Many places where I have worked have old Access databases running critical business activities or even worse a monster of an excel spreadsheet. The there is ERP integrations and reporting that links into excel etc. The list goes on for just how integrated MS office has become over the past 25 years.
Business have adopted macOS quite extensively today because MS office is supported. Adding in native support in Linux would allow for a more gradual tradition.
I need some of these 🖕🖕 with age spots apparently…
The old Toys R Us are too old and poorly maintained now if they are still empty. The Spirit Halloween is now at the old Rite-aide.
I am pretty sure it just counts as annoying, distracting, and fucking stupid.
A few days ago when I was converting an old windows desktop to Linux I hit Google on accident (Firefox default).
On the first page I got 2 traditional search results. They were links to AI slop sites. The entire rest of the page was full of useless crap.
DDG NoAI site seems to help.
Should be the same concept with rental units. Taxes should go up exponentially for every unit you own over a certain limit. Of course if there’s is a limit to how many homes or units a person can own, they will just create thousands of small corporations to own them.
Have to ban corporate ownership of residential property as well or some other fix.
A real punk fan would tell you “I’m Cool” but you need to “Fuck Youself”, “I Hate You”, and “Go Away”.
I’ve climbed the corporate ladder and traveled all over the world until I got near the top where the nepotism is thick. Said ‘fuck that’ and bailed out early.
New plan: “Work for myself.” Took me a decade to get here because of little things like health care and capital.
Been on my own for almost 2 years now and it is glorious.
“A moron with higher education is still a moron.”
“Baby don’t hurt me”
Piracy decreases the cost of discovery and increases the probability that those engaged in it will attend events, buy merchandise etc.
When Netflix was originally expanding out it reportedly looked at the highest active shows on piracy sites to select their material.
Organized crime is an interesting topic. In my opinion it’s existence shows a disconnect of the needs of the people and their government/social structure. Every country has some amount of “organized crime”. There is no exception. What does differ is the size, power, and wealth of the criminal syndicate.
The larger and more severe the disconnect between the people’s needs and government, the more extensive and structured these criminal organizations become.
For example gangs often form in an regions where opportunity is limited or a group of people are being oppressed. Inner city gangs are a good example of this. They form as a form of protection and a chance for opportunity. These opportunities are usually supplying things that are illegal but still in demand.
If government bans or fails to provide something with a very high demand (like prohibition of alcohol in the U.S. and just about everything in the Soviet Union) the criminal organizations grow in wealth and sophistication.
The only effective way to stop these criminal organizations is fulfill the demand and provide other opportunities for the individuals. For example the U.S. legalized alcohol. This dramatically reduced income to criminal opportunity. Under FDR support structures, fair wages, education, and all sorts of opportunities were created (for whites). The opportunity for individual people through criminal activity declined and most of them left the criminal organizations. In darker skin colored groups where opportunity remained limited, criminal activity remained higher.
Organized crime can be dramatically reduced by providing opportunities to all individuals.
Alternatively a complete collapse and takeover by the criminal organizations like the Soviet Union to Russia is also a option.
So did you like Wham!
Bowling for Soup- 1985
“She rocked out to Wham!, not a big Limp Bizkit fan”
I am beyond sick of it. If they make me sign up for a bullshit account, they don’t get my business.
A restaurant with a QR code instead of a menu, I walk out of. One that requires a kiosk or app to order, same thing.
I have a zero tolerance for marketing e-mails & text. I block/spam every single one.
I had a $2.13 medical lab bill last week that wanted me to make an account including jumping through hoops to prove my identity etc… to pay them! They got a check in the mail.
Is it better than a word doc on the desktop named “passwords”
This is what you get when I have 10 different passwords that have to be changed randomly every 30 days, 60 days, or 90 days. 16 digit password with all the bells and whistles as well.
They are getting paid on their active users for advertising and investors. I would guess the active humans involved is >1% of them.
Reddit became a relied on as a source for information because of the massive amounts of free expertise offered by a small group of experts. The majority of the experts left due to the shenanigans.
On lemmy, it was slow at first. However a small core of experts hung around and started building with the group that was already here. Slowly it started generating a real information hub.
The app builders also took some time to get the new apps fully functional and polished. For example today, Connect is superior in many regards to RiF. It definitely did not start out that way.
My wife worked in Insurance for a while. The companies tend to follow two two business models:
Advertise like crazy to get new business in. Then refuse to payout claims and pay substandard rates. Lose customers as quickly as you gain them. Mitigate these losses by having 100’s of brand names/shell companies to mask your activities.
Do minimal advertising and rely on word of mouth and sales distribution network. Pay out fairly and give decent customer service.
Generally any company that you recognize the name from advertising is going to fuck you over. Most of the other company names you’ve never heard of are the same companies trying to fuck you over.
Generating a basic small missile is relatively easy. It’s essentially a weaponized hobby rocket at its core. The largest limitation historically has been the targeting and steering systems.