Quicker than Apple or Google Pay?

In previous ransomware attacks against government computers, such as NHS England, NHS Scotland, British Library, various school trusts, and some local councils, they have not paid the ransom.

We do need to ban ransom payments from the private sector to make the business model of these gangs not work. There is no other way to do it.

$230

My jaw drops, but then I split. Half of me remains smugly looking down on fuckwits, but the other half hears that Samuel Adams' Utopia, which costs about the same, is supposedly showing up in CostCos, and while I can't justify getting a bottle .. maybe I don't have to justify things.

No.

No, it would still be stupid to do.

or just claim that the driver didn't deliver the full amount (who's gonna believe some immigrant driver). There are so many ways to game this I can't believe it's even being suggested.

Suck/not-suck aside, would you at least agree that it's as good as The Mandalorian?

Eyeball monster == Baby Yoda. So. Fucking. Cute.

The second movie, Aliens, also didn't have the mood of the first movie, yet was still one of the best movies ever made (IMHO! of course). I don't think the feel of the original is necessary in sequels, and might even be so hard to recreate that it's borderline hubris to try.

I'll probably watch it .. when I feel like doing nothing and thinking the presence of the xenomorph is a coincidence.

I think that is the best attitude one can take. The "domestication" of the xeno is the weakest part of this TV series, but OTOH, the inclusion of all the new monsters is part of what makes A:E so fun. The classic xeno is just one monster among many, now.

There are so many horrible ways to die. Show us more of them, Noah! ;-)

In the UK you quite often see different eat in and take-away prices listed to reflect the fact that tax rates are different.

Strippers don't like it when you put coins in their g-string. Too cold and they fall out too easily.

The US also has an oversupply of EV (at least a certain type of EV). Musk had to make his other companies buy surplus cybertrucks to make Telsa's bottom line look better. I guess Chinese and American carmakers aren't that different after all.

Sure, but you don't need an M5 chip for that.

There is a 13" iPad Air. I have the M2 versions of both the Air and Pro. Differences are that pro has a better screen, pro has face-ID and Air has touch ID, and really, that's it.

Nobody wants your shitty iOS. People tolerate it on phones, because you taught them that it's ok for PCs to suck if they fit in one hand. But once the one hand constraint is lifted, people come back to their senses for some weird reason. You did too good a job of persuading people to treat phones as weird exceptions to common sense, when you should have undermined common sense itself (but that would have harmed Mac sales).

HR departments have expanded because they are able to do the mundane tasks that managers are supposed to be doing (hiring, firing, evaluations, settling employee disputes, etc), leaving the managers more time for higher level tasks like three martini lunches and golf junkets.

>> It took the US nearly 30 years to recover from the WW2 debt.

Did you mean the UK? Because the US was booming in the 50s and 60s. 30 years after WW2 was when things in the US started getting bad again but that was mostly due to the oil crisis.

>>The new device -- designed for students, businesses and casual users -- will target people who primarily browse the web, work on documents or conduct light media editing, according to people familiar with the matter.

This could sell well to K-12 schools but I can't see any businesses being interested and casual users are probably better off with an iPad.