Art Of The Deal.

I've still got NYT at $4 a month. If I could get the other two for a similar amount I would just for the reading material. I'd never give the Cincinnati Enquirer any money. Just another formulaic Gannett rag. Too bad. used to be a fine paper.

@Jolly said in Last night at prayer meeting...: This nation has had more than one leader who behaved badly. I think the root cause does not reside in D.C. or in a state's capitol. Yes, but you didnt hear about it, or they were "smart" enough to keep it in private. I think that things get "normalized" if we see public figures doing it, especially our "leaders". I do agree however, that there is defnitely alot more for the reasons why this is happening.

@Doctor-Phibes said in Why Cant Tax Be Included?: I do wonder whether leaving the sales tax out of the price has the effect of keeping the rates relatively low, I was thinking the opposite. LOL If there were too towns next to each other, and one price was 5% higher because of taxes, and the town lost business to the next town, maybe that would be incentive for them to lower their local taxes.

He was pardoned by Jimmy Carter... Lurid details at the link.

We were a small government hospital with huge outpatient clinics, if you consider a 183 bed hospital seeing 100,000 outpatient events/ year as huge clinics. There definitely is an art to moving those numbers with smaller numbers of staff. You have to have ancillary services firepower. Fast throughput and as much automation as the budget will support. For example, our pharmacy filled an average of 700 ninety-day scrips per day. You don't do that without three pharmacists, a robot and a half-dozen pharm techs. You have to have good clinic triage at the ED or Urgent Care point to line this stuff up. And Resource Scheduling worked wonders. The biggest problem clinic was Internal Medicine, but those patients tended to be older and sicker. We could only do an average of 28 patients/day for docs in that clinic, a bit less for the NP's. The docs might could have handled a few more, but if you're a NP with a question or bad patient and the Doc is 20 feet down the hall...

You know who I would look at? Dennis Allen. Allen doesn't have what it takes to be a head coach. He's failed twice. But as a defensive coordinator, he's had multiple top ten defenses and is very good at recognizing and developing secondary talent. Give Burrow and top ten defense and see what happens...

Wow. My Dad worked on those in the 50s and 60s. Not the airframe, but the electronics.

The article makes a decent point, when you get past the clickbait headline. Just a bit of moderation on the Dems part in New York assures ballot box success. Adequate policing, prosecution of criminals, less illegals sucking services, less DEI. One can still be a progressive and be in favor of those issues.

@jon-nyc said in Magisterium, the Catholic Church AI: Next question : ‘Ok, but I’m going to do it anyway. Will I go to hell?’ It seems the dummy robot doesn't understand yes or no. [image: 1736270220091-0ac7c3b1-3e16-4a33-b234-21973573bde7-image.png] To which I replied: [image: 1736270403925-d820575a-72ab-40e4-9945-82ca6c4a602f-image.png] Asking the real questions. It's a simple question. [image: 1736270485477-75204958-3730-4723-985c-e4e43fcdcbfc-image.png]

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But he hated Kissinger even more.

@Renauda said in Hey George, reverse sear question…: I find leaving frozen steaks and chops on a cold cast iron skillet That's the idea behind those "thawing trays."

@jon-nyc said in Something AI should be able to do but for some reason can't: Right but the newer version do search the web in real time. @jon-nyc said in Something AI should be able to do but for some reason can't: Right but the newer version do search the web in real time. Yes but I'd refer you to my comment about form page copy and how that is interpreted as text versus something that is straight exposition. It's much harder for models to make predictions based on form copy because it's so unlike its training data and leaves a lot of context out. For example, those pages don't say "We have 3 suites available for 12/31 for one night." Just look at the copy on those pages and only the copy. It's a lot harder to generate predictive text based on something so sparse. It'll get there most likely, just not there yet.

Not the month and day, but quite common for the year in Thailand to correspond to Buddhist calendar, which this year is B.E. 2568, equal to 2025. Still seen in Taiwan, especially in government is the use of the year corresponding to the beginning of the Republic of China in year 1912, so it is year 87 this year. BIrthdays still mostly follow the lunar calendar. When I was little, I did not know my "western" calendar birthday.

I couldnt understand them. LOL

Elon Musk is not a free speech "poster guy". LOL HIs actions speak louder than words (see his actions in China)

Yep, they can pick.