Jalapeño subs? Wow. I've been settling for pepperocini on mine!

Not any more...

WE have seen SkyNet, and they are us.

Features? Smeachers!

The news here is compatibility improvement for file formats and import/export.

Way rockin' good. I can try jettisoning Office 2011, soon. Libre on Ubuntu was close enough, two years ago - but still enough different for me to run Crossover.

The obstacle is getting an unsigned ARM image to load. Surface has been unworthy of the challenge at its original price. Android pads are like a date in the Tenderloin: cheap and easy (and likely male :-) ).

But a near-free WART from MS? That changes things.

They already took the loss.

So? This wouldn't be to fix an inventory accounting problem. It wouldn't be to "stuff" a channel. It wouldn't be to sell below cost for illegal competitive advantage - or barely.

These tablets are now fiscal landfill. Selling at a price to recover distribution and delivery costs (so they don't bleed more) is a better plan than many.

And give us opportunity to HACK THE LOADER!

I wouldn't try cracking firmware on a device of questionable value, that cost me several hundred. But a sub-100 cheapie? Go for it!

HACK THE LOADER.

Ubuntu tablet for $75 USD.

So?

HACK THE LOADER!

Yes, but they were identified as atrocity. Now? Only when "they do it".

My Lai is a near daily occurrence. Lt Calley is nearly every Lieutenant and nearly every village is destroyed to save it...

OK.

Kill people, who are non-combatant. Do it for "Liberty". Feel good, because you did the right thing.

Google is a commercial subsidiary of the NSA. Or the NSA is a federal op by Google. I forget which.

Dr Eric Schmidt seems to work on behalf of both... You know what they say... Former spy? How can I tell if you have stopped lying to me?

Yeah. There's NO form of engagement today, that would not have been considered an atrocity 90 years ago, or a war crime, 35-50 years back.

Most folks have also begun to twig that the "Government" has become just a shell-company, to hold baggage for constituent corporations. The idea of "fighting for our freedoms and defending liberty" doesn't even seem quaint, anymore...

I've heard the Air Force make this complaint before: No pilots, mission endangered...

My! How they do drone on.

Crush for the sake of crushing.

It's what people who are dead inside do.

Kesuki,

You are an insightful dude. Considering the trip you've been through, I wouldn't blame you for a little "shutting down," but I think you are handling all the input better than most.

I hope that I am able to manage myself as well as you. Way cool.

There you go man. Keep as cool as you can...

Were you even born, in the Eightys?