Anyone who thinks we should be proud doesn't have a CLUE as to why we were in those conflicts in the first place. Even WWII, which we should have probably been in, we deliberately delayed our entry so that our "allies" would get their asses pounded so that we could come out ahead economically. Proof? We were selling war materials including Alcoa aluminum and of course fuel to the Third Reich. We knew it was going on, and we let it continue and then seized the assets. But that didn't stop vital war supplies getting to the enemy.

Obviously not.

Microsoft entertainment division may or may not have paid off its investment yet but Xbox is profitable year-by-year now. That's one area in which Microsoft has executed well, RROD and Xbox 180 aside.

There is, but by making it just a few CCs larger (for a bigger cooler) they could also have made it cheaper and faster. But presumably, that would eat into sales of still more expensive products with larger margins, so that would be a mistake for them. Which just underscores the point of how bad a deal you're getting when you buy Apple hardware.

right, but just like retail, it's not clear that this is possible,

It's not clear that it can. Amazon's model depends on endless growth, but you can't grow forever.

No, no they were not. The problem is that hiring criteria have gotten all fucked. Instead of proving what you can do, it's having all the right buzzwords on your resume, and being young. So they hire young people who haven't developed common sense yet and then wonder why there isn't any in their organization. They fail to reward their most valuable players, literally often pushing them out the door, and then wonder why they can't execute.

It's not because there are not people out there with critical thinking skills. It's that the people doing the hiring lack them. They're hiring people based on ooh shiny, and not on actual abilities needed to get the work done.

TL;DR: If they stop hiring people based on bullshit and actually hire for creativity, common sense, flexibility, and yes, critical thinking skills, then they won't be having these problems.

Not really. An unloaded gun is a shitty club. A sword can take parts off of a person.

That doesn't prove that at all, nor does it even try to.

If someone told me I voided my warranty for installing CM, I really would see them in court. They're going to have to show that CM is incompatible, and in the process, they'll basically have to declare that their phone is not an android phone, which will make them look like cunts in the press.

That's because it's such a successful imitation of life. That feeling is supposed to galvanize you to action... hopefully not involving firearms

But a lot of government really is after their guns. Why do you see this as an unrealistic concern? Forgot Waco already?

[citation needed]

Before you even try, you're completely, absolutely wrong. The assault rifle did nothing to blow away the second amendment, because it does nothing to change the reasons for its inception. And the internet does nothing to blow away the first amendment, it only makes it more important.

But, I can't wait to see your reasoning as to why freedom should be reduced because progress has happened. You just want to maintain a balance of progress, and we have to go backwards socially to make you happy?

oh, you get it!

You can't work towards an unattainable goal. And that's what this is about. It's not trying to get as close as possible to utopia, it's trying to create it. But utopia means "nowhere" for a reason. You cannot create perfection. You can only mitigate the lack of perfection inherent to a world with free will. Or, you know, you can eliminate free will. That's the only way to have an "ideal" system. And again, that's precisely what this is about. The attempt to eliminate free will. Instead of building a fairer system, and thus reducing events like these, they want to build a system that maintains the status quo while also suppressing events like these. In order to do that, they will reduce free will.

He mostly just shouldn't be there in the first place, all this assignation of military honor guards merely celebrates war. We should be ashamed, not proud, of our war dead.

If our government finds tracking bullets to be an arduous task, perhaps they are not qualified to have them in the first place.

Then it's a miserable piece of shit. Only shitty guns discharge when dropped. Spend the money to get them a decent fucking gun, especially if they're your honor guard. There's no honor in standing there with a shitty gun. (The gun imparts no particular honor IMO, but it should at least be decent.)

Took your gun? Seriously? TOOK YOUR GUN? What the actual FUCK? You don't put the fucking thing down

If their gun doesn't have a sharp bayonet now, why would it magically gain one if you gave them bullets?

What if the person you assigned to the honor guard was a total fuckup who should not be allowed to look at a gun, let alone hold one? Well gee, then I guess they shouldn't be in the fucking military. Give them a dishonorable discharge immediately. They failed to take their responsibilities seriously.

Or, you know, again, don't specify a shitty gun. Because again, an honor guard standing there holding a shitty gun is a symbol of impotence, and that's not what we want representing us.

[citation needed]

This is not about expecting them to get shot at. This is about it's fucking stupid to have a gun and no bullets. An unarmed honor guard is like a dick with no balls. How is that honorable?

Yes, yes it is. At least, I am satisfied by such an answer.

And if it's not fine to use it, then it should be removed from the repo, without a request from the developer.

There's no technical reason they can't remove a non-required package from a release. So yes, that's the solution, but it shouldn't be the only solution.