My dad was an avid boater. I grew up on the water, and loved it. I learned pretty quickly just how expensive it is to own & operate one. There’s an old adage that a boat is a hole in the water that you throw money into, and it’s pretty accurate. Despite my love of boats & the water I never considered getting one myself when I grew up, mainly due to the expense.

Especially if you need to rake them up etc.

Painting is of a river in Pennsylvania. The artist painted it while there, then displayed it in the UK. Many who saw it, not being familiar with the fall colors of the northeast US, thought it was fake.

Leaves.

Yes, tree leaves.

Each fall when they start changing color flocks of tourists come up to gawk at them.

In some states an obscured/unreadable license plate is all a cop needs to pull you over…

I hate to break it to you but not only does Cloudflare do this sort of thing, but so does Akamai, AWS, and virtually every other CDN provider out there. And far from being awful, it’s actually protecting the web.

We use Akamai where I work, and they inform us in real time when a request comes from a bot, and they further classify it as one of a dozen or so bots (search engine crawlers, analytics bots, advertising bots, social networks, AI bots, etc). It also informs us if it’s somebody impersonating a well known bot like Google, etc. So we can easily allow search engines to crawl our site while blocking AI bots, bots impersonating Google, and so on.

Reminds me of the estimated 3,000 pairs of shoes that Imelda Marcos reportedly had.

But this isn’t a death panel!

(This is removing the funding so they can’t even create a panel.)

Well better that than Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

ISIS has/had for a while a really good recruitment program that identified and groomed Muslim ideologists. I have a distant relative that was married to such a Muslim man. He was recruited by them, eventually proclaimed himself a member, and to make a long story short will now spend most of the rest of his life in jail.

Aside from one or two movies like Tropic Thunder, I feel like Tom Cruise is largely the same way. His movies have largely become a playground for him to fill his Adrenalin lust with crazier and crazier stunts.

Somebody probably mentioned that the US bought Alaska for approx. $0.02 per acre. So he likely thinks that meant we paid $12.95 for it, and turning it back over to Russia wouldn’t be a big financial loss.

Cost of living is way too high since everything other than pineapples & coffee has to be imported…

I wonder if this is just a necessary legal/regulatory step in order for them to start running Virtual Power Plants in the UK. There was a recent article stating that they recently ran a successful test of a 100,000 node VPP in California. Up until now I’ve only heard of them being 1000-2000 nodes, so that test is a massive improvement.

I’d be wary of one or more colors fading over time unless you are VERY careful with how you print these. Being monochromatic, QR codes don’t have such issues. It would likely also be easier to recover a faded QR code than a colored bar code.

Can I use your phone to view the menu? The camera in my phone is broken.