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And if they took the money they use in stock buybacks and used that for salary, what would it be?

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Ummm, no. Stock buyback has nothing to do with dissolving the company, but increasing shareholder value.

So far in 2023, McDondald's has spent just a bit over 2B on stock buybacks to "increase their shareholder's value". According to the wiki, they have 200,000 employees.

That's a $10,000 bonus/employee assuming equal distribution.

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Probably the fact that, even if you define the account as Admin in windows, you still need to select "Windows sudo" (run as Administrator) before it actually elevates privilege.

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No, it's not.

What you're talking about is UAC flipping out because you double clicked on something and it want's admin privilege (the GUI equivalent of what bioemerl talked about).

I'm talking about exactly what bioemerl was: You open cmd window, try to run a command and it bitches that you need admin rights, as an admin. So, you have to go back, search for cmd, then select the option: Run as administrator.

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If you remember to do it after getting pissed off enough at it, sure 😀

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So, Monday when the pictures show a completely obliterated shipyard?

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I wonder if the pilots are getting SEAD training with an eye towards future support packages including HARM. The platform is the wildest of weasels.

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I don't know, that hand on the shoulder looks AI jacked up.

Tuberville staffer asks anti-abortion groups to float primaries against Republicans who oppose military holds (www.politico.com)

Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s spokesperson asked anti-abortion groups to “make clear” GOP senators risk primary challenges if they support an effort to overcome his military holds over a Pentagon abortion policy, according to an email obtained by POLITICO....

Republicans help torpedo resolution to censure Tlaib over Israel criticism (thehill.com)

Highlights: The vote was something of a surprise: Tlaib, a staunch liberal who’s been harshly critical of Israel, has few fans in the GOP when it comes to Middle Eastern politics. It’s unclear why several Republicans came to her rescue during Wednesday’s vote....

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Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) — had accused Tlaib of “leading an insurrection”

I know Margie is as dumb as the day is long, but did she really forget what leading an insurrection actually looks like already?

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They weren't banned.

They required a $200 tax stamp at the time.

Now, they require a federal form (NFA Form 4), the $200 tax stamp and a metric ass ton of money since the public cannot purchase a full auto weapon manufactured after 1986 (Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986).

edit: Changed the tax amount, actually looked it up.

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You forgot to also add that regular people cannot do all that because they also need to be a FFL

No, I didn't, because, no they don't.

If they're manufacturing automatic weapons or wish to purchase an automatic weapons manufactured after 1986 to law enforcement, THEN you need a class 3 FFL license. If they're manufacturing, then they also need to file a form 1.

Private individuals can purchase a machine gun without an FFL, assuming your state law allows it via form 4. An FFL makes the process easier, but it's not a requirement

Nine Days After Wrecking 21 Russian Helicopters, Ukraine’s M39 Missiles Are Dealing The Same Damage To Russian Air-Defenses (www.forbes.com)

The Ukrainian army might not have very many M39 missiles. The ones it has, it’s using carefully—firing them at the most valuable targets that also are most vulnerable to the American-made munitions....

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What he said. When the Patriot system started killing Khinzels, it was hit by debris. Russian trolls on the internet immediately claimed a "dead Patriot" for what turned out to be like an hours work when they realized the system was behaving oddly...

That being said, if they really did kill an S400, I guess that means it wasn't an S400 that allegedly shot down a HIMARS rocket the other day.

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Depends on how you count "size". US Navy is 4th in ship count, 1st in tonnage at 3.5m tons.

Russia is second at 800,000 tons

China is third at 700,000 tons

Japan is fourth at 400,000 tons

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Don't think that value includes "items in the ship" (like aircraft) as part of the weight. This article seems to lay out what some of the differences are. Seems to boil down to "not evey Navy counts every canoe that they own".

I suppose a few trillion dollars per year will do that though

Yep, American Un-Healthcare at its finest 😁

White House says Iran 'actively facilitating' some attacks on US military bases (www.reuters.com)

The White House on Monday said Iran was in some cases “actively facilitating” rocket and drone attacks by Iranian-backed proxy groups on U.S. military bases in Iraq and Syria, and President Biden has directed the Department of Defense to brace for more and respond appropriately....

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Please show me where any country is "shitting themselves over Russia" after the master stroke in self destruction Russia has displayed in Ukraine?

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How did they justify this statement? A press release from Putin.

Effectively, yes.

The consortium just linked to the original story from Indian Punchline (the author's personal blog) where the author quoted the statement from a TASS article.

It's not hard hitting, factual news. It's an OpEd piece from a blogger.

If we wrapped Robert Parry's corpse with copper wire and surrounded his casket with magnets, we could probably power a small city with the electricity from him turning over in his grave at how far Consortium News has fallen in publishing articles like this.

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Most of SSD already has good encryption methods

Unless you purchase a SED-non FIPS or FIPS SSD, no, they don't

and an easy way to safely wipe data without re-writing each byte.

ATA Secure Erase is a god send for SSD.

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SSDs, unless you buy a specifically encryption supported drive, are not encrypted. If it doesn't indicate SED, SED non-FIPS or a FIPS certification level, the drive doesn't have an encryption circuit.

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No, they don't.

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It sounds like the article is an update to the age old performance issue discussions between hardware and software RAID solutions.

If you use a software solution for anything where there's a dedicated hardware solution, the software solution is always slower due to CPU overhead.

Article recommendation boils down to: If you're going to use encryption, and you want your full disk speed, use a hardware encryption solution. In their test their hardware supported OPAL.

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If you set up hardware encryption, be sure to change the master password and set the security level to maximum.

Be aware, this password is different than the Physical Secure ID (PSID) printed on the front of the disk. PSIDs are used when the release to reset command doesn't work, typically due to key issues, and the drive gets "locked".

You use the PSID to run a revert to factory defaults command, unlocking the drive. Since this triggers the drive to release its' key, the drive is considered "cryptographically erased" when you do this.

If you revert the drive, data on it is unrecoverable.

If you're going to revert a drive, I suggest using a QR Code reader to get the PSID off the drive. Some venders are sadists with the font they choose making it so much fun to figure out if it's a 1, l i I I O or 0...

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A little duct tape, some Bondo... It'll be good as new.

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