The US Constitution limits US government actions worldwide against everyone. /thread

... they still have to stop making dreck with secondary characters no one cares about.

The fact is that Twitter was bloated crap run by hypersensitive children of helicopter parents before Musk bought it. Their so-called curators were nothing but an Opinion Police brigade, and if they didn't like your opinion, you didn't get to use Twitter. You were One With The Body, or you were cast out. It was basically run by a bunch of Mean Girls with a Cancel button. Musk's management hasn't been perfect, but it's been a large improvement over the previous state of things. When he fired said curators, it was a situation of, as we say on Slashdot, And nothing of value was lost.

As for "bye bye", Musk would be the first to point out that you have plenty of Twitter alternatives to go and enjoy.

Microsoft is often accused of always being behind the curve, but Microsoft went all-in on mobile at a very, very early stage. Bill Gates personally made it a priority. And they were big into phones early on. They just couldn't figure out the interface. They were working on Metro when the first iPhone blew the doors open on the smartphone market, but by the time they were ready to ship, Google had already copied the iPhone interface with Android, and it was too late. The market just doesn't want to seem to take more than two competing systems. By the time Metro went public, Microsoft was an also-ran. It had to be incredibly frustrating for them as they'd seen the vision and had been working on mobile for so very long. And Metro WAS a very good interface for mobile. From what I understand, MS even offered to foot the costs for developing popular corporate apps like airline, food, travel, etc, but they were told that there was no interest in supporting a third ecosystem by the likes of Delta, American Express, etc. So they eventually just gave up on mobile. A shame, really.

If you've ever seen Giger's original drawings of the aliens, the head is shaped the way it is because Giger drew it as an actual penis. Not implied, but right there for all to see. The tip of the skill was the penis head, and the bottom was the alien's face and retracting jaw. The whole thing looked like some nightmarish, creeping Dildo. Giger was a seriously messed up individual.

Yeah, the myth of "affordable California" is really that... a myth. California has been expensive to the common man since Hollywood put the state on the cultural map. I was born there and spent my formative years in SoCal...which truly had a bit of magic in the air at the time... but even then the economic storm clouds were gathering. We were a typical American home, father working, mom running the house, kids doing kid things, until 1977, when costs had shot up so much that my mom had to go to work just to make ends meet. A year later, we left California. The income just wasn't keeping up with the costs. Taxes and real estate, especially. Within 5 years, most of my extended family that lived in California had left. In another 10 years, all of them had left. People bitch about Prop 13 now, but at the time, you had retirees being forced from their homes because of property tax increases that started to look like something out of a South American inflationary spiral.

Centers of culture are expensive, because they tend to be in desirable locations anyway. That accelerates the cost of things. The harsh truth is, not everyone can live in such places, at least not very long. Look at the ridiculous lengths kids go to have the '"New York Experience"... at times living in converted closets for thousands of dollars per month. My simple old 3 bedroom home in Pasadena, considered to be the older, un-trendy area of town off of Colorado Blvd when I was a kid, is now valued at almost a million dollars. For a freaking Craftsman Home. That's how ridiculous things are in California now.

Star Trek has been franchised and Multi-Versed and Alternate-Timelined to death. It's all dreck now. Paramount needs reminding that the well can go dry.

Cancel everything and let the fields lay fallow for a few years.

Then start one new series. ONE. Set it on a new Enterprise (it always has to be the Enterprise), with a new crew. And don't fuck it up by choosing a crew based on The Current Thing. Shoot for a 5 year mission, and thus five seasons. End it after 5. No movies. Lather. Rinse. Repeat every decade or so.

Could be worse for him. Gates could have had info on Hillary Clinton.

Ba-dum-bump!

Uh, most of Microsoft's history under his watch?

There's a good reason why most OS's generally follow the Win 95/98 GUI paradigm. They got it right. And when they went to all-NT based systems, they got even better. They've certainly had their issues over the years, but if I had a dollar for everytime I've heard someone go "I miss Win 95/98/2K/XP, I'd still be using them today if I could", I'd be a comfortably wealthy man.

When did Microsoft customers scream the loudest and rebel? When Win 8 tried to do away with that paradigm and make PC's a tablet.

Not much. Which is why they have such a shortage of them. The more a medical system is socialized, the shittier the pay. And just as bad, where healthcare is a "human right", patients treat the workers like shit, because it's human nature to feel entitled and arrogant when this happens:

That's shit compensation for a middling white collar office worker, let alone an MD that takes years of training. No public mandated system is ever going to attract enough doctors and nurses when they can go elsewhere for more money.

I don't know what the answer to the US healthcare expense problem is, but I do know that this sure as shit isn't it. Healthcare should not be a right in the US, nor should housing or food. A "right" to a material good means that you're taking away the rights of those that service those goods. That you are, in effect, impressing them into public servitude.

The last thing I want is a system where doctors, home builders, farmers, etc, are essentially told "You'll give your product and service to us, on demand, at prices that we'll set, or you wont practice your trade at all".

You're being modded down because someone disagrees with you politically, but at its root, Honda's decision to build these factories IS an inherently political one. EV adoption is largely being driven by mandate, not by choice. Honda is making a calculated gamble: that the mandates will stay in place, and people will HAVE to buy an EV one day. This will make EV's profitable eventually... as long as the mandates stay in place.

Time will tell if this pays off for them.

Most companies wont touch anything in production without corporate support and support contracts. The words "Community Support" fills them with dread. They want a phone number they can dial if things go sideways.

If you were installing it to a hard drive. Back in the day, some people still ran everything on their floppy drives. There's a link somewhere below showing the install menu, giving you the option to install a floppy-only option across multiple floppy drives. Which meant that when you wanted to run different built-in DOS programs, you had to swap to a different floppy on the fly.

Steve Jobs apparently liked this way of doing things all the way into his early NeXT products, where everything ran from the optical drive, OS and applications included. It fit his idea of "elegant".

I suspect it has far more to do with price than anything. iPhones are just too damned expensive, even on the low end. You can get a decently built, solidly performing Android phone for $200 or less. If you're not an iTunes user, or iMessage devotee, there just isn't any real reason to pick an Apple phone over an Android phone.