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Comment Re: Bad out of the gate... (Score 1) 80

You can absolutely hate a murderer and still be expected to make a fair decision on all the charges, like the robbery and the gun possession and the accomplices roles and so on. What's hard to understand about that?

You know how I know you don't really think Musk is a victim? Because you all keep making the examples backwards as if he was the accused.

Comment Re: Weighted Bench. (Score 1) 80

Musk isn't the defendant, and you didn't even try to pretend he's a victim in this, which says a lot. He has his own for-profit AI company and it's not competitive. That's all this is about.

If there was fraud there was fraud. If they narrow the jury pool down to people that don't know Musk is a white nationalist how are the remaining dildos supposed to understand corporate legal structures? Can you even explain that?

Comment Re:"Baited" breath? (Score 1) 55

C'mon VentureBeat - hire some editors with deeper knowledge of English! "Baited breath"? Really? Your breath is all set to catch a fish?

The correct phrase is "bated breath"; it's a contraction of "abated breath" in which Shakespeare saw fit to omit the apostrophe which would otherwise have replaced the initial letter "a".

There's no shade on you for not knowing the etymology. But not knowing the correct spelling definitely puts you in the dark. Bad editor!

Maybe someone's way of saying they didn't use AI to write the article

Comment Re:I agree (Score 1) 124

If you think that the response here was "draconian" then you really are not going to like what it's going to take when a pandemic

If it's something super scary and severe, then perhaps, but I'd be inclined to believe the exact opposite. I'd assert the next time a bunch of panicked leftists want to shut down small businesses and churches and it's anything short of Marburg or Ebola, you're going to see a lot more refusniks and a lot more protest, divisiveness, and violence than we saw during CV1984. Authoritarians overplayed their hand in 20-22 and I think the "next time" is going to get a lot more pushback, especially if it's anytime soon.

Good, have lots of indoor planning meetings and please don't forget to take lots of selfies for the next ... 555 Plan Awards, Godfather Awards? Doesn't matter, it'll all repeat and we'll find a new mascot for you.

Comment Re:corrupt (Score 1, Insightful) 169

They increased prices on consumers to pay for the tariffs, this is known. The consumer collective paid for it, the consumers should be refunded directly, the consumers paid the price, not the megacorps (the largest benefactor from this).

In the end, there will be no attempt to force the corporations to repay the consumers. We gave up on treating humans as important in the face of corporations at some point in the 1980s. From that point forward, corporations and the ultra-wealthy who found them, have been deemed far more important than consumer class individuals. The government being forced to hand money back to the corporations will most likely be fine and dandy. Anything beyond that? No go. Consumers are fodder, cattle for the collective to harvest. There is no need for concern. The system is working precisely as designed.

Drain the middle class and down. Feed the upper class and the government.

Stop acting like the problem wasn't implementing the tariffs in the first place in an entirely chaotic and arbitrary manner to extort deals that favor the Trumps.

You're not a victim because you paid more for a laptop, you first world problem cry baby. The only rational thing to do when crazy people took the economic helm was start saving money and spending less. Stop crying about some abstract class problem when the corrupt policy at the root of this was so crystal fucking clear. If you spend all you take in and have no savings, then I truly feel for you, I have been there, three OD charges in one day, waiting for payday to turn my phone back on, just getting raked by calling cards, ATM fees, cellular overages, it fucking sucked. We definitely need to reduce wealth disparity, and protect people from being preyed on, but you are not trapped in some consumer class. You fuckers better all vote, instead of rolling over and bitching like someone else is supposed to fix shit for you.

Comment Re:corrupt (Score 1) 169

They increased prices on consumers to pay for the tariffs, this is known

How are you going to pay "the consumers" back? Everybody an equal share? How about those people who intentionally buy American and hardly buy anything else? Should they be reimbursed? Do you have receipts that show how much extra you paid? Without a doubt, prices were raised. But quite often a lot of businesses chose to reduce their own profit - i.e. the costs of the tariffs were shared and prices weren't raised as much as the costs. Sorting this sort of thing out is just about impossible.

I don't understand it could work any other way than the people who directly paid the tariffs (businesses for the most part) should be the ones that get their money back. If they in turn choose to reimburse their customers, good for them.

What do you mean buy American? 51% assembled in America.. mostly, from mostly components mostly assembled in America built from raw materials mostly dug up or cut down in America? You were all exposed to imports and the effects of tariffs. But I agree that refunding everyone is stupid, importers were taxed, we paid market prices.

If we want to lay blame for fucked up market prices, there's one person we can point to.

Comment Re:The underlying issue (Score 1) 152

I don't see anything better about MacOS than windows. Windows is more for power users and MacOS is more for people who want their hand held, that's all. Also it seems there is very little freeware on MacOS and you have to pay for everything. I replace both with Linux if I can.

Come on man, "freeware" gives you away so bad, like if you're not using open source software already, what would installing Linux do for you.

You think you're a Windows power user because you have two monitors or replaced your OEM graphics driver.
I think I'm a Windows power user because 100% of my day is spent in a WSL terminal and I don't do dick with Windows outside of that black rectangle and vscode and ... a password manager and.. browsers..um.. the screen clipping tool in 11 actually rocks too. Besides the point.
That's for work, for fun (don't tell) I'm ssh/mosh/tmux'd from my iPad sidekick into a Mac Mini vibe coding side projects that I push to Linux instances in the cloud.

You know, maybe I'm not a Windows power user, I'm not doing anything windows centric, no powershell no win32 application development no .NET. And I'm not setting up fancy workflows with Automator on my Mac or building cool iPhone apps, I have one HomeKit automation. And I'm not bootstrapping my compiler, recompiling my kernel, rebuilding the world on a custom glibc in Linux. But I can do all of those things, and I know anyone that says platform X,Y or Z is for power users is fulllllll of shit. It's sort of like moving away from your home state and feeling like you're not from there, that new place. Before long you go home and realize you're not from there anymore either, you've been away as long as you were there. Then what the fuck are you. Not nothing, not half something, you're everything, or you're something on the way to everything, you always have been.

You don't need to replace anything with Linux, you need to open a terminal. Make something, break something just for fun, you can do that anywhere, on all the platforms. You don't switch, you grow somewhere else for a while.

Comment Re:nice (Score 1) 25

I'm sure the three people who bought the vision pro will appreciate it.

I do, huge virtual high def 2D screens for entertainment is one of the use cases it absolutely excels at. For watching a movie, it's top notch.
That's not what most people think a VR/AR headset should be used for, but fuck them and the ignorant opinion they rode in on, it's amazing.

VR games are nice... but everyone plays games on 2D screens, everyone watches movies and tv shows on 2D screens. The AR pass-through and the high resolution are what make it great for virtual 2D display. That Apple hasn't worked out a deal with Sony and Microsoft for similar native game streaming is mind boggling, hopefully the steam thing is a pilot for the rest.

The price needs to come down, a lot, and being a solo experience is really a limiting factor for families. Think what you will about Apple, but passthrough+high res display with the virtual display use case could end up being more popular than the VR/3D game mode. My main problem is I have a family, I don't get to watch movies alone and I have to fight over the game consoles. I sure AF don't have time to fart around in a VR game and occupy the entire living room. But sit on the couch (with neck support ugh..) and watch the same thing as everyone else but AR augmented bigass screen, that's different, or playing a game on a second virtual display while also watching whatever the family wants to watch on the main tv. There are some really good use cases with widespread appeal, once the price comes down and more manufacturers figure it out. Stop thinking about them as just VR headsets.

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