Well, now, I may need to rethink this whole thing!

Actually, you made me think...

If Teams would let me deploy an AI agent to attend a meeting in my stead, and would afterward provide me with a summary I could claim to have read (but would, in truth, have completely ignored)... I could get behind that 100%!

As if Teams wasn't annoying enough already...

I'd say "I hope there's a way to turn that crap off", but somehow I doubt it.

(yeah, I am expected to be on Teams all day, every workday)

That's basically the Japan setup as I read it, purchasers name is printed on the ticket, tickets are mailed and not printed at home.

Only difference is lottery vs FCFS

By all means give us your legislative solution to bar these people from boarding companies. I agree with you on spirit and we're both in wishful land but I think i'm little more grounded here, I have some precedent.

If you got criminal shit on them I am down for it but is there?

It's possible this is a hedge against AMD putting out genuinely useful integrated graphics. The 780 is okay for fortnite on the lowest settings but not much else. And the 8060s requires a very expensive purchase because it's not really for gaming or even video encoding it's for AI use as a workstation for programmers playing with their models.

AMD is clearly avoiding putting decent graphics in their integrated gpus so that they don't cannibalize their GPU market which is I suppose understandable. Once you hit GTX 1080 grade performance or roughly equivalent to a 5700 XT that's enough for most people. Especially if you support modern upscaling techniques. You can get most games to 60fps with that if you're willing to play at low or medium settings. Borderlands 4 and stalker 2 excepted

But it would be just like Nvidia to want to nip a potential competitor in the bud.

I see absolutely no way that could be a problem.

Jokes aside modern techno feudalism can probably contain them. At least as long as they mostly have food.

The problem is factory automation has gotten so cheap that we are at the point where borderline slave labor probably isn't worth the cost.

From what I can tell the Chinese government has been ordering companies to hold off on factory automation for just that reason but I think they're hitting the point where it's getting harder to do that.

One thing I know for sure if you get enough young men without wives and jobs it's only a matter of time before you have a world war. The only problem with that is we have nukes now. I mean the only problem besides the horrific Carnage and all that but that's never stopped Us in the past.

Is just now starting to dip its toes into serious competition in the GPU market you would think maybe a $5 billion dollar investment from a competitor would get a little more scrutiny from regulators...

I am not saying that the investment would get blocked but it's not unusual for these kind of large investments in markets with very little competition to come with some caveats. Antitrust law is fairly broad for a good reason.

I didn't know anyone actually *used* Firefox's sidebar. I always turn it off on new installs... right away, seconds after I remove Pocket.

And we all know where this ends up... Talkie Toaster.

If you sit down with a table full of Nazis and you realize you're at a table full of Nazis and you don't get up and leave congratulations you're a Nazi.

You don't get to make your bed with Nazis and then say you're not a nazi. And you don't get to do the same with right wingers and pretend you want the right winger. You are the policies and people you support whether you like it or not.

Keep having the day you voted for.

If it can't get ads from the internet it will show built in ads, probably for Samsung stuff.

But that's crippling the product. You don't buy a fridge with a screen if you don't want that functionality, and it's bound to only work when online.

This doesn't mean they can't do hypocritic things this means they are physically incapable of experiencing the emotions of shame and self-awareness that form hypocrisy.

If a republican accuses someone of hypocrisy it's because they recognize a pattern that they don't actually understand.

This is why Republicans can engage in perfect double think where they hold two ideas contradictory in their head at the same time.

This is because the Republican party is a fascist party and frankly it has been for at least the last 30 years debatably since Nixon.

The change happened when Barry Goldwater lost. They switched to using classic fascist tactics so they could have the power and money they wanted. Anyone who cares about America was gradually sidelined.

Talk about ignoring most of a comment, you really think I have an issue with busting up Ticketmaster from what I have said? I want to reverse the 2010 merger between them and Live Nation. Fuck em, that's not my point at all, you're the one cherry picking now.

You're ignoring this is already working in other places.

You're ignoring the fundamental economic issue of bringing some notion of fairness to an item with no actual value but what people are willing to put on it. Whatever alternative solution you have is going to have to grapple with that reality. You also have to deal with defining fair to begin with, it's impossible for everybody to attend every event they want at a price they want. Impossible.

Busting up TM isn't solving that core issue no matter who sells the tickets (but we should do it anyway).

The 2010 merger should have never been allowed and should be reversed. Fuck em indeed.