That's exactly what everyone needs - Oracle's avarice buoyed by the UAE's psychotic oppression game, refined by China's carefully engineered oppression.

That's the GOP's vision for the country - From each according to their ability, to each according to my whim, and shut your fucking yap if you don't want to be dismembered, serf.

Oh, that explains why I didn't read it.

It is right there on the label. Their sympathy is always on the side of capital.

They're up-front about it, and if you're aware of the bias, they're probably the best national paper in terms of factual business reporting. Just skip the editorial page, it consists of almost entirely of indulging the resentments of the geriatric rich.

No, the executive tells the civil service what it needs to do, but the civil service is wholly independent.

I agree that in theory it is entirely possible to reuse DC cooling water.

I also maintain that this will not, in fact, happen.

This is the same game politicians constantly play. Sure, passing this law means closing the factory which will will put thousands out of work. But we could offer retraining opportunities! We won't, but we could.

My body, it's my body, take it where I want to; pump it up, party!

No, in Australia, it's, "G'day cunts!"

Because they want their own CPUs as a competitive advantage for their platform. They don't want to be competing against other computers/phones with the same CPUs as long as their CPUs are better.

I'd interpret "gun ownership rate" as the incidence of people who own a gun, not the number of guns. A person with a dozen guns or a hundred guns doesn't make a great deal of difference, but it skews the statistics for the number of guns.

I can't tell if you're intentionally being dense or not.

Suppose that water headed for California almond farms instead was diverted to Arizona golf courses. What's the problem, right? Not like the water was destroyed or something.

You may as well ask, what's the problem with inflation? Not like money is destroyed when you spend it.

No they didn't, they said "gun ownership rate".

Number of guns isn't a great measure. It's skewed by a few people who own a very large number of guns. IIRC in Australia and Sweden, about 30% of adults have access to a licensed firearm, while in the US it's about 40%. Still quite a bit higher in the US, but nowhere near as much as the number of guns suggests.

GitHub didn't have a CI service before MS took over, so there's no point for comparison. Given a lot of people just use GitHub as free hosting for stuff that isn't even open source (seriously, people use it for web site hosting and download hosting for closed source software, or just random personal web sites), the money to run it has to come from somewhere.

"GitHub claims that 96 percent of its customers will see no change to their bill"

I always love this ploy. "You are part of a small percentage of users whining about this, but our price changes are actually good for everyone else", as if you're supposed to take one for the good of humanity. Or Microsoft.

You do not appear to understand what a republic or a democracy is, so I'll ignore the last sentence.

"Independent" does not mean unaccountable to the people. The President is independent of Congress, and vice versa, but both are accountable to the people. Well, the current president doesn't seem to think so, but legally he is.