Many places where I have worked have old Access databases running critical business activities or even worse a monster of an excel spreadsheet. The there is ERP integrations and reporting that links into excel etc. The list goes on for just how integrated MS office has become over the past 25 years.
Business have adopted macOS quite extensively today because MS office is supported. Adding in native support in Linux would allow for a more gradual tradition.
…or have enough money to pay the bribes.
It’s a pretty common law in many countries.
Mailing an item to someone without a charge or an agreement of a charge means that it’s their property. You can not charge people for an item delivered for free after the fact. This is to stop scammers from sending you an item for “free”, then sending you a surprise huge bill a few months later. It was a pretty popular scam historically.
I need some of these 🖕🖕 with age spots apparently…
This sounds impressive, unless you know all the steps to making a successful hybridization in tomatoes.
Step 1: Tomatoes are mostly cleistogamous (self-pollinate before opening) and perfect flowers. So the anthers need to be removed 2 days before bloom. The exposed stigma is usually marked and covered to prevent cross pollination.
Step 2: Pollen is collected from flowers of the “male” parent by vibrating the shit out of them over a test tube about 3hours hours after opening (depending on humidity). The pollen remains viable for a few days after shedding in refrigeration (longer in liquid N).
Step 3: On the 2nd day the pollen is applied to the stigma from the test tube. The pollinated stigmas are marked again.
Step 4+: successful pollinations begin to swell. Plants are pruned/trellised carefully. This ensures they develop well off the ground with less pressure from diseases and pests.
This robot does the first part of step 3. It’s arguably the least time-consuming and easiest part of the entire process. Its sort of interesting but not a time saver.
Also hybrid tomato seed is a huge value market, but it’s not a huge volume in the grand scheme of things on the production side. The COGS is a negligible part of the process. Its a 97-99% gross margin crop last I saw the numbers. The seed companies can easily afford to pay more for the COGS. Higher pay + shorter hours = higher success rate by hand pollination. Paying double for the workers for 1/2 the day and then sending them home has a much higher success rate and is cheaper overall.
Most of the cost of developing new varieties is on the research side. With cost running as high as 30-40% of the annual sales to constantly develop new varieties or add in yet another resistance to a plague.
Without invoicing a nominal amount they forfeited ownership in my jurisdiction. They later changed to charging $1 a year for them for new customers. They also had to send the invoice with-in a year. I had them for like 7 years.
At the change-over the government forced them to offer them for free.
State forced them to send them out as part of the digital conversion. It was a condition of allowing the change.
They tried to charge me for the free digital conversion boxes they sent out when they converted their basic cable from analog to digital. That was a fun conversation with the poor box collection service that called me.
“Hold on, you are trying to collect the FREE boxes, that had NO charge on my bill, that I was expressly told were FREE. If I don’t return them, you want to charge me $200 for the FREE boxes they sent me?”
“As they were sent to me for FREE, not for rent, they are mine. If you want them back I will sell them to you for $400.”
Baguette: Chewy on the inside, hard, crusty, and chewy on the outside. Gotta scrape the inside of your mouth and give your jaw muscles a workout. If your mouth and jaw isn’t sore after eating one, it’s no good.
Ciabatta: We like the chewy but the hard and crusty not so much. Let put a ton of olive oil on the outside to lessen the crusty, but keep the chewy. And being Italian, olive oil goes on most things anyways.
“French food is really good.” they told me during months I spent traveling all around country over many years. “It’s just complicated and most people don’t know how to cook it.”
Me “So in the past two weeks I have tried 14 different places in 6 different cities and all 14 meals have been horrible. Okay…”
There’s a reason why a tire company publishing a list of recommended places to eat when traveling around France became so popular. Its not because the average place to get food was good.
Mexico: Stopping at a gas station, a little old lady hand rolling tortillas and cooking them on an open bbq. Her “Tacos?” Me nodding vigorously"Si, si, si" They were insanely delicious.
The old Toys R Us are too old and poorly maintained now if they are still empty. The Spirit Halloween is now at the old Rite-aide.
Perfumes are a very common trigger for migraines for people who get them. For me it’s the number one trigger. Strong expensive perfumes are some of the worst for me.
I have to avoid indoor crowds or eating out during times when people will be out with lots of scents on. I take drugs before a wedding etc and leave as soon as I can. The best ones are outdoors.
In business I have bypassed interviewees who wore perfurme/cologne to the interview in favor of less qualified canditates who didn’t. I have also dropped suppliers, vendors, dealers etc… because they showed up to a business meeting wearing a cologne/perfume.
I am pretty sure it just counts as annoying, distracting, and fucking stupid.
I support the long standing tradition of damnatio memoriae. It’s very fitting in this instance.
Or the social norm of the wealthier class is to steal from the poorer/weaker class. They are constantly rewarded by their peers for displaying this behavior. Children are inherently poorer and weaker than they are.
A few days ago when I was converting an old windows desktop to Linux I hit Google on accident (Firefox default).
On the first page I got 2 traditional search results. They were links to AI slop sites. The entire rest of the page was full of useless crap.
DDG NoAI site seems to help.
Should be the same concept with rental units. Taxes should go up exponentially for every unit you own over a certain limit. Of course if there’s is a limit to how many homes or units a person can own, they will just create thousands of small corporations to own them.
Have to ban corporate ownership of residential property as well or some other fix.
May 7, 1992. When the 27th amendment was ratified, after 202 years in process. It was a minor ammendment that really changed nothing. (Congress pay raises take place in the next term). Sort of like an insect infected by a zombie fungus.
The last amendment of any real significance was the 26th. Passed March 23, 1971, it reduced the voting age to 18. That’s the last sign of real life the document has had. It’s been 55 years since then…
The underlying issue with rural communities is they are being hit harder by poorly regulated trade and cheap long distance transportation. This combined with more than a century of under-investment in the infrastructure has led to a steady decline in the economies of rural regions.
The extreme wealth of the industrialized nations has been built up by taking advantage lower value of human life and labor in other regions.
For example French farm laborers are treated more like human beings with the right to live. They have reasonable pay and working hours. French farms are directly competing with farms in Africa and South America. These areas tend to treat farm laborers more like serfs. They pay very little and are treated as easily replaceable. So French farmers profits have fallen steadily over the decades. This removes money from rural communities and the community declines as well.
Politically the largest issue is that the money is leaving much faster than the people. So people sink into poverty over time but remain where they are. These people are under-educated, isolated, and suffering = fertile ground for bad actors to exploit.
The solution is too painful for the industrialized nations to even consider. It would disrupt over a century of profits and crash the global economy. Import requirements: require that the labor in the production country be treated as actual human beings like in the industrial nation.