What do you believe is a better alternative? We use VMWare because none of the other alternatives match VMWare's I/O speeds but I'm always open to alternatives. Currently we're running off perpetual licensing.

Despite very credible allegations, Biden was never convicted of raping raping Tara Reade. And his daughter's recollections of him inappropriately showering with her outlasted any statute of limitations. But I see where you're going, there. The rest is a good fit, right down to the weaponized government, for sure. The plot twist is that the real kingpins are behind the scenes, using him as a puppet. It's good villain story line material fresh from real life.

Expect to see more of this over the next 4 years, taxes that hit Canadians in ways they don't notice directly.

... caught up in a storm? lol. She was the storm. I can only assume you're basing this flawed opinion on the made-for-TV fictional summary of events which paint her as wide eyed woman who tried to brave her way forward in a man's world when in reality she was manipulating people from day one. She knew early on her promised couldn't deliver but she continued to dig her hole, continued to give people fake medical results, continued to put lives at risk, all for money and ego. I mean, seriously, this is a woman who went out of her way to get pregnant to avoid jail.

I feel like people aren't upset with the Chrome browser as a product, they're upset with how Google leverages that platform for monetary gain at the expense of users and how they keep influencing negative changes with how we interact with their products and with the internet as a whole. For example, why am I signed into a Chromium web browser with all my data migrated into a browser when all I wanted to do was check my email in Gmail? Why is my history of web searches tracked? Why are some of the suggested links dominating a search for a particular product malicious sites run by hackers trying to scam people who don't know any better?

...an article worth considering from Princeton University's Zeynep Tufekci:

We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives

Since scientists began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five pandemics, depending on how you count. One of them, the 1977 Russian flu, was almost certainly sparked by a research mishap. Some Western scientists quickly suspected the odd virus had resided in a lab freezer for a couple of decades, but they kept mostly quiet for fear of ruffling feathers.

Yet in 2020, when people started speculating that a laboratory accident might have been the spark that started the Covid-19 pandemic, they were treated like kooks and cranks. Many public health officials and prominent scientists dismissed the idea as a conspiracy theory, insisting that the virus had emerged from animals in a seafood market in Wuhan, China. And when a nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance lost a grant because it was planning to conduct risky research into bat viruses with the Wuhan Institute of Virology â" research that, if conducted with lax safety standards, could have resulted in a dangerous pathogen leaking out into the world â" no fewer than 77 Nobel laureates and 31 scientific societies lined up to defend the organization.

So the Wuhan research was totally safe, and the pandemic was definitely caused by natural transmission â" it certainly seemed like consensus.

We have since learned, however, that to promote the appearance of consensus, some officials and scientists hid or understated crucial facts, misled at least one reporter, orchestrated campaigns of supposedly independent voices and even compared notes about how to hide their communications in order to keep the public from hearing the whole story. And as for that Wuhan laboratoryâ(TM)s research, the details that have since emerged show that safety precautions might have been terrifyingly lax.

Full article

No but also yes to your questions in that order. I'm a Canadian but we also suffered similarly to the US and people who live in a former manufacturing town know what it's like when their manufacturer leaves for lower cost countries. I lived in a GM town for what felt like an eternity, where you had guys who weren't too bright, who didn't have an education, and had no marketable skills yet somehow owned a large four bedroom home, an RV, a cottage, a boat, and went on plenty of vacations with their nuclear family of 3 kids, kids that were all put through university on their father's salary. The richest people around were high school educated GM workers and there were almost 10,000 people who were in that category in my city. Then GM shut down a plant and wiped out 90% of those jobs, it was devastating to our region's economy.

According to the WEF, the United States has lost more than 2.7 million of these jobs to China over the past 24 years. So when you ask if American citizens are truly so desperately in need of those manufacturing jobs I would say that every first world country would truly so desperately want those manufacturing jobs.

... a demonstration which has zero impact on the opinions of posters. This woman disrupted a company event to engage in personal activism. What more does anyone need to know? I don't care about her feelings or hearing about her perception of what her company's product may be used for. I bet Israel uses Windows' computers too!

This has been my experience as well. We've put up job postings for IT positions over the past couple years and almost every job applicant in Gen Z years are asking how many hours they're expected to come into the office. "all of them" would be my answer but the woman handling the human resources communications basically copies and pastes the amount of hours the job posting was listed at, if she even replies at all. Despite that we did end up with a shiny new Gen Z worker who didn't expect to work from home and he's been doing a great job so not all of them are aiming for the top level jobs right out the gate.

I've been using Google Maps for years to track my travel history, to confirm where I'd been and for how long on certain days. Unfortunately I had a panic attack about a week or two ago when I discovered that my entire history was wiped out entirely. I tried everything from rebooting, disconnecting the account / reconnecting, clearing cache, clearing app data, etc., etc..

What worked for me was adding a second Google account that had never used maps on the phone and immediately my entire history returned. So Google didn't exactly wipe it out, they just made it inaccessible to the primary account that was 'connected' to the data... and somehow accessible to a brand new account that never had seen the data. Weird. But it worked.

I'm sure there's a lesson here not to trust Google after all the products they've destroyed over the years (like Nest, Withings, etc.) but I really thought they'd never do the thing that they did here, I never thought they'd wipe out my travel history.

The "current crisis" is manufactured and amplified externally. Nobody is doxxing Tesla owners with maps using Molotov cocktails as map cursors or burning lots full of vehicles in for service in some way that is a function of whether Musk is personally present on the factory floor vs doing something else he thinks is vital to our economic survival. All of it is ginned up hate based on the politics surrounding the pruning of vast left slush funds and debt-funded waste that has to go away. That's an entire industry with vested interests, and acting against it certainly brings out the coordinated hate, attacks on stock value, media smearing, and of course thousands of people who now say he's a nazi though they can't actually articulate why they think that.

No, him being "on the factory floor" or off it doesn't precipitate some "current crisis," except in the sense that entrenched interests currently having their oxen gored by drying up things like the NGO money laundering industry are doing their best to try to wreck the company to make a point.

So the people who made it should have been earning minimum wage, is that your point? Spread that dollar amount across five and half yeads and even modest team of people and their overhead, and they're making middle five figures after taxes. Is that a lot, to you?

It took five and a half years to make it. So, in perhaps over-simplified terms, that's ~$670k year working on it. Let's say you had six people working on the project, and had NO overhead at all beyond their personal income while making it. That's roughly $100k per person before they paid taxes, which is either pretty good or not very good at all, depending on where you live and how. But one supposes they also had some overhead. This wasn't done on their kids' laptops at night. There was music to compose, audio to record and design, and a lot more.

So, yeah. "Just" 3.7M is a fair characterization.

I don't know any such thing, I prefer to work at the office because I'm more productive. The only time I want to work from home is when it's advantageous to my personal life, like I have to catch up on laundry or someone is coming to fix an internet issue. My brain prefers to rest away from work at home and prefers to lock in at work at the office.

Why do you "waste" the time? I'd say for at least 20 years of my life I was commuting roughly 1.25 hours a day (45 minutes there, 45 minutes back) and I used the time to learn to speak other languages, listen to interesting podcasts I'd curated, or simply decompress before I made it home with some good tunes. There were mornings I'd look forward to getting into the car and driving to work with a good podcast as the house was a bit chaotic with the wee ones. For me the drive to and from work was like sitting down, relaxing, and watching TV.