Indie game companies make and sell new offline games every day.
And online games can have their server code released when the publisher's servers shut down. I'm not even going to insist that it be provided for free. Doesn't guarantee that the game will keep going but it at least makes it possible.
They'll find a way to pretend Democrats are the only ones responsible for the rapidly-growing budget deficit.
And Democrats will have to be good about pointing out that the House "Freedom Caucus", who claim to be vigorous fiscal conservatives against raising the debt, voted for this.
What scares me is that there was absolutely no attempt to sell this bill to the voters.
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is on video saying she didn't like the bill, but voted for it after getting carve-outs for Alaska exempting it from strict new food stamp rules for two years - the state with the highest SNAP error rate in 2024. Though, because of reconciliation rules, they had to write it a little more obscurely. From Republicans' Absurd Food Benefit Policy Could Reward States Who Waste Money
Because Senate Republicans passed the bill using a special “budget reconciliation” process that doesn’t allow “extraneous” provisions — such as policies directly targeting individual states with only incidental budgetary effects — they had to write the Alaska SNAP carveout so that it didn’t look so obvious.
So the bill would delay the crackdown for any state with an error rate above 13.3%. (To make it even less obvious, instead of setting the threshold at 13.3%, the text says the exemption applies for states whose error rates exceed 20% when multiplied by 1.5.)
According to the SNAP error rate numbers posted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture this week, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon and the District of Columbia would win a delay of the cost-sharing burden if it were based on 2024 error rates.
[States that worked to lower their error rate would be subject to the new stricter rules.]
This bill seems tailor-made to fuck red states. It will massively suck, but the reactions will at least be entertaining for a little while once people start noticing what happened.
Yup. Also, apparently, many people are unfamiliar with what's in the bill, and will probably be very surprised.
To any rural USians - I sincerely hope you stay healthy, you won't have a hospital soon enough.
And this will affect everyone in those areas, not just people on Medicaid / Medicare.
The Republicans, very cynically, set most of these healthcare cuts to hit shortly after the midterm elections.
And the temporary tax cuts -- no tax on: tips, overtime, auto loan interest; and the $1,000 initial Trump Account deposit -- expire in/after 2028, the $6k SSI bonus for low(er)-income senior expires in 2029 and the SALT deduction reverts from $40k to $10k in 2030. The tax cuts for the very wealthy and corporations are, of course, permanent.
How common of a name is Soham Parekh in India?
At one time I was in a tech group with three Mike Johnsons. Assuredly different people, though slightly confusing.
But I don't really feel sorry for these startups going for global minimum wage and getting burned.
Hire an American named Steve from Akron and you'll be less likely to be scammed.
If there's one thing I'll give this Administration, they know junk science - just ask RFK, Jr (HHS) , Dr. Oz (Medicare)
Probably depends on its characteristics.
He had quite an amusing series of papers popping the bubbles of all the 'debunkers'.
He never proved what it was but he sure proved many things that it wasn't, as claimed by ThE eXpErTs.
Midwit scientists abhor an unknown and run to bad ideas like a safety blanket.
FWIW his grad student at the time had the better ideas, involving relative motion of solar systems within the Galactic Plane. His models were the best fit for the available data.
Let us not forget that as a female artist, there is more than 1 option for sticking stuff into.
What kind of looks like a selfie stick at first glance before I focus enough to see zipper, could be either.
I've also read enough EMT stories to believe it.
Having to show ID to access free speech online is the surest sign that US is sliding towards a China style dystopia. Thanks Supreme Court.
Or simply walking/driving...
US citizen detained by immigration officials who dismissed his Real ID as fake
Family members outraged as U.S. citizen detained by federal agents in downtown LA on way to work
Even after proving they're U.S. citizens, many are still detained because they "assaulted" the usually masked, unmarked officers refusing to identify themselves as LEO and/or their agency, which make things seem more like a kidnapping. The "they assaulted/resisted us" excuse is getting a bit old, especially when there are usually 5-10 "officers" attacking someone. But, you know, as long as they're only going after "very bad criminals", and not people going to work, simply because they're brown
And mp3s average about 1 MB/minute. So a data CD with a 700 MB capacity will hold 700 minutes, or about 200 songs.
Like I said, the capacity is a lot more.
Sure, but the quality isn't. Everything's a trade-off. My point, though, was that your estimate of a music CD's capacity was way off.
Plus, a music CD will hold maybe 7 or 8 songs, but most CD players can play mp3s, and a 600 MB CD will hold a hundred or more of those.
Standard music CDs can hold 74 minutes and the average pop song length is 3.5 minutes. Even at 4 minutes, that's 18 songs. The CD Louder than Bombs by The Smiths, at 72m 44s, has 24 songs on it, most between 2.5 and 3.5 minutes long. I'll note that one of my devices can't play the last song -- it's probably to depressed by then.
Google: average length pop music
Compact disc
CD players were standard until 2019, when luxury brands started to phase them out.
The last manufacturer to have them standard was Subaru, through 2023.
You must be a lessee?
My truck never had a CD player. I replaced the head unit with a cassette player with a $30 Walmart bluetooth unit a few years ago, and it's legit the fastest bluetooth connection I own. About a second after it gets power it's linked to the phone.
It's good to own multiple paid-for vehicles.
ThriftBooks has great deals on DVD's and CD's.
The way they used the "Crowdstrike Outage" to hide crimes was to reboot into a WinPE environment and 'do recovery' while wiping evidence.
I haven't used a Mac in a while but it used to be booting from external media was easy.
I can imagine ways to require keys from secure boot and hardware to decrypt the main drive but I haven't seen those deployed myself.
So, reboot from external, copy data, reboot normally.
Somebody can tell me if Apple already provides a way to avoid this.
The more they over-think the plumbing the easier it is to stop up the drain.
