Yes, there is plenty of bad on both sides. So why should we help one bad side over the other? Perhaps we should stay out of it rather than fueling the fire.

They are protesting AGAINST U.S. involvement in foreign war activities.

U.S. companies frequently sell products made in China for several times what a Chinese company charges for practically the same product made in the same place.

If American Capitalism was actually performing to spec, the Chinese companies wouldn't have nearly as much advantage as they do.

If they can't stop Chinese companies from selling Chinese products direct to Americans, American companies might have to lower prices, and that would delay the CEO's and major shareholders buying their new winter yachts.

The horror of it all!

BIOS spends so much time faffing about and twiddling it's thumbs, the time to bring up the RAM is lost in the noise.

Most desktop 3D printers are Chinese. The American ones (made in China) mostly went away because they cost 10x as much, were near impossible to repair, and some were drowning in DRM.

If American companies don't stop phoning it in and demanding huge margins (or running with terrible efficiency), they will be left behind.

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Only in the sense that the mugger who says "your money or your life" has given you a choice. In many American job markets, it's muggers all the way down.

I can't help thinking about a hidden agenda. Manufacturing moved to China so we now pay American prices for Chinese products sold by American companies. Due to the internet and business developments, consumers can sometimes buy Chinese products from Chinese companies at Chinese prices which are often a small fraction of the American price. Incidentally, Chinese products are much more likely to be repair friendly and have good availability of off the shelf 3rd party replacement parts.

I have to wonder how much of the trade war is American companies (or their wealthy owners) wanting to cut that access off wherever they can before this becomes common knowledge among American consumers.

Most of the people protesting technology putting people out of work do so because they know the same people saving big with the tech will fight tooth and nail to make sure we do NOT adapt the economy. They want the displaced to go die quietly somewhere that is not in their back yard. Unless/until that changes, every displaced worker brings us that much closer to an ugly social uprising.

We need to look at UNDER employment as well. Especially on the west coast, a number of the homeless are, in-fact, employed. Some full time. But because our job market is ruled by supply and demand (rather than needs), a glut in supply has resulted in employed people that can't even afford a shitty apartment.

Many of the homeless I see are doing the "thorazine shuffle", a gait that comes from years of treatment with major tranquilizers/antipsychotics. So for those, mental health issues is a good bet.

The last time I needed any sort of "advanced" support from Comcast, the person in India had no way to escalate other than mark it on the ticket and hope someone called me back in 24 hours (they did NOT).

It turned out someone assigned half of my already assigned block of static IPs to another customer.

So step one, give the AI a way to ring tier 2 at least.

Obviously not. The Constitution applies to the government of the United States. It applies to the U.S. GOVERNMENT everywhere in the world. If a U.S. LEO meets an American in Mexico, the Constitution still applies. If a U.S. LEO meets a foreigner in Arizona (or mexico for that matter), the Constitution applies.

Wherever possible, give MS the boot. Also the Windows admins.

If they weren't doing virtualization, that might explain why the cloud brought spend down. A few big servers running everything in virtual environments would have increased utilization enough to get prices below cloud costs. If IT is run badly enough, nearly any change will be for the better.

Also, doing everything on Windows didn't help costs or reliability any.

Stupid admins can easily mis-manage cloud resources just as easily as they can mis-manage on-prem. It's just that when someone manages to mine bitcoin on your cloud services, you get a big bill at the end of the month as well as having performance problems.

The key to saving a ton of money with on-prem equipment is getting techs that know better than to let MS manage it.