I have a Brother color laser printer which was also not terribly expensive and I've been very happy with it, except that it periodically makes me pull the toner cartridges and move a slider back and forth for some reason. It usually has a paper halfway in that I have to pull out at the same time also. But I'd rather deal with that nuisance than HPs crap.

This actually goes back a decode more, when AT&T sued BSDi, which I've always felt gave linux a huge boost at the time.

Shut the fuck up Ivan. Go die in a ditch with the rest of the orks. Be sure to put some sunflower seeds in your pocket first so your life will have served a purpose.

Did you forget to log out of your alt account SuperKendall? I wasn't responding to anyone named "KlomDark."

Porn is like any other addiction industry. The money all comes from the whales. Just like gambling or meth, 10% of customers make up 90% of the revenue stream. 90% of us don't pay for porn, but 10% of us pay for a lot of porn.

Now you are just being dumb. There is no way in hell to shoot down a balloon and guarantee it lands in a lake or river. It was high up and had a huge balloon which, even deflated, would catch the wind.

If this were a republican administration, I bet you'd be saying how genius this all was.

Oh for crying out loud, it was the smart thing to do. What if it had something deadly onboard?

And please, you right wingers only try to second guess our intelligence services when a Democrat is in the White House. If it was a Republican, you'd be crowing about how smart it was.

Did you ever think maybe we knew it was there all along? There are two other very good reasons not to shoot it down: first, we might want the Chinese to know our nuclear weapons systems are fully up to date and operational. Second, we might be feeding them false information.

They still have a free tier, they're just being jerks about a platform "upgrade"...

No, because of the way copyright works, it does have to be that way. No game developer want their copyrighted IP associated with whatever trash game some dipshit edgelord wants to write. Yeah, sure, you can put Mickey Mouse in your loli-rape game. LOL, never going to happen, and you are dumb for thinking it's a good thing.

NO game company is going to let some other IP into their games. And very few games would benefit even from letting in the companies own IP, from other series. As a gamer, I do not want to see your cowboy in my sci fi game.

So, you'd have to give the companies control over what goes into their games. Making the whole concept pointless.

So not only are you wrong, you're an asshole about it to boot, because you haven't thought this through and don't have any actual, good, reasoned arguments in favor. You just want what you want. And critical thinking is obviously not something you want to do.

a simple hello world app should not have that many dependencies, on the other hand, a javascript web app is a gui and that alone is going to bring in a ton of crap.

I just got done moving a provisioning app (fed by xml, not a gui) to a new machine and had to deal with a seemingly endless bunch of dependencies - xml, database connections, service interface libraries etc. It's a nightmare, and yet the alternative is custom code in each app, which is a completely different, and much worse, nightmare.

I am too, that was basically a metaphorical message...it doesn't even depend on the satellite eating batteries - you will want to make sure the phone actually lasts through your time in the hinterlands and isn't dead just when you need it...

...that you always have a solar charger with you: "Help! I'm at<battery dies>"

I created an account to check it out, but hardly ever login, so I don't count myself as a "user"

Makes me glad I always use Lyft instead.