"We'll see if he "kills himself in prison at the same time the cameras malfunction". He lost access to all those funds so he isn't able to make protection payments or party donations."

Some of you people need serious psychiatric help.

"A decent private school costs anywhere from $2500-8000/year."

Are you on crack?!

Getting kids off of social media is good for them, but it shouldn't be paired with Florida running it's already-pitiful educational system into the ground. The politicians doing this are purely doing it because they can't control social media the way they can the school systems.

various Microsoft tools - such as the setup programs for SQL Server Management Studio - like to lock out the Explorer window

I've not observed that behavior in a long time...and as it happens, Winget is upgrading SSMS as I type this. Everything else continues to work as normal while it does its thing.

And even then, it most certainly doesn't eliminate them.

The fact is you can't make housing more affordable when the land you are building it on isn't affordable! The price of land wont change. You might cut a bit off the top of construction. .

I actually think this would have little effect overall. People are paying to live where they can afford and prices reflect that. I don't believe they would go down much (or at all) if you make construction a bit cheaper -- people will still be willing to pay that same price for that area.

MBAs: Let's outsource and cost-cut our way into danger!
Right-wing idiots on Slashdot: Der her look what DEI did!

Are you that easily tricked by stupid right-wing talking points?

"Is that true? I always did. There are TOS movies, TNG movies, etc."

Minutia, but here's the reasoning: .

TOS = The Original Series. Are the movies really part of that series? Many don't. It was 10 years later when the first movie came out. Hell, many don't consider TAS as TOS. They gave it it's own three-letter acronym!.

TNG = The Next Generation. You could make the argument that the movies were the continuation of the series. Hell, the first movie was filmed at the same time as the series finale. Hell, many of the TNG films were like 2-hour special TV episodes. It was always funny how Worf ended turning up off DS9 (LOOK! Another 3 letter acronym!) and near the latest Enterprise at just the right time to take part in the latest adventure.

I recall more than a few "tests" we "had" to perform on network saturation at work "back in the day".

Best "tool"? DOOM over IPX/SPX.

Fun times.

This reminds me of the sentencing of the "January 6 insurrection" guilty pleas. As I (a non-lawyer) understand it...

Regardless of whether you consider it an insurrection or a protest march petitioning the government for redress of grievances...

In the wake of the events, the fed busted a bunch of the participants and left them rotting in prison for months (over a year), with no end in sight. In many cases this left families with no breadwinner, enormous legal costs, and expectations of losing all their property as part of some eventual conviction.

Then the prosecutors offered some of the defendants a plea deal; Plead guilty to a misdemeanor or short-sentence felony and we'll drop any other charges.

Rule of thumb: a misdemeanor generally is a crime with a max sentence of no more than a year in prison, a felony more than a year - which is why you see "year and a day" max sentences on some crimes. An accused person already in prison for over the max sentence would expect that accepting the deal would result in immediate release with "credit for time served" (and others near the max might expect release much sooner). So some of them went for it.

Came the sentencing some judges applied a two-year sentence enhancements for "substantial interference with the 'administration of justice.'" OOPS! No release for you.

I'd expect them to pull the same sort of thing on Assange if he were foolish enough to plead guilty to anything, no matter how minor.

(By the way: This particular form of the practice, as used on the Jan6 participants, was just recently struck down. But the decision was based on Congress' certification of the presidential election not qualifying as "administration of justice.'" So this wouldn't apply to whatever enhancement trick they might pull on Julian.

I don't know what you heard, but baby cells can only stay baby cells, they can't become mommy cells,

Sez who?

There's been evidence for some time that post-pregnancy mothers often have clones of stem cells derived from the previous foetus. Sure such a clone would likely start out with its epigenitc programming set for whatever function it had in the baby's development (unless, say, some error in its differentiation is what led to it migrating to the woman's body to set up shop). But once established on the mother's side of the placental barrier, and especially after the birth, the stem cell clone can be expected to continue to run its program under direction of the growth factors in the mother's blood.

That amounts to a transplant of younger stem cells which could be expected to produce differentiated cells for tissue growth and replacemtnt,, with the aging clock set farther back and with some genes from the father to provide "hybrid vigor", filling in for defective genes in the mother's genome or adding variant versions of molecular pathways.

Follow the link provided by the GP. It focused on construction jobs.

Regarding farm hands -- again, same idea. Ever hear of Cesar Chavez? He felt the same way about mass importation of unskilled labor for the migrant farmers.

Blaming the GOP is idiotic. It could have been stopped by any administration. Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama (Hell, he had s supermajority in both houses!). As much as I don't like Trump, he slowed it down. He was also the only candidate back in 2016 who actually TALKED about it which likely got him elected. If he could do that, imagine what Obama could have done with his supermajority. And Biden? Undid everything Trump put in place and made it easier to walk across the border. All while telling us how "secure" it was. Then when NOBODY (not even that sides base) believed it they flipped the narrative to admitting it, but together a weak bill and then blamed the GOP for not accepting it. Awesome.

For the record, I'm a 'Never Trumper' and not a Republican. I think Trump is a psychopath with poor impulse control. I also don't think every single policy out of his administration was poison.

"Besides, Americans don't want to work in certain jobs [cnn.com], so those people have to work in them."

Of course Americans want to work those jobs. They have historically worked those jobs. They don't want to work them for what they are getting paid for them now with the import of mass amounts of unskilled labor.

40 years ago in CA, the entire plaster/painting industry was predominantly black. They saw their pay go for $20/hour, down to $15, per hours and eventually down to $9 per hour until they count even find work in their carrier because they were displaced by cheap imported labor. Same for construction workers. Walk in to a fast food joint in the early to mid 80s and you'd see mostly high-school students (one of them would have been me). Today, you see mostly Hispanics well over 25. There are exceptions, yes -- but it's pretty universal.

To say "Americans don't want to work in certain jobs" is very misleading. Many jobs never were meant to be careers to raise families -- and those that were ended up being priced down to becoming "never meant to raise a family" levels.

See, here's the thing -- salaries are highly dependent on location. You might be able to get a beautiful, 3000 square foot house in Trumpistan, Alabama, but if the only jobs are "Walmart cashier" there then it's not going to help you very much. The fact that people can't understand this in 2024 baffles me.

On what are you basing that statement?

The first meme of the two here explains it.