100% agree. If you want to sequester carbon, plant some trees

I don't think that's accurate... It really depends on the movie. There's lots of stuff that's "popular" once it hits streaming that doesn't have a theatre draw. I know my wife and I do that - we only go to the theatre for very specific types of movies. There's other stuff we're definitely still interested in, but would rather watch at home because it doesn't warrant a monster screen and a bucket of popcorn.

They aren't going to read the existing code... They'll write a new application based on the social security law, without consulting the existing code base. "Migrating" an existing code base is always asking for trouble, and brings along lots of of problems from the old code base with it.

1: That does not say that the coins were not gold or silver... It just says the government decided "its not a real currency" and then stole it... If I want to make my own coin that's made of gold, or whatever else - I should be allowed to do that... As long as I don't try and pass it off as US currency (which doesn't appear to be the case).

2: The article even says at the end that these coins were not affiliated with Ron Paul or his campaign... It was done by some guy named Bernard von NotHaus, who chose to use Ron Pauls name for notoriety.

3: The judge in the case had this to say when he gave him a severely reduced sentence after the prosecution *somehow* got a jury to convict him...

me, my wife - we can observe peoples availability easily enough on our teams at work - and people are fucking off and not doing their work a LOT.... I don't understand why they aren't being fired, but maybe that's because our managers fuck off too.

Its because people are fucking off early because they realize nobody will notice.

The optics of this really aren't great - but for rural connectivity ASAP? Starlink is the only current viable option. If Bezos would hurry the fuck up, Kuiper would also be a great option. These options should absolutely be getting funding specifically to subsize people in poor rural areas that can't afford the upfront costs for something like Starlink - Fiber to the home isn't going to be cost effective in very rural areas and will take many many years and an order of magnitude more money to connect those people.

It helps that the chinese EV's are *significantly* cheaper than EV's from western countries.

I don't replace it when it goes out of warranty... But the manufacturer has very low incentive to help you after the warranty expires, and has high incentive to push you toward buying a replacement - so people that aren't able to repair things themselves will buy a new one. And those "Extentended warranties" for things like a printer usually just cash you out for what you paid instead of fixing the one you have. It's not worth the shipping cost and the labor to fix it especially on bigger items that don't cost all that much.

If it's from 2017 then its out of warranty - so the answer is definitely "Buy a new printer"

Pass a law mandating a MAXIMUM wait time of 5 minutes for human phone support. I don't want to talk to your AI robot - I have literally *never* had an issue I needed to call about that could be fixed by a robot.

it doesn't matter if the case is rusted and the electronics are hosed - as long as its still sealed (and there's a reasonable chance even if its not) you can pull the platters and get the data off of them.

as long as your phone supports esim, you can sign up. It's just an LTE connection, so special hardware needed - but Starlinks implementation is basically just texting right now, and the beta test videos I've seen its not great. AST SpaceMobile has demonstrated video calling on theirs, but they won't have service available until next year w/ Verizon and ATT. I'm wondering if they'll actually push some advertising about that now that TMo threw down the gauntlet with this super bowl commercial.

We don't need E3 or IICON... PAX replaced E3 as the real gamers conference years ago.

The real question is - will it run Crysis