Your overpayment today funds your children's and grandchildren's more effective overpayments.

It's your legacy.

FTFY

After they're all dead, the president signs an executive order confiscating all on-site data and equipment, and authorizing military to repair. This would also be spelled out in the contract.

It's shocking how so much can be unsurprising yet still shocking.

On the other hand, what good is [effectively] owning executive agencies if you can't use them for your own ends?

Trump is the most for-sale candidate and president in history. He solicited $1B in campaign contribution directly from a meeting with oil execs, in return for signing any Executive Orders they cared to submit.

As for Vance, he was brought to Silicon Valley and re-tooled, Manchurian-like, then sent back to Washington.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Trump+oil+executives+meeting+one+b...

In that sense, every connected device is just another implementation of the exact same thing: a surveiling data collector. What the user thinks of as the device's main purpose is a mere implementation detail.

I had peanut butter toast on sourdough yesterday. The Man knew nothing about it. Bwa ha ha ha!

Ah, the old Microsoft "Cannot use our compiler to develop a compiler" restriction.

If you're logged in to the app and web site, what needs to be synced?

Where I might have used a search engine before, and waded through the results, I've recently been asking ChatGPT, and getting good, quick results.

Since I already "know" the answer, I'm immediately confident in the response.

I just hope I don't forget how to compose a concise query.

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Eric Schmidt says it doesn't matter, just do it and let the lawyers clean it up. [1]

0: https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2024/07/01/has-mic...

1: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/ex-google-ceo-schmidt-t...

I like to think of them as North Korea's client state.

A script to copy new photos from the phone to the laptop, and then resize them all and copy those into a 'small' subdirectory.

A script to unmount and disconnect.

Those three scripts invoked in sequence in one command line.

Invoke that line from history with ESC-K.

No no no no NO. On the sixth day there was still no need or use for HTML.

On the sixth and a half day, the Web was born, in blinking HTML text and tables.

Ob on-topic: I'm a truck driver, and have to check in with the gate guard to gain entry at pickups and deliveries.

While I was going through the drill with a gate guard, I noticed that her nails were safety yellow and exactly matched her safety yellow vest.

Coolest thing I saw all week.