Because people come here from all over the state specifically because we have better social services. Actually, people literally come to the county I live in because we have better social services. I know this is true because some of them have told me personally.

The official estimate is that somewhere around 20% of California's homeless came here after becoming homeless. But there's also a grey area where people moved here for work which didn't pan out and then became homeless as a result. They moved here because conditions in their state wouldn't support them just the same as the people who were already homeless. Then they can get stuck here and we have to support them (it is after all the only human thing to do) even though they never made any significant contribution to the state. It costs us so much to support people that we actually have a thing called TAP (Transportation Assistance Program) which gives people cash money to use to go somewhere else where someone says they will take them in. It's mostly bus tickets but there are other solutions available as well.

The important thing to remember is that we don't get to decide how the tax money is spent until we get it back from the feds, and these programs are not designed to provide sufficient care (The S in SNAP stands for supplemental) so they don't actually pay for anything like the full impact of caring for people. Then the state has to pick up the slack, and when you're having to do that for the whole country it can get expensive fast.

The same keyboard never produces these results on my Linux systems, so no.

There's more realistic ways to solve the problem, like rotating staff.

With dirigibles you could add more shielding, but then you also wouldn't have this problem.

They're cutting the spines off. You think they will re-bind them for resale?

You forgot that we're discussing books out of copyright. You have to read all the comments in the thread before replying or you'll make stupid mistakes like this.

Joe and Harris supporting genocide didn't fill anyone with hope either. But make sure to blame everyone else instead of the voters who didn't care about those issues and are happy to see genocide as long as gas prices stay low, and the inhuman politicians who are the best the DNC can come up with, and of yeah the DNC that made sure to destroy Sanders' campaign so that we came to this pass in the first fuck place.

The Democrats' actions are indistinguishable from throwing elections. At what point do we stop listening to their excuses when they repeatedly do exactly what you would do if you were trying to lose?

Water systems haven't changed all that much since before the internet existed, let alone became popular. They still have broadly the same stages and generally the same things occur in them. There is literally no need for automation because it doesn't take many people to run a water system and they need surprisingly little training. It's a community college course! We implemented automation to reduce headcount, but if the automation systems are attacked and need work then that's actually increasing labor costs. Now you need to hire an engineer to fix what you should have done right the first time.

On the other hand, automation isn't even the problem, I only mention it to point out that these problems don't have to exist at all. You could solve the problem by not having remote control, or by not using the internet for that (there are other options) and by using one-way links for monitoring. Then you can still do your monitoring through the cheap and ubiquitous internet, and only have to use other resources for control.

Putting control of these systems on the internet gets you almost nothing and exposes you to risks which are completely unnecessary and doing so hardly saves you any money as you could use another option for your control links and it doesn't need to be high speed.

My G Power 2021 still gets 4-5 days of battery life. I don't use it all that much TBF, but that's still really nice.

The responsible thing would be to resell any actually valuable books after scanning, but that would require effort so they probably aren't doing it. I welcome any advice to the contrary, though.

A comment from Bill Gates who got an STD on Epstein island and then wanted Epstein to get him antibiotics that he could sneak into his wife's food to treat it has severe negative value.

When combined with the facts about Microsoft and AI (Bill having ~$50B in stock and nobody wanting CoPilot) this is solely an attempt to save face and preserve the value of his portfolio by preparing the market for Microsoft to pull back from their AI investments as they have no apparent route to profitability.

Bill Gates should shut the fuck up forever, and every time he speaks, everyone should bring up his Epstein connection and talk about nothing else.

The plane is already made of aluminum. Every kilo added is one kilo less of fuel or cargo.

This is American IT security in a nutshell. There are no penalties for ignoring CISA so everyone does. I have to change passwords on a cycle for no reason, whoops. They don't allow most special characters, whoops.

I never have that experience because Windows doesn't do anything well. You bring up mouse input but what about the clicks that never occur? They have the problem with eating keystrokes too. Also when the system is loaded control key activation is detected later than other key presses so a control-v just becomes a "v", this usually happens to me multiple times a day. All office windows of a certain type are in a single process and block each other while saving. I could go on all day, Windows is just wholly inferior to everything else

OK, but which people do you hold accountable here? Almost certainly the wrong ones.

Or talking Catholics out of supporting child molestation

The only people who don't balance the budget are Republicans, the only people you don't hold accountable are Republicans, here's your map clown