He absolutely was hit by the shock wave from a passing bullet, which caused visible damage to his ear.
Yes the metal of the bullet did not touch him, if it had there would not be much left of that side of his head.

WTF? You think the US government trusted what the Soviets said?

Intel did it much worse than AMD, and about the same as IBM in terms of vulnerability and performance impact of mitigation.

Core 2 was pretty decent, that's fair. But by the time the i7 came around AMD was kicking their ass at everything but single thread. Even though I am a gamer that's never been the only thing I cared about, and I've also always been cheap, so to have AMD provide dramatically more ops per buck and have very competitive processors which were outright faster in many situations has had me an AMD customer solidly since Athlon. AMD never was able to keep up with Intel's process technology, but by the time that ceased to be a thing, all Intel had left was inertia and skullduggery.

My last non-netbook Intel-based system that I bought with my own money (I had an Elitebook with a Core 2 Duo for a moment) was a P2 400 because AMD has kicked Intel right in the goodies in the market segments I care about since right around then. Only Hammer has even been slightly disappointing since Athlon, and it was still an absolute value for money champ.

It turns out there's still no evidence that he was ever shot.

I'm guessing the advertisers paid less per viewer than the $100 Prime subscription.

I sure hope nobody's paying that just to watch some videos...

I went way out of my way to provision and set up a torrent VPS - at cost - just to avoid having to pay Amazon for anything to watch Borat 2 and The Grand Tour. (The latter wasn't even that great.) I hadn't pirated in years.

I'll buy Sacha and Clarkson a hot meal instead, if they ever want to take me up on the offer. Definitely nothing cold. We'll avoid the salad bar.

That fine is a stupid fucking joke amount. It's not even enough to make Google flinch.

"This isn't a meaningful measure of anything.
Naval wars are not won with tonnage."

They are won largely with numbers, but you ignored that part.

Anyway wars between superpowers are going to be won with drones in the future (as they are shaping up to be already) and nobody has more manufacturing than China.

There is no such thing as "the Ukraine" which is a Russian propaganda term, just Ukraine. But I guess you already knew that, Ivan.

They had good design too, though the last really good design was the 80486. After that it was a bunch of pumping watts for performance, until they got to compromising security for performance.

Solar plus battery is cheaper than a new coal plant.

Again, why don't you know any actual facts?

Sorry you only know about trolling. Maybe you could branch out and learn some other things, possibly through personal experience. Maybe your mom will let you out of her basement if you ask nicely.

It's real obvious from the public statements, unless the truth is even more cynical.

Also that is "federal income taxes". The poor pay a huge higher percentage of their income on sales taxes and fees than the rich.

So the bottom 50% have 2.5% of the wealth, and pay 3% of the taxes. Got it.

Things are getting really bad when some of the top 10% are now considered part of the middle. There is a cutoff, maybe 5%, above which the effective tax rate goes way down.

I see.

It's not like the X server needs a lot of major changes, at this point. It certainly doesn't need new capabilities; it *has* all the capabilities it needs. A bit of optimization, maybe? But honestly, XFree86 ran just fine on 1990s hardware, so unless you're constructing a Russian nesting doll of multi-layered virtualization or some similarly wacky pathological case, you're not going to have user-noticeable perf problems in 2025 that are best solved by changing the X server. There are some changes I would like to see in the desktop environment that I use; but none of them would require any changes to the X server itself. Apart from any security issues that come up, most of the changes it actually needs, are related to changes in other things that it has to work with: newer video cards, newer compilers that are stricter about what they will compile, newer security systems that e.g. require the software (as well as the user) to have permission to do various things, and so on.

If he's trying to make Wayland-inspired changes to the X server to compete with Wayland, he's an idiot. *Wayland* needs changes, or better yet a complete from-the-ground-up rethink, to meaningfully compete with X11. Changing the X server to do what Wayland does to compete with Wayland, would be actively counterproductive.