Comment Re:do not want (Score 2) 17
3) It will undoubtedly be used to push ads nobody except the MBA asshats asked for.
3) It will undoubtedly be used to push ads nobody except the MBA asshats asked for.
Sounds good, how about a landscape slider phone? My F(x)tec Pro1 is getting a bit long in the tooth...
That is a very angry bit of editorializing, and it's entirely misplaced.
No it's not. You're not wrong about Instagram and other platforms but even the Gen Z'ers who think those platforms == the Internet still use Google. With the possible exception of Reddit (always a toxic place and now that it's public it seems highly probable they'll add 'enshittification' to the toxicity) what platform can you use to find recipes, instructions to repair a broken appliance, swap a part on your car, reviews on some product you're looking for, experiences people have had with credit cards, airlines, etc.?
Google is still highly relevant, for better or worse, and the erosion of their core product is so commonly known that it has been covered by the MSM. Google Search is objectively less useful than it ever has been. Google (err, Alphabet) as a company lost its way a long time ago, probably around the time "Don't be evil" was removed, and it has been run by the same MBA asshats that ruined everything for at least the last decade if not longer.
You sure you're responding to the right person?
Yep. Mr. Raghavan isn't the illness, he's just a symptom of ordinary market forces that innovative tech startups can only resist for so long.
Despite his history as a true computer scientist with actual academic credentials, Raghavan chose to bulldoze actual workers and replace them with toadies
People who don't play office politics lose to people who do. Having "toadies" helps you win the game of Survivor. It works because the CEO doesn't recognize actual skill.
Funny that to you, "Israel" and "Jews" are synonymous. As if all Jewish people unconditionally support all actions of the state of Israel, even those which are highly controversial within Israel itself.
This false synonymy creates an extremely harmful backlash. Stop doing it.
"RoddyVision, please make all the cars look like hot rods and all the people walking look like babes on roller skates."
Sorry, but all RoddyVision allows you to do is pierce the alien signal and allow you to see things as they really are. Side affects include chronic migraines and an unfortunate tendency to run out of bubblegum.
If there is any place in the world where the Jews can have a state of their own, it is in The Land of Israel.
That's one thing, illegally settling lands that they were not handed by the US through the UN is another.
The history of the Jews, as well as the history of the Jewish statehood, began before 1948.
And yet THOUSANDS OF YEARS after the region we're discussing was settled by others.
Those sopwith planes were fighter-bombers. Snipe and Camel could both carry "four 9 kg (20 lb) Cooper bombs".
https://airandspace.si.edu/col...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Ukraine is not free
Give me a list of Ukrainian prime ministers since 2000, and compare it to a list of Russian presidents since 2000 . Thanks in advance.
Even before the conflict it was the poorest and most corrupt country in Europe
This is not even remotely true. Ukraine's Rule of Law Index in 2022 was 0,50; contrast with NATO members Turkey at 0,42 and Hungary at 0,52. And its scores were dragged down by the consequences of the war in Donbas.
with a military second in size in Europe only to Russia (hence the poverty)
Ukraine's percentage of GDP spent before the current invasion was 3,2%, and that was *with* the ongoing Donbas conflict . By contrast, the US, at peace, spends 3,45% of its GDP on the military. For some European contrasts:
Azerbaijan: 4,5%
Armenia: 4,3%
Russia: 4%
Greece: 3,7%
Before the 2014 Russian invasion, Ukraine's percentage of GDP spent on the military was 1,6%.
I am simplifying the situation just as much as is called for.
Publicly held corporations exist specifically to separate the people profiting from a corporation's actions from responsibility for those actions. They have no other purpose as literally everything else a public corporation does can be done by some other type of entity.
Yep. For all its drawbacks the PC was an amazing platform for its day.
When it came out, nothing could beat the Amiga for versatility, though. It was even better at having all kinds of stuff on its bus at once than the PC was. The bus wasn't any faster than 16 bit ISA in the real world, but it was at least a dozen times more convenient.
yes but, the fares won't cover the cost, we end up paying for it.
Sure, but roads are the same in that regard — we pay for them, too. But they are a lot less efficient and they lead to a lot more pollution, and arguably just as importantly they just get clogged up with more cars in short order and then we've essentially spent that money to hasten our own destruction and make more people sit in traffic longer.
That's a pretty decent amount of game to be able to run in 64kB.
I did have a memory expansion on the ISA bus of my IBM 5150. The additional 384kB brought it up to 448kB, which was enough to run most but not all DOS software that would run on an XT (which could be expanded to 640kB onboard.)
I probably should have piggybacked the system memory, I could have gotten it up to 512kB which really would have run almost everything. But instead I got a 286-6 with 1MB and ran Xenix on it.
If all else fails, lower your standards.
