Eh... I was thinking of harvesters, not tractors.
To put this in perspective, a large John Deere tractor with a corn header costs in the neighborhood of $1.25 million.
That's normal stuff for anyone producing a vehicle, isn't it?
This is actually pretty widespread on newer models. There are cars for which you need a subscription costing thousands of dollars every year to put your parking brake into "maintenance mode", without which you can't fix…
For a large commercial operation, $200/year is nothing, but it's enough to hurt the smaller guys.
That OneDrive thing was what convinced me to finally get rid of Windows. I bought a new machine, copied my old desktop over, and only then realized all my tax returns and other sensitive documents had been copied to a…
Part of the problem is we've essentially made corruption legal, at least for Congress. In the past if you gave a million dollars in cash to your Congressman, he stood a good chance of getting caught and arrested. But…
There is always a better choice than a 741 for new designs, but somehow people still use those things too.
Not necessarily. Some of the most profitable games out there are not very fun to play, but they have their monetization strategy nailed down. People laughed at Blizzard when it came out with the mobile game Diablo…
If you take the king's shilling, you do the king's bidding. The law doesn't make boycotts illegal. It just says that you can't receive federal money if you're going to spend it on operations that engage in this kind of…
That's great and all, but what they should have done was just scrapped the age-verification stuff entirely. You can't really justify having that kind of restriction on Windows and MacOS but not on Linux.
How do people find jobs where they can spend this much time doing things that aren't part of their job?
Same here. The thing that makes it so high stakes in EVE is you don't just respawn with all your stuff. It might have taken a couple weeks (or longer) for you to grind up the money for the ship you're using, and if the…
Yep. My wormhole corp would shoot just about anyone we ran across except Signal CArtel. You get a bad rep killing those guys.
I played EVE for many years, and I really hated the addition of skill injectors. When I first started playing, the only way to get your skills up was to spend the time training them. Now it just takes real money cash.…
I stopped looking into drugs when I stopped having problems.
SSRIs and SNRIs just didn't work very well for me. If they had an positive effect at all, it wasn't enough to rise above the proverbial noise. Coming off of them wasn't too bad though. I got the brain zaps, but those…
The problem is one of the alternatives they consider worse than homelessness is a life without opioids. I had cousin who was homeless in San Diego. Over the years she came into money a couple times, either from family…
You don't go to jail for possession of weed in most US states. You won't even go to jail for dealing unless you've been busted multiple times or you're moving heavy weight. When you see statistics about people…
Most Asian countries are pretty serious about keeping drugs out of their countries. In Japan's case it's a little easier since they're an island nation. You can get a life sentence there for first offense import or…
I did not, in fact, lose track of that point. I was merely pointing out it's not a solution. I'm sure the guy in the topic article thought he had things figured out, too. You know how they say ignorance of the law is no…
Ah, I see where you've gone wrong. You're expecting to apply common sense and reason to the law. That kind of thinking has landed a whole lot of people in prison.
I'm a bit mystified why anyone would bring an electronic device over an international border with anything that could be construed, fairly or not, as evidence of criminal behavior.
The last time I tried to do that on a trip to Germany, admittedly many years ago, I found I could not get phone service without a local address.
They can hold you for a few hours while they investigate, but they can't just arbitrarily detain you without a legal basis.
Eh... I was thinking of harvesters, not tractors.
To put this in perspective, a large John Deere tractor with a corn header costs in the neighborhood of $1.25 million.
That's normal stuff for anyone producing a vehicle, isn't it?
This is actually pretty widespread on newer models. There are cars for which you need a subscription costing thousands of dollars every year to put your parking brake into "maintenance mode", without which you can't fix…
For a large commercial operation, $200/year is nothing, but it's enough to hurt the smaller guys.
That OneDrive thing was what convinced me to finally get rid of Windows. I bought a new machine, copied my old desktop over, and only then realized all my tax returns and other sensitive documents had been copied to a…
Part of the problem is we've essentially made corruption legal, at least for Congress. In the past if you gave a million dollars in cash to your Congressman, he stood a good chance of getting caught and arrested. But…
There is always a better choice than a 741 for new designs, but somehow people still use those things too.
Not necessarily. Some of the most profitable games out there are not very fun to play, but they have their monetization strategy nailed down. People laughed at Blizzard when it came out with the mobile game Diablo…
If you take the king's shilling, you do the king's bidding. The law doesn't make boycotts illegal. It just says that you can't receive federal money if you're going to spend it on operations that engage in this kind of…
That's great and all, but what they should have done was just scrapped the age-verification stuff entirely. You can't really justify having that kind of restriction on Windows and MacOS but not on Linux.
How do people find jobs where they can spend this much time doing things that aren't part of their job?
Same here. The thing that makes it so high stakes in EVE is you don't just respawn with all your stuff. It might have taken a couple weeks (or longer) for you to grind up the money for the ship you're using, and if the…
Yep. My wormhole corp would shoot just about anyone we ran across except Signal CArtel. You get a bad rep killing those guys.
I played EVE for many years, and I really hated the addition of skill injectors. When I first started playing, the only way to get your skills up was to spend the time training them. Now it just takes real money cash.…
I stopped looking into drugs when I stopped having problems.
SSRIs and SNRIs just didn't work very well for me. If they had an positive effect at all, it wasn't enough to rise above the proverbial noise. Coming off of them wasn't too bad though. I got the brain zaps, but those…
The problem is one of the alternatives they consider worse than homelessness is a life without opioids. I had cousin who was homeless in San Diego. Over the years she came into money a couple times, either from family…
You don't go to jail for possession of weed in most US states. You won't even go to jail for dealing unless you've been busted multiple times or you're moving heavy weight. When you see statistics about people…
Most Asian countries are pretty serious about keeping drugs out of their countries. In Japan's case it's a little easier since they're an island nation. You can get a life sentence there for first offense import or…
I did not, in fact, lose track of that point. I was merely pointing out it's not a solution. I'm sure the guy in the topic article thought he had things figured out, too. You know how they say ignorance of the law is no…
Ah, I see where you've gone wrong. You're expecting to apply common sense and reason to the law. That kind of thinking has landed a whole lot of people in prison.
I'm a bit mystified why anyone would bring an electronic device over an international border with anything that could be construed, fairly or not, as evidence of criminal behavior.
The last time I tried to do that on a trip to Germany, admittedly many years ago, I found I could not get phone service without a local address.
They can hold you for a few hours while they investigate, but they can't just arbitrarily detain you without a legal basis.