I remember an officer chastising another crewman for using a non-standard interface. I think it was Worf in TNG. Edit: Worf, yes, but DS9. S04E07, “Starship Down”
I also remember a blinded Tuvok activating a tactile interface at his station. (VOY, S04E08, “Year of Hell”)
Touchscreens in cars can’t work properly for anything that needs to be operated while in motion. Everything the driver touches while in motion should be tactile.
I think not taxing VAT along the supply chain is a regressive behavior that places more of the burden of funding society onto the individual taxpayer while leaving corporations with lower tax bills.
VAT is reclaimed at every point on the supply chain except the final user. That final user pays the entire VAT. Europe doesn’t tax anyone else in the supply chain, as everyone else in the chain can reclaim any VAT they pay. The net VAT paid by everyone else in the chain is zero.
Even if the VAT was paid and not reclaimed, the end user would ultimately be the one paying it. Everyone else would just be passing on their costs - including that VAT - to that end user.
Sales Tax has the same net taxation on everyone in the supply chain. The difference is that the US doesn’t “pay and reclaim” the tax. The US just doesn’t pay the tax in the first place, except for the end user.
AFAIK, VAT is collected by each vendor at every layer in the supply chain. Those collected taxes are remitted to the tax authority. Everyone in that chain - except the final, retail consumer - can reclaim their VAT expenses from the tax authority.
American-style “Sales Tax” is only charged to the final, retail consumer. Everyone else in the chain can issue a “tax exemption certificate” to the seller, who does not collect the sales tax or remit it to the tax authority.
In both systems, the tax and sales price have to be disclosed separately. Under VAT, you have to pay it now and reclaim it later (if eligible). Under Sales Tax, (if eligible), you don’t pay it; there is nothing to reclaim.
The announcement is a lifehack. It’s for external accountability of the change. When I’m the only one who knows I intend to change, I can easily negotiate exceptions: “it’s been a rough day, and I deserve it; I’ll try again tomorrow.”
When I announce the change, I have to come up with an excuse that another person will accept, or be seen as a failure.
It’s not about confession. It’s about “Jesus died for your sins”. If his sacrifice “saves” you from your deepest, darkest perversions, the deeper and darker those perversions, the more meaningful the sacrifice.
Did he die just to save you from the perils of having lusted over an exposed ankle? Or does his sacrifice cover the 20 hours a week you spend fantasizing about hot Asian femboys pounding your tight ass?
Let’s try this a different way…
How do you want to indicate something should be retained? What is the single, physical act you want to perform to tell the operating system “this thing needs to be captured”?
15 years is pushing it, IMO.
The “This Book is the Property Of” label had 9 spaces. Most of my textbooks had 4-6 previous students.
I remember being assigned a couple books where all the lines had been filled out, and I had to create my own space below. They were definitely falling apart by that time.
The screenshot folder itself is certainly not limited to just screenshots. Any file you can save can be kept in there. To my mind, the “entry point” is “saving a file to this particular folder”, regardless of the specific method used to do the saving. The screenshot is just an extremely convenient way to do that.
I just thought of a way to improve this technique with Tasker. Tasker can work with the clipboard, edit files, and take a screenshot. So, you could set up a gesture to trigger a task in Tasker. Tasker can then take the screenshot, dumping it into the folder. Tasker can then check the clipboard; if there is text in your clipboard, it can prepend it to a single “TODO.txt” in your screenshot folder.
Linux could be configured much the same way, using shutter and xclip to capture the screenshot and clipboard, respectively.
California’s new age verification law puts the onus on the operating system. When you install or setup your computer of device, you will be required to state your age, or the age of the child that will be using the machine. Sex offender App and Web developers are still required to demand the user’s age before providing their services, and children will still be required to announce their minor-ness to P(a)edophiles.
But, California will not require photos or ID scans, so it’s only the second worst of the three available options. The best option, of course, is to allow children to not tell potential pedophiles that they are kids.
What always got me personally is exactly that — over time I’d end up with multiple “entry points” depending on context (screenshot, chat, browser, notes…).
So long as you’re manually processing everything, screenshots work for all of that. You can take a note in any text box anywhere, and screenshot it. Chat message? Screenshot. Browser? Screenshot. Notes? Screenshot. You can even take a photo and then screenshot it to capture it into your workflow.
I have Shutter (apt install shutter) on my desktop, and I’ve changed the Print Screen key to shortcut to “shutter -s”. This lets me capture an area of my screen with one button (and a mouse drag). Bam, more screenshot.
The downsides of screenshot are obvious, of course: Extracting the text from the screenshot is a bit of a pain in the ass. If you really want to keep the same entry point, though, you could setup a script to OCR newly captured screenshot/photos to extract the text. An OCR-friendly font might make that pretty reliable.
Now I want to improve my setup…
Sex offenders (Domestically or abroad) who develop apps or web services will be compelled to collect age data from any minors who use their services. Kids who use these services will be compelled to give their age to these offenders.
On my phone, my Screenshot folder is syncthing’d to my desktop, so most of the time, capturing something in the moment is as simple as dragging three fingers down my screen. My Camera and default Download folders are also syncthing’d, so just taking a picture or saving something from a browser has it captured across my devices.
I also use Tududi, which has Telegram integration, for the quick note. Taking the note is just a matter of sending a message in Telegram, which is available on all my devices. Signal’s “Note To Self” feature is also useful; I trust it more than Telegram for sensitive data. In Firefox on my desktop, I have “Automatic Tab Opener” (Browser extension) pulling up my Tududi inbox every hour, reminding me to actually deal with the notes I have previously taken.
I don’t know if stretching reduces injury, but I know if I don’t take a few minutes to work my fingers, wrists, and forearms before hammering at the anvil, I end up with a ton of mis-strikes and cramps until I’m fully warmed up. Precision suffers when I don’t stretch.
Syncthing functions as a sort of decentralized Dropbox or Google drive, by keeping folder content synchronized across any number of devices. I haven’t tried the iOS clients, but android, Linux, and windows work great.
In 15 years, they would have hopefully replaced those textbooks at least twice anyway. Or those are going to be some ratty-ass textbooks…
I was in real estate. We collected earnest money from a particular buyer, and held it in an escrow account. The deal fell through, and we were required to return the money. However, the buyer ghosted us. We couldn’t reach them to return it.
Our escrow account is audited by the state. We have to account for every transaction to or from that account. If we don’t have paperwork to justify the transfer, we could get fined or have our licenses revoked. We didn’t have paperwork for this buyer, so we had no legal authority to do anything with this money.
Any account with any business can potentially have the same problem: a legal obligation to transfer money to a known person, but no way of actually completing the transfer.
The solution is to transfer the money to the state’s “unclaimed funds” division. When the state audits our account, we can show that these funds are the state’s problem, not ours.
The funds I’ve found were from a couple class action suits where I was apparently a member of the class. It amounted to tens of dollars. They were apparently filed long after I had moved, but I had never updated my address with the defendants.
My state is one that has recently adopted age verification requirements. Adult sites seem to be complying through IP geolocation, requiring users in my state to establish accounts. I think they are requiring a credit/debit card on file as evidence of age, but I cannot say that with any certainty.
VPN servers in less-oppressive jurisdictions bypass the account-creation requirement.