Somewhere close enough to the equator do have a decent amount of sun all year. But also close enough to mountains with snow and lakes and oceans. Then I would build a massive climate controlled dome. From that dome I would build high speed trains forme to get to the other places in about 15 minutes. I don’t like humidity or too much heat, but I do like a lot of sun and water. Snow is great for hot tubbing.

La cocuracha (or however it is spelled)

I enjoyed andor. The first 1.5 seasons were pretty solid. Then they started “discovering” characters who were in Rouge One and doingbtheir usual BS where we are all supposed to faint because someone we know shows up…

And ask yourself why did they stop caring? They needed more profit, and caring costs a lot. So they tried to lower the level of care to see if they could squeeze profits. Enshitification. The race to the bottom. Couldn’t compete with companies making a cheaper product long term. All are really caused by profit being the primary purpose of the company.

And as someone else pointed out, the brand got sold. If it was so successful, they wouldn’t have sold it. Clearly it wasn’t generating enough profit despite the quality.

Side note, I had one back in the day, those thing sure were solid at the time.

My name is Andrew Shepherd, and I AM the President.

I’ve never known any other way. Companies by definition exist to make profits, not to improve the lives of thier customers. Any business that truely has the interest of thier customers first doesn’t last long.

I agree with you, but my brain was like… there really is no way to verify employment when company no longer exists. That is just an interesting point to me. I suppose it could be relevant for people who work for more than just Hollywood. But inside Hollywood, I have heard that it is like you say, a lot of word of mouth. Probably enables all sorts of middlemen that trade in that kind of info.

Start looking for smart objective people to hire. I know enough to know that I don’t know enough to make decisions in a vacuum. At the end of the day, the president is the face of the government, but the people behind him are what should really matter.

While overall I agree the idea was for a state level militia… the members of the militia weren’t full time. It was made up of regular people who trained in thier spare time… probably winter or something since many were farmers. So I do think the intent was to protect the right of the militia members to keep guns at home. The national guard would be a similar concept. Except while it is state run, it can be federalized. And that is the issue. The state has no true troops of it’s own. This is why I support reasonable licensing requirements and regulation, but not a complete ban. The people have a right to armed resistance. But it is supposed to be organized.

Sex first, then dinner.

I think the fact that there is a divide at all about murder is pretty informative. Generally speaking, that isn’t a sign of a healthy society. It speaks to how frustrated many people are with society these days. I do believe that social media makes this occurrence drastically different than any other potential societal collapse. So any predictions are worth the cost you pay for them.

You haven’t been to vegas lately. Grandma is not the target. Rich people who want to flaunt it is. Sounds like a match made in… heaven. Lol.
And since the gap between the haves and have nots is growing, it a perfect way for the haves to separate themsleves. Think back to the first commercial airliners. It was only for the rich. And it made a lot of money that way.

Vegas can make money from tourusm in a desert, a hotel on the moon (with a casino) will do just fine.

I think the issue is that back then, you only did important things with software. Now there is so much code doing the same simple things. Like how many ways does a person need to input thier birthday… and every tool we use… if it is good it gets more and more expensive, and more and more cluttered as they try to expand thier market. So now a new cheaper tool that does the same thing gets written. I would bet 90 some % of code is copies of other code with scientifically meaningless difference. But someone has to write it all…

Greetings program!!!

honeywell for the furnace stuff. It is more than 10 years old. Seems the new setups have the actual thermostat talk directly to the router. So I guess they decided it wasn’t a good idea after a while. For the hot tub I am looking at… cal spa. Maybe they just haven’t updated their tech in more than 10 years.

It’s not an issue. It works. I just don’t understand why they don’t use normal wifi from the board to my router instead of inserting their extra device there. Others have commented they could be using a different protocol and/or frequency that allows greater range and such. Someone else pointed out that configuring the wifi connection would require a way to give the board a password. Which they can avoid if they use their own device, as I can interface with that via phone or computer and enter like a serial number for the board that will sync them.

Well, I assume it doesn’t us basic wifi, or it would just connect to my router. But why would they work our their own connection protocol and such? Seems pricey. And the main board does have buttons and a screen. limited of course. But maybe that is the reason. With their own communication tech, they could also manage authentication. Then they don’t have to come up with a way to allow you to enter a password or some other connection like bluetooth so you could configure the wifi from your phone.

avoiding frequency conflict could explain it. And getting more range by using a different frequency could also explain it. I guess I assumed the range they were allowed to use was pretty small. But I just checked, and it is pretty wide actually.

Ok, I can buy that. But they don’t advertise compatibility with any home automation systems, and don’t seem to operate any kind of mesh. The furnace thing is more than 10 years old, seems newer thermostats have direct wifi on them instead of a special board connected to the furnace. But I have several other things that have these two part solutions as well that must be using their own proprietary protocol for some reason. I just can’t figure why they would do such a thing. Maybe there is no good reason.