All those great corporations and TexA$$ still makes less than half the money California does. Having lots of large corporations just means your politicians are giving out tax breaks on your dime. Those same corporations will move in 2 years to where the NEXT tax break is. The Mega-Corps are extra-national moving assets around to avoid taxes...Apple comes to mind. They paid Ireland so little the EU complained..

(No. I'm not congratulating you on that. I'm wafting the stench away. You can smell San Fran-Shit-N-Go from Yuma now.)

No that's Wellton you are smelling. SF smells like fish not cow shit.

Large corporations are leeches not contributors. The only true measure is GDP. California's is approximately TWICE what Texas claims. In fact it takes Texas AND New York to beat California. If we could ensure these corporations actually paid taxes things might even out.

"I think American's don't understand that the US has slowly gone overboard with things like AI that don't fit the values of other countries."

LOL This shit doesn't fit the value of any country, unless its' a country club for Billionaires. I'm from the US and we are OFF the RAILS here, but things
are going to starting happening NOW....

I've a friend who runs one of those Gazillion $$$ combines. He's said it before," I NEED air conditioning, and GPS. Everything else is BS."
We were talking about the BS JD pulls and his comment seemed to fit this room. I don't know anything about farming or tractors but that stuck in my head.

Some genius needs to have an AI code an AI tool to manage AI's usage of AI tokens. Aight ?

https://www.startpage.com/do/m......

My pref's are stored as a local cookie. You can use whatever search engine you like.
*note that link has been sanitized.*

The ban on private individuals is a bad idea...

Private individuals, PI's, Skip Tracers and reporters SHOULD be able to use such software freely. Police, and the Government NEED to provide reasonable suspicion to a court and get a writ.
This kind of tool can be incredibly useful, or incredibly invasive. The real question is who(m?) do you trust as the gate keeper. I'd nominate the EU data protection people but there is no agency or entity in
the US I'd trust not to monetize the data regardless of law.

I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the reccomendation.

I can remember seeing those in the theatre, after standing in line for hours. Star wars made a huge impact on my childhood. One of my best childhood memories is with my now deceased uncle seeing Empire Strikes Back. Like many I was terribly disappointed by the later Star Wars episodes. I've not even seen any of the "new" stuff. Actually Revenge of the Sith is the last movie I saw. She will be missed.

THANK-YOU. The police have the means to get any info they want and can prove they have a legitimate need for. They just need to go through the proper procedures. I was a DSO long ago, and there are plenty of friendly judges that will listen to your arguments, but lazy a$$ cops don't want to do the paper work, or have shown they weren't trustworthy before. Show a judge you are a dirtbag and you'll never get anything.

I use the Meta AI for illustrations for my D&D game. I'm not sure I'd pay for it but it has made a positive impact in the game. ie the players rave about having images for bad guys.

At that point, why not just go VPin [vpinhub.com]?
because you can't hip check a virtual table.
Honestly I don't know. I've loved pinball since I was a kid and could play on a chair at the Mr. Video arcade. The touch, the smell of the electricity all combine into a thing I can't get enough of.

That is not a small project. How are you going to separate the CO2 from the general atmosphere ? I worked in a grow house briefly in college and they used commercial CO2 cannisters for that effect.

I've got a Delta Queen 2 plays for .25 on the patio. Wouldn't it be easier to take an existing machine and redo the playing field to match ? Getting parts for my old machine is not fun. I've made rubber bumpers and swapped light bulbs to low power led's. I had an artistic friend recreate some of the decals and made a whole new playing field base to replace the sagging boards that were there.

I live in AZ. There ARE some issues with not having DST. It gets F'n dark early and the sun rises late in the morning. I walk dogs and for some time I start and finish in the dark. Kids ride the school busses in the dark. The winter Ag workers start in the VERY dark, but it IS cooler. Over all I like not having to change the time.

Setting the time backwards used to be a huge deal in the mainframe world, with duplicate transaction times logged and such, but as I read it now they are using Universal time and incrementing daily.