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Comment Pet peeve (Score 1) 89

Why is it that most "news" platforms and even opinion spouters have an amazing inability to clearly list *which* highly respected overpaid dimwitted excuses for braindamaged houseplants in the Senate, House or Lunar orbit support the bill? They don't care about anything except money or things that might interfere with getting re-elected & a flood of irate emails about something they don't really care about does get their attention. Mean email = unhappy voter. Senator Gronk staff say they see many. Senator Gronk vote no unless $$$ is good.

Comment Again or still? (Score 1) 80

I actually used Waze. In New Jersey no less. Started down almost by Cape May and up to Point Pleasant. Nothing like going up the Parkway and having the steaming pile of shitware start to give directions like "turn right now and then left on" whatever streets it imagined between the trees there in Burlington & Ocean counties. Not an exit, not a paved road, not a service road, dirt road or even trail, just mixed oaks & pines. It got uninstalled that morning and even after Google bought it, I won't go near it again.

Comment Not just nukes (Score 2) 78

30 or so years ago, an interesting scenario was put forth.
As a bad actor/supervillian/nationstate having a tantrum, put together a "lunar program". Actual lunar launches were optional. As the punchline to the op, make a launch for lunar orbit and return. At some point in the return portion, change the destination to geosynchronous orbital altitude and let multiple kinetics fly into the comsats. Anything from guided projectiles to inert masses to a "friendly" option of coated polymer rods designed to breakdown via UV over a few weeks.

Comment Re:My computer restarts randomly at night (Score 1) 221

But you need Cortana as part of the OS...Unless it's an educational version of Win10. Plus System Guard is there to protect you komrade & Compatibility services is just to make system stable.

I've stopped chasing down the useless services that keep getting switched back on & I'm just thankful the (cr)app store has stayed dead so far.

Comment It's better than that (Score 4, Interesting) 39

Alltel bought, stripped and dumped a company called Systematics back in the 90's. Mostly because they were desperate to get a grip on the then new booming cell phone market and had no real system capable of handling the tracking and billing. Buying a company that did contract services for banks was the closest they could get. It worked. They got a billing system created, spun off some healthcare software and screwed the employees by selling the rest over to Fiserv. Much $$$ for the board. They later went private, spun the legacy deadweight landlines off into Windstream and then screwed over some more folks by selling to Verizon wireless. And yet again more $$$ for the board w no regard for the viability of the surviving bad smell that was left of the firm. That Windstream still existed was surprising.

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