Release the Epstein Drive files!

As a former IBMer, let me explain the acquisition process.

Those back office teams are what IBM values the 2nd most from the acquisition. They didn't buy Red Hat for the people, they bought it for the Intellectual Property.
Once the IP is inventoried and audited, the layoffs will start for the engineering, product, sales, and marketing teams. Wait for an announcement for a small layoff sometime between March and June of 2026. The sales team will likely see one at the end of the year when IBM wants to find a way to avoid paying bonuses based on meeting sales targets.

If you want a real world illustration, look what IBM did to Lotus after their purchase.

Vidago, Pedras Salgadas, Vitalis and MelgaÃo are all from the same company (Unicer / Super Bock Group - yes, the beer one), different springs around the country (wife's deployef there doing IT work). They're all quite good. Some undergo treatment before bottling to remove excess iron content (MelgaÃo and Pedras at least). Pedras even has some delicious flavoured editions (lemon, tangerine, red fruits, passion fruit and pineapple). But the prices are *nowhere* near the article. A pack of four 0.25L bottles of flavoured Pedras is 2.19â (close to the same on dollars). And Vidago around 1.75 for a pack of the plain carbonated water.

I've used AI for a number of tasks trying to analyze data in datasets. I've also used it to perform searches and found that more than half the time, there is not-valid data. Even after using various prompts to discourage "guessing", I've been validating the responses and finding a large number are just outright fabrication. If you're using AI to do research or find citations and claiming it as your work, you do so at your peril!

I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.

They can keep their data private by licensing it for $350,000 per year or $250,000 per year if they sign up for a 3 year term.

For the first time in my life, earlier this year, I had to file an FCC complaint when I tried to cancel my Spectrum Internet.
We had them for over 4 years and decided to switch to Verizon Home 5G because Spectrum had been ratcheting up our bill in $5 increments for the last few years. There were also a number of outages and the we NEVER came close to the advertised speed.

I reached out to the online chat support and asked if we could cancel and they said not a problem. After 45 minutes of them pushing for answers why we wanted to leave and one offer after another to stay, I was informed that they couldn't cancel the account over chat and needed to do it through the cancellation number which they gave me. I called the cancellation number and between being on hold and again having the rep offer several incentives over the next hour to stay, was informed they couldn't cancel and we had to call the main number. My wife called a 3rd person the next day and after an hour was told they would cancel, but since we were cancelling a day into the new billing cycle, would still have to pay the full month unless we just stayed for the rest of the month. That's when I opened the FCC enforcement complaint.

I got a call from FCC enforcement the next day and confirmed my grievances from the report and was informed someone from Spectrum's main office would be calling. The next day I got a call from Spectrum and they confirmed the account was closed and credited our account the amount due since we were only 3 days into the billing cycle. The amount of time it took for my wife and I to try and cancel Spectrum service? Over 3 hours. The amount of time I spent on the phone with the FCC and Spectrum to resolve the complaint? About 15 minutes.

To Hell with subscription services and their cancellations. They drag things out until you either give up or get pushed into a new billing cycle. They need to pay dearly when they pull stuff like this.

Sorry to reply to myself. Her name is spelled "Melania". I hit the submit button instead of edit.

This is the same Amazon that had $40,000,000 to license a documentary about Milania Trump.
https://www.theguardian.com/co...

They don't want blame for higher costs due to tariffs? Screw 'em. The last few items I bought from Amazon were either not the specs that were listed or were very likely outright counterfeit. I was willing to gamble if the price was cheap and hope the value was there, but the prices have been creeping up long before these tariffs were in place.

Too late Broadcom!

I abandoned vmware workstation for libvirt/qemu at home.

Many other friends and colleagues who ran vmware abandoned it for Proxmox because of licensing cost.

Broadcom is still trying to strong-arm our biggest client into renewing with a 300% markup in license cost. The client is going to migrate to Azure and will do so as soon as the hardware support on our hosts expires next year.

Nobody needs this in theaters. The last 2 theater experiences we had we marred by the ripped seats we had picked online before getting to the theater, the garbage from the previous movie still in unused seats when the movie started, and the interruption of concessions workers coming in after the previews during the opening scenes of the movies to serve people too lazy to stand in line and get their overpriced snacks before the movie started.

We just don't watch new movies anymore. What's the point? They are available on streaming sometimes as soon as 3 months after theatrical release anyways.

So now the public schools have rights the parents don't have and can chemically alter their children without input. By force of law.

Aaaannd, you lost me. What law is in place that allows that? I'll wait. I have a relative with a gay grandson in high school and she keeps talking about how he's gay because the school "encourages" it. She has also said the school is going to let him have a sex change because the law says so. She can't list the law either.

Since you listed the Daily Wire link (a notoriously far-right rag). I also looked at the Court Opinion filing (google "case #23-1069 foote et al") and the following line caught my eye. It has nothing to do with chopping off genitals or forcing kids to wear rainbow colored clothes. It's about pronouns. If the kid wants to use a particular pronoun, the school isn't obligated to run to the parents and go "Quick! Quick! Your kid might be queer!".

Here is part of the summary directly from the case filing. I encourage anyone who wants to learn more to read the entire ruling.

"More specifically, it presents for our review challenging issues arising from the Ludlow School Committee's protocol ("the Protocol") requiring its staff to use a student's requested name and gender pronouns within the school without notifying the parents of those requests unless that student consents. Our appellants are the parents ("the Parents") of a Ludlow student who chose -- at school but not at home -- to go by a different name and to use different pronouns than those given to them at birth."

Those still fall under the categorias I mentioned

I'm like "what the hell, Mozilla???"

But then, which non-Blink/Chromium/WebKit browser wiki I use?

When I first read the headline, I wondered how believing in aliens would ruin the guys career. But then I got to "defrauded them through an alleged antigravity machine scheme". If your career's success hinges on people NOT finding out you scammed them, that might be the root cause of your issues.