In sports it is a paradigm that there is no substitute for speed.

Same thing for computers. More wide receivers doesn't solve the speed problem for American football, it just spends resources elsewhere on the field with different results. In the CPU, not-as-fast just means, as pointed out elsewhere, even more instances are necessary, and so more resources are needed for that.

And if you are not paying attention, you may not see the light coming down the tunnel that is RISC-V. It will be optimized, enhanced, improved, and so long as the ISA is open source it will improve at a pace sufficient, I think, to be competitive.

Well, I also go for openings of movies no one is sure about. First night can be pretty empty.

These 'secret police' aren't very secret. The people they are 'disappearing' are being sent elsewhere. Not a lot is secret. But there are many people who, having escaped from true leftist nations, can tell you more about secret police', disappeared family members, concentration camps, imprisonment for political beliefs, and death. You're trying, but not winning.

Adams's law of slow-moving disasters: we can avoid or mitigate these because we have time, resources, and only need to exercise the will to do so.

Second, as a planet, we need to decide if saving lives is important enough to justify the effort and expense, or not. Not just the US. Thus, the will is lacking.

Damn right. I rip in .WAV, 320k .mp3, and ATRAC, which is a bitch.

And keep them online, offline, hard storage, and the original disc in above average storage. I like owning the media, and not arguing where the hell my library went if some corporate weasel instituted new licensing. Or ended the old. If you can't hold it you don't own it.

For the Left, truth is irrelevant. Power is everything. Their power is diminished, and they will do anything, anything to regain it.

History shows this. Learn.

I expect better from a 5-digit. Though I also have to consider your birthdate. Derangement isn't caused by dementia, it's amplified.

Seriously, you've got over the edge. No rescue party is forthcoming. Enjoy your fellow deranged souls, your days will be spent in anger, pain, and delusion. If that serves you, so be it. I pray for you.

Please, let them have their win. They don't get many these days.

Oh, and that term isn't anywhere near new. ChatGPT didn't come up with it so much as vomit it out of its archives.

Not a very inventive prompt, there.

Profitable theaters already offer reserved seating. And when I reserve a seat, it is for a reason, and NO, I do not wish to move one seat over as you plop your entitled, sorry, offensively rude butt down where you neither asked nor thought ahead enough to beat me to the punch.

Yes, one seat over is my choice. Not yours. I also paid, I just did the needful.

Back to the point, however, open seating is going away. If that theater you go to doesn't offer reserved seating, you should go elsewhere.

Consider this

Um, this looks like a policy of instant 'publishing'.

So the for-profit publishers will suffer? And their value proposition was, what? Peer review? We know how valuable that is.

And your point is?

Mod up. The I-9 process is flawed. When the SSA finally obtains sufficient IT resources to do cursory grooming of the member database we can expect them to figure out where the abuses are, and at least dela with the obvious and copious. But our government seems to be incapable of managing its IT resources to even a marginally successful level, unless it's for the acquisition of revenue. And that's the lesson. They will damn sure make sure they get paid. Reducing fraud? Only for headlines. Even just hampering abuse? Only for headlines. Until the government gets leadership that harkens to minimal principles. one being that taxpayer money is finite and ought to be spent wisely.

Now to go off-topic and hope a companion principle finds a place in this, that we ought not spend ourselves into debt except for emergencies. But that requires real backbone. Our elected representatives seek re-election, and get distracted and diverted from such tasks.

Air gapping North Korea is an absolute data security solution. Unless you permit travel from North Korea, and that breaks the gap - people will transport the threats. Or these travelling agents recruit others to work on their behalf. Or an ally grants them clandestine access.

Aw, crap, there is no prevention. So we treat their threat like we would the cDc... annoying little snots they were. You have to lock your windows , bar the doors, and electrify the fences. And after all that, muzzle flash. And some will get through. Security is a best effort game, at best. Plan for failure and recovery.