Also, there is more to not wanting to work for a defense contractor than whether or not you think supporting the military is ethical. Working for a defense contractor, or a government contractor in general, is a goddamned miserable workplace experience. I made the mistake once in my career. ONCE. Never again.

Every workplace misery you ever thought was stereotyped hyperbole right out of a Dilbert strip? In defense contracting it's a reality. Clueless PHBs? Lazy and unmotivated cow-orkers just taking up space until their pension vests? Officious semi-peers and dotted-line managers who will make you go on a quest through the Black Gates into Mordor for them before coughing up the resources or information you need to do your job? 20-year obsolete maybe-supported hardware and software that is not only not fun to work on, but does nothing to further your career? Writing a page (or more) of documentation for every single line of code? Writing user-facing documentation down to the 8th-grade reading level? Multiple days of the week that are 100% booked, and sometimes double-booked with meetings? Getting lost in a maze of cubicles stretching as far as the eye can see? It. Is. All. 100% True.

And all of the above come AFTER you get your security clearance, which is required to even get close to doing anything fun. Until then; for the first 6-12 months of your time there, or sometimes longer if your project is lower-priority or the government is being particularly slow; you're doing zero-value zero-interest zero-skill scut work. And you're treated by your "colleagues" like the second-rate, non-cleared, dirt you are to them.

So yeah, take ethics or professed ethics out of it, and there're still plenty of very good reasons to be opposed to your employer becoming a defense contractor. I would be inclined to make my displeasure and opposition known too. I'd probably not likely choose the same method and would have an updated resume ready to go beforehand. But yeah; I would definitely be planning my own departure in the event my employer were steadfast in getting into defense/government work.

Awww... It's cute that you actually think that.

So... it's not okay for Facebook to sustain itself in the EU by selling ads. But... it's ALSO not okay for Facebook to sustain itself in the EU by selling subscriptions? That just doesn't add up, no matter what you think about Facebook or the Zuck. Does no one in the EU's government or bureaucracy understand how things get paid for?!?!?

No, I can't believe that there's NO ONE in the EU who understands that with our revenue there is no business. So it's pretty clear that the EU just wants to ban Facebook there. Fine... but why beat around the bush about it with absurd demands like "You must give our citizens unfettered access to your service; but no you may not make any money from them."? All I can really think of that's either a cash grab via fines and whatnot before pulling the trigger and issuing the ban, or they want to ban it without *saying* they're banning it, because... reasons. Either way, it's not a good-faith move.

Even a broken clock is correct twice a day. And I've got a newsflash for you... there are other things that China does better than we do in the US.

Personally, I don't think a TikTok ban will happen or would even be productive if it passes. It will undoubtedly be challenged in court more or less instantly. I would be astounded if it will get all the way through all of the appeals in less than half a decade. And by then the kids who are on TikTok now will have moved on to whatever the next cool thing turns out to be. It is, after all, a one-trick pony whose functionality could be easily replaces. Hell, it's basically just a dumbed-down knock-off of YouTube anyway. All YouTube lacks is the "cool factor" it used to have. It looks more and more like Google won't... or has given up on trying to... recapture the cool factor they used to have. But hey... all the kids who wouldn't be caught dead on Facebook anymore just moved to Instagram before ItkTok became a thing.

Apple does have a superior platform for messaging with features beyond the SMS standard. It's called iMessage. And no, despite what the slashdot groupthink would have you believe, iMessage does not degrade SMS functionality in any way. As for RCS... never mind the fact that there is no single universal RCS implementation out there... you should really do a feature-by-feature comparison between iMessage and RCS. If you're hinest about it and looking at the actual technology without the blinders of idiological purity; You will find that replacing iMessage with RCS, which is people here are demanding and what it seems Apple is being forced to do in the EU, will be a downgrade.

Back when the muskrat "relocated" Tesla's headquarters to texas, Deer Creek all but revolted at the notion, and he got very, VERY few takers willing to move. He eventually had to give in and keep the old HQ open. I think he's just calling it a R&D campus or something now. But it's still open, operating, and packed to the brim.

