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Comment Re:the natural evolution of capitalism (Score 2) 85

When everything becomes about this quarter's profits and growth at any cost to appease wall st. Long term results? Who cares, I get my bonus for what I do now and the fallout will come when I'm long gone.

They need to stop using bonuses or delay them for years. They just encourage this short term thinking.

Comment It doesn't matter (Score 1) 106

They want to believe aliens exist so anything that detracts from that is dismissed as lies or conspiracies. You could let them wander around every government facility, shadow every official and they'd still claim some elaborate ruse. They'd pretty much have to be bent over by aliens probing them before they were convinced of what they were seeing. It is more of a religious belief than an intellectual one.

Comment Re:Right to repair laws encourage competition (Score 2) 75

You're supposed to reinvest most of the profits back into the company and wages instead of taking the lion's share and running off to Hawaii to build a bunker. You're also not supposed to take out loans against it and drive it into crippling debt. Reference any business with "venture", "equity" or "capital" in its name.

Comment Re:For some things, perhaps (Score 2) 93

That has been a huge issue for years. The worst is when they don't put dates anywhere so I can't tell how old it is. I'm constantly hitting outdated parameter and config options.

Then there are the people who ask a question then go "I solved it!" without posting the solution. I hope there is a place in purgatory for them at least.

Comment Only if AI gets MUCH better (Score 1) 93

The quality of the results I get from searching vs AI are worlds apart. I sometimes go to services like ChatGPT looking for specific technical information and the results I get are usually vague at best "To create a certificate first create your certificate..."

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