Yes, rampant inflation creates jobs.

Fuck off with those data points.

I voted for no one and am glad.

The poor summary doesn't make it clear that some of the people in this aren't involved in the scalping scam but in a different scam.

The "credit card maxing" was a clue. This is where people get credit cards with some sort of cash back and they are trying to take advantage of that. This is about them getting scammed.

Good public transportation is always empty in Chicago, and it is always a city bus clogging up streets for my Uber.

Public transportation, even if on time, takes 150-300% longer than a car.

It keeps people poor by allowing them to live 90 minutes each way from work instead of making their bosses have to pay them better to afford to live closer.

There was a program that allowed CGA programs to work with the Hercules graphics card which would expand the horizontal scan by skipping one scan line for each two that it converted. It would then go though the skipped ones and average the line above and below to make the game somewhat playable but with a huge lag.

MS Flight sim worked with this hack and when you banked the plane, the 2/3rds of the image would roll properly and then the other 1/3 would slowly catch up for a drunken pilot effect.

Perhaps some movie rating group would come up with a guided sound review system that would ask about things like whispering dialog, explosion bass, if the user was using 5.1 or stereo.

How I spend my money IS expression and government in the US isn't allowed to censor me.

My freedom of speech = freedom to spend how I want to spend my savings.

You are aware that Facebook and prior Twitter took orders from the standing administration, correct?

Where in California are you?

When you turn shoplifters over to the cops and press charges, how often are the cases taken to trial?

How many repeat offenders do you turn over to the cops?

I stopped going to conference (post-pandemic) in San Fran due to crime and filth.

I go to MORE conferences than ever now, but non in San Fran, and 100% of that reason is crime and filth.

It's not a WSJ thing, it's a filthy street and high crime problem in SFO problem, period.

It "was" a thing that had use. Back in 1999 or so we built a payment system for use at remote music festivals. These didn't have any mobile phone coverage and even data comms from one end of the venue to the other was expensive and unreliable. The ticket system deducted value from your card and then stuck on a bunch of other transactions on the card with a digital signature. If anyone took a card from the remote ends of the venue to the main area, the main computer updated all the transactions and put a new record on the card with the current totals. The result is the central computer and the remote ends had a very good idea of anyone was playing games with the balances. The next year the comms issue was worked out and all transactions went back to the main database.

You probably believe that women can have penises, right?

What do new plumbers train against?

What do new landscapers train against?

Fucking idiot alert.

We have unrestrained statism.

I said this for 25 years and then crime and politics sent me packing.

10 years in the burbs, I would never ever move back into a big city.

And it has nothing to do with me being old. Even young adults out here are cooler and more refined and less chaotic.

You can keep your urban planned ghettos.

The data that flows on the fibers is all encrypted and there is always data being sent. The large routers now all encrypted the lower level bitstreams so and TLS packet hits the ISP router, it gets routed to the overseas link and encrypted sent as part of a 400 gb link which then gets handed to the subsea transit provider who encrypted again before it get sent down the undersea line.

As far as storing the data, a typical new project is about 128 terabits. That would require about a half a million dollars in tapes per day to store all that encrypted data.