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.

A better reason to refute idiots is to educate non-idiots who may not be aware of all the facts. Ignorance can at least be fixed. Stupid is forever.

States rights go both ways. Facebook is a California company. So are many other social media sites, actually. Does Florida even have ANY?

So if we go ahead and go all in on state's rights, DeSantis would have no right to stick his nose in Facebook's business, California would tell him to go pound sand, and if he still wanted to "stick it to those social media luburls in commiefornia" he could damn well go full CCP and build his own great firewall. Actually, that sounds like a perfectly cromulent idea to me. Don't like it? Go ahead and block it. But keep your laws out of my state.

> Don't live in Florida.

Well that sure makes it easy. It's not like Florida would ever try to assert its laws over any out-of-state entity like a social media company in California, right? RIGHT???

> until we get our own version of the great firewall.

Which is really what Florida, or other states that engage in these sorts of shenanigans, should do. It was only a few years ago DeSantis got a bog stick up his ass over an out of state corporation daring to refuse to jump on his anti-LGBT hate train. And here he is now, not just expressing a mere opinion about out-of-his-state entities, but presuming to dictate to them as well.