Semi-Hemi-Demigod

Nation-states were a stupid idea to begin with

I think it has more to do with maintaining a manufacturing base for defense than it is about jobs or the economy.

I’ve worked for a couple startups and you’re absolutely right. If you make a profit you pay taxes on that money, so startups like to spend most of the money they bring in. They also want to show revenue growth, since that’s what investors like to see. You grow revenue by getting more paying customers. And you do that by doing what your customers want.

When you go public, your goal is to increase shareholder value. So you do this by reducing costs and finding ways to wring customers out of revenue. You find ways to nickle and dime customers out of revenue so much you develop an entire branch of law devoted to you suing your customers

So what? It figured out The Answer, big whoop.

Get back to me when it figures out The Question.

There is, but since color printers are the ones that were used in counterfeiting most black and white printers don’t do that sort of thing. Plus I don’t know how you’d encode that much information in black and white without making it visible on the paper.

Only color laser printers put those yellow dots on paper. The black and white ones don’t because they can’t: They don’t have yellow toner.

So get a black and white printer and you’ll be fine.

80% of my work is on websites, and the other 20% is in a text editor or terminal. As long as I could map my old keyboard shortcuts I don’t see why not.

Three day special bridge rebuilding operation

Manufacturers are driven solely by consumer demand unless regulated

I disagree with you on this. Manufacturers are also driven by what makes them the most money. Affordable compact cars don’t make much profit, but big, expensive, cheaply engineered trucks make them a ton of money. Body-on-frame construction, cheap suspensions and drivetrains, and ancient engine designs lower their costs to develop a lot, and they just throw some leather and a touch screen in it and can mark it up 20% or more because now it’s a “luxury” truck.

Then there’s the advertisements which are designed to influence consumer demand. And the ads for big trucks are targeted squarely at people who want to feel powerful. They put them on every ten minutes during sports programs to prime their market into thinking this is a reasonable vehicle for them to own. When they buy it and realize it’s actually not that fast, not that great as a commuter, and costs them a ton in gas they get angry and then drive like dickweeds.

They banned pop up headlights for safety reasons but not these things.

The next day a flock of crows brings you a bunch of money they found. Even still, it’s only $500

I’m in favor of whichever one doesn’t contain “join society”

He could have posted something about how the universe doesn’t fit our preconceived ideas and how this day is an example of that and that this means you should dig deeper to get to the truth because it’s usually a lot more complex than what it seems.

But no, Neil woke up and chose dumbassery

I would advise you not to judge a platform from what trouble inexperienced users get into with incompatible software.

I’ve been seriously using a Mac for over 20 years in my career across the tech industry and I respectfully disagree.

Nuking Pasagardae

No offense taken! There are a lot of justifiable reasons why people would avoid Apple products, I just don’t think the desktop OS is one of them.

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My very minimal experience with an in store mac-book has cautioned me away from the fisher-price OS

Saying it’s a Fisher-Price OS is like saying Linux is Fisher-Price because people have anime themes.

It’s Unix under the hood. It’s just as much a “real” operating system as any desktop Linux distro. It just looks nice.

The company I worked for was decommissioning a server rack and they needed some warm bodies to unhook cables, so they let some non-sysadmins go in to help out. Security was super tight, but once you got in there it was a nerd’s wet dream: Whiteboards everywhere, weird foreign snacks and energy drinks, dim lighting with sick red neon trim.

I also got to keep all the Ethernet cables I wanted which was pretty sweet.