I'm unsure whether Amazon made the Kindle or just rebranded something, but I would add this to the list of Amazon's successes.

You're absolutely right. Now Tesla needs to learn that too.

If customer support isn't responsive enough, making a stink in a visible way with the CEO is next best.
This just means Tesla is more concerned about its public image than the quality of its products.
You need to hit them where it hurts. In this case: Twitter

I guess this is the end for GM.

Microsoft has a big talent to kill whatever company to they cooperate with - or the companies just desire to die on their own, whatever. Microsoft seems to be nearly as bad as Computer Associated, the official software graveyard.

If you still have GM shares, now might be time to get rid of them while the price is still high.

Please engage the device located between your ears after reading.

I wrote every country has the government it deserves, not every citizen gets what he deserves. If people feel fine in having a government disappearing minority people at night (like in Argentina for example under Pinochet), then as bad as it is for the killed, it wasn't a big concern for the majority.

As to who knew what during the 3rd Reich in Germany, the history books are simplifying things a bit. From the experience of my uncles, my grand parents and many other people who were adults between 38 and 45, it wasn't as clear cut. While most people didn't know exactly what was going on, many of the common people on the street in Germany and Austria had a quite good idea that whatever happened with Jews wasn't good. And because many didn't agree, there were also many small acts of disobedience and bending the rules to help some of them and thus saving them. Small things like forgetting ask about Jewish grandparents so that you could keep your job, warning of razzias etc, sheltering children as distant relatives, even if the whole village knew it was bogus. Some kind of dont-ask-don't-tell.

All these acts while well intended weren't enough to prevent the holocaust, they still happened and show that people weren't as innocent as they claimed to be. And while people were willing to do small things, they topic wasn't important enough for them to them to get killed over. By the way, the same happened in the other direction after 1945 with how much people cooperated with the allies, specially the soviet.

Both are very good examples. In those countries, some people are treated really badly there. But never forget, in those countries, there's also a very large group of people who don't disagree with this enough to do something against it. You hear from the poor victims and find it rightfully so atrocious. You might also identify the oppressors as very evil. But the masses in between are condoning it to a certain level, so things don't change much

Historically speaking, all successful invaders / oppressors always had a local power base that at least didn't bother about what they did. There are some really good examples from how differently things went in countries invaded by Germany depending on how welcome the invaders were. Same about puppet-dictators in Central- and South-America financed by US-corporations.

It might not be comfortable to change things, you might not survive if you try changing them, but in the end the power is with the people. A commander without soldiers willing to do his bidding isn't much more than a dancing clown.

You'd be surprised that said dictator was less pro-life than the governments preceding him. There were a few quite legal ways to get abortions at this time, some of them even against the will of the woman. Not pro-life, but not necessarily pro-choice either.

I'm afraid the reasoning of the German government between 1935 and 1945 might also work quite well to sell abortion to the religious fundamentalists: Abortions are only illegal for the righteous ones because they need to go forth and multiply. However, the more the unwanted and unfaithful people aborted the less of them there will be around. For the religious types add that they have a guaranteed place in hell too.

Honestly, most politicians across the world rarely do something good once you discount just lucky things that happened during their term they take credit for.

Either it just happened and would just have happened the same with a monkey with a top hat being president
or if they happened to make / prevent some change, people don't agree if its good or bad.

Best example is your president pissing on China's leg. Was it overdue for a long time? Is he cluelessly destroying the US economy? It depends on what you believe in. In 30 or 40 years, we might have a better perspective and maybe, only maybe we can say whether it was the right thing to do.

Every country has the president / government it deserves. If they want another one, they can either elect or otherwise put in power a new one.

In similar situations, that shut them up pretty quickly for me. They might nearly have died from apoplexy, but that was fun to watch too. And the beauty, it works for the left the right and it doesn't even say whether you agree with them or not.

No money saved on the maintenance. All those fancy telescoping airfoils need maintenance too and it's a fair bet to assume, this will just be as expensive as the engine maintenance.

Also, given that marine engines are pretty mature technology that is well understood and those 100 m high sails are cutting edge techno-dreams, I would expect the maintenance costs of the sailship higher than a conventional ship.

I guess, if all they only mention CO2 as a benefit, everything else is going to be worse. Slower, more expensive, less reliable, harder to schedule, not able to access as many ports. If they can't even make more profitable when the ship is nothing that a pipe-dreams, the chance of this one sailing in reality is zilch.

the time that sailboats are using wind exclusively are long time past. On a ship this size, they will have to use an engine for port manoeuvres and all the fancy gizmos on board need electricity. So I expect them to have a big arse generator on board. And no, relying solely on hydro-, solar- or wind-generated electricity isn't a good idea on a ship this size. Too much risk just to score a few points with crazy purists.

More concerning about the article is that this just a piece of fluff by some academics and designers having scored a hit on the gravy train to produce some fantasy-cruiser in a 3d-renderer. No shipping company has plonked down their cash (or taken out a loan) to have such a thing built. So this is most likely just yet another wankfest for bored and clueless science and technology journalists. It's about as realistic as the next generation of hyper-sonic scram-jet passenger rockets or supersonic bullet trains across the continent in tubes.

Move on, nothing to see here.

To kill the access for a whole village is impressive, but I've witnessed similar cases with old appliances in apartment housing. Usually the easiest solution for the telco / cable company is to nicely gift the - usually elderly - resident with a nice middle of the price-range new tv. Makes the problem go away and the old lady is happy too.

Maybe you're right that deteriorating single use items made out of other materials use more of it, but branding it as fake kind of environmentalism isn't correct.

Like many things, it's a trade-off. In this case it's using a bit more resources (assuming you're right) against preventing pollution. I take preventing pollution any day. Sure, the singe use items might be a little more expensive, but that puts the cost on those using it instead of fobbing off the cost of the pollution and the cleanup on society.

In contrast to all that carbon-emission scam, this is the good kind of environmentalism.

Where are calculators like the ones from TI used today? In my experience only in the classrooms. Engineers and other mostly use laptops or phones.

Considering that since 2018 for example in France, all calculators approved for use during official exams need to be certified and have a lobotomising exams-mode if they're programmable. For TI to decide to stay in that last big market at the cost of getting rid of C and Assembler programing, this makes a lot of sense.

Here's an explanation in French about this: https://calculatrice-scientifi...

I got this Apple TV+ for free for a year even after having tried, I didn't find a single worthwhile movie or series to watch. True, I'm not the biggest TV-consumer, but on Netflix and HBO I found sometimes stuff I enjoyed. I even found movies in the inflight-entertainment systems of most airlines. But Apple TV+ seems to be a total wasteland. Or they manage to hide the better stuff successfully by their user interface.

Is TV+ Apple's version of Zune?