I use a Microsoft MSK-1113B USB mouse and a Dell QuietKey SK-1000REW PS/2 keyboard. Both have served me perfectly fine for literal decades without issue, and cost me only a few dollars each when I purchased them.
Outside of some potential niche uses, I struggle to understand why one would spend over $100 on a keyboard or mouse when a basic PS/2 or USB one will work fine for the vast majority of use cases.
I still set my modern computers to play this sound on login. It just feels right.
It also stopped a room once when I rebooted my laptop during a meeting. The pause and disbelief, followed by, " . . . really?"
> Once I have it loaded and ready to go, I see no need to delay the start of washing.
I can think of one useful scenario: I recently had guests over for dinner, and after finishing cooking loaded everything into the dishwasher before they arrived. I did not want the machine running (and making noise) during our dinner however, so I set it with a six-hour delay.
This is easily implemented with a button however, rather than requiring an app.
Could you imagine if this same thoroughness were required to prove copyright interest and copyright infringement with DMCA take-down notices? (As they should be, given that they are purportedly under penalty of perjury.)
All citizens have already been able to file their taxes for free directly with the IRS. All you have to do is download the forms from their website, fill them out by hand following the instructions on the forms, and mail them to the IRS. No software or licence fees required; only the cost of a postage stamp.
Of the hospital systems named in the blurb, the vast majority are Christian/Catholic-based. These same hospitals are abandoning the poor.
As a Catholic, I am also extremely disappointed by this, though not surprised. Many of these are merely nominally Catholic however, having turned much more into profit-seeking businesses than having any concern about Catholic teachings. (Many in my area recently shed their Catholic names to make a more neutral branding, even.)
Here in my local area, we had two large hospitals on different sides of the county seat city, but that area was becoming "poorer" whilst new suburbs for "wealthier" suburbanites were growing a few miles away. The Lutheran hospital decided to build a new hospital in that area whilst retaining their existing one, which is how it should be done. The "Catholic" one built a new mega-hospital just a few blocks away from the new Lutheran one, but then demolished the entire original hospital, leaving not only a giant, empty hole in the downtown area of the old city, but also cutting off a large portion of the county population from accessible health care. It's shameful.
My own parish church was the origin of a different mega-chain of Catholic hospitals, starting off with our sisters in the 1880s who walked the streets caring for the ill. They were called the "smallpox sisters" and carried a bell with them to warn others to stay clear in case they were contagious, but put their own lives at risk for no monetary reward just to care for the sick. This is what a Catholic hospital should represent. But as the sisters died off and the hospital transitioned into a more modern, capitalistic structure, most semblances of that original Catholic spirituality fell away and it became like all of the others, with nary a concern for their history or their purported religious tenants. Which isn't to say that the staff and doctors do not deserve pay for their work, of course, but rather to illustrate the contrast between a hospital designed to help people in line with Christian virtue, and a hospital designed to profit off of people.
A different question: who will be *allowed* to get this new booster? The FDA authorised them for ages 12+ and 18+, but the current guidelines don't authorise people under 50 to receive them unless they have specific health conditions.
And here is a prime example of why President Trump, rightly or wrongly, is trying to eliminate Section 230 protections. They aren't being neutral hosts of third party content, but are actively monitoring and regulating the content whilst still attempting to claim Section 230 protections.
And no weather.
Wow, they even shut down the weather? Talk about government overreach! (Though as a meteorologist, I'd be fascinated to know how they did it.)
They're probably just hesitant to reveal the real story, that Opportunity has simply chosen to stop responding to us. https://xkcd.com/1504/
There's someone still actually using Google+? Astonishing!
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." -- George Carlin
