Fuck off, dumbass.

All I said was 'quit first', not, 'smile as you lead Jews into the showers'.

If I'm running a business and an employee tries to occupy my office for a protest, they're going to be immediately terminated and escorted out by security.

Who in their right mind thinks this is a good idea? If you think the company is evil, you quit and take action as a free person. These protesters acted like idiot adult children.

Pence wouldn't even turn on Trump after he set a mob on him and tried to have him killed. Republicans turn on Trump after they retire, and even then they're extraordinarily mild about it.

Trump's trump card is his cult - they're a solid block of voters big enough to sink the entire party if he tells them the party has turned on him (and thus them).

>People respond well to choice and when given choices, they will pick the better of the options

I'm not sure if you're young, an idealist, or both... but no, they don't.

The majority of people are selfish and short-sighted - and that's fine when they exist in an environment that makes the better choices the ones that align with their selfish and short-sighted goals, or at least where things are good enough they will put up with the things that don't as a 'cost of doing business'.

But when things get tough and they feel threatened, it's a lot more difficult to get them to make sacrifices for anything, even their own future good, unless it's at gunpoint (literal or figurative).

> Trump is pissing on his best friends

C'mon. The man's been front-page news for over a decade now. You know he has no friends. He has people he can exploit, and people he's worried will exploit him. To Trump, loyalty means you'll make him happy and he doesn't have to do a damn thing in return. I don't think he really understands the word, it's just a sound he makes when he's demanding your unconditional support.

Obviously the companies will go wherever profits indicate, but memristor tech is theoretically a massive leap forward, allowing low-power transistor equivalents, using less volume, maintaining persistent states without power, and providing more than just binary states per memristor. And it's been in labs for at least a decade.

Basically, if you're trying to make a neural net in hardware, memristors appear to be what you want.

Generally speaking, populations keep their heads down and try to avoid change or effort so long as they have a choice.

The few in position to force a direction on the mob are usually short-sighted and selfish.

In other words, it seems likely nothing's going to happen until people are ready to riot. As long as we're comfortable enough, it's status quo even as the 1% gather more wealth and the environment becomes more hostile.

Maybe Republicans really like dick picks

Thanks Yuri. How's the weather in St. Petersburg?

Prior to Broadcom, I had no hesitation recommending VMWare, either ESXi or Player. The current trajectory for the product line would make choosing it a stupid decision now.

Given that everything to date looked like the new model was squeezing the locked-in customers for everything until the business finally collapsed, I will admit to not understanding this move, even if it is just PR bullshit.

VMWare is a zombie product, nobody with any brains is going to hold on longer than they have to.

Definitely not my kind of thing, but at least they're paying to see people perform at a level most people can never hope to approach.

D&D though? Maybe you don't have what it takes to be a DM, but anyone who can communicate can be a player.

Maybe if Israel hadn't been politically and financially backing Hamas, it might have been different. But hey, all that counts is "Palestinians bad, Israelis good". Simple is so much easier to cope with than reality.

Electric is now better than hydraulic, and humanoid robots are a decent form because they can use any tool designed for humans wherever humans would use it.

We've designed the world with places we go and tools we use there.

I've used the IRS Free Fillable Forms for several years now once I discovered it. It's a little more complicated than using TurboTax, but for people like myself with very simple tax needs (i.e. I don't itemize, run an LLC, or have any income outside my job), it's more than adequate.

I used to waste money every year on TurboTax until I stumbled on this site. TurboTax NEVER found any deductions I didn't know about and created more work than necessary, even for my simple needs.

I filed about a month ago, and just yesterday IRS withdrew what I owed from my account, several days after I agreed on the forms. BTW -- I always owe, getting a refund just means I gave the government a free loan.