So you're stupidity about battery waste went nowhere, so now you're going to talk about lithium fires in EVs, as if that has anything to do with lithium batteries installed in a facility that is specifically designed to contain lithium batteries, and have fire suppression systems that are effective in dealing with lithium fires installed?

Just stop posting this stupid shit - you clearly don't know anything about it.

Maybe you've heard of recycling?

The point of the critique is that otherwise reasonable processes can quickly become unreasonable when bad actors become involved in the process.

Bad actors are famously good at finding where processes do not scale, and then overwhelming those processes in order to grind things to a halt.

See:
  - the filibuster (60-vote threshold for cloture motions)
  - a speaker refusing to allow votes on legislation that would pass with overwhelming margins (currently, Ukraine aid and border bill)
  - vote-a-rama which usually serves no purpose except to trigger recorded "gotcha" votes that are completely unrelated to the reconciliation bill and drive eventual final vote to a stupid hour of the morning just to troll colleagues - see literally any of Tommy Tuberville's amendments
  - motion to vacate: renders half of the Congress into a mode where the only thing they can vote on is a Speaker, and if the past is prologue, this mode will last for days / weeks. No other legislation can advance without a rule change, which would require a vote that probably wouldn't pass due to the obstructionists wanting to obstruct. I'm honestly surprised that the gear-grinding caucus hasn't tossed Johnson out on his ass and then just vote 'no' to every speaker nominee and rule change just to stop literally everything. Not sure if it also stops committee hearings, which is why they may not have done this - can't have sham [impeachment|weaponization|hunter biden] hearings to step on garden rakes in and we can't have that!
  - lawsuits, and getting judicial stays pending ridiculously long legal processes
  - appeals of lawsuits, and getting judicial stays pending ridiculously long legal processes

This is not an exhaustive list. And people wonder why government can't get anything done.

Ethernet has been an option on some laser printers for decades.

It's not too late for you. Someone grab the yoke and pull up - you don't need to descend into the depths of governmental dysfunction that we have through rank partisanship.

Please keep your government functional - those of us below the 49th parallel may need a "safety" democracy to look to.

It's like they're more interested in scoring political points than actually dealing with the substance of the bill.

Welcome to politics. The coffee room is --this-way-->

When you have facts on your side, you argue the facts.
When you have people on your side, you argue the polls.
When you have neither, you bang your fist on the table and make as much noise as possible while throwing yourself on the gears of government to grind them to a halt, hoping to wait it out until you actually do have facts and / or people on your side.

American democracy in action, only this time with a Canadian flavor to it. Which means it will be a little more polite, probably a lot funnier, and served with gravy.

What I read from the summary: Canada has imported the "vote-a-rama" from the "reconciliation" bill process from the United States Senate.

Enjoy shooting down your nonsense amendments that only exist to waste time, filibuster, and produce "gotcha" votes that partisan hacks can use in their partisan communication to partisan tribal voters about how CORRUPT AND EVIL the incumbent is for voting against some totally irrelevant-to-the-legislation pet issue amendment that never had a chance to get serious consideration because it's an unserious proposal that wouldn't survive debate.

You're welcome, Canada!

Android tablets have been a shit show since the first one came out. It's very clear that app developers do not think about tablets when they create their UIs - things don't scale to expanded screen real estate the way that they should, and many just assume things that are true about phones, but not necessarily true about tablets (like always having an internet connection, for example).

If you find a device that works for what you need it to do, great. However, using an android tablet as a general-purpose device is just painful and poorly executed even now, because Google hasn't tried to make it better, rather just shoveling out stuff to say they have that stuff.

So what you're saying is that a newer version of base software ceased being compatible with long-abandoned and unmaintained software that runs on it.

That has nothing to do with hardware at all. I don't know why you think what you said changes anything the person you replied to said.

That depends, can you even read the first sentence of the summary?

So what would you have said about a useless, ridiculously expensive "solution" to a question nobody asked?

The first part of starting a successful product launch, is having a product that people actually want, or having a product that serves a purpose. This does neither, and costs you $700 + $24/mo to do it.

I'm really not sure what you are looking for when this thing is so very obviously flawed and serves no obvious reason to exist at all.

Yes, there is. You see, there's been a concerted marketing effort for about 70 years now that say car ownership is a must, and mass transit is only for "the poors."

So you're saying that the Olympics don't use the same length / width swimming pools in their competitions?

What unbelievable horseshit.

Oh lookie; Wikipedia has specifications for length, width, depth, lane width, number of lanes, water temperature, and minimum light intensity.

Next time try not making shit up.

Your observation easily applies to the existing current state.

However, I would remind you that at one point people thought Apple was crazy for shitcanning Intel in favor of their own in-house ARM cores, which now flatten everyone on performance with the exception of extremely heavy GPU workloads (Nvidia still king there).

There's no reason to think this state will last forever though if Apple wants to throw gigabucks at it. Of course, they may fail at it too - there's always risk in going in-house.

Either way, their little decade+ long piss-fit with Nvidia is now a very poor choice for them. Literally every single one of their competitors has access to a solution they've self-selected out of due to petty bullshit that they just can't fathom getting over.

Honest question: is there anything Apple *doesn't* want to charge premium for?