Not to put too fine a point on it, but how are the Democrats going to know what to do if they don't have AIPAC giving them orders and writing their legislation for them?
For over a half-century, I've been living in New York State. I loved it. It had real problems, mostly government-related, but it was in general a great, if expensive, place to live.
Every year of that half-century, however, the government's nets on our freedom and finances has tightened a little bit more. Every single year. I've loved living here less. At this point, I can't afford to get the $60,000 of work we need to repair our century-old house, and I can't afford to move. I can't give my kids nice vacations because gas, taxes, and fees have become so expensive that I have to choose between my kids going to college and ever having a nice vacation. I live in constant fear of losing my kids over some stupid-ass nanny-state bullshit ("You gave them peanuts!?!?!? YOU MONSTER!"). Laws on everything from car emissions to guns to ALLOWED SPEECH have been locked down to the point that you can't go a day without running into a cop, a summons, a fee, a website that won't sell to you online, a thought which you must fear because you will go to jail or lose your business if you say them in public, or a penalty or some damn thing or other that costs multiple times as much as everyone else pays.
Today, I discovered that there are three problems with my car. They are somewhat superficial things, only one of which is even required to pass inspection. All three are cheap to fix, unless you live in New York. If you live in New York, they cost THREE TIMES as much as they would one state over, except for the one that is actually required for state inspection, which costs FIVE TIMES as much. I must now choose whether to junk my otherwise perfectly functional vehicle or pay almost 2.5 times it's "Blue Book" value to have it repaired.
I'm done. If I could afford to move, I'd be looking for real-estate somewhere else right now. But of course, I can't do that, because New York has put me in a position where my family is trapped and slowly being ground down by the sheer weight of government.
I HATE THIS FUCKING STATE. Fuck you right in the face, New York. I'm heartbroken and exhausted, and the hole's just getting deeper.
Weren't the progressives supposed to make things better, not worse?
I feel a little better about being wrongly and permanently separated from 20 years of my own content and hundreds of friends and family by Facebook's AI banbots, knowing the service is full of literal NAZIs!
Welp, that's it. Mastodon.cloud will be gone tomorrow. It was my very first home in open social media. It was a unique (and rather Japanese) experience, and now, after nearly 12 years, it will be over.
OK, I don't root for the bad guy, or anything, but this is still really bothering me. Why didn't Vechna just snag a boombox and play Kate Bush in the Upside-down?
To be clear, if Palantir is allowed to buy Flock, a private company will have every single American under 24-hour surveillance, and somehow that's OK...
I added the password for my password manager to my password manager, and set it for autofill. Now there's this hissing tear in the fabric of spacetime...
I checked a while ago to see that it still existed. Though i have never used Myspace for anything more than to help my son setup (pimp) his profile. The largest fundamental mistake Mike made was to allow the bug that allowed css injection to become a feature. The number one thing that lead to FaceBooks success was the stable consistent UI (User Interface).
You ask people what is more important stability or the ability to express their individuality a lot are going to say the later. In software the first is more important. This is the whole reason frameworks that give a common interface are used today. Unlike in the wild wild west when everyone wrote their own framework.
People left Myspace for FaceBook because facebook gave a unified interface that once learned remained consistent. The fact that on Myspace an individual user could move around virtually everything including system menus meant that going to someone else's profile could feel like an entirely different interface you had to learn all over again. This was awesome for kids, they loved to play with it. It is what caused a large migration of older people just trying to stay in touch with their family to find refuge in a more consistent and thus in their eyes more stable Facebook. It is one of the very few things FB ever did right. To bad they screwed up in all the other categories as soon as they became the largest and defacto Social Media platform on the Internet.
I am going to be upgrading the Instance soon. I hope it fixes this bug. Though your image failed to link properly again. I was going to get that done this weekend, but I may not due to my brother having open-heart surgery. So some things in my schedule have been re-worked.
OK, knowers of arcane and esoteric stuffs, here's your challenge: I have a presentation framework data grid, and I'm trying to make an ancient ADO recordset it's datasource. I'm trying now, because after months of working, it magically stopped working after somebody fiddled with the code, but I can't for the life of me figure out what they set wrong.
I've checked the structure and contents of the recordset 6 ways from Sunday, and I'm absolutely certain it contains a large amount of data, but when I set it as the datasource for the grid, the grid updates column names, but doesn't show any data!
I've rewritten the code three different ways now, and it's always the same failure.
@Blaise This is the most common cause. If the code iterating through or preparing the recordset left the cursor at the end (EOF), the DataGrid binds to the current position forward. Since there are no records "ahead" of EOF, it renders zero rows but retains the schema (column names). Fix is explicitly reset the cursor to the beginning before assigning the datasource.
' Reset cursor to the first record
If Not rs.EOF Then
rs.MoveFirst
End If
Set DataGrid1.DataSource = rs
DataGrid1.Refresh
1.Reset cursor to the first record 2.Assign the datasource which is rs 3.Force a refresh if the grid doesn't auto-update
Do you have copies of the pristine dataset before being accessed via the code? What language are we using to access the dataset (assuming a higher level language over the SQL is being used)? Do you have a copy of the original code that did work?
Is this information to sensitive to share on the internet?
The party of stupid wants to start giving hormones to military members who need them to stay healthy. One year after banning trans people from service because they need hormones to stay healthy.....
Apparently, Amazon's AI has decided that I need a 200-ton press... Now mind you, it may be right, but I've just gotta know what I bought that told it I'd want that, of all things...
