Yeah like what you see with management types, they can run a {team|business unit|company} in the ground and they never get another job!

/sarcasm off

This. You either pay for the perceived value so the maintainer can invest time and effort in the product or you keep using it as is and take this risk for granted. The software world was bitten hugely with the Log4j security finding. Most big companies used the library (common practice) but apparently _none_ did a security audit or a run through their own software auditing tools, which probably would have found some of the security issues in the package. This could have been communicated upstream or even fixed. It's not that IBM, Intel, Oracle, Siemens et al wouldn't have the resources to spare a few hours of dev time to contribute to such a project.

IBM Notes did that too in the late 90's / early 00's, only better (if set up and maintained by a decent admin).

And for me the interface just doesn't work. I find it cluttered (like someone else mentioned, multiple search boxes below each other doing different stuff depending on context). A lot of stuff you need is hidden, stuff you don't need is in plain sight, and there is no way to customize it. It eats resources like you wouldn't believe and the performance is still sluggish.

Sure it happens, nobody says it doesn't. In 2020 and 2021 on average 7 times a year, so almost once every two months.
If you pull your own head out of the sand you should also look at the statistics for the USA: 2020 614 shootings, 2021 693 shootings. On average almost 2 _a day_. And we have more than double the population (~750m in Europe vs ~330m in the USA).
But feel free to feel safe where you live.

They tend to have several responsibilities but the most important one is keeping the shareholders happy.

Well, you "randomly" chose words that descend from Latin and Greek (because most of the words in your list are derived from Latin since this was the universal language of scholars in universities). Especially since French has evolved from (mostly) Latin.
It would be more fair to compare the Bask and Welsh or Gaelic words.
That said, I can understand the need to preserve some purity in a given language. It's part of your heritage/culture (the French are chauvinistic any way you look at it) and even though language evolves should that mean that it should morph to another language if your own language has words to describe the same action/object?

Just a few examples that aren't scientific terms where the likeness between English and Icelandic is more prevalent and French much less so:

• computer = micro-ordinateur = tölvu
• hammer = marteau = hamar
• bread = pain = brauð

• corn = mais = maís

• coat = manteau = kápu
• umbrella = parapluie = regnhlíf

Just put in the NDA that you lose the bounty if it's leaked.

Perhaps because those pieces of paper/cloth are in some countries the only legal method of payment, heavily regulated and guaranteed by the government (and dependent on the macro market). Maybe people "hate" it because it's too volatile (Musk can drop or lift a certain cryptocurrency with a single tweet, imagine losing $40k just because of such a tweet) - bordering on gambling. Or the fact that it is unregulated with all perks and defects that come with that. Plenty of fraudsters hitting the news lately. And maybe a lot of people still thinks it's a bubble. Basically cryptocurrency needs to mature before it will hit mass acceptance.

I think he learned from Trumps mistakes. Control media outlets before you run for president (e.g. buy Twitter so your account won't be taken down and use the platform to your advantage - and competitors disadvantage).

specific quote: "Has the US abducted mayors of towns and installed their own puppets?"
No, they've done worse by doing this on a national scale by putting dictators in power in South America (Project Condor, mostly led by CIA). What kind of direct and indirect effects this has caused and how much responsibility is for the US is open for debate but there's no denying your involvement. That's from a cursory search.
The US have done many of the other things you describe during the Vietnam war as well, like bombing and burning down villages and using scorched earth tactics. Super Powers (like the US and Russia, and the British Royal Empire before them, all the way back to ancient times like Rome), tend to have a bad track record. It's either how they've gotten so big or stayed so big for a long period.

I for one welcome our burger flipping fry shaking overlords.

You don't need a big car for hunting unless you plan to shoot 3 boars, 2 elk and a bear and haul 'm back home every 2 weeks, in which case a tow hitch would do as well instead of lugging them in the bed. I don't know why you have a bed-load of trash every Saturday but that seems rather wasteful to me. My household of 3 doesn't generate that much waste in a month. Again, a smaller car would also be powerful enough to tow your fishing boat. I also helped friends to move, we hire a moving van for that purpose for about 75 euros a day. No need to drive a big heavy car every day that does 25MPG instead of 35MPG for that one time in 2 years when friends move. I _really_ do not understand the wasteful attitude of people in the US. It almost seems that stuff is just way too cheap for you to care: a 2017 Chevy Colorado (decent trim, not a ZR2) would have cost me about $ 44k, and with gasoline costing about $ 9.41 a gallon you think twice about having that kind of car as a daily driver here in the Netherlands.

Most business users have their machine turned on long enough for the updates to download and install. It's the mom & pop that turn the computer on to get their e-mail or look something up on the web for an hour that don't get the updates, and that's even worse. Unlike business users whose machines are managed they don't know that they're missing out on important fixes. All they see is a bubble that their Norton/McAfee has updated and they think they're fine.

One of the biggest IT companies and they're still not able to remember the volume setting for videos in your browser. Volume is default at max. Who there thought that is a great idea?

So your best answer to violence is lethal violence? And then being pardoned for two counts of said lethal violence in court. Whether his victims are black or white doesn't matter, I don't think a black US citizen would have been granted the same constitutional rights and trial, which was the whole point of these demonstrations.