Mod points come and.go, but comments stay forever fast.

Indeed. And a bigger tariff lets local production massively increase their margins.

You missed the joke.

You suggested that government-mandated minimum wait times at the DMV solved voting enrollment problems. It the problem can be solved by making a chore suck more, the problem must be that too many people are registering to vote.

Requiring that people would have to wait at least a few hours at the DMV seems like a costly and ineffective way to discourage voting, but if you think it will work, I'm willing to give it a shot.

Nobody does AI on Linux so it makes so much more sense to keep playing three legged racing with Microsoft tied to you. NOT.
NVidia has always been tied to MSFT and their Linux software has always looked like it was done by a single NVidia employee after hours in the basement office.
Besides, Windows is sooo 'yesterday' no matter how much Microsoft pays Qualcomm or NVidia to tie themselves up with.

LoB

Hildon? Seriously? I guess maemo-leste technically still exists, and no one can stop you from getting it up and running, but you won't have a good time.

Phosh ain't bad though, and squeakboard is adequate.

Plasma Mobile tries too hard to feel like Android. I heard they're using a new OSK, but I haven't tried it. The old one was inadequate (no tab, ctrl, alt, super, f-keys, arrow keys, etc).

Solar-powered LPR cameras ain't exactly inconspicuous.

Replacing customer service reps with a chatbot is a great way to get rid of customers.

They've had a spell-check feature since the first release. They added "enhanced" spell-check in v28.

A canvas and drawing API. A native JIT compiler. A WASM VM.

Yeah. Stuff users actually want their browser to be able to do. Again, (other than the WASM VM) stuff that's been there since the first release.

And of course, none of that crap is four gigabytes per user.

And they silently install additional software Y a decade after you installed software X. You installed software X many years before software Y even existed.

I installed a web browser 15 years ago, and now it's doing crazy shit.

My office has horse parking. The law requiring businesses to provide it is still on the books in my state. However, nobody parks their horse there, but some folks chain their bicycles to it. There's no trough.

If they stop the movie halfway through to run ads, I'll burn down the fucking theater.

Does anyone remember when the US State of Massachusetts went to switch to OpenOffice and the ODF file formats? The MS-MiBs were all over the place making sure MA senators got trips to One Microsoft Way for a bit of the 'flashy thing'. Then the MS-MiB sent out worldwide to MS-ISVs with checks and scripts in hand to flood the ISO in order to vote MS-OOMXL( MS-Office Open XML ) format as an international standard so the Massachusetts government could vote it as their open standards format for public documents.

The MS-MiB were sent out worldwide to shut down the One Laptop Per Child initiative so that poor children around the world wouldn't be forced to use a Linux based laptop which could operate for 8 hours on a charge, be charged with a hand crank and was readable in full sun besides having built-in mesh networking. The MS-MiB have been instrumental in other things too. Like when school districts across the US were getting notices of required district wide licensing audits costing many $10s of thousands of dollars or sign new license agreements with the MS-MiB folks. When a couple of districts rescinded their licenses and switched everything over to Linux and started to show other school districts how they too could do it. Did the MS-MiB get recalled back to One Microsoft Way.

Tucked neatly under the MS-Marketing department lives the MS-MiB offices and if they've been reduced over the recent years, surely France has given them reason to throw a few hundreds of millions of dollars into upgrading the offices.

LoB

Oh... How will Hubble do, since it runs a 486 DX 4 ? :)