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@TheVat Depends on bandwidth required, and space required. If you ask me, I would say, 12 USD per year is needed for the cheapest VPS with 20 GB space, and 21 USD for .net domain.. ..but people (i.e. admins/owners/programmers) are getting used to it.. and don't want to switch from an inferior option to a better one because it costs them "work" (moving data from X to Y server)..

Doomsday delayed then.. crap.. *sigh*.. Kickstarter, or so, fundraising to ensure they have enough money to maintain their servers.. ?

Not really. Source codes for web browser extensions are publicly available. Write your own within 5 minutes (just copy'n'paste for a start): https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Your_first_WebExtension This is working example: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Your_second_WebExtension ...not in the video tag displayed on every web page...? ps. Paid Internet ads are for people who do not have a database of "all" the inhabitants of this planet who have Internet access.. Once you have the first sample extension on disk, to remove the video (or any other) tags, simply use the: var elements = document.getElementsByTagName( 'video' ); https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/getElementsByTagName Then iterate through the all elements and disable, replace them, or alter them.. So the video tag no longer works... This way you don't waste the measured broadband connection..

Lie! The aliens are not so stupid to use the imperial unit system..

It's very simple - eliminate all humans from this planet.. I can do it today if you pray enough.. They have no idea about how their ads will appear.. The most annoying ads are "video ads".. when you have LTE or older, metered connection.. In the case of unmetered fiber-optic Internet connection, it is simply annoying (due to the sound appearing out of nowhere).. in the case of metered mobile connection, money is lost every time an advertisement is displayed.. I've started writing a Firefox/Chrome plug-in that will find and remove "video" tags from websites I view..

...it all depends on how the wires are touched, dry or wet, etc. if it is the left hand one wire and the right hand, the other wire, all the current, whether it is AC or DC, flows through the heart area, which can affect the functionality of the organ passing through.. @TheVat @exchemist One hand on the pantograph plus rubber boots do not make/close the circuit.. (as long as the clothes are dry ) ps. Don't try at home John..

Chatbot was used to replace journalists.... ? There is more of this kind of "madness" recently e.g. https://variety.com/2023/film/news/james-bond-novels-edited-racism-1235536164/ "James Bond Novels Edited to Remove Racist Content" Will Robinson Crusoe also be rewritten too?

Artificial intelligence has "states" and "weights" ("probabilities of true/false") of these states. These affect other states in a complex hierarchy tree. "States" are updated, "weights" are updated when you and other people talk to a human (updated in the brain) or to an artificial intelligence. "learning by repetition" ("repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth") (see Russia these days) increases "weights" of some "state" ("information"). https://www.google.com/search?q=state+weights+artificial+intelligence A normal computer only has bits with 0 or 1, there is no other alternative. ps. Other alternative chatbots have ended their lives as racists, misogynists, nationalists, simply because the people talking to them provided such and not other content and anybody could influence them (just like evil dictators/political leaders do to people).. https://www.google.com/search?q=chatbot+racist+answers e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)

Does it matter? Why does it matter? Why does such a trivial thing bother you?

(Some/most) people are prostitutes. Will do everything for money.. Some wear nice suits to steal your money (e.g. how much money do they need to get elected as POTUS?), others wear the weirdest costumes to get your money.. If you put something controversial, or say something controversial on your channel, you'll get free ads from people like @StringJunky all over the world.. for free.. The entire social media will be flooded with this.. https://www.google.com/search?q=Roger+Waters+russian That guy has something with head and/or is supporter of V.P. .. Anonymous etc. should be on his PC, laptop and smartphone to investigate what is the case..

