These types of store are actually common in parts of Europe, and there are some in the UK. People end up squeezing through the checkout queue to get out.

The technical term is a lexical unit. Sometimes two words together mean some specific thing, most often with nouns. Sometimes the space disappears over time, sometimes it gets hyphenated, sometimes it just stays as two words that refer to some specific thing.

Basically, if it would appear in the dictionary, it can be word of the year, even if it's two or three words.

I'll never stop being amazed how often you demonstrate your cluelessness by commenting about something in a way demonstrating that you don't even know what the device does.

Matter devices are able to be setup completely isolated on your network without external connection.

Please get a clue, or does that Viol8 your principles?

This is confusing to me. Why would a matter device *require* the cloud? Did you mean matter devices may or may not support the cloud? The whole point of matter was that it was open and universal so it stands to reason that the cloud part is optional.

You're assuming they are doing this to sort out bugs rather than just dealing with the delay caused by their union busting tactics that involved firing a shitton of their staff recently.

Dude it's barely been 9 years yet. They aren't even 2/3rds of the way to the record. Right now they're struggling to get above spot number 5.

Yeah but NYC crime stats don't cover the number of people who stole a cop car just to run over a a grandma before going for some hot coffee and then killing a hooker, so your evidence is meaningless! /s

No, no one else worries about this bullshit.

So I take it you couldn't help but walk up to someone and shoot them in the face with a revolver? I mean in the absence of any actual studied evidence that video games cause violent crime I can only assume you have nothing but anecdotes. How many people have you shot in the face recently?

It's often not about expense. It's also about externalising the management, the capability. I mean say what you want about the cloud from my end user perspective the options and capabilities for me personally working from home are significantly expanded now that everything is sitting in a cloud somewhere. Especially when that cloud is fully integrated into your groupware.

Never underestimate how dumb small departments are when they don't look into the big picture. I was recently denied a business trip (one of two this year) that involved a drive and a hotel for 3 nights for a total cost of $350 because we are "lowering costs". For the record we just announced a $4bn profit for Q3.

When individuals are given a cost reduction mandate and don't generate many costs to begin with, you can end up with some mindbogglingly stupid and meaningless actions.

I don't know about that. Stopping people from purposefully setting a forest on fire using a fuckton of accelerant in a way that makes it virtually impossible to get under control does prevent that fire.

The world has survived millions of years without all the forests burning down. I think from natural causes it'll be fine.

The hardest to control fires are the ones deliberately lit. We have lots of experience of controlling accidental forest fires. It's not perfect by any means, but we're pretty good at it when someone isn't working against us.

This is how it works in virtually every first world country.

I've seen some dumb comments in my time. But this is quite possibly the dumbest there is. Yeah taxes are pretty simple, that's why it's 6800 pages of legislation... You should offer your services to DOGE, let them know they can condense their tax code down to a Slashdot post. /s

And you also said taxes provide little useful return in day to day life... like huh?

Next time write your post as "I have no clue about anything." It's shorter and easier for others to read and covered all the points your post did.

This is common everywhere outside of the USA it seems. I've seen them in Australia, India, Egypt and China too.