Have you read up on the Federal Reserve Bank? :)

Irrelevant. The point is he was shot for his speech. He was trying to persuade people, for whatever motivation, and someone got mad an killed him.

The "hate speech" trope is disgusting. Hate speech is free speech. The revisionism around that is absurd. Once you justify violence over speech, you've lost everything we've gained over the last 250 years.

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I live in a state with a "homestead" protection. It's kind of an odd provision. I can declare bankruptcy and keep my homestead. I'd lose other property, but not my primary residence. The only way I lose my house is to not pay the mortgage or my federal income & state property taxes.

As for safety nets... I think it's long past time we couple unemployment and COBRA coverage in some fashion. This would roughly double the amount needed to provide unemployment benefits, but provide a much needed safety net. Structured correctly, it could alter the layoff calculus for corporations. The benefits having a limited period & termination date make's sure it's a safety net and not a hammock.

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Except... The only way it continues to exist is if it generates a profit. It's there's no profit, it stops happening.

Hospitals close, doctor's/nurses/techs leave, etc... Say I was a doctor (I'm not)... You call out the indifference, but you're indifferent to my needs. I'm not working for free. My college cost a lot of money.

As for socialism, it always fails. Always. People hold up Canada and England's public health service, but omit that you can wait a year or more for a simple MRI, and die in the queue. When you look at full blown socialism, that too always fails, from the Mayflower compact to Venezuela...

We need safety nets in society. Some of these are socialistic in nature, unemployment, medicare, etc... Some are regulatory, like making it illegal to hold cancer patients hostage to contract negotiations. Violence only leads to more violence.

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How'd that work out for Charlie Kirk?

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Someone please tell the AI filters in HR....

No... No... No... You have it all wrong. They want to export their high prices and make the surrounding states suffer. "Sorry Spokane, you got outbid by Santa Clara for the Upper Falls output generated inside your own city. But we can pick you up in the spot market using LA Solar at $1200/MWh!"

Yes, exactly... And they were almost completely wiped out by the Devonian extinction. The name itself adds to the confusion...

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No kidding... I read the headline and was like "Whoa, is that the late Devonian extinction?" Nope... Hadean. Before even the late heavy bombardment...

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Cmdr Taco and Cowboy Neal cashed out, they're long gone. What's replaced them seeks to influence you. Hence at least three "Ahhhh!!!! AI is taking all the jobs" and three "Ahhhh!!!! Climate Change!" stories a day, interspersed a few stories you actually might care about.

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Ada was created primarily for the DoD. It's used to write complex weapons control systems, etc...

Think of it like the Pentagon Pizza counter. When Ada pops up on Tiobe's list, we're going to war!

Wall candy nothing... I'm so old my wooden crib was painted with lead paint. That stuff was everywhere around the SF Bay. Heck CP/M-86 probably failed because of lead neurotoxicity. How do you think we got M$-DOh$...

But seriously... I didn't expect to have to be on the lookout for lead paints in my kids toys. But 20 years ago they shipped a bunch of wooden toy trains in with red paint containing lead. Big recall... It was hard to explain to a 2 year old. So if you ever manage to kiss a girl and she takes pity on you in a moment of weakness... Just know you have to keep up with the toy recalls as well as the child support payments. Of course now days everything is made out of plastic, including a lot of the so called women...

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Restricting redistribution of SRPM's is a license violation. You cannot add third party terms to existing GPL code. IBM needs to comply with the GPL.

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I have mixed reviews of Zigbee. It sorta works, but doesn't like stucco walls. But at least it's not Internet addressable. Once you've moved to something running IPv6, you might as well just throw things on WiFi.

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But you probably know why the origin of the wave motion gun was removed from Star Blazers. :p

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