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After hearing Trump's inauguration speech I was reminded of this: Grand Moff Tarkin : The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I've just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.

That basically means anyone roughly 80 or older stands a good chance of dying of natural causes. The rest of us will be killed off by disease, famine, natural disasters, war, etc. Pretty depressing. I hope we change course. Merc's post illustrates exactly the reason why tax laws should make...

This is semi-relevant to the discussion: https://www.yahoo.com/news/end-world-know-theorist-warns-150030341.html Forget 300 years. What we do in probably the next 10 or 20 will decide our fate on one of two paths. I strongly feel it'll either be Mad Max or Star Trek, without much in between...

Same thing with the ongoing hysteria about how dangerous the subway is. I took the subways to high school and college from 1977 through 1985. The earlier part of that period especially is when statistically subway crime reached all time highs not seen since. I sometimes passed through the Port...

Look. I respect that. My parents refused to leave NYC when things started going bad in the 1970s. They figured eventually it would turn around, which it did. Hopefully this too will pass. Before it does, I suspect Democrats are going to learn to love guns. Harsh language won't stop the Trump...

I guess I took the part of your post about divorce out of context. Glad she's never married. It's better if you both have a similar experience level in that area. And yes, the way things are going in the US, find a way to tie up up your affairs here, then run, don't walk, to Canada. If you can...

What I find interesting is prices for things like a PIC16F628A are way higher than microcontrollers presumably built on smaller nodes with much greater capabilities, like the PIC16F18046. 3.5kB program memory, 224 bytes RAM versus 28 kB program memory, 2kB RAM, plus a whole bunch of peripheral...

Wow, so she married really young by today's standards. I guess context is everything. I can understand a divorce if you're beaten or otherwise abused. Barring that, it tends to raise some questions. I've been alone all my adult life really, so I have to be OK with it at this point. Honest truth...

I don't mean the growing up baggage everyone has. I mean the kind they have just by virtue of having kids or being in many prior failed relationships, perhaps even prior failed marriages. If a person has kids from a prior partnership, you're going to be second fiddle to them. And I fully...

Japan is at the forefront of the aging crisis, with Italy not far behind. Both groups tend to live long to start with going by genetics. Add in medical science and they're living even longer. We're facing a shortage of both medical personnel and caretakers. Japan is actively working on robots to...

Going by that rule I'm good down to a 38 year old partner. I want younger for several reasons, including not having baggage like a prior marriage, or especially children.

In which direction? Is she the older one? We're you uncoupled just a few months ago? This happened pretty fast. I'm not one to pursue people myself. That could be both good and bad.

I'm surprised people still bring up age gaps these days. It's only a number. You and your partner are only one generation apart, same as your grandparents. It's different if you're maybe 40 or 50 years apart. At that point a young person could be faced being a caretaker for their aging partner...

Unfortunately, at least once my ribs fully heal, I'll be among the few who could probably get through basic training. At age 62. Ditto for my brother and sister. Besides who would mind our cats if we're gone, I wouldn't relish the idea of being part of an invasion force. The last honorable war...

Everyone in the US should be worried about a draft also if he plans to invade Canada and Panama as well. During WWII the draft age was expanded to include 45 to 64 year olds.

On the bright side the cards can double as space heaters in the winter.

Belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all! Glad to see 2024 go. Really shitty year for me and my siblings. Mom passing away, my bike accident, my brother's bike accident, my sister having back trouble, and then Trump being elected to put the final shit topping on an awful year.

Any reason you're not considering moving with her? Is there anything keeping you in Indiana? Of course, if hot weather isn't your thing then I get not wanting to move to Florida. That's a state you couldn't pay to move to.

I started that yesterday, at least until he ran away. I'll give him a dose of flea treatment also. He had fleas earlier this year. No idea how given that he's strictly an indoor cat. Evidently the fleas in this part of the country developed a resistance to FrontLine. Advantage II worked with one...

Thanks but I managed to get him. I checked under the car around 6:30 PM yesterday and he wasn't there. I didn't see him in the yard, either, so I looked all around the block. Turns out he was hiding in the vegetable garden between the compost bins but I forgot to look there first time around...

Anyone know how to get a cat out from under a car? My cat ran outside last night. When I tried to get him in the yard he ran under my brother's car in the driveway. Good news is he's staying there, and with the fences he's contained to the driveway and yard. Bad news is he's been there for over...

They already did. They claim the government can control the weather, so it's sending hurricanes to punish red states.

Upstate NY is one the more affordable places to live. The only caveat is there aren't that many jobs there. Of course, if you can work remotely then that doesn't matter.

Was this person born blind, or became that way? Usually the ones born with a particular disability adapt to it amazingly well, which is what this sounds like. I'm around 20/200 but I've adapted to it well enough to only use my glasses when I'm watching TV. For everything else I can see "good...