@exchemist Understandable. The myth found me (Google gave it). It is purely US issue. Here not existent. I know nobody who takes any opioids (legally or illegally).. ..but they are depressants.. i.e., they make a person less active, less agitated, sleepy.. etc. It is hard to commit suicide if you are drunk and almost sleeping, as long as you have no easy access to weapons (and bike/motor/car).. (You need the statistics of blood analysis of people who committed suicide, how many of them were under the influence of X, Y and Z...) Which opens yet another level of complexity - how many of drunk drivers/motorcyclists were actually suiciders-to-be.., ("did they hit XXX (e.g. tree) and died because they were drunk/intoxicated, or the reverse, they took the last drink with the last stuff, to have courage to hit XXX) "depressant" does not make you "depressed".. People who respond to you are afraid of the image of your portfolio..

The water is cold in winter, so people who want to commit suicide by jumping into the river are afraid of dying from freezing, not drowning.. ps. The availability of weapons in the U.S. (and similar places) makes the situation different than in the rest of the world.. ps2. There are a lot of people in the US who are afraid to be alone, so they take a few people with them..

..you are in one country, JC is in yet another, MigL is yet another country, and I am in yet another.. For which country is it needed? If I show you data for one country that is not yours, you will complain that is not yours (which happened in the past).. It's simple math. No politics. No economics. "Venezuela raises minimum wage in fourth year of hyperinflation" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuela-raises-minimum-wage-fourth-year-hyperinflation-2021-05-01/ "The Venezuelan government increased the monthly minimum wage by 289%, an official said on Saturday" In the first case you should ask "how many people in the country [in question] have the minimum wage," in the second "how many people in the country receive social benefits," and in the third "how many people are in prison." From what I see, in the US, "The minimum wage is scheduled to increase to $9.50 per hour on July 1, 2023." https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/state alternative version: "The federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. This rate applies to covered nonexempt workers. The minimum wage for employees who receive tips is $2.13 per hour. The amount of tips plus the $2.13 must reach at least $7.25 per hour.6 kwi 2023" https://www.usa.gov/minimum-wage (???) "There are at least 1.1 million Americans (or 1.4% of all hourly paid workers) who earn less than or equal to the federal minimum wage as of 2021.9 lut 2023" (usa popuiation 330m) How many people will be "affected"? How many people will use social? (social does not increase inflaction? prisoners don't increase inflation? If government has to give them money, this way or another, gov has debt) Stay objective, if you can. I'm not complaining (and haven't complained) about minimum wages, but about their effect on inflation (which is huge in a country with a large population that draws minimums, and minimal in a country where few draw minimums). (It depends on how we understand "inflation", which is yet another level of complexity) If you put in jail people who were so poor and removed them from registry, it is fake statistics. It's not about minimal wages, but about influence of wages on the prices of the products at shelf. If majority of people of the country in question have some wage, and it is increased, then I have real problem seeing how it could not influence inflation (official version by gov). But how much people get minimal wage is country dependent. You ("swansont"), is living in parallel universe, and the rest of world in their own parallel universes.. ps. The whole topic has so many if-then-else that I have no idea how to write it in English or any non-programming language. A lawyer is like a hacker, trying to find a way to breach it..

@Saber It all depends on the details. When it's winter in the northern hemisphere, it's summer in the southern hemisphere. So, get Australia etc. data, and analyze it, compare with northern hemisphere country..

Very difficult is your path of thinking.. Why? Future politicians want to replace current leaders..

How is that possible? I used this: https://www.google.com/search?q=suicide+rate+per+month and got straight away..

Few people know that you don't even need to download anything to compile programs on Windows. There are three languages that are built into Windows (starting with Windows 7 or Vista): C#, Visual Basic and JavaScript (in the web browser). Source code must be written in wordpad/notepad. No debugging capabilities. No IDE. C-sharp compiler: %SYSTEMROOT%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\csc program-name.cs %SYSTEMROOT%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.XXX\csc program-name.cs %SYSTEMROOT%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\vXXX\csc program-name.cs Replace XXX by appropriate to your OS version and revision (to learn it, use dir "%SYSTEMROOT%\Microsoft.NET\Framework") Visual Basic compiler is in the same folder. ps. Which is abused by hackers..

