Recent content by davisch

I'm curious how much electricity this takes to run. I have a suspicion that it uses some hefty wattage for just Quake II.

Yes, but why settle for a sales tax when you can have that and payroll, property, corporate, etc. taxes or the tariff on top of it? Like I said, It is garbage market meddling to appear virtuous to a voting base. All presidents do it and by some strange luck, their peer-group happens to get rich...

I think that's the point of tariffs. They are meant to inconvenience both the consumer and producer of foreign goods, trying to steer people to produce and consume domestic goods, which it can tax, while collecting tax revenue on foreign purchases. The government wins either way. Usually...

Playing games at work and accessing government data on personal equipment? Musk has settled right in to being a bureaucrat! Government business as usual.

They call us "consumers" because we aren't their customers. The board members are the customers and their stock is the product. This happens when the founding individual/team lose majority ownership of a company. Instead of pleasing the customer of their products/service, they have to please the...

A perfect example of how inflation works! That's a large part of why everything costs so much more now. Money was printed and people immediately bought recreational stuff with it. The money supply grew and the goods supply diminished. And the market is still catching up. Wages had to go up...

The censorship pendulum swings... This is whey we need to be principled and always oppose censorship, regardless of how much we dislike the people speaking (or writing). The reigns will change hands and the powers you cheer for today will be powers you cry because of tomorrow.

Seems like it might be happening already. Just saw an article that said Wikipedia is starting to get filled with AI generated garbage with "references" that don't contain any of the claimed information.

At least with a search engine, your privacy impact can be reduced with different OS, VPN and browser options. With Windows 11 requiring an online MS account, searches will be tied directly to that account.

One of the balloons was even American made! RIP K9YO-15. The government spent ~$500,000 to shoot down a ~$20 Ham radio hobby balloon.