I have a book that is one of 1000 ever printed. It has both ISBN 10 and ISBN 13 numbers.
It was a vanity project (a coffee table book) by the CEO of a public company - it was published under the banner of the company he ran, despite having absolutely no connection to the business of that company. Nevertheless, it's a historic record.
I doubt there are many of these books left.
Maybe the only behavior that is considered authentic by X comes from AI?
Elon doesn't want dissenting voices. Did you disagree with (or fail to support) the preferred Oligarch-first narrative?
This isn't a lot of data. I know someone with half this in their personal Plex library.
So: why no local copy in addition to the cloud copy?
Why re we storing that offsite.
Fires or other natural disasters destroying the building and the data with it?
The people behind Cambridge Analytica didn't go away. They just let one company fold and moved on. How many other entities are involved in the same manipulation via social media?
I suspect that the same people who are bankrolling Nigel Farage and others created the social media storm that caused the mass storming of Ceuta.
I know due process only applies in criminal cases, but this seems egregious:
Judge Kathleen Williams granted the temporary restraining order on June 5, one day after the case was filed, without hearing from any of the defendants.
In the last election, I voted against one candidate simply because of his police connection.
The only solution is successful lawsuits against the cities and counties that employ these scum. Can this happen? I don't know.
Some years ago, there was a website that was dedicated to images of "Gatso" speed cameras around Birmingham, UK being burned out using the "necktie" approach: A tire was hung on the camera, petrol [gasoline] was added and set alight.
android 16 is expected to start flagging rogue cell phone towers.
When? Android 16 has been out over a year. My phone has a pending update to Android 17.
Unless the governor of that state is a Trump puppet. I guarantee that if Trump told Greg Abbott to pardon someone in Texas, he'd jump (roll) at the opportunity.
Real example: Tina Peters.
I would argue if you ran the calculations on your rental houses versus investing in the S&P500, the S&P500 would surely win by a significant margin.
Again, no. The houses started out highly leveraged: not quite as much as my residence, but still very highly leveraged. It's possible that caching out a couple of years ago might have produced higher returns, but there is a lot of tax to pay when I cash out. I bought one house, then, after it had appreciated in value, I re-mortgaged it, taking some cash out and used that as a deposit on the second house.
That said, even with massive bay area home value appreciation (400-500% since 2001); it still doesn't beat investing the money.
I started with about $20k, not $100k. That was possible back in 2002. For most of the life of the mortgage, the after-tax cost of the mortgage, taxes and maintenance was similar or less than than the cost of rent would have been. Renting would not have provided a stream of funds to invest, over and above buying.
I have also turned a similar starting investment into significant asset value through buying a couple of houses to rent.
There is no way that I could have built up the same wealth without buying my house back in 2002.
I disagree with this advice. I still choose to work, but I have financial independence, which came from stretching my finances to buy a house in the SF Bay Area some 25 years ago.
The key changes that prompted me to buy a house was getting a green card, and a temporary dip in house prices from 9/11. I recognized the risk, but it paid off handsomely for me.
Has this become the norm? Or is this mostly just Sony entering into shite agreements because "fuck the users"?
It's the norm because it makes the licensing agreements slightly cheaper.
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