Yes. we can. Get chemistry book are (re-)read.. this will be a good start..

c'mon.. who loves Visual Basic?! Who?! You cannot be so old!

A good technique only in prison.. Why do you lie (a politician would say "you presented a different version of reality"), make things up and pretend they are true? Why do you present a twisted version of reality just for the sake of arguing on the forum and make yourself look like a fool.. ? According to your claim, caffeine is not processed by the human metabolism.. BTW, we were talking about drug use, not caffeine use.. which is not (yet) prohibited.. Do you think so homeless drink tea or coffee? How do they make them without having access to hot water, electricity, etc. etc. ? ps. If I flush coffee and/or tea and/or Coca-Cola and/or Pepsi down the toilet, how will that affect your results... ? Google: "How much caffeine is in sewage?" "It is common to find caffeine in effluent wastewater [0.07-126 µg L-1 (Weigel et al., 2004)], in well water [1.7 µg L-1 (Swartz et al., 2006)], in groundwater [0.23 µg L-1 (Seiler et al., 1999)], in coastal waters [15-185 ng L-1 (Cantwell et al., 2016)] and surface water (112-781 ng L-1 [Daneshvar et al., 2012])." So how do you get any level of accuracy from the 0.07-126 ug/L range? .. "caffeine concentration" or "caffeine metabolites processed by the body".. ? https://www.google.com/search?q=caffeine+metabolism "Caffeine is almost completely metabolized with 3% or less being excreted unchanged in urine [3,6]. The main route of metabolism in humans (70–80%) is through N-3-demethylation to paraxanthine also known as 1,7-dimethylxanthine or 17X [3,6,7] (see Fig. 1). This reaction is carried out by CYP1A2 in the liver [6]."

It is politics... Each nation and/or generation learns a different version of history. What you have learned is not the same as what people on this forum have learned, and is not even the same as what people from younger or older generations have learned.. ..but you have no access to "historical facts"... https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/history_is_written_by_the_victors "History is often told according to the interpretation and biases of prevailing historical actors, often those who won in geopolitical disputes or otherwise became dominant forces in society." ps. What with Russian independence?

..seriously.. ? The amount of inaccuracies must be counted in hundreds of percents.. ..except the significant amount of drug addicted people don't live in apartments and don't use toilets at all, as they are homeless etc. from which you can take their piss and analyze it, but on the streets and piss wherever they want ("under a cloud").. Such a method would only work reliable for prisoners etc.

@MigL Of course, everything is passed on to end customers, hence the inflation / cost of living increase, etc. Some industries, such as farmers, are affected, other industries, such as IT, are not affected.

What claims? I just wrote indisputable facts.. If I write that 2+2 = 4 does it need dispute? In the OP nobody stated we are constrained and limited to the US.. If you are interested to the talk only about US, then voice of John Cuthber, String Junky, MigL, Genady, me, etc. etc. are meaningless, as we are not citizens of the U.S. .... Basically entire discussion in this thread would be wiped out, if you constrain just to the U.S.. .. Frankly, I have no idea about the United States. It's only 332/8000 = 4% of the world's population.. If I make some claim, it is universal, worldwide.. Seriously? Seriously seriously? That's how in the US you probe the amount of of unemployment rate? How do you in the US measure rate of homelessness? Do you make survey? By text message? By sending e-mail? How do you in the US measure rate addiction from narcotics.. ? Do you make survey? By text message? By sending e-mail?

I asked somebody to ask ChatGPT "what is the number of neutrons in 2.54 grams of water", and ChatGPT gave a pretty good answer. (omitted fractions! I love these fractions!). are you able to write me an answer straightaway? Use a spoiler to keep it from being revealed to other members. I am not joking. God doesn't know how to joke anyway.. Racist! Not dumb, but "thinking differently", idiot! ps. Don't insult your creations.. ps2. I know what you mortals are thinking.. ...should not you be on Kremlin by now.. ?