It is quite possible that the Microsoft board (and Melinda Gates) has information about Gates and Epstein's island which motivated both of them to erect a firewall between themselves and him.
Could be worse for him. Gates could have had info on Hillary Clinton.
Ba-dum-bump!
Wait you think that if he was influencing them they would be better? What in the 40+ year history of Microsoft makes you think that?
Uh, most of Microsoft's history under his watch?
There's a good reason why most OS's generally follow the Win 95/98 GUI paradigm. They got it right. And when they went to all-NT based systems, they got even better. They've certainly had their issues over the years, but if I had a dollar for everytime I've heard someone go "I miss Win 95/98/2K/XP, I'd still be using them today if I could", I'd be a comfortably wealthy man.
When did Microsoft customers scream the loudest and rebel? When Win 8 tried to do away with that paradigm and make PC's a tablet.
No one expects them to work for free.
Doctors get paid in the UK, for example.
Not much. Which is why they have such a shortage of them. The more a medical system is socialized, the shittier the pay. And just as bad, where healthcare is a "human right", patients treat the workers like shit, because it's human nature to feel entitled and arrogant when this happens:
Thomas Brockwell, a junior doctor who did his training at Oxford University, is just finishing his first year of postgraduate clinical work in the UK in hopes of becoming a pediatrician. He describes his office as a three-meter-squared room that he shares with two other doctors. Between them, they have two “usable” computers and not a single unbroken chair. From midday, when the senior doctor leaves, this trio will run the ward; outside the hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., they will oversee 11 wards, or some 250 patients.
“I have been spat at, punched, leered at and groped,” says Brockwell, who takes home £35,000 ($43,456) before tax, less when his “Sisyphean graduation present” of £100,000 of student debt and living expenses from six years of training are deducted.
That's shit compensation for a middling white collar office worker, let alone an MD that takes years of training. No public mandated system is ever going to attract enough doctors and nurses when they can go elsewhere for more money.
Healthcare should be a human right
I don't know what the answer to the US healthcare expense problem is, but I do know that this sure as shit isn't it. Healthcare should not be a right in the US, nor should housing or food. A "right" to a material good means that you're taking away the rights of those that service those goods. That you are, in effect, impressing them into public servitude.
The last thing I want is a system where doctors, home builders, farmers, etc, are essentially told "You'll give your product and service to us, on demand, at prices that we'll set, or you wont practice your trade at all".
Numerous US states are going to ban new ICE sales , eg california by 2035. Ditto in the EU and UK also by 2035.
If it wasn't for the political intervention EVs would still be a very niche purchase and Tesla wouldn't be anything like the size of the company it is now.
You can argue whether its good or bad but its the way it is now.
You're being modded down because someone disagrees with you politically, but at its root, Honda's decision to build these factories IS an inherently political one. EV adoption is largely being driven by mandate, not by choice. Honda is making a calculated gamble: that the mandates will stay in place, and people will HAVE to buy an EV one day. This will make EV's profitable eventually... as long as the mandates stay in place.
Time will tell if this pays off for them.
As you seems you need something more modern and with source available:
Have you given FreeDOS a try?
Most companies wont touch anything in production without corporate support and support contracts. The words "Community Support" fills them with dread. They want a phone number they can dial if things go sideways.
the binaries fit on a single 3 1/2" HD disk
If you were installing it to a hard drive. Back in the day, some people still ran everything on their floppy drives. There's a link somewhere below showing the install menu, giving you the option to install a floppy-only option across multiple floppy drives. Which meant that when you wanted to run different built-in DOS programs, you had to swap to a different floppy on the fly.
Steve Jobs apparently liked this way of doing things all the way into his early NeXT products, where everything ran from the optical drive, OS and applications included. It fit his idea of "elegant".
Just compare a Samsung S8 or S9 Ultra tablet to an iPad pro 10th gen and you will see what I am talking about.
I suspect it has far more to do with price than anything. iPhones are just too damned expensive, even on the low end. You can get a decently built, solidly performing Android phone for $200 or less. If you're not an iTunes user, or iMessage devotee, there just isn't any real reason to pick an Apple phone over an Android phone.
