Funny thing is, Rambo is a film with strong themes of PTSD and mistreatment by the police. These days it would be decried as "woke".

Not really...

Rambo wasn't trans, or gay, or feeling he had to promote any of that to children....and didn't seem big on pronouns.

Rambo also never seemed to play the race card...and he certainly wasn't claiming to be a victim...he never had blue hair and whined incessantly on screen about everything.

And in spite of having some rough times in life, Rambo genuinely loved the United States of America and was proud to have served.

The rest of the world won't, because their own currencies are currently inflating more than the USD.

The U.S. is squarely in the middle of the list of world inflation (you can sort by tapping on column headers).

But the bigger problem is inflation ahead, which is illuminated quite well by the debt to GDP ratio map, where only a handful of countries are worse off... the interest payments for the U.S. debt are nearing exponential increase.

Got Gold?

If you need trained technical support to troubleshoot an issue with a switch you aren't much of an IT Professional, IMHO.

In 20+ years in this profession I've never needed technical support on a switch for anything other than a hardware failure requiring RMA/warranty service. Cisco would certainly be less frustrating in this regard, because I wouldn't have to jump through the Tier 1 nonsense to convince them it actually is a hardware failure, as opposed to an ID10T error, but I haven't dealt with enough switch failures to justify the Cisco Premium for this scenario.

I could be a real snob and make the same statement about routers and firewalls. Admittedly a higher bar there, more that can go wrong configuration wise, still, unless we're talking super small business here, you should have enough in-house expertise to manage them with whatever configuration you need.

Oddly enough, no one ever talks about women going into men's restrooms. The same with lesbian sex. People such as those in Utah will whine about gay sex, but they will always men sex between two (or more) men. Never between women.

Double standard, one of the many.

With women...they can "experiment"...and come back to the home team.

But as a guy..you suck one dick........

How does gender dysphoria pose a threat to children or anyone really?

Because of all the creepy men who are just claiming to be trans, to gain access to dressing rooms, restrooms, showers...etc.

I'm not sure how you missed out on one of the stories (not the one from Alaska) of a supposed trans in a Planet Fitness dressing room...showering walking around fully erect and was asking a young, underage girl if she wanted to shower with him, etc.

I think they finally did get the cops to bust that guy....

But these poor women that don't want to be changing or showering in a room with a biological man, with his dick hanging out or even some stage of being erect....and yet when they complain of being uncomfortable, THEY are the ones that have memberships terminated, or other penalties.

I'm seriously trying to pinpoint in very recent history when common sense in the world (especially the US) left the room and the crazies took over....

Is there any other way to look at this law other than it's transphobic?

Well, yep.

I see this is less transphobic, and more pro-normal, pro-hetero

It isn't fair that the absolute, overwhelming majority of people that know what they are...have to cowtow to this barely statistically significant minority....especially women.

Why aren't you worried about womens' rights anymore?

And no...just "saying" you feel like a woman today does not make you one...we're talking biological women, the way we've done things since the dawn of time.

Fixed that for you. ;)

Also, on a more serious note, I know it runs counter to modern day TV, but I would argue the very last thing Trek needs to be is a franchise. TNG was novel because it was all that was on the air at the time. By the time they got to ENT the franchise was burned out and ratings reflected it. I have a lot of issues with NuTrek, but I do really enjoy SNW, can find redeeming things about DSC, but if they try to make it into the Trek version of the Marvel Universe or copy what Disney has done with Star Wars they're going to burn it the fuck out.

Greenshot can be launched via PrtScn too....

Microsoft gets a LOT of money from the US on all levels of govt.....I would be surprised to see how long that continued...?

Well, one of them broadcasts his crimes pretty publicly, via social media, and the other wrote a book about it....

It would if they had money. See: Simpson, Orenthal James and Trump, Donald John.

Disagree. My iPad fills two niches: I read on it, a lot, both eBooks and general web browsing. I could do these things on my significantly smaller iPhone but that hurts both my eyes and wrists after a while. The other niche, streaming video, on the road and at home when away from the TV (e.g., in bed, out on the porch, etc.) Streaming video isn't as fun on an iPad as it is on a large 4K television but I can't take the 4K TV with me on a flight or intercity rail ride, and while the iPhone could do this, the iPad is the perfect balance between screen size and portability.

Another minor niche, video calls with friends. I tend to prefer an actual laptop for this use case but if it's unavailable or I'm too lazy to go get it, the iPad is better than the phone.

I'll confess I don't understand the folks using iPads as a laptop replacement. I get illustrators who use them, I have a contingent of those at work I support, but the road warriors I see in airports using iPad Pros as a laptop replacement, uhh, why?! It's just as large as a real laptop -- hell, some of the extreme iPads are LARGER -- and a lot less flexible.

And I don't really need anything external by the Apple Pencil

To run these apps...you do need some serious horsepower...but I can move data in/out from cloud...or just load it up on the iPad itself, since you can get with like 2 TB of storage....

I might bring my iPods Pro 2 with me for better sound, but that's it.

And this way, I can do some work or 'fun' work while out at the pool or beach or beach bar taking a break, etc.

I'm not sure what all squid array of things I need to attach to still do some serious work or play on a loaded up iPad Pro....?

With the Apple Pencil...you can, while on the road, do some SERIOUS work on photos with the Affinity Suite of tools....and video? Well, run Davinci Resolve on this thing (or even FCPX)...but with Davinci...have you SEEN what they can do with not only video editing, but sound, VFX and of course...color correction/grading.

It does take that extra power to run these type of apps....and it's nice to be able to take your "work" with you to the poolside, or beach....or just the back yard when the weather is nice...piddle around with a video, tend the smoker or brew some beer....

Anyway...I find use out of them.

For years I was under the impression Apple made its profit selling devices and not my information. Turns out I was wrong. I am surprised to learn that if Apple gives google more info about me that advertisers will pay more for, they profit. I guess all their BS ads on privacy was money well spent on billboards etc.. Changing my search engine (s) to DuckDuckGo.

From what I read...Apple isn't giving Google any info...this money seems to be paid just for Apple making Google the default search engine on apps like Safari....?

Where do you see they said they were selling Google info?