No secret the GOP wants to take us back to at least the 1800s, if not earlier. At one time it wasn't uncommon for much older men to marry girls as young as 12. Not sure what the lower limit on Matt Gaetz's tastes run, but he'd probably be OK with this. Allowing 9 year olds to marry is just...

Trump just picked Matt Gaetz for AG. If Congress is dumb enough to confirm him, I guess his first action will be to get rid of age of consent laws.

I have to do manual duplexing on my LaserJet 1022. The only issue is if pages get stuck together, and then you have to reprint some pages all over again. My CLP500 and Phaser 6510 both have duplex printing.

If he doesn't have a massive coronary from eating too many Big Macs I think Trump will be mentally unfit before his term is halfway up. He has the same signs of dementia I saw in my mother. It took her less than two years to go from mostly functional to not being able to get out much resembling...

If I had the means I'd leave the country now and never look back. For the sake of everyone I hope the worst fears about a second Trump term don't come to pass.

This is the real NYC way to have a slice of pizza:

Trump being elected qualifies as more than a usual change. The Civil War was probably closest to what we can expect in terms of the damage it will create. Frankly, at this point I'd rather split the country in two or three than deal with the possibility of people like Trump being in power over...

Not deadly if it's caught early. Actually what I have is called an ascending aortic aneurysm. The idea is to monitor it (and repair it if needed) before it ruptures. My uncle had the operation done. It may be years before I need it, perhaps never.

Nope. Never had any kind of surgeries unless you count stitches as a passenger in a car accident. 1 month to go until I'm 62. The CAT scan from the hospital did have two incidental findings. One was a hiatal hernia. Both my parents had this. The other was an aortic aneurysm, which at this point...

Yeah, the driver has insurance and fortunately remained at the scene, unlike many other assholes who just hit and run. I love cycling too much to give it up but I think I'll start riding only at times with little or no traffic. 3AM riding is great. I'm the only one on the road for blocks. This...

I saw games 1 and 2 from the hospital. On October 24 around 6:05PM I driver making a left turn without looking ended up right in front of me as I was passing through an intersection. I always check intersections, even when I have the light, as a precaution. It was clear as I started going...

Trump supporter by any chance?

No preference for me. I'm happy if either the Yankees or Mets reach the World Series. Both would have been great. The Mets have a longer drought though (last WS win was 1986). My dad was a rabid Yankees fan. He also played ball for a while (in some neighborhood league). He was approached by a...

I was hoping for Yankees/Mets but Yankees/Dodgers will probably make for a more competitive series.

That might explain why he never sells his old stuff, and seems paranoid when disposing of old hard drives. Only the most determined person with special equipment can reconstruct data from a wiped HDD. It's impossible to do so with a wiped SSD. The data is gone, plain and simple.

I'd be surprised if I spent $10K on everything computer related in my entire life. In the beginning I was getting a lot of my systems from the curb. About the only things I bought back then were storage and memory, plus an occasional expansion card. The laptop I bought recently was my largest...

Same here.

Place of honor definitely.

I'm not really sure what your point is. I'm just talking about price per TB, not whether or not there might be other reasons to go with larger drives, such as needing x amount of storage in y number of slots. If you have, say, 4 slots and only need 16 TB, then it's more cost effective to use 4x...

Only advantage is $/TB. The sweet spot in terms of $/TB seems to be around 2 to 4 TB. Above or below that it's higher. As SSD density increases, of course the capacity range for the sweet spot goes up. It'll probably be 4 to 8 TB in a year or two. For you a 5 year old boot drive is positively...

Same here. At one time I was more of a PC hobbyist who enjoyed tweaking the OS. These days I just want it to work. It's one of the reasons my desktop is still running 7.

Get laws passed which end this type of invasive spyware. It might be semi-OK only if the software was free. Then gathering user information could be thought of a payment of sorts. However, anything MS or Apple make is far from free. If you're paying for software, you should have a minimal...

We're already planning the sea walls: https://www.6sqft.com/army-corps-of-engineers-releases-first-renderings-of-nyc-sea-walls-for-coastal-storm-protection-plan/ After Sandy we devised plugs for the train tunnels passing under rivers...

I'm 60' above sea level and a few miles from the coastlines. Biggest problem with hurricanes is the torrential downpours which overwhelm the sewer system. During Ida the sewer back flowed into the basement. 6 to 8 inches of water, plus I found a dead rat in the sewer trap. :sick: I'm not...

I'm thinking the same thing about the northeast in general. The last few years have had hardly any snow in NYC, plus temps are usually in the 30s or 40s. None of the bone-chilling cold of midwestern winters. Occasionally there are a few days in the teens or 20s, but rarely a long stretch of...

This is one kind of flying I'd like: