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Steve Miller Band hitting on the babes at the Sr. Center.

The deep state can easily make records that do not want released disappear forever. They can just as easily manufacture nonsense that people will accept as the real thing.

Worth repeating... it was the grace of God.

The “lapses” were intentional. Trump’s life was supposed to have ended that day. It was only by the grace of God that the stooge missed his mark.

And how likely is that to happen?

You can wish in one hand and crap in the other...

Yes, more sanctions will really put the screws on Russia. The previous sanctions slowed their GDP growth all the way down to 3.6% in 2023. That is only a little more than 1% better than the United States did in the same time period. We are bleeding them dry!!!

Hope that you are having a good summer... Please do not fret. I know that you were concerned earlier in the year that peace might come to the region. But it looks like the meat grinder that you have invested so much time and emotional energy into looks like it will continue for the foreseeable future. At this point how long depends completely on when the United States and NATO decide that their funds have been bled dry.

Knock of the hysterics. Both sides are being intransigent.

I am certainly not blaming the victim, but the Russian response was both predictable and expected. Are you arguing that there has not been an escalation in these types of despicable attacks? Call it whatever you want. Both parties involved are incredibly stupid not to allow President Trump to help them work out a deal.

What was the expected response when on June 1, 117 Ukrainian drones attacked targets up to 2700 miles from the border with Ukraine causing $Billions in damage? Did the people behind this believe that it would result in a de-escalation in hostilities?

That was in the past. The tipping culture has morphed into a very bad thing which negatively affected every that it has touched. Now when we go to a donut shop where they are already charging up to $3 or $4 for a donut the 19-year-old clerk who is now being already being paid $20.76 an hour who does nothing more than place the ones you pick in a bag... expects you to give her a 20% tip. At this point encouraging this type of madness to continue is bad policy for the government to incentivize further through tax cuts.

People here who believe that this still makes some kind of sense are either virtue signaling or just lost in some sort of fantasy world.

I certainly have not... Tipping is a just plain stupid system that should not be encouraged with tax benefits.

It results in inconsistent and unpredictable income for workers.
It suppresses wages by employers.
It causes awkwardness and pressure on customers
It encourages discrimination and bias not to mention men hoping for sexual favors of various types from female waitresses.
It erodes service quality
It is economically inefficient
It creates employees who feel entitled to compensation from people who never agreed to participate in stupidity when purchasing overpriced meals at restaurants.

Tipping is a practice that most people know is unfair, and leads to resentment and bad service. Why reasonable people defend this idiotic practice is beyond me. The primary reason that I can think of is blatant virtue signaling.

And why shouldn't they? It has become a skilled job with one man per truck with a hydraulic arm. Minimum wage is now $43,180.80 for a high school kid working at a fast-food restaurant, or busses dirty dishes, or picks berries or waits tables at a restaurant. Those working as a waiter or waitress believe that they are entitled to tax free tips on top of that.

Guess again. Where we live near Seattle, they get $20.76 per hour, regardless of whether they receive tips or other benefits. My comment about them feeling entitled and being Primadonas is from personal experiences not in their work environment but as personal acquaintances. If you don't give them 20% OR MORE and return most will not think twice about spitting in your food or screwing with you in some other way. And if you are a white male and they are a “minority” and/or are “LGBTQ” and/or have a bunch of tattoos and/or piercing and you offend them just by, being you or by not showing subservience to them in some way... You had better hope that you have a strong immune system.

That is just the way that it is where we live. If you are lucky enough to live in a part of country where service people are still semi-normal then I suppose that your mileage may vary.

Sorry for the cut and paste error with the file name.

Will this work on the Windows Home version?

Yes, that makes no difference. But while you currently can get an OEM license key for about $5 to upgrade Home to Pro The Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 LTSC license key costs about $23 minus the 10% discount codes that are always available if you do a Google search.

I should remind you that basically all the sellers of Microsoft license keys on the internet are grey market meaning that no one really seems to know where they come from. The place that I have purchased from the most over the last several years is Gamers Outlet, they also provide an often hard to find link to the appropriate ISO file that actually contains the OS.

The file is

en-us_windows_10_iot_enterprise_ltsc_2021_x64_dvd_257ad90f.iso
that you should be using is:

en-us_windows_10_iot_enterprise_ltsc_2021_x64_dvd_257ad90f.iso

Size: 4.518 GB (4851668992 bytes)

The hashes that verify that you have the original unadulterated Microsoft version are listed below. Just type hash checker in the search in the Microsoft Store and pick one that a lot of others use.

CRC-32: 188c9d0d
MD5: 2463b19beac328290e6a8adcedb7533a
SHA-1: 76c3c10e38307d29fd8b4748522ed144dba35829
SHA-256: a0334f31ea7a3e6932b9ad7206608248f0bd40698bfb8fc65f14fc5e4976c160
SHA-512: 640942d93daf8cd183d06e35d5d753a4b93c952c3196c3e3fa7876295b39d8bfef5df8ef2a3b420b5247905fe396606f94ccf093982ee999e503d09e69850143
SHA3-256: 33bacaa70b78abcf4969fa0f6219a5cad7dd4d49c9b975ddadc8b15658d17d48
SHA3-512: 03e3a8e34a79363235aaf91333cb3afa4927feb0b1f1cf212e6cf4a70c54cbe7ab367fafb6143e6057dac00e407c1b661cb0e2511f7eadb4562c49d0ee606a4e

What you are talking about is ancient history. The able bodied Air Force personnel you were helping with their groceries should have done it for themselves unless they were wives with little kids in tow. Or an old broken-down veteran from one of the World Wars. In that case you or some other good Samaritan should have helped them out without feeling entitled to compensation

During the time period we are talking about I was working long hours in a family business where I was lucky to get paid at all let alone minimum wage. Your "job" reminds me of the "homeless" who used to stand near intersections with as squeegee hoping for tips after they threw dirty water on your windshield and then squeegeed it off. “In Seattle, as of January 2025, all employers are required to pay employees a minimum wage of $20.76 per hour, regardless of whether the employee receives tips or benefits. This includes waiters and waitresses, (and bag boys) meaning they are not paid less than the minimum wage due to tips.”

But when they bring you your bill, they still want 20% or more.

My wife and I somehow managed to have jobs that involved actual hard work, dedication and working every holiday which didn’t receive any tips. In truth I have never understood the “tipping culture” in this country. For those who don’t know this is not the way business is done in much if not most of the rest of the world.

As a group... I have never come across a group of more entitled feeling Primadonnas than the typical waiters and waitresses working in American restaurants. No one seems to tip the garbagemen, the people who actually prepare food, farmers, cattlemen, mechanics, construction workers, factory workers and on and on. The myth of the long-suffering waiter and waitress is just that... complete BS. Instead of ending the tax on tips, the government should have been looking into ways to double or triple the government’s cut.

I threw my “Christmas Cards” George W and Laura in the trash. What a putz!

I didn’t mention that Windows 10 Pro or Windows 11 Pro Licenses are very inexpensive. The “OEM” versions are typically around $5 and the “Retail” versions which I almost always buy are usually less than $10. I am now pleased that I did this because several of the 7 “upgrades” that I have now completed had Retail licenses which means that I can now transfer them to new hardware or virtual machines.

I am constantly rejiggering things in my home network so for me being able to transfer licenses to different machines is a good thing. Windows 10 Pro licenses can be used to upgrade Windows 11 machines. In this way they more versatile which you might expect would make them more valuable, but they are typically a few dollars cheaper.

After now completing 7 installations I have a couple more suggestions if you go this route...

Run the following 2 commands before you image your disk. And then run them again after you install Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 LTSC

1. **System File Checker (SFC)**:
- In Command Prompt (Admin), run `sfc /scannow`. This checks for corrupted system files and repairs them.
2. **DISM Tool**:
- Run `DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth` in Command Prompt (Admin) to repair the Windows system image.

Second, I noticed that the release ID in the registry “hack” should be 2009 and not 2H21 as I and the person in the video have told people.

Running Regedit as an administrator navigate to...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion

now change to the values to the new ones listed below by double clicking on the Key Names:
Key Name = New Value

CompositionEditionID = IoTEnterpriseS

CurrentBuild =19044

CurrentBuildNumber = 19044

DisplayVersion = 21H2

EditionID = IoTEnterpriseS

ProductName = Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021

ReleaseId = 2009

This error actually does not matter because it gets corrected by itself either during the installation process or by running the two commands in the Command Line that I mentioned above.

After your system is up and running and you have checked for corruption with the commands mentioned above you should then type windows update into the search box or icon nest to your Windows button. There will be 4 more updates that will not take all that long... After that your system will be completely updated.

As soon as you are sure everything is working right run Microsoft’s included Disk Cleanup to get back around 30GBs of hard drive space. In my case this actually made the new installation take up less space than the original. This also illustrates the reason doing the installation this way takes so long...

People who wait until after Microsoft shuts down the servers that it currently has up and running, will have a more difficult and time consuming trying to find all of the updates that we are currently getting installed automatically.