Is it better than a word doc on the desktop named “passwords”

This is what you get when I have 10 different passwords that have to be changed randomly every 30 days, 60 days, or 90 days. 16 digit password with all the bells and whistles as well.

My wife worked in Insurance for a while. The companies tend to follow two two business models:

1. Advertise like crazy to get new business in. Then refuse to payout claims and pay substandard rates. Lose customers as quickly as you gain them. Mitigate these losses by having 100’s of brand names/shell companies to mask your activities.

2. Do minimal advertising and rely on word of mouth and sales distribution network. Pay out fairly and give decent customer service.

Generally any company that you recognize the name from advertising is going to fuck you over. Most of the other company names you’ve never heard of are the same companies trying to fuck you over.

A little more detail into why he lost. The court/jury is likely correctly following as agreements are written. The agreements he signed was stupid and a good lawyer would have told him to never sign it.

Since around 2010 in vegetatively propagated species, PVP or Patent holders have transitioned from a one time fee at the point of sale to licensing agreement with farmers. These licensing agreements ensure a stable income source for breeding companies. Rather than trying to collect 20 years worth of royalties at the time of sale, they split the fee across the first 15 years the crop is in production.

Why they did this and why growers agreed to it? Breeding for these crops have been severely limited by unreliable income to the breeders. Plant breeding burns through money constantly. A “inexpensive” breeding program burns through 2-3 million per year. Traditionally, public land grant universities did the breeding. A decent plant breeder in other crops makes double or more per year in the private sector versus universities. By the late 1990’s the remaining breeders in public universities were a bit subpar. These breeders did not produce many marketable varieties. So their funding quickly dried up. After 30 years the farmers were desperate for some new varieties. So they were willing to sign up to constantly fund a few companies to generate new varieties.

The idea of a royalty based annual fee really took off with the blueberry growers. Since the breeding companies were independent, they stayed out of the marketing side and lots of growers made a shit ton of money off their varieties for over a decade (the market is currently saturated profits are down).

The variety of nectarine he planted was owned by the processor/distributor he was selling too…

So the companies marketing agreement demanded that he only sell the product to them. However they only paid him for product that they sold. If they couldn’t sell it, they dumped the product and he got nothing. Since they dumped 1/2 of his crop one year, the next he sold to somebody else violating his marketing agreement. Since he violated the marketing agreement, the company likely had a clause in their genetic licensing agreement that he had to destroy the orchard.

These contracts are in violation of all sorts of anti-trust/monopoly laws that have not been enforced or completely nerfed over the past few decades.

Nitrogen fertilizer is massively over-applied globally. 1/3 less fertilizer will help with farmers paying attention to getting the best result for the lowest amount of N applied.

It will also increase interest in some better cropping practices like growing legumes as a covercrop.

So even though usage will be down, yields are unlikely to massively take a dive from less N.

The largest issue is drought/flooding and extreme temperatures. Climate change makes a farming system built upon more predictable weather insufficient.

They also got more exercise as more of the population was engaged in physical labor (women’s land army) and factory work to produce food and war goods.

Let’s see what requirement in parenting skills/knowledge are in order to have kids.

Requirements to have children:

1. Functional gonads.

2. P in V sex.

3. Not quite 10 months incubation time. (Yeah the 9 months is a lie got repeated several times the last few weeks before delivery by my wife).

Welp that sums it up: No parenting skills or knowledge required.

Back a long time ago I ended up in meetings with Mount Olive. There I met one of the plant managers in North Carolina. He gave me a tour of the pickle plant. Of course between the sound of the equipment, his gnarly thick southern accent, and the giant wad of chew in his mouth, I have no fucking clue what he said.

Oh and don’t eat the relish. Seriously just don’t. The things I saw that went into the relish…

South America looks at both and snorts… “You call those mountains!!” These babies are started with the breakup of Pangea and are still growing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andes

First time I was flying into Santiago, I was amazed when we hit 3,000m and looked way up at the mountains out the window.

I just died.

Already in the U.S. cases have been found in Texas and New Mexico. It will take a few years for their number to buildup.

Oh and don’t worry, because of global warming these little fellas are likely to spread much further north than their historic range. Yeah, Canada this one’s gonna be an issue for you too.

If what I want to buy is under $200 and locked up, I usually go to another store to buy the item. I am not waiting for an employee to show up and unlock $200 item.

It often only takes a few months of huge losses in sales for the shelves to all be unlocked at a store.

I’m just leaving it there.

To be fair that was about the harddrive space of my first linux machine. I installed xunbuntu 6.10 on an old windows 98 machine. I then used it as a game server.

It was a wee bit laggy for some reason. Damn thing ran for another 4 years.

Autocorrect strikes again.

Grub can find the windows install on the secondary drive and give you the option to boot from it at startup.

That’s how I have it setup on my dual-boot laptop. Two 1GB hard drives with one dedicated to w11 & the other to Linux mint.

Other than W11 regular stability issues I haven’t had any issues with it.

Those are pretty decent results.

When I went to college my net worth was $0.

10 years later after college my net worth was -$45,000.

My wife is a teacher to teenagers (high school). She gets called mom on a regular basis. Especially when she wakes one of them up from a little classroom nap. It happens often enough the kids don’t even give each other a hard time.

Now when they call her grandma… She doesn’t find that endearing.

Brings me back to how we sung a song in grade school. Edit out Ears with Balls and you get:

Do your balls hang low?

Do they wobble to and fro?

Can you tie them in a knot?

Can you tie them in a bow?

Can you swing them over your shoulder like a regimental soldier?

Do your balls hang low?

That’s what Linux had needed for years. The reason Windows took over was because they won the business/government market.

Omce the tools for business/government mature and companies start offering proprietary software compatable with Linux by default, it will snowball.

The head is normal molting. The beak damage can be from mite.

Probably mites.