I don't understand the need to incentivize "tipping" specifically; why are we even codifying it into law? Just increase the default deduction by 25k across the board. What makes that first 25k any different? Most people who genuinely need help aren't being tipped anyway. The only positive from the governments standpoint is less people might limit declaring their tips? Tips should go away, though, not be made more complicated and incentive given to companies to make them more ubiquitous than they already are.

It sounds ridiculous at first but a gen 5 NVMe SSD is about that price. Frustrating, but they don't support HDD's so that's what you're gonna have to pay to play the next COD lol

Even if it weren't classified (which, I feel like "we're about to bomb a foreign country" is pretty need-to-know imo...) the fact that they are using a software platform that is not accredited and is not part of the governmental records keeping laws (and sounds like from what I've seen that their chat was set to auto-delete itself which would 100% be in violation).

This is ridiculous and anyone defending these people should be ashamed of themselves.

I wish nvidia would just support freesync and work to improve it instead of insisting on a proprietary feature nobody wants. Same with OpenCL vs CUDA, OpenGL/Vulkan vs DirectX, etc. I refuse to support nvidia as well; it's dumb and frustrating.

I think you misunderstand the reason for licenses; the safety of others is important. You do not have the right to do whatever you wish when it might endanger people; licenses are a way the government can verify safety precautions are enforced. Effective? Maybe, maybe not. It's not just to get a fee paid, however. Being upset over the fee is stupid, though.

I don't see a merger between a very large American company and a very large Chinese company would be allowed (also, the issue with China being what it is today, probably not the best for the company, either).

I don't buy from Lenovo for different reasons (the Chinese government is my main concern there) but them merging would definitely make me want to not buy from them in the future. At least right now HP as a company could potentially turn around their public image if they stopped being so anti-competitive and anti-consumer.

AI isn't going to help that his company is anti-consumer and does everything in its power to control every aspect of its products to the detriment of its users. I have no desire to buy anything from HP; AI isn't going to fix that.

So, they're trying to say that piracy is MORE important and SHOULD be dealt with over actual terrorists? Sounds about right, guys!

Yeah, him taking responsibility would be him stepping down as CEO, not saying "sorry not sorry GTFO".

1. its a six digit number which is from Jan 2003
2. This isn't news or stuff that matters (its an expected outcome from a decade+ of the same improvements)
3. PCIe 5.0 is barely available; 7.0 definitely doesn't matter
4. Elon can go fornicate with himself

Yeah, n.0 4x == (n+1).0 1x every generation; why is this news?

One of the main points is to limit e-waste and throwing in chargers people don't need is a good way to create e-waste.

Yeah, said nothing about requiring development on any specific platform. but the company that owns the hardware AND makes the games has incentive to be exclusive to their platform.

Doesn't mean it should be allowed, though. It's never too late; put our foots down and tell them to split or GTFO.

No developer/publisher (activision/blizzard/bethesda/etc) should be allowed to own a platform (xbox/playstation/nintendo/etc). Same with ISP's and physical infrastructure, cell towers, etc. They should be split into separate companies and told to knock that shit off.