At a large US auto manufacturer our crew were responsible for commissioning controls systems and maintaining the drawings related thereto.
The HDDs on the CAD machines were simply NOT big enough to contain all the drawings so we had stacks of ZIP disks and both mobile (SCSI by parallel port) and internal (SCSI) readers for them.
One of the more experienced guys bought a CD burner (that was a $600.00 purchase at the time) and would make weekly backups for us. Blank CDs were $10.00 apiece at the time.
A couple of years into it we started hearing the "click of death". Thank you Butch; you saved our work!

The "animals" as you describe them, had the chance in 1948 to accept the two-state solution offered by the British Mandate.

They refused it, quite explicitly because their leadership believed they (with the assistance of adjacent Arab states) had the ability genocide the Jewish populations of the region. Subsequently they, or their paymasters in Tehran, haven't hidden even slightly that their goal isn't coexistence, it's extermination.

They said, in effect, "No thank you, we don't want to share this land, we would rather kill them all".
And they're still not kidding; since 1994 the total international contributions to the Palestinians has been >$40bn. Did they build power plants? Water desalination? Ports? Infrastructure? Nope. They used it for terrorist-hiding tunnels, weapons, and rockets.

I agree, the reaction IS worse than the unprovoked attack. This is how punishment and conditioning works. https://intersol.ca/news/organ... Even in 'enlightened' systems, if someone shoplifts a $100 shirt, we don't simply take $100 from them as a 'commensurate' punishment. We put them in jail.*

*ok I realize the concept of jailing shoplifters in 2026 is hilariously outdated; we don't do this any more unless they're white or asian or hispanic, and even then it's rarely done. I submit the societal consequences as further proof of the point.

Aside from them being convincing, I'm interested in hearing what fact asserted there is wrong.

Amusingly, those guys you DISMISS are agreeing with you, you sanctimonious cunt. The article from way back in 1958 explains how the AMOC very specifically is overturned, and the colossal climate consequences.

If only we held the same strict standard to the people casually ransacking retail stores in urban areas.

Nevertheless, the US still has the highest percentage of successful missions to Mars, compared to organizations and countries with all-metric programs.

Funny, that.

... But I would willingly suffer brain rot instead of being locked in with "...more than a dozen millennials gathered in a brownstone apartment in Brooklyn ... For two hours of reading, drawing and conversation."

As does using Windows.

Or, it's something that's happened cyclically for eons.

These guys in 1958 are vastly more convincing than modern climatologists
https://harpers.org/archive/19...

Paleoclimate shows clear pulses of warming about every 120k-140k years followed by cooling 30+ times in the last 5 million years. The last... About that many years ago.
Per the wiki on the subject: "... It has been observed that ice ages deepen by progressive steps, but the recovery to interglacial conditions occurs in one big step..."
Wait long enough, and being present when it happens is inevitable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The idea that we are doomed as a species is laughably pessimistic.

Really? I don't think I've ever used NTFS on any machine I've owned.

It's a good thing for you that most people do. Those ads your'e avoiding fund most of the content you consume. You can only freeride as long as enough others are paying the toll to subsidize you. I do the same, but I won't be surprised or angry if it becomes impossible.

Obviously many others had thought of it. Hastings' brilliant idea was to pivot from what was working (DVD rental by mail -- which itself was pretty innovative) to streaming while the DVD business was still good. That seems like a blindingly obvious move in hindsight but it's actually really hard when you're in the thick of running a successful business to step back and think "We need to completely change our business strategy, even though it's working well".

As geekmux mentioned, Blockbuster was incredibly well-positioned to do both of the things that Netflix did, first to pivot from brick-and-mortar DVD rental to rental by mail (possibly exploiting their broad physical store base) and then to streaming. They had deep relationships with every player in the content industry, large and small, they had near-universal name recognition and positive perceptions in retail video distribution. But they did neither, they just kept running their business until their market disappeared. That's what usually happens, and it's not because the CEOs are stupid, it's because it actually takes someone with both vision and guts to see and act on broad market changes before they happen.

I think you have your administrations confused.

Sept 2023: Biden administration hands $6bn to Iran. And authorized them to access up to another $10bn frozen assets.

Oct 7 2023, in what was a coincidence(?) Hamas - a directly-funded and -trained proxy for Iran, launches an unprovoked murderous attack on Israel.

People on slashdot routinely say religion is for the gullible and stupid.
Now suddenly the Pope is "sacred"?

You guys are such bald faced hypocrites it's astonishing.

There was a shitty faux treaty that did nothing, it that the one you were talking about?

You really can't. Not with conventional weapons. Not even with nukes, really, though with nukes you could kill pretty much everyone in the population centers. Is that what you're proposing?