After companies merge your options go from two to one. So 1 + 1 = 1 after the merger. Doesn't make sense all that it somehow increases competition after a merger in the vast majority of cases - you can have CO-OP, mutual aid, shared or reciprocal agreement to word if a few ways - as separate companies or in this case of the media merger you could have interoperable between competitors (adversarial operability or COM COM as it is both ways said around EFF).

That is why you have in that neck of the woods the Citizens Party promoting cash for some stuff. At least you do not have it at the top of the chart for processing fees if I recall. The Power of Cash book is another source. Last I knew though you only have about four too big for their britches and some other banks, though some significant sized towns at the moment have none for people in branches and a few ATM's. The pol. party over there has a quick fix of postal banking, among other things.

Is it like a pencil? Can you sharpen your Sharpies? Also did they use sharp Sharpies to tool their production line? [comedy thread continues, join in]

Should it only work though windows (muti-pane for plural sake)? (thanks you two for teeing up my third joke on this).

by a reporter. Down-cycling rather than recycling. A U.S. based reporter thus this story makes sense as this summary says the U.S. doesn't recycle most of it. Plus they added if it is a clear bottle it yellows after a few cycles thus the change to colored bottles or in lots of cases it gets downcycled to park benches and the like.

With moores law you would think storage would go up like like they said when launching gmail but enshittification for profits probably was the plan, after all they had the money for a short email domain they bought from the Garfield brand so big money where there from the start from a huge (at the time) media company (then Viacom / then d.b.a. CBS) to another - interactive service(!) as the law calls it. How long has it stayed at 15GB? It used to go up from 1GB+.

EssilorLuxottica is the reason for multiple aspects on the optometrist and telehealth crap. They control the making the eyeglasses themself, own retail part of as well (or what is left of such as they appear to be steering you to telehealth), and they also used to have a retail competitor but they bankrupted them when they did not want to sell out because they also own the insurer. That dam company is both a monopsony and monopoly at the same time.

Looking back at old phone books that had which pre-fixes where from and to charts for which is local and the other toll it is funny to see that in some edge cases you could call from town A to C for free but from town C to A was not free. Same phone book as well if I recall looking back awhile ago so I think it was the same baby bell company in both areas.

And unlike the state, city or in this case school district this company that controls eighty or so percent of the market is a company you do not elect or have much of any say in.

All that you said and also get some of the signs "ready to connect" is all they say on them.

The issue is find the right to private action (your ability to sue personally) to enforce the laws. Arbitration is a thing and it is in basic condensed terms them picking their own private judge (The contract you have with the typical big bad companies usually has another line or so that there is limited discovery; that is they don't care about looking at all the facts) so the ability to enforce the price gouging has those two hurdles to name just two. Just look at gas prices in 2008 and the AG's in some states, they just said "the markets" or industry prices where that way and they found no wrongdoing for then looking into the price history it was charging you about double several months time-frame. Hopefully with anti-trust coming out of dormancy for the better part of 40 or so years there will be some enforcement but it has not happened at the federal level for a few years just over a year ago (just between 2021 and January 2024) but it still can and is to an extent happening at the state level and privately (citizen level).

Just in case this poll is like the at this moment second latest poll (When will AGI be achieved?) and was left up for almost a year (and remained as the "greatest and latest poll at that") and after a few weeks you get "This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted." Glad to see this site somehow got a new poll on here. There is so much more than just AI and "stuff that matters" so hopefully there will be diversity in future polls and the future bring not just an AI poll (if the polls continue at all - I'm not holding my breath; I still breath will typing).

There is so much money that in the U.S. Stock market has a handful or two (well it is less than ten as of now) companies out the S&P 500 which is is under two percent of the S&P 500 as far as companies listed there goes and that ends up being around a third of all the market cap. I will let you all insert more / your own words and sentences to describe that most AI use cases which is a boondoggle.

As far as the mostly PI (pretend intelligence) goes it does have a few use cases but is mostly overused in lots of situations. The understanding I have is that it okay in some cases at patterns such as being used as a second option (not a rubber stamp) for detecting cancer screenings. As far large language model if it was so great you would type three to five words and you would use the middle suggested word on a phone and keep taping the next word to finish all your texts / SMS's. The fact that nearly no none does that shows that it is not useful. AI is not something that invents much, if at all. Looking forward to ""The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book about being a better AI critic, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2026" by mouthbeef (reads this site a lot but doesn't post much here on /.) as that book use as critic it the subtitle but most of the books have about a third and some have half the book pages towards solutions so that make him better than most book authors for solving problems and it will have some use cases for it.

There still is some good articles are linked to on this site but it is nice not to have to read every single source like this one take two different companies with the way this /. post is. Kinda going more copy and past than summarizing and editing it. At first I had to reread think efficiency was at play until I halved 150 (side note:I have seen someone in a store get a phone calculator for something as easy as 50% off). Then read the source. I don't digg this summary.

So yes it does seem like I have heard that having a lack of asleep can be similar to being drunk. But I do not get how one got that figured it was both today and 2016 news at the same time when it was neither. Maybe going though a backstory is like being an auditor looking at past years paperwork and confusing dates?

Looking thought the history of edits https://en.wikipedia.org/w/ind... it might of been no-one updated the wikipedia page but it shows "Latest release 14.2 / 30 June 2016"; for the wikipedia version that was November 19th 2018. Even March 25th 2019 edits still show the same in a couple of places on the wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/ind...