If they just charged the advertised price, then we wouldn't need to this sort of regulation.For this reason, the problem isn't all the fees, but the fact that they are allowed to add on fees, outside of the advertised price. In addition to this, any price increase should be communicated in advance and before the minimum cancellation window.

Remember when 1.21 gigawatts was a lot of power? Now we're talking about 6!

What's the difference? We also posted web articles and had lengthy, sometimes heated discussions about it. People were a lot nastier back in the days, angry RTFM nerds were abindant. On IRC people would crash your computer for fun. We had cybersex and warez and all the good things that are technically inappropriate for a 15 year old.
Now we have censorship all over the place. Nobody stopped you from posting porn on USENET, we had specific newsgroups just for that. Try posting porn on social media nowadays. Nobody cared what you had on your F-Serve on IRC.

I'm fine with sending Musk to Mars. He can take DOGE and the rest of MAGA with him. Few of them are smart enough to realize there is no return trip, even if the trip there is a success. Musk and Trump can spend the trip trying to convince each other who is the most important person in the history of the universe while those of us here on earth rebuild from the destruction they left behind here.

Intel needs to improve their fabs quickly, irrespective of Trump. Apple could assign a minor chip to Intel with a three year contract, to appease Trump, but unless Intel improves, then Apple would fail to renew if Trump has left office.

Apple was once in a bad place and got money from Bill Gates, but since turned around. Maybe this is Intel’s turn, but they need more than money. They need good leadership and shareholders who aren’t looking for a short term fix.

I think the relationship is potentially more like that of Samsung where they are both competitor in one segment and supplier in another.

I’d imagine an “Intel Manufacturing” division being a supplier, while an “Intel Design” division being a competitor. If “Intel Manufacturing” got their shit together, then they could be a viable supplier. As for “Intel Design”, they’d need to accept that the writing is on the wall for the x86 architecture, unless they do something radicle. When you have ARM chips running x86 apps as if they were native, then you have something that should be sounding alarm bells.

Right now Intel feels like Boeing and just being a poor competitor due too much focus on short term profits and not enough on long term growth.

At this point, it may not matter, due the damage he’ll have caused. Also, there are a number of people who believe he’ll try to avoid an election in 2028. I don’t want to believe that, but given how much of Project 2025 is apparently being realised, I’m not sure.

I don’t think Apple would say “screw power consumption”, given its history and that it was one reason for moving from PowerPC to Intel.

Apple is a priority customer for TSMC and I believe Apple has likely been organised and signed contracts ensuring that they keep those slots.

Intel needs to work out how TSMC is able to improve its fab process at such a high pace, while Intel seems to be failing to do so. Aren’t both companies getting their lithograph machines from ASML?

Wasn’t Intel exploring splitting fab and split design parts of the business at some point? No idea what happened to that strategy?

As per the wiki, the name was reused by unrelated companies long after the original LimeWire imploded.
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Making things even worse we now see MAGA flexing another muscle here to exert force on America; they are getting people all over the country fired for daring to express a non-MAGA-endorsed opinion of the matter. Yesterday ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel indefinitely for stating a few days ago that we didn't know the politics of the shooter. How dare he suggest that the shooter might not be the left-wing devil that MAGA insists him to be!

There are endless counts of other people across the country who are losing their jobs for daring to say something disparaging on social media about Kirk after his death as well. MAGA is very openly celebrating these firings.

We should also consider the non-zero chance that he was shot by someone not for being too far to the right but rather for not being far enough to the right. Remember there are a lot of MAGA folks who are tripping over each other to see who can be the most extreme; years ago the GOP passed a point where they would have thrown out Reagan for being too far left and now the MAGA party is even further yet to the right.

The only notes he'd be taking is on X, but I'm not even sure he thinks anywhere in Africa is a real country?

There is a long list of times during this - and the previous - Trump Administration when it seemed clear that would happen. We thought they finally got to the point where they wouldn't be able to stand each other and they would annihilate their own. Never before did it happen; indeed they only rallied harder each time and came out stronger.

Now they have a new martyr. Any time anyone doesn't toe the MAGA line they will be accused of leading towards "another Charlie Kirk". In fact they could have hardly asked for a better event, as they can use it to also brush any other gun violence crime under the rug as well.

Say goodbye to democracy. Charlie Kirk managed to do exactly what he wanted - he killed it. He wasn't wise enough to realize it would take his own blood to take it down, but it is dead and buried now. The new Single Party State rises up now, and by the end of next month it will be illegal to be a democrat.

Right now is a good time to invest in your exit strategy if you don't align yourself 110% with the MAGA party.