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Comment Re:toyota is a dying dinosaur (Score 4, Insightful) 157

The one pure EV that Toyota makes was co-developed with Subaru and is in fact a terrible EV by current standards. It would have been a mediocre EV 10 years ago.

Perhaps "disappointing" is more appropriate? For a company that has decades of electric drivetrain experience is is perplexing that Toyota could produce something so subpar. They rode their battery patent exclusivity for so long they forgot how to be competitive in an evolving market.
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Comment Re:Free money! (Score 1) 106

> Please explain how it raises money with a tax rate that's below the existing corporate tax rate

15% minimum. You're a fool if you think a large corporation pays anywhere near the corporate tax rate. 15% is much more money than these businesses are paying now.

Some of them are so good at the game that they effectively "pay" a negative income tax. To pull the first example from that link; AT&T earned $29.6 and the Feds effectively paid them another $1.2B - effectively a -4% income tax. Under the IRA their tax bill goes from getting paid $1.2B to paying $4.4B

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Comment Re: Year of the Wayland desktop... (Score 1) 66

"It's a collaborative effort. That is open source. We are all here to work together."

Newsflash: Not everyone is a developer, some people are just users. Are they not allowed to use OSS then?

"Then yeah, go fuck yourself."

Oh grow up FFS.

"Buddy I make my bread maintaining COBOL and RPGLE on AS/400 systems and C++/Java/COBOL on IBM z systems."

Demonstrating nicely the old adage that some people grow old and wise, some just grow old. Guess which one applies to you.

Comment I would say use linux (Score 2) 124

... but thats undergoing a slow and sad fucking up process thanks to Poetterings (now an MS employee, not even ironic) systemd. Also the fragmentation doesn't help - it would be good to have a standard base layout, system setup and standard apps (beyond the default *nix cmd line tools) that all distros use, eg package manager, and they just build whatever eye candy they want on top of that but of course many large egos would prevent that ever happening.

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