Technically, it's a violation at one mile per hour over the posted speed limit. Few police are that strict, but some are or can be when they're in a bad mood. Many people believe that there is a 10% cushion in the law, but I know of at least one person who was ticketed for going 1-2 MPH over in IIRC a 65 MPH zone (the judge threw it out when the person took it to trial).

It's fairly well known throughout the US that if you're driving through small towns in rural areas, you need to pay close attention to the speed limit signs (which are not always properly maintained), as local cops will often write tickets for out-of-towners for just going a couple of miles over the limit, knowing that the chance of it getting fought in court are limited.

If you claim it as your own interpretation of Satchmo's work, then no, though you might be on the hook for royalties if you too closely follow his work. It gets a lot fuzzier if you're trying to claim that it is what he would have done if he were still alive.

Don't count out the ability of sports leagues to contract Netflix to lock out anyone who had a billing address within the blackout zone in the last 90 days.

Disney, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon all have ratings and profiles can be locked to certain maximum ratings. It doesn't matter if they make an X-rated MCU film; if the kids' profiles are set to cap out at something less than PG, they're not going to get a single swear word other than maybe a rare hell or damn.

Of course it will go elsewhere, but more of it will stay in the pockets of patients, who will spend it on more useful things than the hospitals and drug companies will spend it on.

Good luck to you, whatever path you get.

Fuck cancer.

A cancer treatment that costs mere thousands of dollars is far cheaper than any other actual cancer treatment out there right now. The article mentions that each vaccine is made specifically for each patient (they have to get something from the patient's own cancer cells), so just the development is going to cost some money.

But since cancer typically means tens to hundreds of thousands (and occasionally millions) of dollars in treatment, this could be not game-changing not only in terms of health but for the actual economy. The US currently spends over $200 billion just on cancer treatments every year, and that doesn't count lost wages for those with cancer or those who are supporting them. The US GDP in 2023 was around $27 trillion, meaning that we're spending almost 1% of the GDP on cancer treatments alone. That's a lot of money to go cycling back into the economy.

They don't seem to have completely replaced it, rather just added 18 seconds of text to try to explain themselves. The same clip of the CEO saying that they're not negotiating is still there toward the end.

The excess money is spent on US Treasury bonds. The bonds are held until they must be sold to finance SSA operations (including benefits) or until they mature, and the proceeds are then either spent on SSA operations or reinvested into T-bonds. Social Security currently holds a bit under $3 trillion in such bonds.

One of my favorite Slashdot sigs from other users has long been something like "XML is like violence: if it's not working, use more." It seems some people really took that to heart.

That's because false/fraudulent death claims are about as old as contracts. For anything month-to-month, if you as the executor or other authorized person have access, you just cancel it and be done with it. For anything where the company was expecting ongoing revenue on a contractual basis, they're going to want proof that the customer is dead before they cancel the service. It also helps fend off people who simply want to make trouble for others by interfering with paid services.

That doesn't get into all the other things you need death certificates for: survivor benefits from Social Security, Medicare, the VA, and pensions; at least one for every financial institution; another for each life insurance policy; possibly another to change health insurance coverage; final tax filings, which may require one each for federal, state, county, and city; probably one for probate; and miscellaneous others that inevitably come up specific to the decedent's specific situation.

I haven't watched local TV in the last 11 years. It's been all streaming for me. If something big is happening, it's going to get streamed on the station's website (as with tornado tracking) or on YouTube. If a storm is bad enough or a tornado is near enough to knock out my Internet access, I'm going to be sheltering away from the TV anyway.

You'd think that, but no. When someone dies, I pass on to survivors some advice given to me by a friend who learned just how hard it is to cancel just about anything after death: Order at least 20 and even up to 30 or more death certificates. The number of places that require them to terminate or modify a service is far higher than people realize. Ordering them in bulk is relatively inexpensive, usually about $4-$5 each on top of the original, and that $100-$150 extra can save a lot of time and frustration over the next few weeks and months, not to mention money in additional subscription fees that keep piling up while you're waiting for yet another copy you can send in.

Subsonic works just fine for almost everything now. While supersonic may have its niches, slicing an hour or two off of a domestic flight isn't going to change most uses. Long-distance will differ somewhat, but even then, subsonic is going to be more economical for most uses.

WingetUI is separate from Winget. It's a GUI interface for Winget, but also ties into Scoop, Chocolatey, Pip, and NPM.