Depends on what kind you have. Some people have loud random sounds which is probably quite disturbing. The people with the constant radio-static kind just have a white noise generator they can't turn off. The upside is it makes a great sleep aid.

My tinnitus drowns out the sound of all but enterprise servers so all my PCs are totally silent.

No, those said miscellaneous items made by HP when they were started in 1939 did not acually include a line of 16 bit microcomputers. World War II code breaking would have been radically different.

A better comparison is the beginning HP with the PC maker HP. Like a prior comment about IBM; they're still in business, just not making PCs any more. HP made audio oscillators, thermometers, and other miscellaney items for a long time before they made PCs. So perhaps it isn't a good comparison to say they were a computer company founded at the beginning of the PC era along with Apple.

Why exactly do you need to use google search to look for gmail when you're already logged in? Hundreds of people are doing that per hour, wtf? Hello? Address bar?

Apparently the gp accepts the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. Would you care to issue a retraction?

The Starbuck's app requirement list clearly indicates all kinds of terrible behavio including it needs to be able to make calls and read your contacts list. There may be more, but after those two I stopped reading and declined to install. A vendor's app has no need to do these things. I figured if they're already that bad, there's no telling what mischief their app might get up to.

That doesn't make sense; what kind of weapon delivers performance enhancing drugs? Who would want a weapon to enhance their opponents? I suppose you could wait until they die early from the side effects but in the meanwhile, they're better at coming to get you.

So replace the NFL with their helmets and pads with the NRL.

This is why I voted for weapons-grade somethings. No idea what a PED might be but if it helps the players kill each other by being weaponized, it must be better.

There's not that much of a business regulatory environment in South Sudan.

It is the replicator in Star Trek that makes money and exchange for goods ridiculous, not the starships. Starships in and of themselves no more do away with trade than do jet airplanes. A starship economy would likely make central bank money ridiculous or at least highly problematic in all new ways.

RTFA - The state the company is located in is one of the few with the madness to tax manufacturing equipment. There's a policy guaranteed to help lower unemployment! /sarcasm. In this particular case they're not surviving on taxpayer money - they're getting a sensible exemption from an absurd policy.

Charge them a tidy sum for rent and require they contract physical security to the CIA/NSA/NRO. Why not in that case?

I've never been told to do someone else's work to make THEM look good; I've been asked to help out and it reflected on ME at bonus time. Lumpy is probably over sensitive.