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Comment "Person of Interest" scenario....... (Score 1) 54

This event sounds like it was recreated from this "Person of Interest" segment where the AI tries to kill Finch because he was blocking the AI from completing its objective (trying to escape to the real world)... I can't believe I never sat down and watched all of these episodes..SMH. https://youtu.be/nhWe2nf24ag?t...

Comment Re:Cloud PC's? (Score 2) 66

Sounds like thin client to me. What is old is new. You know back in the day we had these things called terminals yada yada... but hey they beat teletypes.

That is exactly what this sounds like. Another incarnation of VMWare Horizon or Citrix. We use Horizon to give hourly folks a thin client to access a virtual desktop wherever they may be (they can even access their VM via an external portal from their home pc). Our laptop users can access a virtual desktop from their Horizon client if needed or can just use the laptop itself. We don't even use regular desktop computers. Thin clients or laptop is all we have.

Comment Re:Hell yes! (Score 1) 129

A direct-to-disc recording on my Miracord 50H connected to an all-tube Philips Reverbeo B7x43a produces sound you just have to hear to believe. And when the tubes are glowing, and amazing classics of music that I OWN are playing, it makes me wonder how we got lost in all this digital/streaming/DRM/social-media craziness. That is, I wonder that until the unbridled enjoyment of it takes even that away. There is no better way to unplug, my friends.

You don't have to be an Audiophile to be an audiophile.

And listen to the wonderfully re-created clicks and pops if you haven't kept up with your cleaning and even IF you cleaned it before every play, there is still some dirt that sticks around. Don't have to deal with that with digital recordings.

Comment Re:Concrete is a huge contributor to greenhouse ga (Score 1) 92

You've confused vowels and consonants there. Y can be a vowel in English, and Welsh chooses to use w (double u) for a specific vowel sound, so in Welsh, it's a vowel. I did appreciate the humour, though.

Don't be a pedantic twit. That post was funny as hell! Where are my mod points when I need them?

Comment Re:Actual support? (Score 0) 89

Is there actual support for any of this, in this form, or are these just a couple of the scores of nut job bills that get submitted every year? I know in our state we regularly get bills submitted to ban the letter "M" from the alphabet, make UFOs the state bird, or something just as likely.

It is pandering to the Bible thumpers and busybody Karens of the world. What else is new.

Comment Re:Could turn into "No Time Off" (Score 1) 151

I am also a boomer. Economically, our generation hit the jackpot. Debt-free education was accessible and affordable.

Millennial here -- it still is, if you're not completely fucking stupid. It turns out that overpriced schools don't do you any favors, it's more about the quality of the student than the quality of the school. I personally didn't borrow a cent for school, and paid for most of it out of my own pocket, despite being on minimum wage.

I'm gonna call bullshit on that one. You may have been working for minimum wage, but mummy & daddy probably paid your way thru school. No freaking way otherwise.

Comment Re:"Roles" eh? (Score 1) 54

eliminate "just over 18K roles"

Nah. You didn't elmininate 18,000 "roles", you laid off 18,000 actual people. Elminiating roles would have those 18,000 people stay employed in another role.

God I hate this PC bullshit. Like "letting people go". They're not "let go": they don't want to go! Just say it as it is: you're laying them off. Why sugarcoat it?

Back when my mom was still working decades ago, 'laid off' meant you were still a member of a company but were not working due to economic issues, etc. When conditions improved you were called back to work. During the many years she worked for Whirlpool, there were multiple times back in the 70's and 80's when she would be laid off and then called back. She could draw unemployment benefits, etc during her time off. I haven't seen such a setup like that for many years now. Nowadays they call it a 'layoff', but in actuality you are terminated (fired) and won't be called back.

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