“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” Albert Einstein

Having just left Microsoft, my perception was that they were starving the other divisions to go all-in on AI build out, which of course isn't producing any income currently. Which begs the question, what are the margins on your AI business, Microsoft? Ai loses a lot of money on every sale, but they make up for it in VOLUME!

No way to get 30% margins on hardware. But games have tiny marginal cost per unit, they should have 90% margins.

Microsoft is trying to get out of the hardware business. XBox hardware pretty much sells at cost. The games, on the other hand, have extremely low marginal cost per unit sold. Sarah Bond is smart enough to let someone else sell the hardware (probably ASUS) and focus on the high-margin games themselves... which would make 30% margins easy.

"Chasing skirt"? Yeah, nothing makes a woman more wet than having a drone follow her!

Pretty sure military robots are currently used to take out military humans. Don't know what SciFi you are reading where they are used to control the laborers, but it sounds interesting, and I'd like to give it a read.

Depends on the drone. Lightweight plastic drones with ducted rotors probably wouldn't do too much damage. But longer battery life means added weight, so I don't know how useful a harm-free drone would be.

Any of you shoplifters want to buy my EMP device for blinding drones? The drone arms race has begun. I'm also working on a handgun mount for a drone...

Some people would rather have Linux than Windows 11. And some people would rather not pay for a Windows 11 license they aren't going to use.

Thunderbolt would be nicer, but that would make it more expensive. Is there an add-on card for that? Other than running a dedicated kiosk app on it and surfing the web, what are people going to do with these? It would be great for running SSH shells connected to all your servers.

The US government isn't currently participating in a genocide. Give Trump a little time... Is ICE guilty of ethnic cleaning, in the same way that the IDF is?

All the people on the spectrum (by their own admission) that I know overcompensate for it by being the nicest people in the world, although interactions with them can still occasionally be awkward. One of them, the first time I ever saw her, she walked up to me in the company cafeteria and asked if she could have lunch with me. Turns out she was actually on my team, and we later wound up sitting a few desks away from each other. And no, she was married, and I'm not that attractive, so she wasn't hitting on me.

One of my girl friends sent me a wedding invitation. I guess it was her way of announcing she was no longer available, but like I jerk, I actually went to her wedding. Most of her family was in another state and didn't show up, it was almost all the groom's family. So I got to spend some time with the groom, who of course asked me, "Where do you know my bride from"? Well, the truth was that she had been dating me the same she was dating him, but I decided to be a bigger man and just tell him that she was a friend who had let me use her truck when I was in a bind (which was true), and not that I had dated her. I hope they are happy together... but I doubt it. The point is, don't send me an invitation if you don't want me to show up!

When the Taliban has a more progressive stance on abortion than you do... maybe you're on the wrong side of history? Unlike Republicans, the Taliban allows abortion in certain circumstances.

Iranians refer to themselves as Persians, and prefer to be called that. They are rightfully proud of their heritage, the great Persian empire. That being said, half the Iranians I went to college with were decent (read "westernized") people, while the other half were complete dogmatic jerks.