Ye olde septic system finally quit?

“One of his disciples, the one whom Jesus loved (AKA me), was reclining at his side.”

– The Gospel According to John

The Evangelicals Creed

“I believe in God, the Father Almighty maker of heaven and Earth. And in Jesus Christ, his only son, our Lord. Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, never did or said anything important, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried…”

This drawdown has sparked a debate about the “Magnificent Seven” member: Is Microsoft stock a falling knife, or has the market overreacted, presenting a rare opportunity to buy a preeminent artificial intelligence (AI) stock at a discount?

First, “the market” overreacts about everything. Not surprising given that stock price volitility is mostly driven by speculation.

Second, who writes this crap? Anyone who thinks of Microsoft as an “AI stock” is clueless. The majority of Microsoft’s revenue comes from “services”, a big chunk of which is derived from subscriptions for Azure, Office 365, and other hosted solutions.

Microsoft has been racing to cram “AI” into as many areas as possible. Probably in an attempt to justify their substantial R&D and capital expenditures. But calling them an “AI stock” is insane considering “AI” is not their core business or even a profitable part of their business.

“If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.” – Psalm 66:18

“Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.” – Isaiah 59:1-2

“If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.” – Proverbs 28:9

"When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil. – Isaiah 1:15-16

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.” – 1 Peter 3:12

Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered. – Proverbs 21:13

“The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.” – Proverbs 15:29

He’s got a pretty solid basis for that claim.

Start trying to figure out the best way to give away most of it.

A US security guarantee isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.

She’s still a rookie. Mine already imploded her second marriage. Working on the third last I heard.

Walmart acquired Vizio with the express purpose of using TV’s to serve ads. In fact, that is exactly what they said they were going to do.

No surprises here.

Fat vocabulary girls they make the rockin’ world go round.

I have to appreciate the fact that my country (US) squandered years of opportunity to repair relations with Cuba and turn them into an ally, all for the sake of a ridiculous cold war era grudge.

“If you want to win, you gotta win.” – Joe Buck (I think)

Art of the deal.

If my math is right, that comes out to roughly $10 USD per gallon. Ouch.

Tony Falsetto

America: If you’re not rich, then you can go fuck yourself.

To a point. I completely revamped the off site backups when I ditched Veeam. Four (out of probably ten) VM’s were able to be backed up off-site successfully in PBS. I think I restored two of those because they were newer than what I had locally. The rest never made it off-site, probably due to the local PBS VM choking on disk write conflicts.

Knock off toner can be hit or miss. Even if it sticks to the paper it might not be the best quality.

You could also try adjusting the paper weight settings. The weight settings control fuser heat levels by adjusting the print speed. That can sometimes have an impact on color quality.

I’ve got a small Canon MFC laser printer/copier. No complaints at all. It only prints black and white but I tend to scan more than print so that was a big focus for me when I bought it.