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Comment Re:I can't even imagine kids after 50 (Score 1) 4

Well, some of that is for classes for people who can't see that default 3-pixel wide scrollbar on Windows 11 in high contrast dark mode. :-)

Fair. Just making fun of Windows 11.

Yeah, you're blessed to have one of each. Until they start conspiring against you, which you KNOW is going to happen.
ha!

Hopefully we'll raise them better than that. And let them see us honoring our parents.

Comment Re:I can't even imagine kids after 50 (Score 1) 4

You charge to "upgrade" to Windows 11? How evil are you? :P

For all my pro-life ramblings, we were granted only one child.

Precious. I feel bad you couldn't have more though. G-d has been very generous to us.

Keeping up with two toddlers after age 50 can't be easy.

And yet i wouldn't trade it for anything! Thank G-d, we have a lot of help. Especially, when some neighboring girls come by to take our son for a walk. G-d bless them all.

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Journal Journal: Verbiage: Kids are heavy 4

So, my son is around 20 pounds now. At my age, that's heavy. My left shoulder became sore from holding all the time he wanted to be held. So sore, i slept on my right side the last few nights just so it wouldn't hurt. But not only that, my daughter just had her one-month checkup and is at 7lb 9oz. She's also getting heavy. Sometimes, i want to hold her all day, but after a few minutes, i have to give up. She lying on my right shoulder as i type this right now. :)

Comment Re:Not hard to avoid (Score 2) 28

This is the kind of comment that passes a "common sense" sniff test, but is impossibly naive in the context of any legal system. This is only slightly tenable if the question before the court is one of pure statutory interpretation. If the *only* question before the court is, "what does this law say and do?" then in *some* circumstances, you would answer the question despite unfavorable policy implications, and even indicate that the legislature should address the found defects.

Conversely, in common law jurisdictions, which includes the United States, judges are relied on to shape the direction of the law through analysis of precedent, existing statutory schemes, and policy considerations. Further, legislators in common law jurisdictions draft laws knowing that the common law exists, and borrowing definitions and language from the common law with the intent that judges fill the gaps and interpret with an eye towards precedent and policy considerations. So, your position is plainly and openly incompatible with much of the US legal system, and many other common law jurisdictions. And even elsewhere, the lines are far less clear-cut.

There are conflicts of laws, superseding laws, open questions of a laws scope and breadth. Many laws explicitly call out policy effects as being a consideration in the application of said law. There is the law of Equity; an entire separate body of law that runs parallel within our system, which explicitly requires judges to balance the burdens (consequences) of a decision and certain notions of fairness resulting from the application of law to fact patterns and individuals, for the issuance of certain relief. These centuries-old frameworks often explicitly includes "policy considerations" within their well-established factor tests. We have statutes like ERISA that broadly govern all employment benefits plans (remember how healthcare is tied to employment in the USA?), and explicitly state that all remedies under this broad law, applying to all employed persons in the US, are to be in equity. I could go on and on and on.

Comment seller is on crack (Score 1) 30

From the ebay auction

Just park it down at Cape Kennedy or in Vegas and you will be making a constant and continuous 150,000-200k++ a year. This vehicle will outproduce any rental property you can buy for a million dollars. It's an investment. Not only that it's a smart investment because no one's ever going to be able to compete with you. Or use it to promote you company products, or rent it for events for $10k a pop. There are tons of possibilities

Yea, right... You claim someone can easily make $150k+/year renting this out but couldn't even find a starting bidder at $50k.

Real "used car salesman" vibes here...

Comment Re:Old enough to remember (Score 1) 115

A long time ago...

Seriously the site with the most potential so poorly run that those in power imposed zero tolerance for anybody trying to solve a problem different than the way they would solve a problem and would nuke your karma to the point where you couldn't participate if you disagreed with them.

Comment Can we retire the Admins too? (Score 1) 115

Ever have difficulty disconnecting an RJ45 cable? Well, here was our opportunity to just cut the damn things off instead of figuring out why the little tab wouldn't release the plug."

Sums up in two sentences, the general intellectual capacity of a Stack Overflow admin.

Seriously, I've never encountered such a toxic "help environment" as Stack Overflow. If you search for solutions you'd get 10 year old answers that no longer apply. If you ask a new question, their admins admonish you because the question was asked already (10 years ago).

Comment Re:So California wants to suck up the power, water (Score 1) 212

So California wants to suck up the power from out of state like they do the water !! Just say no to them !!!

No... No... No... You have it all wrong. They want to export their high prices and make the surrounding states suffer. "Sorry Spokane, you got outbid by Santa Clara for the Upper Falls output generated inside your own city. But we can pick you up in the spot market using LA Solar at $1200/MWh!"

Comment Re:I am getting real tired of the AI doom and gloo (Score 4, Insightful) 189

I am getting real tired of the AI doom and gloom articles, even if its true could Slashdot please branch out and diversify?

Cmdr Taco and Cowboy Neal cashed out, they're long gone. What's replaced them seeks to influence you. Hence at least three "Ahhhh!!!! AI is taking all the jobs" and three "Ahhhh!!!! Climate Change!" stories a day, interspersed a few stories you actually might care about.

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Comment Re:Zigbee sucks... (Score 1) 44

I know it doesn't taste the same as the wall candy from your childhood, but maybe you should have gone with the lead-free stucco.

Wall candy nothing... I'm so old my wooden crib was painted with lead paint. That stuff was everywhere around the SF Bay. Heck CP/M-86 probably failed because of lead neurotoxicity. How do you think we got M$-DOh$...

But seriously... I didn't expect to have to be on the lookout for lead paints in my kids toys. But 20 years ago they shipped a bunch of wooden toy trains in with red paint containing lead. Big recall... It was hard to explain to a 2 year old. So if you ever manage to kiss a girl and she takes pity on you in a moment of weakness... Just know you have to keep up with the toy recalls as well as the child support payments. Of course now days everything is made out of plastic, including a lot of the so called women...

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