so that we can start a cold war. Russia has dropped off as a threat now that they can't take a nation the size of California and the GDP of Mississippi. EVs will gradually make the middle east irrelevant too.

Without a threat they'll be a winding down our military spending, so China's on tap. For their part I'm sure they could use a little of the old MIC to keep their economy going. Not the best way to do socialism but I guess it works after a fashion.

Of course there is force.

When your basic needs are tied to employment then you have to be employed to have them met.

Thanks to ongoing improvements in productivity, less work must be done by humans to provide for those needs than ever before, but the owning class has sucked up all of those improvements so that they can make ever more money instead.

If employers are allowed to run off with all those profits and make workers work longer and longer hours then there will be more and more unemployed people whose needs aren't being met. This can, does, will, and will continue to have negative effects on everyone but the ultra wealthy.

Therefore it is not in the best interests of The People to allow it to continue.

The government's job is to ensure the welfare of the people, and if it can't do that then it's worthless at best.

Restricting the number of hours an employer can require you to work is therefore in everyone's best interests, since even the wealthy will lose if the system collapses. They are simply too stupid to realize this.

Windows ME wasn't a memory hog, its big problem was destroying backwards compatibility and making changes for no reason. Windows 8 is Windows ME redux, though.

Of course. You're not even allowed to criticize one particular group of people without being labeled.

There needs to be a way for the average American to become a shareholder so they can benefit from the business too.

There is. It's called buying stock in a company. No one says you have to buy 100 shares of a company in one shot. You can buy 1 or 2 each month and make sure to reinvest any dividends.

there are literally millions of engineers, researchers and developers putting out excellent work right now from windows machines.

All experience the same situation.

Microsoft does this periodically to drive sales for their OEMs. It's why Vista was so dog slow. It was literally meant to sell more hardware. It's not a bug, it's a feature.

Nonconsensual. Meaning, someone is taking one person's body and slapping on a different person's face and touting it off as the person.

Coincidentally, it's almost always men doing it to women.

I'm not against them removing the apps, I'm against the headline trying to make me feel a certain way. Present the facts, I'll decide how I feel about them.

When you put a bunch of cylinders in a box you by definition have wasted space.

When you put boxes in a box you can have no wasted space.

How does using cylindrical cells improve density?

Using cylindrical cells also means having to have more parallelism to achieve a specific capacity, which means more connections, which means less reliability. This is a big part of the reason why post-collision Tesla model S batteries are unsafe for RV power storage. You can't reasonably detect bonding faults.

More to the point, it's unsustainable to just let anyone do anything just because they want to. There's a broad range of behaviors which fall into that non-category, and some of them are fine because they're not hurting anyone and some of them aren't because they are. Right to swing fist, end of my nose, etc etc.

I enjoy vroom vroom noises myself but I also appreciate that there are more important issues at hand than my own selfish gratification.

You literally cannot prevent that in an app which can make consensual nude images. Therefore the word nonconsensual is being used in order to trigger people into having a specific opinion. A better description is "an app which can be used to create fake nude images" since it can't literally show you what someone would look like unclothed.

The interesting thing about that statement is that it's the fascists that have brought us to this point where we have all these highly polluting coal plants.

They are if the end user can charge at home and aren't if they can't.
The intelligent thing to do would have been to mandate charger installation on new construction or any significant remodel or electrical system upgrade, years ago. But we can't agree to do things intelligently because we have to fight with each other over whether corporations have a right to make a profit. (They don't have one written into the law, but they seem to have a de facto one in that they can buy protectionist laws.)

Yes, that's my point. That limitation is crippling, and there was no good reason for the law to restrict their authority to navigable waterways, only a bad and corporatism-serving reason.