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Gates owns most of the farm land in America.
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Yeah,
Bill Gates is a very successful entrepreneur, he is out standing in his field. 
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Slacker007 wrote: Gates owns most of the farm land in America.
Nope. Not even close...
Fact Check-Bill Gates doesn’t own most U.S. farmland; BlackRock doesn’t own most houses | Reuters[^]
Quote: According to a January 2021 article by ‘The Land Report’, Gates owned 242,000 acres of farmland through two investment management firms - Cottonwood Ag Management and Cascade Investment (here).
The figure is far below the total area of U.S. farmland. A 2021 report published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said there were 895,300,000 acres of farmland in the United States. (here). Using those figures, Gates would own about 0.027% of U.S. farmland.
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Yes, he does 
I see my memory is a bit off...
It wasn't one and two dollar, but two and eight.
And the third starts at 32.
I was right about it being per day though, and that most people are on level two
It's been about a year since I read it.
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Average Salary in Abu Dhabi 2022
Quote: A person working in Abu Dhabi typically earns around 21,000 AED per month. Salaries range from 4,680 AED (lowest average) to 96,400 AED (highest average, actual maximum salary is higher)
The exchange rate is 1 AED == 0.27 USD, so the monthly average salaries range between US$ 1250 to US$ 26,000. The lower salary translates to (assuming a 40-hour week) US$ 7.10 per hour.
Even by Abu Dhabi's standards, US$ 2.00 is slave wages.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I am fairly certain that most can argue that $7.10 per hour is still slave wages.
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By Western standards - yes. OTOH, as Sander points out, in some parts of the world this is considered a decent (and even a great) salary. You can't judge the entire world by the standards of the richest countries.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I thought we were still speaking in context to the UAE, the 12th richest country in the world, where $7 an hour is still slave wages.
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I sit corrected. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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"Western standards".
We have 2 provinces in Canada where the minimum wage is still below $12.00 CAD; about $9.00 U.S.
Those "wage earners" then typically only get about 15-20 hours per week just so that they're not entitled to benefits.
They have to work 2 or 3 jobs to actually exist; if they can find them and manage it.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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That's the offer, the reality is that they will take your documents away and not pay even those.
I have a very dim view of the UAE, and I'm being very, very euphemistical.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Randor wrote: Is it even possible to live in the UAE on $2 per hour?!?
[Monty Python]
Luxury!
[/Monty Python]
Remember, some CEOs are being "paid" a buck a year...
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We're so screwed...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Oh no - robots are on their way to take over the ministry of silly walks - will they leave anything for humanity?
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If I was that robot, I would be getting a bit miffed with the guy shoving me all the time... 😵
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What is the generic name / category / whatever of "...The_Cool_Piece_Of_Software..." in this scenario ?...
Here's what I want to do...
- Make a pic of a printed piece of paper with my phone
- Move that pic to my PC
- Use that file as input for The_Cool_Piece_Of_Software
- Wait five seconds
- Ta-Da
- I have the words from that piece of paper...
- In a text file (i.e., Ascii Text)
- In a Libre Office Document file (i.e., ODF format)
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OCR: Optical Character Recognition[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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C-P-User-3 wrote: I have the words from that piece of paper...
My phone, when it recognizes text on a pic, offers to OCR the pic for me. I've never tried it, but it might simply be the steps:
1. Take pic
2. let phone OCR it for you
3. open your email on your phone
4. paste and email yourself the text.
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Android ?
I have never seen that on mine.
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Then you need to install Google Lens.
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You might also look into OneNote's OCR capabilities. It should make your job really simple.
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Learning Selenium for a new job that starts on the 23rd...
0) When you call driver.Quit, it's supposed to kill the driver process (running in windows), but it doesn't. This statement is true for both chrome and firefox. I had to write code to kill the associated processes for both the driver and the browser. What's worse, the chrome driver (of which multiple are spawned) will throw a Access Denied exception when you try to kill the chromedriver process, so you have to eat exceptions thrown by the Process.Kill() method top avoid failing the test simply because you're killing their freakin' process spawnage. (Firefox does not exhibit this problem, FWIW).
1) Selenium does not like element IDs that contain hyphens, so instead of doing By.Id(), I have to do By.CssSelector() to find an element by ID. Lesson - always use ByCssSelector for finding by ID.
I came up with a TestBase class that handles the process cleanup, a TestMaster class (derived from TestBase) that contains the browser-agnostic test methods, and finally, two browse-specific test classes that inherit from TestMaster.
The test method in TestMaster simply navigates to my own home page, makes sure the title is correct, and then finds/clicks a menu item, and checks to see if a specific section exists. Simple, but a decent exercise. This means I can test for pretty much any browser that is configured in the BaseTest class - I'm running Win7 with Firefox and Chrome installed in a VM, so I don't have Edge, but I could add Opera and Brave if there are drivers for them.
I suppose that despite its quirks, Selenium is a decent automation test tool. I think I'm going to see if the @Marc-Clifton Fluent Web API Integration Testing[^] can be wrangled into this stuff...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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