Yes, I can't wait for them to get even more picky about what Visa cards they take, rather than only being picky about Visa-only.

That won't get annoying at all.

Or, here's an idea: don't build large facilities that can't be powered up in geographical areas that can't provide the resources you need to operate the large facility.

What critical need is served by building these things in Santa Clara rather than somewhere with a bit more infrastructure to handle it, other than proximity to HQ?

It was sabotaged.

Back in the day several bands were making a good living off mp3.com. record companies noticed this and destroyed mp3.com using the legal system.

Like everything in our economy it's about consolidation and control. Antitrust.

So what should have happened is the record companies should have been forbidden from buying mp3.com and it should have gone to a neutral third party following the settlement regarding the copyright violation.

But we were busy worrying about 9/11 and other bullshit so we were distracted while our future was snatched away from us.

Folks need to understand the need for antitrust law and how to recognize a politician that will enforce it. You can't just leave the free market up to itself because it's not a free market and it never was and it never will be.

People want to believe in an idealized version of capitalism that just doesn't exist. It's drilled into your head when you're a kid so it's hard to get it out.

And keep in mind this is just music. The same systems and processes and problems exist for food and shelter and medicine and education.

The game alpha centauri is a lot more applicable here. However what you are talking about requires future technology. You would need self repairing machines for that. While this is arguably semi-feasible (design machines to be more modular and therefore serviceable by robots which could swap modules) they don't exist yet. And once they do we will be too busy dealing with the upheaval from the destruction of service jobs to think about colonizing other planets or moons.

"Time to switch to iPhone then and keep that AI cruft off the phone."

How would that help? You don't seem to have been keeping up with what apple is doing to your precious toy.

I wasn't expecting you to self own so quickly, obsessed cuck.

If you can tear yourself away from protecting child molesters long enough, why not touch grass?

Slashdot should never have allowed them to begin with, and failing that, should have eliminated anonymous posting many years ago. It was never a good idea. Naturally the cryptocucks think it's great.

If it's not clear which cards will be taken where based on the logo, then those logos will be devalued. Whichever processor STOPS doing this first will win.

I'll bring this up again next time you ride on my dick.

I like it, but can we just skip to the end part?

No, I'm the one who should apologize. I've been living in your head rent-free for years, how rude.

Yes, they are very different. But also, I don't know if this problem also exists in Firefox for Linux on ARM. Javascript engines are architecture-specific. This is the main reason why Firefox had to drop PPC support when it did.

I DGAF if you think talking about something else is more important than the most important thing happening on the planet right now, i.e. the ongoing Nazification of America

Because Biosphere didn't work. Or are you just planning to rob Earth of the resources needed to build and maintain space colonies? That's an even shittier plan.