally with good performance and it only uses like 5 watts instead of the 5000w and a lake's worth of water at the datacenter.
You're not running the same model they are. That's still cool, but it's not as cool as your comparison tries to make it look. It's also somewhat surprising how quickly you can run a model locally on your CPU from system memory these days even without a NPU.
Hell, I have a Covid era laptop with an AMD 3250U (2C2T) and that still does anything non-gaming, non-video-editing that I want to do on a laptop. Still plays fullscreen videos flawlessly, still surfs without apparent delay or drawback. Thankfully, improvements in javascript implementations have kept pace with all the clowns who cannot make basic webpages without scripts.
It was $300.
I did upgrade from 4GB to 8GB RAM and from 128GB SATA to 512GB nVME SSD. Both used, all the numbers on the RAM matches so there's zero compatibility problem, total cost still under $350 before taxes.
Inflation was trending down
Monetary inflation, maybe. Price inflation, no way. Food has been going up up up consistently, we all have to eat. Rents are going up up up, we all have to live somewhere. Medical expenses are going up up up, we all need health care.
Also while we're talking about jobs, how many of those are real?
Looks like we found one of the cronies stealing millions of our tax dollars.
We have always known exactly who they are, because we know who all the corporate officers are. They are listed on the mandatory filings.
"Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible."
People like him are allowed to get away with saying things like that because people are dumb enough to think this has ever been a democracy. The USA has literally never even tried democracy. The vote was given specifically only to landed white males, and everyone else has had to fight for it and were not permitted to have it until it no longer mattered. The electoral college was created specifically so that slave states could have a voice in how the nation is run despite having just proven that they don't deserve one. Our nation "failed" to hold the traitor states accountable for their treason against the nation, but that was done intentionally to keep down the plebes and keep them from realizing that they're actually all slaves. (Anyone who disagrees is invited to read the 13th amendment to the constitution.)
Today, of course, "even" California is a willful slave state — we voted against prohibition of coerced labor for prisoners. And some states are far worse, for example Arizona, which requires all able-bodied prisoners to perform forced labor. Show of hands, how many people here believe that courts are fair and everyone gets the same justice? We know that we are subjecting people innocent of the crimes of which they are accused to literal slavery. It is not even at issue, it has been proven.
But if DOGE started with the meaningful stuff like the constant, year over year, decade over decade, disaster that is Pentagon spending, then resolve Medicaid, then resolve Medicare
Medicaid and Medicare are just not problems. The fraud rate is extremely low. Even most people who are lying about their income on Medicaid applications would still qualify even if they told the truth as they are typically declaring no income while they have some, but are still below the income limits. Medicare fraud is even lower. The same federal government that provides the Medicare processes the taxes and knows what the recipients' income is. Even when people don't file taxes, the financial institutions report account balances and dividends to the federal government, which then disseminates this information to states. The eligibility workers processing Medicaid applications in the states and counties (some states are centralized, some delegate) receive distillations of that data that tell them about assets and income, and are obligated to act on such reports and discontinue eligibility when recipients are over income limits.
If you wanted to cut health care costs in America, what you would do is eradicate the health insurance companies and put everyone on Medicare, and expand Medicaid further so that the people for whom paying 80% of costs (which is what Medicare does) is insufficient would be covered. The health insurance companies' entire reason for existence to make a profit from human suffering. The ACA capped their profits at a percentage of cost of care, so they now lobby to increase the cost of care and to prevent Medicare, VA and so on from negotiating those prices down. While the prohibition on denying care for pre-existing conditions in the ACA has saved lives, everything else about it is unsustainable.
APTC, the Advance Premium Tax Credit, puts money directly into the pockets of the insurance companies. We The People are paying typically $600-1000 per month per APTC recipient for a plan which provides MEC, and this still leaves citizens paying co-pays which are increasing as drug prices increase. And then there's a whole other SNAFU with the way drug approval is done in the USA — to bring a new version of an existing medication to the market, you do not need to prove efficacy, only that it doesn't kill statistically significantly more people than the prior version. Then the drug companies publicize the side effects of the prior form while pretending the new form doesn't have all the same ones, and are allowed to advertise directly to patients who then demand the new form of the drug, while also paying physicians both directly and with lavish vacations masquerading as educational events to prescribe their new versions.
every 2 years or so, 60 minutes has a report on a(nother) Pentagon cluster- mess that is billions...hundreds of billions of dollars over budget.
The DOD never, and I mean never passes an audit. Those clusterfucks are SOP and intentional. The MIC has had a death grip on our balls as a nation ever since its inception. It gets to hide behind secrecy which is allegedly justified by military needs. Corporate lobbyists fund campaigns and then hire politicians as lobbyists when they leave office to benefit from the connections they made while employed in alleged service to The People. And they promote military conflict so that their goods and services will be in constant need, so the MIC is literally making sure people are blown up so they can profit. That joke about the billion dollar airplane firing a million dollar missile at a fifty dollar tent isn't actually a joke, it's just the way the MIC does business.
He clearly got tired of trying to build the Antichrist
They did look at it, so they knew what not to do, because helping the consumer is not the goal.
America has been controlled by corporations for decades, since before WWII really. Their lawyers literally write bills and then give them to congresspeople for introduction and sponsorship, while their lobbyists give them money at the same time.
Unfortunately, Americans have been deliberately undereducated since Reagan was president so that they don't realize that this is being done, let alone understand that it's a key element of fascism.
Do they have to get an additional tattoo to the "Do not resuscitate" one, saying "Do not use Paraburkholderia xenovorans"?
DNR tattoos are meaningless. They carry no legal weight whatsoever. If you want to not be resuscitated, have the DNR on your person. And not just one you drew up yourself, it needs to be a real one, and signed and dated. Further, medics are supposed to look for your DNR if it's convenient, but they're not going to dig through your stuff, so you really need to put it where they can find it easily.
If a 6600 used paper tape instead of core memory, it would use up tape at about 30 miles/second. -- Grishman, Assembly Language Programming
