Incredible. I've driven by it many times and have never learned the origin story:
> Built in 1974, the tower originally advertised the up-and-coming Florence Mall, as part of an agreement with the mall developers who donated the land for the tower. But because the mall was not built yet, the tower violated highway regulations, and the city was forced to change it within a short deadline. Rather than repaint the entire tower, they simply painted over the two vertical lines of the "M" to create a "Y". The intent was to change it back when the mall was built, but the local residents liked the tower's new proclamation, so the city decided to leave it as it was.
The water tower has its own Wikipedia page [0], which includes a photo of it before the "alteration" too.
>If you “sell” your money, say to buy a car, the government does not tax you on that transaction, claiming that you earned a “capital gain” on your money. So why should you be taxed on the capital gains if you used crypto to buy a car?
This is complete nonsense. You aren't taxed on buying something, you are taxed on realizing the gains you have achieved. If you traded some stocks to someone to buy their car, you would similarly be taxed on the portion of the sale price that was attributed to realized gains.
Yeah. More to the point, you're taxed on capital gains in dollar terms. Cash is 1:1 with dollars -- it will always have exactly zero in capital gains. So in some sense you are taxed on capital gains of cash you use to buy things -- it's just exactly $0.
I believe he is referring to if/when the cops confront the suspect, they will claim a justification for shooting him fatally during the arrest attempt.
>Our parents and elderly relatives didn't grow up with smartphones.
Neither did about half of the millennials, so why don't they need similar help?
I don't think the qualifier is age, rather it is prior computer experience. I am elderly, and only started using a smartphone (as opposed to feature phone) about four years ago, but I have had my hands on computer keyboards for over 50 years, so learning to use all the basic features of a smartphone didn't require any help.
Likewise, many millennials did grow up using computers. If you already understand basics on a PC like bootup, shutdown, login, system settings, installing a program, starting a program, finding a program, copy/paste, upload/download, the smartphone should not present much of a challenge. Otherwise, learning a smartphone is mostly just learning how to use a computer.
"Most importantly to election integrity advocates, [Registrar of Voters] Dupuis said he will release the records in a JSON file, which is a text-based format used to easily analyze large data sets. A Secretary of State’s memo had previously directed the state’s registrars to only release the records in a file type [PDF] that would have made election audits difficult, if not impossible, according to election integrity advocates like Steve Hill, an author at the national nonprofit FairVote."
>It's a straightforward calculation that needs accuracy.
If only that is all it was. It's not calculations and linking entries on one form to another that is the problem, it is interpreting the law. Suppose there is an allowed deduction for a certain type of expense. But the law doesn't provide a precise, actionable definition, it relies instead on "facts and circumstances".
Did you know, for example, that in U.S. income tax law there is no universal definition of a "trade or business", yet that distinction has a huge impact on how certain items of income are treated. So what do you do if you think you have a trade/business, but can't be certain given the information at your disposal. IRL, such disputes often must end up in a court of law to be decided.
I question whether it is the prosecutor's primary job to reduce crime. Instead I think it is their job to get justice under the law for crimes committed.
I was well along in age before becoming aware that prosecutors have a far greater impact on our justice system than courts and juries, via plea deals, adding or dropping various charges, letting statutes of limitations run, and so on.
>Incredibly, its mice will still charge dead-cockroach-style, flipped on their back.
I don't understand this comment in the article. What is incredible about that? I mean, I could turn my notebook or smartphone over and it would still charge the same, what's the big deal?
>This situation is worsened by the fact that many manufacturers now ship devices without a charging brick.
Which ones (so I can avoid them)? I just purchased a Dell notebook earlier this year and it came with a brick.
Thank you for explaining the issue. I guess there are Apple fans (including the author of the article) who can't conceive of a world where there are people who have never used an Apple mouse.
Most people who use an Apple mouse don't really find it to be "an issue". If by chance you ignore the days or weeks of reminders about charging, plugging in for 1-2 minutes will give you charge to last an entire day.
The people who complain about it are almost exclusively people who don't actually use it, but love to complain about it.
When the mouse bricked itself, I was forced to switch to the trackpad. Maybe I could plug the mouse in, if I happened to bring my only cable from home (or maybe from the office) that day. But there was no way of knowing when the mouse was usable again short of interrupting myself to test it. Over time, I decided the mouse wasn't worth the mental overhead and switched full-time to the trackpad, which always works.
Plugging in a laptop is a nuisance, but at least I can do that every time I sit down to start working and it will manage itself all day.
I have a rechargeable, wireless mouse. It's not fruit-branded.
The thing about my mouse is that when the battery gets low, I can just connect it to my laptop with the charging cable and continue working. It's much more convenient than quitting for the day, and cheaper than buying a second mouse.
I can't use my watch while I charge it. Nor my earbuds. Nor my portable Bluetooth speaker.
None of those can give me any meaningful amount of use time (and definitely not enough for a full work day) from a 2 minute charge.
My mouse can. The port location is not a problem. The constant whining about it from people who largely don't use it is more annoying than any disruption a charge cycle causes.
> If my Logitech G502 mouse couldn't charge while in use, I wouldn't even consider buying it.
Similarly, if a mouse doesn't support touch gestures I wouldn't consider buying it.
I guess we both make compromises: you never have gesture support, I maybe can't use the mouse for two minutes while I go make a coffee if I forget to charge it overnight once a month.
> Specially because previous generation of apple's mice could be charged while in use.
The first version of the Magic Mouse required you to change AA batteries, and its predecessor was a wired USB mouse. Not really sure how you think either of those is charging while you use it?
When my mouse starts blinking I just plug cable and continue whatever I'm doing and it's a solved problem. No second guessing if I can take a break now in the middle of a meeting, no unnecessary cognitive load, no need to remember to charge it when "I have the time", it's... magical.
Personally I don't find it to be a particularly huge "cognitive load" to see a "mouse battery is low, charge soon" notification and then just charge it at the end of the day.
But for those that do, it's great that we have choices.
Yes, but the other point is that, in a practical sense, it is not really a problem. Just a silly design decision.
I expect, if they ever get around to redesigning that mouse, they’ll change the port, if only to avoid derision. The recent port change was not enough to warrant moving the port. That front edge is quite thin so there may not be enough room in the current case.
Yeah, I was moving fast on mobile and really could have done more.
People able to do stuff -->(other people would prefer they not do.)
Hacking of all kinds -->(software, hardware, processes, nature, the OSS mindset brings with it some perception of what could be done as well as might need to be done.)
Reverse Engineer Software -->(OSS tools often have options and workflows unavailable or that are very expensive.)
Archive -->(Some arcade games running as live distributions comes to mind)
Run Software on device or in environment not authorized (piracy, run in virtual machine, on OS not intended by developer.)
Build software -->(that may be sanctioned, illegal, or otherwise controlled.)
Repurpose hardware -->(turn router into media server, restore lost features, make hardware do extras...)
Repair -->(using the software freedoms often means repair is possible even when it is not intended to be)
Write illegal software -->(It remains possible to drop code on the net anonymously.)
Encryption-->(either novel methods or those deemed a hazard.)
That's a pretty solid list of things people may be inclined to do that other people would prefer they not do.
Yes -- why are you using health insurance as an excuse for staying?
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