"And nothing of value was lost"?
The Supreme Court already ruled that they can't regulate carbon emissions like this.
They also ruled that student loan forgiveness was (mostly) unconstitutional as well, and yet the President does it anyway.
We are entering "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it" territory again.
Destroying middle class has predictable consequence of tanking birth rate. News at 11.
"Economic Hardship" has jack-shit to do with most of the declining birthrate. Women have more money than ever. If being poor hurt the birthrate, the Third World would have ceased to exist centuries ago. Women choosing careers over marriage has far more to do with it. Those that are getting married are doing so much later in life, when their fertility is already declining, and having few children is a consequence of that. Why do you think IVF and egg-freezing are in such demand? Because women that waited until 30 to get married discover, often to their surprise, that their best chances of pregnancy are in the rear window.
Women were told that they could have it all, the best of both worlds: that they could live like men in their twenties, living the single sexual life and moving up their corporate ladder, and after they had their fun, then they could marry the man of their dreams and have their family. All in a neat package. Except nature doesn't work that way. The Biological Clock is a thing, women have a set number of eggs, and by thirty, they start heading downwards in terms of fertility. Late pregnancies have a greater chance of complications and birth defects. The peak year for fertility and healthy birth is, IIRC, age 24 on average for females.
Life is a series of choices. And choices have consequences. Declining birthrates are inescapable considering the choices made.
Shouldn't wide open areas make it even more suitable for trains?
No, and because of passenger density and volume issues that affects costs. For high speed rail to pay for itself, you need fairly dense-packed areas with high traffic between each other. For HSR to successfully operate on a large scale in the US, it's going to have to be a political decision to subsidize it and eat the costs (see: the Acela).
Even liberal-ish groups that Rah-Rah things like public rail admit that it simply isn't self-supporting in the US. A decade ago, Brookings did a study on American rail, and concluded that if AmTrak was to be "saved", it was going to require a mix of killing off some routes, and subsidizing the remainder:
What Brookings found is not surprising. There are only two routes that do better than break even — New York – DC and New York – Boston — and even those only make money on an operating basis, they don’t cover their capital costs.
Brookings finds that the operating profits (if the federal government subsidizes capital expenses) would cover the top 26 Amtrak routes (which carry 80% of passengers). They recommend having affected states cover the losses of other routes if they want those to survive.
I’m not sure how it would no longer be a subsidy if the states are paying rather than the federal government, but the supposition is billion dollar operating subsidies may no longer be in the cards for Amtrak. So how can they save the service that people actually use, while recognizing that the Chicago – California routes (Chicago Zephyr and Southwest Chief) are unaffordable. Fifteen routes account for over $600 million in annual operating losses.
Put a different way, Amtrak’s long haul operation is bleeding the entire system of the funds it needs to maintain shorter and medium-length routes where the passengers are.
HSR tickets are also naturally going to be more expensive than snail-rail fares, too, further hurting traffic numbers, especially over the longer distance routes.
Some countries just can't do infrastructure. The US and UK are prime examples.
The US can do infrastructure just fine. What it can't do is ape a European rail model that is unworkable in the US. The United States, geographically and culturally, is as different from Europe as it is from Japan. It's a huge, wide-open area with large spaces between major metro areas outside of a small cluster in the Northeast US. Very unlike Japan and Europe in that regard. The train romanticists simply refuse to accept reality on that.
My Neice ended up going to a high school in Germany. She spoke English but quickly picked up German. One of the friends she made asked her one day what it was like actually understanding the lyrics of the songs they listened to. To them it was just a bunch of pleasant-sounding gibberish. So you can enjoy the songs without knowing the words.
Decades ago, there was an Italian music star named Adriano Celentano that came out with a song called "Prisencolinensinainciusol". The lyrics were nonsense. He wanted to make a song that showed how English sounded to the Italian ear. It was his biggest hit.
Is everyone at CNN as so self-centered as Jim Acosta?
Yes
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