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Comment Re:Hope they succeed (Score 1) 28

My 14 y/o daughter loves books and wanted us to take her to Barnes & Noble on black friday to get some deals on books. The store was like in this article - a bit depressing, and under-stocked - especially when it comes to books. It is very difficult to maintain an air of positivity in a long and probably inevitable decline, but that's what's needed to slow it down.

I took my son to BN a number of times the last few years. He would just end up in their toy section wanting a monster truck or whatever. I stopped going there and took him to the library instead where it costs me nothing and he actually looks at the books.

Comment Re:Great (Score -1) 175

There is a whole lot wrong with your post. One howler:

Note that 100% of the censorship (by private outfits presently, but it's still censorship) - is in favor of the left.

Our CDC cannot speak candidly about disease, our NOAA cannot speak candidly about climate change, and private physicians cannot talk to their own patients about abortion.
Conservative mobs are so unmanagable that Mitt Romney's safety could not be guaranteed at CPAC!

CDC is a fucking embarassment to medicine as demonstrated during the ebola crisis. NOAA seems to never shut the fuck up about climate change so no idea what you're bitching about and abortion is fucking legal still and doctors not only talk about it but perform millions of theme very year.

So now that you look thoroughly fucking stupid, please exit strage left.

Comment Re:"Embraced" (Score 2, Interesting) 88

Extinguish is easy at this point. MS is one of the largest code contributors. Their subsystem for linux will make dual booting pointless for a lot of devs and open sourcing so many of their tools and apps will reduce the influx of developer time to linux and back to windows.

Have you seen the consolidation in linux today? It's barely even linux anymore with systemd taking over so much. You basically have different flavors of redhat, all that really changes is the package manager anymore. Redhat is now owned by IBM. With the proper pressure applied to IBM Microsoft could kill it or effectively reduce its influence over night.

Linux has two things going for it. Servers and Android. On Android MS is fully replacing the UI with their launcher and apps + office. On servers MS is eating away at the infrastructure with Azure.

If you can't see how surrounded Linux is right now on all sides then you're simply willfully blind to MS's tactics.

Comment Re:What do you want, actual Journalism? (Score 2) 208

that would require them to run stories that might upset the kind of folks that sign their checks.

Seriously, does anyone think a story like Watergate could get broke today? Hell, that Flint, MI stuff didn't go anywhere. A little bitty YouTube Channel Called Status Coup has done most of the reporting on it.

Sad thing is stories far far worse than Watergate get reported today and ignored by the press because it hurts "their guy"

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