Comment Re:Times change (Score 1) 21
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This is still something Slashdot needs to fix because it doesn't just crop up for people confused by multiple mouse buttons, it's also a thing for anyone copying and pasting portions of articles with quotations in them.
Actually, Apple did deliver that capability but developers pushed-back and didn't want it.
Right. It was a fuckup. And moreover, it was anti-developer and anti-consumer. Yet we're supposed to worship His Holy Turtleneck and address our ills with juice fasts in His name.
Thanks for admitting that you're shit.
... going to corporations. One billion dollars no less. Socialize the risk, privatize the profits.
Oh stop it. This is a loan to Constellation energy to help finance the cost to restart a nuclear power plant by 2027.
Why should he stop exactly explaining the situation?
Lenders take on the risk of a default, and when the government lends money, the risk is socialized.
The loan is being made to a private, for-profit corporation, who will be able to keep any profits generated by this scheme (however unlikely that may be).
Whatever activity the loan is for is irrelevant, whether it's for cranking up a crusty old nuclear power plant, or for bailing out a Wall Street firm during a market panic.
Sure, they had to sell their stock, including the parts needed to make the machines. At that time they were also still at least assembling them.
The Mac IIci was on the market for over 3 years before it got replaced. You never see that kind of longevity anymore.
IIci September 1989, Quadra 700 October 1991, in almost the same case. Two years, one month.
This statement was cute, even funny, the first few times that it was used. That was because it was such an absurd way of making that point.
That statement was stupid, even absurd the first times that it was used — by the Reich wing. The entire reason I'm still using it when speaking to them is to rub their noses in how fucking stupid it was.
But, after this statement has been repeated so many times, it's just fucking stupid now.
You're two steps behind me as usual, but at least you're getting there.
You should consider abandoning it before people start thinking that you are stupid.
Insert Travolta looking around meme here. This is me, looking for fucks.
If the airlines are acting as a de facto division of the government by providing them with your personal data, then they should be treated as such. That means they should follow simple rules for protecting PII like collecting and retaining the minimum needed.
Steve Jobs would not release a product until it actually did what they claimed it would do.
You mean like when he claimed the iPhone would be all webapps?
Let's face it, Jobs' only superpower was being a super dick to employees. This can only take you so far.
rsilvergun has been screaming even louder about how AI as we have it now it's already the end of the world, and that society isn't "ready" for it until he says it is.
Since he's living rent-free in your head, can we assume you're the one responsible for the rsilvergun-impersonating LLM spam?
Wait until you find out about American car companies
There's apparently only one large American supermarket chain that DOESN'T take credit cards, WinCo.
I do most of my shopping there, at Grocery Outlet, and at Costco. I actually do more shopping at grossout, because they are the closest thing that doesn't suck. We have a local market and mini-market, and I'm not a big fan of either one. (The market is somewhere around "OK", the mini market is disappointing.) I got Costco's card honestly just to get fuel quicker as the card is a membership card, and it's convenient for me to stop in there on my way to work.
Winco is an employee-owned co-op, and their pricing seems to be dynamic in general and the prices actually go back down, so I'm really happy with them. Grocery Outlet has beer I want to drink and high quality local dairy products, and an interesting and ever-changing stock of weird shit, and neither of the local ones are scuzzy. I have a chest freezer...
Just remember next time you hear about unemployment going up while you eat your burger that you're not getting food poisoning because of regulations and that it has nothing to do with jobs.
Of course it does. It doesn't have to do with just one thing. Keeping the machine spinning is the reason why even heartless fucks should be interested in workers' needs being met, if they weren't idiots. But that's the problem with such people, if you're smart then you realize that you don't want to live in a world of shit.
Fuck debit cards. A: no rewards.
The PayPal debit card pays 5% on the category of your choosing - Groceries, restaurants, fuel, etc.
All great ideas are controversial, or have been at one time.