I wonder which broligarch lobbyist wrote that for him - I'm pretty sure the phrasing didn't spring from his dementia-addled brain.

On the plus side, Republicans voted sensibly for a change. Colour me surprised that they both defied Trump and acted in the best interests of their constituents. (Oops, my bad - apologies for the redundancy in my previous sentence).

Came to say the same. And depending on the geometry of the part, you might not even need ceramic. Some people also do "lost PLA" sand-casting.

This is entirely the thing. Loki games can or at least could be coaxed to work on Linux with Loki_Compat libraries, but last time I tried to run Alpha Centauri for Linux even that wouldn't work — and I'm even still using X. But add to that, the Linux versions of games are frequently inferior. The Loki games are included in that, for example in AlphaC for Linux you cannot ctrl-shift-a automate formers only near their supporting base. Fast forward to a more modern game like Civ VI, and there's a huge slew of features and even leaders you can't get access to with the Linux version. Meanwhile, the Windows version runs better on Linux than it does on Windows.

I haven't heard the OS/2 thing, what's that about? I figure it failed because Microsoft was already doing "good enough" with Windows, plus NT had relatively meaningful security and OS/2 didn't.

I like having serious conversations on Slashdot at least as much as the next nerd, but arguments on Slashdot can only be taken slightly seriously today. There's a lot of people here who are not arguing in good faith.

I'm in the US, and I remember news articles about this idea. They passed quickly. If you wound up with a textbook with such ideas in it presented as anything other than a possibility which had been or could be researched, that is unfortunate, but it is not indicative of anything widespread.

Nobody is denying that at all. Nobody is even denying that there was a global cooling article fad. What was different about the global cooling scare from AGW's broad scientific consensus is that it didn't have broad scientific consensus.

Good point - I'll try to figure out what the equivalent org is here in where I live. In the meantime, for your sake I hope the NHTSA manages to stay relevant and maintain power. It seems like the kind of department that Trump and his masters would gladly neuter and eventually get rid of.

Your lack of perception is irrelevant.

And now we see what it stems from, a total lack of logic. Run along now.

Again, people with no experience maybe.

Many times I've fantasized about doing that. But I realized that unless at least many hundreds of people also did the same thing, it would have precisely zero impact beyond wasting my own time while making the salesperson's day worse.

Big companies have gone to great lengths to ensure that they are invulnerable to all but large class-action suits and huge waves of negative public sentiment, and then they use propaganda and distractions to minimize the likelihood of those things happening. Short of managing to organize a major boycott or getting the government to take a serious interest, an individual consumer is pretty much powerless to effect change in a large corporation.

Of all the things I hate about our Honda, that behaviour is near the top of the list. Occasionally I either flip the lever the wrong way, or change my mind based on new data about what's going on around me or on the realization that I'm not yet at the turn I thought I was at. So the "blink three times" so-called "safety" feature is in fact a "danger feature".

Every time I drive that car, I swear at the oblivious fucktards who designed the "user experience". It's as though they've never driven a car at all, never mind under challenging conditions or in an unfamiliar city.

The AI craze is causing so much damage on so many fronts. It could end society as we know it, in ways that have nothing to do with Science Fiction scenarios such as taking over Earth and supplanting Man.

AI is causing disruption of markets, loss of jobs, negative mental health effects, increases in AGW, and on and on. And increasingly, it's being used to make propaganda more pervasive and more effective. By not pushing back harder against these trends, the 99% of us are voluntarily putting the yokes designed by the 1% around our necks, then handing them the whips they'll use on us to ensure continued compliance.

We're stumbling towards our own enslavement.

What you said was dumb because what we need is to reduce emissions further than our weak targets. Also automakers do NOT have any trouble meeting the targets. They could have met those targets years ago, but they would have had to make less exciting vehicles. You're putting your excitement over sustainability. This explains why you support a child molester's tampering with the future.

You cannot make a market freer by removing all regulations. That's a total misunderstanding of how markets work.

"R&D is a sunk cost, especially if it was subsidized. Nobody's going to try to recoup it"

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That's all true if your goal is to serve customers, as opposed to spying on them.