Then they'll find out the hard way that Steve was right.

Until a law comes around that mandates opt-out. Which is exactly what this law is.

More than that, it's opt-out. If there actually is a "cost savings" that the tenants actually see, they won't be too fired up to opt out unless they have another reason besides cost.

These industry mouthpieces love to lie.

Sounds like you have a problem with those applications.

Note that I said "A good media player" - neither the YouTube site nor Twitch need apply for that designation. Maybe submit a feature request to those companies if they don't support something that has been widely available for years?

Everyone always forgets about the Carbon API.

There was a way for several years that app developers could target Carbon for their MacOS 9.x apps, and they would magically get OS X features when OS X became a shipping thing. It was an absolutely brilliant transition strategy - I believe when they introduced Carbon, they said "all future life on MacOS will be based on Carbon" which wasn't exactly true when they launched the OS X native "Cocoa" libraries, but they pulled off one of the easiest transitions between two fundamentally different operating systems, and the only people that really had a problem were QuarkXPress customers because Quark decided to be assholes about it and try to squeeze another $800/seat out of people for a new version of XPress where the only thing they did was run it through a compiler targeting Carbon. Just like they did when PowerPC came around and they charged $800/seat for a PowerPC native version of the same Quark XPress 4 with absolutely no additional features.

As it turns out, there's a reason why the publishing industry was more than happy to shitcan that company in favor of Adobe InDesign.

The Apple II GS came out in September 1986.

Steve Jobs was fired from Apple in 1985.

You don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

Here's what really tightens my jaws: if you take the average health care premium that you pay for employer-provided health care insurance and add that to the medicare / medicaid taxes, it probably comes out pretty even with what the medicare cost would be for single-payer healthcare.

It's not like private health insurance somehow gets massive discounts or something - Medicare sets reimbursement rates for procedures, so the care costs what the care costs. Hospitals love Medicare billing because they know what they're going to get, and they know they'll get it.

Private health insurance is a fucking leech attached to the money artery. How can anyone every expect an efficient health care system when you have profit-seeking entities in the middle of it, extracting money out of it while adding the only "value" of bureaucratic runaround and trying to dodge paying due to an "out of network" radiologist that you didn't choose and were not informed of looking at your x-ray in an in-network facility as listed on their own damn web site.

Their business model is to extract the most premiums they can, while paying out as little claims as they can. They exist to create inefficiency, and profit wildly for themselves. And we're all paying for it, for no reason at all.

I found your problem in understanding his statement: you are missing the very important context of the word "we".

Hint: "we" doesn't include you or me.

Now read it again and you'll understand perfectly.

Well then you better stop using any products that come in factory-built packaging like glass bottles and aluminum cans - that is unless the glass is hand blown and someone custom-rolled and welded that aluminum can together for you.

If not, then I guess you're secretly fine with not doing things by hand that robots are better at.

We've automated the manufacture of things before and the economy didn't collapse. Don't be such a chicken little.

The world needs people to operate ditch witches. Maybe they can influence some fiber up the hill past my place.

Real 'Muricans don't leave the ol' US of A. Anyone who regularly travels beyond driving range of their home town is suspicious, frankly.

(Meanwhile, I got the extra-thick passport booklet and have made a good try at filling it with stamps.)

" And AI whipped it up in a few hours of me going back and forth with it."

This is the key. You are no doubt, a capable programmer, and you used this tool to do more work. Which is what most good tools do. Woodworkers don't buy chair making machines, etc. So many are touting that you can just say, "I want an app that does..." and get that app. Or that a junior programmer can suddenly be far better.

I see a weird future where junior programmers are going to be lured into a very bad place, some senior reject the new tech and become comparatively useless, and some seniors become fantastically productive.

Because that doesn't allow you to be nearly as petty and petulant towards your even-more-petty-and-petulant global rival.

Yes, because suddenly everyone in the mineral extraction industry started listening to Greenpeace all of a sudden, but only on this one sector of minerals.

Or, and just hear me out for a second: the minerals that could be bought from China were cheaper than the minerals we were extracting and refining here in the US, and economics made the decision like it always does.

Which is more likely?

Moron.

It's very easy to not have NIMBYs and not have lawsuits when nobody in your country has any rights as far as the government is concerned.

Yes, China can move fast on things. That isn't necessarily a good thing.