Do you think that when the Project management cult powers-that-be changed "Risk/Benefit Analysis" to "SWOT Analysis" (SWOT = Strength, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats), do you think that they were only looking for a way to repackage what everyone's been doing for a century as a new concept, or do you think that they were simply so poorly educated that they had never heard of "Risk/Benefit Analysis", so they just reinvented it?
It sure is a good thing the left spent the last 20 years building this "hate speech" catch-all legal framework that the right is now using to extort people who say mean things about them!
Every single time I see a "Spiderman" publication/movie, I read the UI word "Twip" as "Thwip" for weeks afterward. Once I even accidentally said it in a meeting!
Per the HR employee evaluation website, on average I spend 25% of my week in technical or project management meetings. I spend another 20% trying to translate waterfall designs and deadlines provided by customers into tiny chunk tasks, each representing "a day's work", while I have to learn a new project management tool (or new interface to an old tool) every six months. I actually accomplish something productive for about 20 hours a week, all said and done.
"You did that on purpose!" "What did I do?" "You named that table!" "It's a perfectly fine name!" "You didn't have to suggest that name. You know Jim is a religious nut!" "Look, 'Boolean Flag Translation Table' was just unwieldy. It had to be shortened." "You named it '[B-Trans]' on purpose to cause trouble. Then you started using it like a verb, and telling Jim he 'should B-Trans... that data'!" "We use all kinds of identifiers as verbs as a shorthand!" "Which you knew when you planned this!" "I really have no idea what you are talking about..."
Listen, left-folk. I know you don't like guns. I know you think banning things works, despite the results of Prohibition and the "Drug War".. I know you think it is better to trade essential freedoms for a little bit of perceived safety. But christ, for the bajillionth time, look where your authoritarian attitudes will lead!
American business culture has never valued employees unless they have some leverage. It should surprise no one that a company which is planning to replace all its people with AI in a few years is perfectly happy to piss every single employee off by ganking their raises and bonuses and actually telling them it's to pay for the AI...
The sitting "president" sues the government he's is in charge of, and forces a settlement that gets him BILLIONS for his personal use. But he's not a corrupt dictator, that's just crazy-talk!
Let me ask you a question. Using your personal, for real situation right now: If Cloudflare decided to ban all the IP's from VPNs and flagged your home and work IPs as bots, along with all the devices you personally own, identified by device fingerprinting, what would your life be like? Could you really get on with any kind of normal life?
Well, governments just started talking about banning VPNs in service to "Know Your Customer" and "Child safety". Do you think they'll try to hunt down every piece of VPN software on the internet, or will they use their "mandate" to force a choke point corporation to use their already ubiquitous scanning to block suspects without any due process or chance of appeal?
We no longer have the ability to govern ourselves, and the people who do have the ability are using it to destroy our civilization. This all ends in technofascism or luddite terrorism (or a mix of both). I can't see any other outcomes...
" The $16 billion data center... was flat-out rejected by both the town’s board and its planning commission in September. But those votes turned out to be only minor bumps on the project’s path: The developer quickly sued, the town settled, and the construction vehicles rolled in."
Secretary of Forever War and barely closeted Neo NAZI, Pete Hegseth, has been recruiting his own pernicious kind into the military. #ShockedITellYouShocked
This isn't probably going to reach the right audience here, but seriously, if you are still paying to be productized by Windows, just stop.
ZorinOS , which more or less looks and feels just like Windows from an interface and organization perspective, runs wildly faster on my four year old laptop than Windows 11. I didn't have to install a single driver (exception: I needed to get my browser to control my USB ports, which is a weird, uncommon requirement, but I did have to install a driver for that.). It has an app store that actually has things in it I want, unlike the windows store, it boots in thirty seconds, and I found a Linux app to replace every program I commonly use on Windows. It even comes in a "Lite" version for even older tech.
I even got Linux Lite to run on my twelve-year-old laptop in under an hour, and although it's a little bare-bones looking, it plays video and loads web pages just as well as my newest laptop running Windows 11.
I'm no fanboy, but I feel like maybe we're approaching consumer-level Linux...
Gnu/Linux will never be consumer grade, it is professional grade 😀 😉. Users that take their computing seriously have been using Gnu/Linux, BSD or other 'nix (Unix Derivative) for decades. MS/Windows has always been a play OS for beginners in my opinion Now, with its built in spyware people have more reason than ever to upgrade to a real OS.
Zorin is not a bad Gnu/Linux distro though I hate the DM, I do not care for anything resembling MS/Windows though I know that was likely the reason you chose it. I prefer Gnome, it meets my needs perfectly. I am currently using Fedora 44 though that may change when OS level verification hits the scene full force. I may go back to building my own systems.
Unus Nemo
in reply to Blaise • •@Blaise
I checked a while ago to see that it still existed. Though i have never used Myspace for anything more than to help my son setup (pimp) his profile. The largest fundamental mistake Mike made was to allow the bug that allowed css injection to become a feature. The number one thing that lead to FaceBooks success was the stable consistent UI (User Interface).
You ask people what is more important stability or the ability to express their individuality a lot are going to say the later. In software the first is more important. This is the whole reason frameworks that give a common interface are used today. Unlike in the wild wild west when everyone wrote their own framework.
People left Myspace for FaceBook because facebook gave a unified interface that once learned remained consistent. The fact that on Myspace an individual user could move around virtually everything including system menus meant that going to someone else's profile could feel like an entirely different interface you had to learn all over again. This was awesome for kids, they loved to play with it. It is what caused a large migration of older people just trying to stay in touch with their family to find refuge in a more consistent and thus in their eyes more stable Facebook. It is one of the very few things FB ever did right. To bad they screwed up in all the other categories as soon as they became the largest and defacto Social Media platform on the Internet.