I have a little cart to "lug" mine around. I need real estate to work quickly. At home I have 3 monitors, from a 43 inch to 27 to the laptop. So a tiny (yes 13 inches is tiny) laptop screen is going to force me to switch screens on the laptop, and magnify them as well. Real time killers, and no fun.

I do as well, 43 inch, 27 inc, and yeah, my laptop is 19 or thereabouts. Using all three. But I'm not always at the office, so I need some real estate to see what I'm running. My use case makes a 13 inch screen pretty useless.

I do as well. Part of why I get laptops with metal cases. They still get beat up. With keeping laptops around 3 years, when I'm done, they look like hell.

I don have issues with the repairable - actually replaceable- parts concept, but anything I'm making money with I need to be without the "build your own computer" concept, which this is very similar to.

Who do you want to be the defacto superpower in the world? If you geet your wish, and the USA is at least diminished, and hopefully destroyed, tell us who will be the right and just superpower.

Insightful, but you'll probably be modded to oblivion. I week or so ago, I asked a simple question. If the US disappeared tomorrow who would rise to the US once held. With an attempt engage if that would be better or worse.

I think only one person answered. The rest were just versions of "Trump sucks", "USA sucks".

It's the old adage, be careful what you wish for, because you might get it. The obvious answer to my question was China. I'm sure they will be gentle and peaceful to all. Or maybe not.

Then again, Hillary Clinton received several million more votes than Trump in 2016, only to lose through an electoral college quirk.

But now even Japan has elected a PM that is a woman, Sanae Takaichi. Crazy to me that Japan which even a short couple of decades when I was there barely allowed a female engineer to speak at a meeting is now leap frogging the US electing women to top offices.

It is rather amusing. I worked for two women directors, Our technology VP was a woman, Our present University Prez is a woman, and a "person of color" My wife was a VP and the highest paid person in her company. I guess they don't really count.

Meanwhile, I gave up several promotions so that a woman (yes, less qualified) could be promoted over me. In irony, all left. Am I part of the problem? I mean, I have a penis, and that is why I wasn't promoted.

Full disclosure - I have a unique skillset, and part of the deal I had was that my pay had to reflect my ability to have a career at other places in short order. P You are attempting to hijack a discussion - to have the 2016 election be solely about women. I mean, that is all your reply is about. Alas, this happens some times.

There were other issues as well. Some gender based - using the term gender in teh modern interpretation - not male and female, some rejection of science and genetics. Some rejection of certain demographics, such as the working class.

In the end, all the Republicans had to do was show the ads, cite the stories.

This is not to even say that those voting for Trump have received any better treatment. They haven't.

After the 2024 Election, I did an analysis. Part of what I do. The interesting thing is the utter rejection from the same people who think that every principle the 2020's Democrats endorsed. Demographics and statistics. Utter rejection. Oh well. So I don't spend as much time trying to convince people against their narrative.

Sport driving will not go away just the same.

I like and want a sports car for DAILY driving...

I like to drive....and every day when I get into it and fire up the engine, it's an adventure for me.

I don't just go from point A to point B....what a boring life that would make for....

I was listening to the original summary of this article...till they used the word "equity".

I immediately shut off anytime that word comes up.

Now...if they start once again to go for equality...well, then, I'll listen again.

While the logic is interesting, no, consumers aren't happy. They were just presented with two horrible candidates, and the Dems were off the rails, confused and officially believing some things that were just wrong.

And while I didn't vote Republican, it looks like that hard left and irrational swing the dems took just made the equally bad Republican choice look like the lesser of two evils.

I question that choice, but here we are.

I can't even imagine the mechanism they would attempt to use. Have every company who ever sold anything with a tariff connected to it go through all their records, then send the government a comprehensive listing of each sale , then the guvmint issuing checks? Or sending the money directly to the businesses then having the business figure it out?

This version of tariffs was just a really bad, illegal idea, and was for all intents and purposes, just a punitive tax that harmed both businesses and consumers.

The best we could hope for was the declaration of illegality, then returning the money to the businesses. So I'm okay with that.

Disagree - All Republicans are guilty. They made a series of choices.

The Republican Party, which hates taxes, needed to use a different name when they decided that Tariffs are the path forward,

All of that, the good and the bad, exist in every one of us. It's a helluva thing

I'll need it for my motorcycle.....hoping it all lasts till after I'm dead and gone, so I can enjoy the "old ways"....

I love paying $5 a gallon for high test and $7 for diesel. Although dear leader is telling me prices are lower than ever.

Just recently at Costco I paid $3.99/gallon for premium.....I live in LA in the New Orleans area.....hasn't gotten very bad here yet....