Louise could really make you hate her.

That works great unless you're specifically looking for results in those frequencies.

It's the equivalent of trying to look for a red laser pointer dot on a wall and some jackass put red floodlights in front of you aimed at the wall.

"Thus solving the problem forever."

Yep.

Give a rich man a dollar and all you've done societally is remove a dollar from the economy. If you instead make him give that money to his employees things change, but cause poor people actually need money and will spend it.

You give a poor person that dollar through increased minimum wage and they spend it at a business. That business now makes more money, which is passed on to its employees through the increased minimum wage, and they spend that dollar again.

And again.

And again.

That dollar you took from the rich and gave to the poor drove a lot more than a dollar's economic activity.

OH - and it's also taxed every time it changes hands, so it also brings in more than its initial value in tax revenue.

The problem is they have to come up with a new source of income now that it looks like Google's payments to be the default search engine to them are illegal.

That's like 90% of their revenue, so they're panicking.

I can't see any problems with that. They certainly wouldn't murder the cleaning staff at Mar-a-Lago for being Latino.

If Google takes money to host an ad that's malware, they should be able to be prosecuted for it.

This is different than simply hosting community content that they can't reasonably moderate. They're being given money to distribute these ads, so they can afford to moderate them.

Which should be easy anyway. Ads shouldn't be able to install third-party shit from the advertisers on user computers. Google can easily restrict what can be included on an ad package.

I'm torn. This is a bad look, but when my Mom ran for council we had the list too because we wanted to collect the signs afterwards. They're most of the cost of a local election campaign.

Oh, they are. He's got a pretty serious security team that doesn't fuck around.

A lord/servant relationship is still a relationship.

I don't want a relationship with my tools.

If my PC starts running slow I'll tear the fucker item and start replacing shit. If the OS displeases me I'll start disabling parts. If software starts interrupting me when I'm not actively using it I change its permissions so it can only do what I tell it.

I'm not gonna give my butler a lobotomy to make him more obedient, swap the Footmen's hands out for serving platters, or kneecap the scullery maid so she can't leave the kitchen.

If my phone dies, it gets scrapped and I replace it without shedding a tear. I can't say the same for a loyal Valet.

I think Trump and the secret service keeps getting lucky that his assailants are idiots regarding their weapon choice. This guy was 300-500 yards away and had an AK.

An AK is a 4-5 MOA rifle at best, so even with perfect optics, a perfect shooter, no wind, and a steady position, you're looking at a precision of 2 feet at 500 yards, and that's ignoring that precision gets progressively worse at range.

At 500 yards, a 7.62x39 round has gone subsonic, lost 80% of its muzzle energy, and dropped 30 feet.

Anything under 1000 ft/lbs of ~~torque~~ force isn't considered powerful enough to ethically hunt a whitetail deer. At 500 yards, a 7.62x39 has less than a third of that energy. It's enough to be lethal, but not consistently.

And all that is the starting point for the first shot. It gets worse firing semi-auto.

I didn't discover it this uear, but I started using QGIS professionally when the small city that hired me to, among a lot of other duties, be the new GIS department.

Turns out they thought ArcGIS cost the same as like Office or Acrobat, and they didn't budget for it for the fiscal year that started 2 weeks before I started working.

Anyway, I've gotten pretty good with QGIS, and we're sticking with it. It does everything I need it to do, and I can still pull stuff from most REST servers.