Who would have thought that educated and skilled employees who can easily get jobs at other companies wouldn't want to give up their quality of life... and basic civil rights in the case of the female and LGBT people... to go be treated like shit in a red state? Apparently not the world's richest man.

Yup. About fifteen years ago, I was out of ink... I think I had an Epson at the time... and the combined cost of both the black and color cartridges was over $100. There was a Brother laser printer on sale for $50. After about a minute of thinking about how often I really *needed* to print in color, I put the ink cartridges back and bought the laser. The low-volume *starter* toner lasted me about a year!

I eventually gave it to a friend... who is still using it... when I upgraded to a multifunction, also a Brother, so I wouldn't need a separate scanner anymore. And that one has been similarly spectacular.

*sigh* It's a shame that fewer and fewer people remember the pre-Carly HP, when they didn't suck.

Well, if they overfly your home with a drone and you can somehow prove it, you might be able to get them into some trouble; since the law treats "drones" differently from plain old RC aircraft because they're all newfangled and the word invokes images of hellfire missiles raining down from the sky in the minds of the clueless. But good luck proving it. And if the pictures came from a real aircraft operating at a proper altitude, you're SOL.

That's not really applicable to this case. But the problem with your example is that the laws are inconsistent depending on the medium. For example, if you receive something in the mail that you did not ask for it's yours to do with as you please and you owe no one anything... not a return, not a payment... nothing. Of course, if that something is a brick of cocaine then there are other legalities. But you'd still owe the sender not a damn thing. There used to be scams where people would send, or claim to send, people things in the mail they didn't ask for, then demand payment. So there federal government

It's not a stretch from there to believe that an ATM should be treated similarly to the mail and if you ask for $300 and the bank gives you $1300 and you never asked or wanted the extra $1000, you should not be held at fault and blamed for the bank's incompetence or shenanigans. (And yes, I do know that what should be and what is are often not the same. But it's the principle that matters.)

Never mind a roadmap, why do they need this attraction? I remember Autopia from when I was a little kid. The combo of the slow speed, fixed track, and no characters made it Boooooooring. Regular carnival bumper cars were more fun. Better to just scrap it and put in something more fun in general.

If you're referring to what I *think* you are (It's been a long time since I've read the novels. I'm actually about halfway through a post-DV re-read of the first.) there's a fairly easy fix. He'd just have to the same as the SciFi adaptation: age up Leto II and Ghanima to take away the squick factor. Problem solved.

Dune Messiah was published in 1969. I think five and a half decades is more than long enough for a no-spoilers blackout. Honestly though, I think Messiah was the weakest entry of the (real, actually written by Frank Herbert) Dune saga. And it really doesn't work, IMO, without following up immediately with Children of Dune. That said, I really do with Villeneuve the best. His movies were excellent, and I'd *really* like to see him do God Emperor, Heretics, and Chapterhouse.

The guy's got a 6-digit UID. That puts him in his 40s, or maybe late 30s. Teenagers are never going to think he's cool no matter how hard he tries. And the trying... to be cool to them or to fit in with them with things like "yeet," puts him somewhere between pathetic and creepy. Urbandictionary IS a thing, of course. But I'd posit that it's better to just communicate clearly versus expecting other adults to look it up and join in his sad attempt to still fit in with the kids.

Or they could just brand it as Apple Robot like they did with the Apple Watch. More than a few people call it the iWatch anyway. Pretty much everyone knows what they're really talking about. And you google for iWatch... well... do you want to guess what the top result is? And the second result... and the third... and the fourth... and the fifth?

Tell that to my job-hunting gmail and LinkedIn inboxes, both of which are stuffed with messages from recruiters trying to lure me away from the job I'm happy at to other companies. Or tell it to our own recruiter who struggles to find candidates who are even worth interviewing, much less hiring.

There've been some large layoffs at the big names, sure. But this is not the Dotcom crash. If you're not a screw-up, you'll still have minimal difficulty finding a new position if you're laid off.