manxu

I used to have a Canon Pixma, and the SANE drivers recognized it and scanned from it with no issues, down to the ADF feeder. It was really surprisingly simple, zero setup configuration.

I basically just used the preinstalled software, Skanlite, and it showed with the scanner pre-selected and ready to go.

Of course, YMMV.

Interesting study. It says, in a nutshell, that it can replicate previous findings that physical fitness in youth reduces the rate of premature mortality due to many conditions, like cardiovascular issues or cancer. That was expected.

Then it looks at the rate of premature mortality due to random accidents (I assume things like car crashes and being run over by trolleys) and finds the same reduced rate, but there should be no correlation.

So something non-causal is probably happening to reduce the stroke, heart attack, and cancer risk of people that were physically active as young adults.

If Trump wants the world to keep buying his debt, he might be advised to stop punching the world in the face.

I wonder if Trump doesn't understand the importance of fostering good will because he just doesn't have any himself?

The three commandments you mention are from the Ten Commandments, Old Testament stuff. There is one commandment listed before this one, and it's to love God above all else. The ellipsis at the end of my quote stands for, "than these."

I am pretty sure it's the Supreme Court that decides what is legal and what is illegal in the United States of America, not "lawyer Mike Davis."

There was a time, almost exactly 2000 years ago, when you could take for granted that people loved being alive and loved themselves. So much so that a source from the period said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater [...]"

Maybe the big question should not be whether someone can consent to being brought to life, but why on earth we find ourselves in a world where people question what was so obvious in the past. That is, the problem is not whether we should have children or not, but how to ensure that the children we have, love living in the world we make for them.

$295bn goods trade deficit

1. Become world manufacturing superpower
2. Realize you are so rich, you don't need people working 12h shifts in factories 6 days a week
3. Become world services superpower
4. 8 out of the 10 richest people in the world made their fortune in services
5. Declare that manufacturing is more important than services
6. See the world build their own services and become services superpowers

There is another possibility: that Teslas are stolen, hit, or damaged more frequently than expected (by Tesla). That would be something that all the self-driving data in the world wouldn't be able to predict.

Unrelatedly, I'd like to point out that a loss ratio of 66 means on average we only get 2/3s of our insurance premiums back as payout. That is outrageously low and explains why car insurance companies can afford all that gimmicky marketing.

I mean, the first requirement of a global currency is stability, the second growth. The dollar has not delivered on either, lately.

Never smoked anything in my life, having one side of the family wiped out prematurely by nicotine, all of them.

Lived in Colorado. The pros outweigh the cons a million to one. The biggest positive was the massive reduction in DUIs, since people drink in bars but smoke weed at home. There may be a reduction in harder drugs, too, given how much easier and cheaper it is to get weed. The tax revenue from weed sales is huge (was bigger, though) and because the laws were changed after Colorado turned liberal-ish, the money was mostly allocated to great causes.

Government loves having a law that can be selectively enforced and is broken by a lot of people. Taking it away is a huge plus, especially in times where the government is looking for easy ways to control the population. Even before now, White people caught in possession or smoking marijuana rarely got more than probation, while some Black people were three-striked for the same.

The only downside is that it still smells bad, and I am still not sure that hacking up your lungs is all that sane or safe.

Yes, it appears that young humans can have very negative reactions to weed, and that it can affect their brains negatively. That would absolutely be a problem if legalization increased week use among teenagers, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Am I reading this correctly? He was asked for his social media accounts and didn't disclose his Grindr account. When that then leaked, then it was obvious he had lied in his social media account disclosure, and that's the official reason he was let go.

I think at this point the air has made a circle around the globe and Xi starts smelling Trump's desperation. I doubt China is going to do anything until the USA caves in completely. After all, in a couple of months shelves are going to look pretty sparse, and there is no one to blame but Mr "the most beautiful word is tariffs."