I have been running my own email servers (both personal and for my micro-company) for 19 years. The biggest problem I've had was figuring out how to configure SPF so Google (and probably others) wouldn't reject my emails. Once I got SPF configured properly, all my outgoing mail flowed freely.

Allstate is the only clusterfuck I've encountered. They can receive all my email, but I get frequent letters via snail mail saying they can't send me email -- even though I get monthly billing emails and other emails from them.

As a touch typist for 40 years, I mostly agree. It won't hurt to learn touch typing, but I wouldn't stress over it.

Mrs. Hodge's family can't afford to pay for groceries for their existing family of four, and they decide to make the family BIGGER?! That is terribly decision making. They need to be cutting expenses; not creating more.

I'm not so sure, since coding AIs as they are today are absolutely unconstitutional. They take copyright works and resell them, depriving authors of their constitutional rights.

Of course they do. Why on Earth would you think otherwise? Microsoft is a monopoly and therefore wields monopoly power. They have been dictating terms to manufacturers for 30 years or more, and there isn't a damned thing the manufacturers can do about it -- even if they wanted to do anything about it. I'm sure they cope with their subservience by telling themselves they don't care.

If the courts rule in favor of copyright holders (which is appearing more probable as the cases wind through the courts, and as AI companies keep making admissions of copyright theft), all of these companies racing to replace people with copyright infringement are going to be ripe for the suing.

It is superior to streaming and Bluray in some critical ways:

1) It can't be turned off by the seller once you've bought it.
2) It is easy to turn into a digital copy for your home media server.
3) It won't randomly disappear from your collection because a service provider is running out of storage space or doesn't like your politics.

This goes much deeper than anything so trivial, and is a symptom of systemic societal failures. In no particular order (and not exhaustive):

1) Single parent households.
2) Two parent households where both parents work (thanks for nothing, Feminism).
3) Divorce.
4) Failure to heal childhood emotional wounds before having children.
5) Failure to treat children like intelligent human beings.
6) Religion.
7) Public school.

That fails the, "without severe intrusion" test, and definitely runs afoul of the 1st Amendment. It's the kind of law that should have every signatory immediately impeached, removed from office, and never allowed to hold a political position in so much as the local PTA.

That's because most human music is a regurgitation of existing music. We've been complaining about cookie-cutter music for decades now, and AI just confirms that there is no creativity in modern music. There are only so many chords (four, if I remember correctly) and progressions that sound good, and they can be (and have been) mathematically determined. AI is great at analyzing existing music and extracting the most used chords. It is, after all, a statistical analysis engine.

Meta and OpenAI keep confessing to massive copyright infringement, so prosecution should be a no-brainer.

In all copyright cases, the reproduction and/or integration of someone else's copyrighted material for commercial purposes require permission. AI must be opt-in. If AI dies for lack of training material, nothing of value will be lost.

I know a couple families with Starlink, and it's quite good for rural Internet. It will never compete with fiber on speed, but it's way better than DSL and it's in the same monthly cost ballpark as what your parents are already paying.

Java WAS dog shit slow prior to 1.4 (Project Mustang), and was practically unusable. However, 1.4 DRAMATICALLY improved performance in general, and Swing was introduced to replace AWT. That turned Java into my platform of choice for business desktop software. I can develop on Linux or Windows, and run my programs on Linux, Windows, and (I presume) Mac with the same JAR.

The worst Java nightmare I have ever experienced was trying to use it for Web development. It absolutely sucks for that purpose, and I won't touch it with a ten foot pole.

CenturyLink customers can say goodbye to stable, reliable, uncapped cheap fiber Internet; and say hello to unreliable, expensive, metered and asymmetrical fiber internet with generally shitty service. This is a sad day for fiber Internet.

I have Brightspeed, which is fast, reliable, uncapped, and symmetrical for a reasonable (for the U.S.) price. AT&T is where Internet service goes to die. AT&T recently rolled out its fiber in my neighborhood, and I got a sales brochure from them. Their service offerings were straight from the ADSL days of the 1990s, with their slow, asymmetrical fiber offerings for high prices. It's insane that they have any customers at all.

I also remember having AT&T Uverse, which was a steaming pile of shit. I also remember having AT&T dialup, where the official company policy was to unceremoniously hang up on Linux users. AT&T is only marginally better than Comcrap, and I'm not even certain that's true.

Quebec should be making their own French content instead of demanding that for-profit studios do it for them. If there is sufficient demand for French content, let the free market provide it. If the free market doesn't provide it, then there is insufficient demand for it.

Because the rest of the world wants to invest in the US much more than the other way around. This causes the dollar to appreciate making importing in the US cheaper and exporting from the US more expensive. Hence the trade deficit.

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