Indeed; Windows 3.11 + Norton Desktop 3 - was a better UI than we have today on any platform.

I ran NDW (not Commander) on 32-bit Windows for years until the lack of LNF support and the fact the rest of the world have moved to actually using long filenames made it unworkable.

However in terms of a cohesive way to find and working with everything on the system nothing has duplicated it since.

STFU

Imagine the reaction the Chinese government if the US State Department or a large US business - so deliberately tried to circumvent and displayed such contempt for the intent of Chinese law. Bad actors are bad actors. Just because our own behavior isnt perfect does not mean we must just ignore problem behavior.

It might mean that we should exercise some discernment and proportion in our degree of judgement and condemnation but we can at least 'talk' about dilberate attempts to violate our policy without being 'racists'

I agree it looks bad. Given the MIC and deep state ties here where Boeing is concerned; I have no difficulty believing that anything *could* be possible.

However what *should* happen absent any evidence whatsoever this wasn't a freak medical condition?

Remember every event is coincident with some other event if you don't restrict the topics of the other event or allow enough time. Should we blow a bunch of tax dollars launching investigations into people who might want Boeing's critics silenced? Where do we stop, the Officers, board of directors, large share holders, Generals pushing for military contracts, Congress person with Boeing facilities in their districts, YOU with the mutual fund?

Just about everything in nature is either growing or dying. I don't know why you'd expect a naturally emerging system like a free market place to work any differently.

You have serial ports? We had to sort the electrons by hand and push them down the wire one at a time!

Well the reality is no matter how you slice it the USA has contributed more to Ukraine in terms of actual goods than the EU. That should be looked upon as entirely unacceptable.

You are right though, for the most part this is a great way to pump a bunch of money out of the public treasury into MIC and its owners pockets. Funny how everything that touch Ukraine turns out to be money laundering scheme when you zoom out a bit.

That would be a really bad move. The fact those job creators are ultimately the ones producing the goods we all need. There will be "plenty" for them no matter what policy choices we make (sort of some revolution that has them stood against a wall anyway).

However if you take away enough of their 'wealth' because of your pathetic jealousy they will pull back on the industrialization of what they have left. You think you have inflation now; just implement ^^ this ^^ type of policy and watch how expensive bread stuffs actually get!

That's really interesting, thanks. Probably explains some of the weirdass trace routing I've observed on older boards, sometimes going the long way around.

That would be a reasonable approach, I agree but its not without its own set of challenges.

Now Amazon would have powerful incentives to cut off any clients who are say controversial and likely to trigger DOS attacks etc. We be able to add being 'unhosted' alright kinda thing to list of being unbanked, deplatformed, and canceled. You'd expose every client to the hecklers veto; no matter how deep their pockets.

I am not sure that is good thing either.

How many times are people going to try to push this argument. By this logic we should not restrict anything that might be harmful.

Cigarettes are obviously bad for kids but if you don't let them walk in to the C-store to get a pack what is the child smoker going to do? They look for some less legitimate source. Those darts are more likely to be laced with whatever or have harder drugs in them!

Yes it should stupid because it is stupid. Its likely saying we should legalize cocaine because it would take the money out of drug crime. Sure it would probably make life safer for a small minority of coke heads but keeping contraban status probably keeps the vast vast majority of the public from every trying a highly addictive and dangerous substance.

Making porn less accessible to children WILL result in fewer children accessing porn and given parents who are actually trying to monitor and manage their children online something of a fighting chance.

Lets say you hosted your own web infrastructure. Chances our bandwidth costs are fixed and so is the size of the total pipe. If you start getting 'packeted' you will:

still be on the hook for the extra power because that CPU never gets to idle, as you have to keep pumping out the 404s

still have your other finite resources like log storage consumed

be facing potentially costly loss of business if the request rate is high enough it effectively DOSs you. That might be more then the AWS bill depending on what your site is.

I guess what I am saying is that there is an actual cost to events like this and someone has to pay them. While the initial reaction is randos on the internet should not be able to just run up your AWS bill when you have assigned no access at all; I am not sure that right. Given if you were hosting your own stuff or even going the 'traditional' VPS or hosting provider route you'd be be on the hook for most of the associated costs. The *cloud* ultimately boils down to renting someone else's computer.

Back a few years I was wondering why Mint, being glorified Ubuntu, ran so much better than Ubuntu. Turns out Mint was running (by actual count) 1/4th as many processes. Gee, I wonder how that could impact performance...

I didn't much like Devuan until they borrowed the PCLOS desktop and general way of doing things... now it's a lot slicker.

348 square feet per person.

To power all of India, 20,000 square miles (if I didn't slip a digit).

If any of we peons proposed such mass environmental destruction, even of the middle of nothing and nowhere, we'd be jailed.

China is not going to collapse. That is just deep state propaganda.

Just look at the fundamentals. They have enough people, they have enough ability to produce and grow food to feed those people. They have at least a group of people that have achieved a high-level of education, skill and technical ability, its a not China of the late 60s that can't make ball point pens. The have powerful government that will be able to by fiat redistribute wealth in a way that prevents actual mobs of staving peasants, and culture that will all them to take heavy handed actions against agitators without it really damaging the states support politically.

This is not to say that they don't face serious demographic headwinds; because of many past bad policy choices. I think the Chinese economy is likely to slow down a lot - unless they make more imperialist moves. Which if successful could turn them into the ascendant super power, or could be their undoing. If they do nothing but stay the course they are on currently however they will come thru just fine perhaps after a couple decades of restricted grow while the demography works out. The ONLY things they need to get right or are 1) turn their technical investments toward deploying more mechanized agriculture, and 2) keep encouraging people to have babies, so the population reverts toward a younger mean.

I would be much much more worried about our own house. We continue to spend and operate as if the rest of the world lies in ruin after WWII and we are not just the military super power but the lone industrial power. This has not been the case for 30+ years maybe longer depending on when you want to say 'the American century' begins and ends. Look at economy. Look what a little supply chain disruption does to the purchasing power of our dollar. Look how rapidly the world is moving off the dollar. Realize those supply chain disruptions were largely in elastic items, not food stuffs; we grow our own mostly; but we are told constantly the US ag industry depends on migrant workers and illegal aliens. Now imaging the inflationary pressure if we stopped massively importing slave-wage labor and had to pay people minimum wage to pick berries... Look at how much of our economy is dependent on trade conditions that only exist because of our massive military investment in preserving the world order that isn't matched by the EU. All you have to do is look at Libya and Ukraine to see the EU can't and won't provide the security required to keep our trade focused highly specialized economies functioning. We have to do the heavy lifting and we only accomplish it with massive deficit spending with not hope of balance in sight. Its the West that needs to worry about the wheel coming off not China.

Why do we need to nudge it? Why do we need literally harm people and their livelyhoods intentionally when the natural consequences and economic trends are already headed rapidly toward a energy future that has coal entirely out of the picture?

At the rate coal is leaving the overall energy picture, even if we don't meet some specific goal of being coal free by X, the amount of coal operations will be such a vanishingly small part of the carbon picture that any beneficent will be mostly immeasurably small and diffuse but the consequences for the people who get nudge will of course be likely quite acute.

This is purely religious thinking driving this and downright pagan at that; the only justification for this type of policy choice is a belief that people who use coal are sinners and sinners have to be punished to appease mother earth.