It has been an ambition of mine, a new value for pi to assign. I'd fix it at three, 'cos it's easier you see than three point one four one five nine Shamelessly stolen from a limerick book from some time in my past.

Not all of us are stupid enough to buy them.

Was removed as their motto in 2015 (iirc) , and replaced it with "do the right thing"

Amazon are known union busters, so it is hardly surprising that a community that thinks unionism is ok, will eventually call them out.

Whether you like Reich or not, this is a good read imo. https://robertreich.substack.c...

mmm As chalkie with 45 years experience teaching Maths and Physics, I doubt that the personal interactions can ever be replaced. eg. standing next to a student and saying "have you thought about doing it this way?" or "what would happen if you took a common factor out in this line?" or "what do v and u mean in this equation?" During my career, I've had students say to me "You really do care about whether we get it or not, don't you?" and "Thank you for looking out for me this year", as well as personal thankyous from parents. Will AI be able to replace these? Frankly I doubt it. Just like when calculators replaced four-figure tables and slide rules - some aspects of teaching and learning Maths changed, but the best teaching practices did not. I'll bet most of us remember the best teachers we had.

Why are companies like this still using Twitter/X for their updates?

Yes, I may be just one in a million, but I will never use Amazon again either. Just spend some more time searching for your desired object....

Yes , if I remember correctly some years ago a driver put his camper in Cruise Control and went back to make a coffee. Of course, because the vehicle manufacturer had not explicitly said " don't leave the wheel' or something similar, they lost the subsequent case.

... that folks pirate stuff? I have no personal interest in x-box or any apps that run on them (don't own one and have no desire to), but when you treat your customers like shit, then you can't really complain when they treat your product as a freely available commodity. Suck it up MS, you will reap what you sow for previously loyal x-box users.

....that many commenters do not have a sound grasp of statistics. nah fuck it .....I cant be bothered telling you about 30 year averages, mathematical modelling, errors etc Go and sit in your basement and cook/freeze whatever and ignore basic high school physics.

Can't comment on Ellison personally, but it does seem that a LOT of successful business people (I know a few) are shits. Perhaps that is what is needed to become financially successful? Of course money does not make you a good person, as you have pointed out.

We have a small holiday rental property in which there is free wifi and a Ubuntu PC. This suits us well - particularly the PC as we do not need to worry about what is downloaded and who looks at it. Wifi is of course another issue, but this thread is Ubuntu, and we are very happy. I suspect that some of the naysayers either have needs other than ours or have not looked into needs such as ours. My 2C, keep the change!

Yes, you've got it. It was the speculative invoicing that was the problem, not the copying/distributing. I very much doubt that this will go to the High Court (the last course of legal action in Oz for all you non-Aussies), but I'd expect that they would also reject it. A good sense judgement imo, regardless of the infringement.