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Re:Hey, Computer, Make Me a Font on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @01:17PM (#37754786)
There is an "a" in "lazy"?
Interest rates doubling over the past year change the math on this. For instance, to keep my same mortgage payment, even with significant equity, i could only afford what I paid for the house originally, which would be a significant downgrade in today's market.
It becomes routine after a while. With the right ester it's only twice a week injections. Insulin needles barely hurt. It's worth it if you need it.
> Skin color certainly is not a factor on ability to get an ID.

  "GAO compared turnout in two states—Kansas and Tennessee—that changed ID requirements from the 2008 to 2012 general elections with turnout in fourselected states—Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, and Maine—that did not. GAO used a quasi-experimental approach, a type of policy evaluation that compares how an outcome changes over time in a treatment groupthat adopted a new policy, to a comparison group that did not make the same change. GAO selected states for evaluation that did not have other factors in their election environments that also may have affected turnout, such as significant changes to other election laws. GAO analyzed three sources of turnout data for the 2008 and 2012 general elections: (1) data on eligible voters, using official voter records compiled by the United States Elections Project at George Mason University, (2) data on registered voters, using state voter databases that were cleaned by a vendor through data-matching procedures to remove voters who had died or moved, and (3) data on registered voters, as reported to the Current Population Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. [...]
GAO also estimated changes in turnout among subpopulations of registrants in Kansas and Tennessee according to their age, length of voter registration, and race or ethnicity. In both Kansas and Tennessee, compared with the four comparison states, GAO found that turnout was reduced by larger amounts:

among registrants, as of 2008, between the ages of 18 and 23 than among registrants between the ages of 44 and 53;

among registrants who had been registered less than 1 year than among registrants who had been registered 20 years or more; and

*among African-American registrants than among White, Asian-American, and Hispanic registrants. GAO did not find consistent reductions in turnout among Asian-American or Hispanic registrants compared to White registrants, thus suggesting that the laws did not have larger effects among these subgroups."

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-14-634

I'd like to see a more recent study, but analysis shows voter ID law impacting

You think people are buying more food?
I think this has the same problem as all non-legal security. I can see entrepreneurial big guys deciding this a good business, and just paying some people a nominal amount to squat, while offering their services to the property owners to "remove them". Eventually, they don't even need the squatters in the loop, just "Nice place you got here. It'd be a shame if someone squatted in it."
Re:Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @06:27PM (#28307946)
I think you're giving Rogan too much credit if you think he even for a second would care about Freedom while staring at a 9 figure check.
I think this could be a very effective countermeasure. It reduces trust between members of a crew, and between crews themselves. If you're constantly suspicious of Ivan the mail campaign guy ratting you out for a payday, it makes the whole business focus more on opsec and less on offense. Though sole operators can do plenty of damage on their own, they probably are less likely to be state-backed.
Re:$100M xPrize for Carbon Removal on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @05:22PM (#27826482)
With carbon credits, planting trees can be a profitable land use.
Re:Concrete: The material that's 'too vast to imagine' on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @02:44PM (#27680031)
Cement fiber is definitely the trend, at least in the PNW, but vinyl is still a budget option, and cedar has it's place as well.
If we're talking about lifting, It's better to switch your routine after a while to avoid "plateauing", but not so often as to not be able to track progress and perfect form in lifts.
It's not so different than how the US operates, except the lease is called a deed and it's term is indefinite. The government can still take "your" land away if you stop paying taxes or they need it for something else.
There's already multiple rules for "primary residency", you could structure a progressive property tax off of that.
No matter the color of your hat, if you're a security researcher, you're likely already on a watch list. Having publicly attributed white hat activity is a good cover.
Seems like at least two of those could be removed by universal healthcare.
Re:When in doubt: hang up, look up, and call back on Thursday April 23, 2020 @02:58PM (#22959678)
These people work on commission or quota, which is why they're so pushy.
I believe that Women are a subset of Persons so their statement is correct as stated.
Re:When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @06:53PM (#20170184)
We attempt to address this by making IT's annual bonus tied in part to our dev's project completion. It's not perfect, but the heart is in the right place. A big problem with this is that when we're dealing with limited manpower, we'd rather throw it at the easy issues than the hard ones, and ultimately get more things done.
Re:When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @11:40AM (#20165773)
I'm one of those assholes that makes security policy. I deal with the same requests. The problem is, I write up a proposal identifying the risks associated with the exemption, along with minimum and recommended compensating controls. This then gets discussed among IT Management, where it is usually decided it's too much overhead, and to just deny the request or if the user can scream loud enough, allow it outright and get some director to sign something. The third oft-used response is ignore the problem and hope the user finds their own work around so we can get back to the 13 projects we're somehow expected to complete this quarter.
Re:Leaving Google Fi on Monday May 20, 2019 @09:42AM (#19960231)
I'm currently dealing with a MS support case, and it's one of the most painful support cases I've ever opened. I'm going on (hour long) call #3 in a few minutes, and MS still won't even admit there's a problem.
Re:YTMND is down for temporary maintenance on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @11:24AM (#19920327)
4chan was born of a banned SA user.
Re:Maersk IT systems infected with ransomware on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @11:14AM (#14646122)
Heard it's using the same SMB expolit as wCry (ETERNALBLUE)
Re:Who Owns Los Angeles? on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @04:52PM (#8962781)
Yes, within a definition of non-profit. http://www.boe.ca.gov/proptaxes/pdf/ah267.pdf (page 19)
Re:Google Self-Driving Car Project's first vehicle prototype on Monday December 22, 2014 @04:18PM (#8785286)
Everyone seems to be overlooking the fact that using an autonomous car as a cab would be illegal. Current permits are rather specific about having an manufacturer's employee behind the wheel at all times. I'm not an expert, but I wouldn't expect any state to lighten up the requirement of at least having someone behind a wheel for the foreseeable future. I think most patrons of Uber don't really want to be sitting behind the wheel.
Re:My First 12 Years at Amazon.com on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @07:49PM (#8200463)
Well, he does have "Evangelist" in his title.