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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Only fucking idiots think throwing more money at big pharma, unneeded administrators, and insurance companies will make things better. It's like having a roof leak: Do you fix the leak, or keep adding bigger and bigger tarps until the whole thing fails and takes out everything under it?
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    GDID and Windows 11

    I'm using Mint Cinnamon which I chose because at the time a few years ago it looked like the most windows-like GUI. I'm on version 19 and think it's up to 21 now. Like with cameras, I'm reluctant to mess with something that's working, but I'll be forced into upgrading someday because newer...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    If you put me on ignore you won't see this, but for anyone else, my only purpose is trying to expose false info for anybody who happens to have read it. They can hear for themselves and decide what they think, instead of being told what to think by somebody who doesn't know squat about the...
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    2026 New Release from EmpireTech

    As someone who has had a -IL side-by-side with an S3 for 9 months, I do NOT agree with that. Maybe that's an explanation. I've got no inside info, and am not willing to disassemble the cameras to see for myself. All I know is what I see every day.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    The pissed away money is another subject, and conflating the two makes it easy to deflect away from the main point. The cited "fact check" and other outlets say Trump is ending the program. No, what he's doing is not changing what the dems put into place. The "FactPost" you propagated is a...
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    GDID and Windows 11

    Yet another reason I'm glad I'm on win 7 and linux.
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    How can the IPCAM Store be sold out of BI software?

    It has been sold out most of the time for years. I did manage to buy a license from IPCT 2 years ago after multiple attempts. Seems to me it must be bad web site design and/or maintenance, because "sold out" so much doesn't make sense.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Fact post my ass! This is because of yet another 100% democrat owned temporary program that is ending as specified by the democrats. The democrat owned "Inflation Reduction Act" added coverages to Medicare Part D that led to significantly increased premiums. The dems didn't want these...
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    Money & Economics

    Another media gem, today from Do the media outlets even care about contradicting themselves, or what their product looks like? About the new highs, you'd think that seeing that headline on July 28 would mean new highs were hit within the last day or two. In reality, the DJIA, S&P 500, and...
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    If lifespans suddenly increase by 50 years, I'd guess that the majority of those with the increased years would be retired, on medicare, and pulling social security. Both of those programs are headed for doom now. What will society be like when only 25% or less are productive and the rest are...
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    The official "WTF" thread

    More warped "journalism" and/or click bait. It's talking about Crater Lake NP. I've got nothing against Crater Lake. It IS beautiful, but MOST beautiful? Not by a long shot. Everyone should visit? For sure if you're in the area anyway, or are a serious national park visitor. But if you're...
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    What the Flock is going on here!

    According to this, flock is only a minor player in the surveillance arena. But they're working on making it better... Now They Are Making Flock Cameras That Can Fly and Read License Plates From 2,000 Feet Away
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    How about a brand new American-made truck for $21,500?

    Besides that, I say "looks REFRESHING". Also looks too good to be true.
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    The official "WTF" thread

    Wish you didn't put that bra comment in. I'm responding about Datapoint. As part of my career journey while in Texas, I worked a few years for Datapoint and fully support the claim that they built the very first commercial PC, the model 2200. It used semiconductor memory before semiconductor...
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    Money & Economics

    You triggered me. Bought a couple of 16" take and bake pizzas last week, with about 3 ingredients each, for 24 friggin bucks each. Each one had 14 slices, so close to 2 bucks per slice, and not particularly big slices. Totally nuts.
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    Remember America Online?

    We have an elderly friend who still uses it. I occasionally help her with some computer problem, and AOL is so slow and full of junk that it's aggravating.
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    Money & Economics

    Another example of you can't believe anything in the media. Highlighting just the upper right and lower left headlines. Pick your truth, both options presented at the same time and the same place. Portland News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News but has probably rolled off before you look at it.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Mitch "Pike" McConnell
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    The official "WTF" thread

    Not sure what forum is for this. Another big indicator of the decline of the nation. The gist of the story is: 1. Prof embeds instructions for AI to spit out some gibberish, using a white font to hide it from the students. 2. Students cut-and-paste the AI output as test answer, with...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    If AIPAC wants it, it might have a chance.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Not voter fraud, per se, but obvious foreign interference in US elections. We've been sold down the river by the people we vote for, and continue to vote for them. A special kind of stupid? *** = "anything we deem antisemitic" defined as saying anything against Israel or a Jew, whether...
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    New 7 series

    Just got back from Costco, drooling over a $40k Yamaha piano. Makes those $600 cameras look almost free.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    I think the common "extend the subsidies" solution would make the overall problem worse. Sure, on an individual level, it sounds great and makes for convincing bleeding heart stories. For the overall big picture, it will just make a poorly designed, corrupt system worse, eventually biting...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

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    Its not a Myth - more and more people are moving over to Linux

    Partially disagreeing: Now you can run MANY windows apps on linux through an emulator. I've encountered some that won't run at all, and some that run for a while and crash.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Click bait of course. Whenever I see these headlines I wonder if the shock is because the number is so high, or so low? When I saw the numbers for Biden I always wondered how so many sane people could approve of what he was doing.
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    Its not a Myth - more and more people are moving over to Linux

    For me the downsides of going to linux were: 1. Complicated to install software 2. Applications that don't have linux versions 3. Cryptic, non-intuitive names for commands 4. Having to un-learn windows apps in order to learn equivalent linux apps #1 and #2 are slowly and steadily getting...
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    2026 New Release from EmpireTech

    I'd be tempted to try one of these big lens guys, but alas, no animal detection claimed, which is a no-go for me. That is, unless the human and vehicle filters could be really turned off, but that was lied about for so many cameras that I wouldn't trust any claim about it. I shelled out the...
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    Dahua 5459TM-ASE-IL

    Do we really know for sure that the -PRO and -IL use the same sensor? I often prefer the image from the -IL over the -PRO.
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    Money & Economics

    This is a test to see if I can do a fact check without getting dumped on :). According to the the Canadian Taxpayers Federation: "“Carney spent more money on airplane food during one trip than the average family will spend on groceries in almost a decade,” said Franco Terrazzano, CTF Federal...
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