You mean, the Dept. of Education, established 1979 by Jimmy Carter?

Yea, a fat lotta good that did. Look at the current electorate. Drooling leftard Palestinian-loving commie Sharia-wishing bootlickers on one side, and senile Christian zealots on the other.

We're practically seeing the results of 40+ years of Leftist bias in public education and higher education, and Rightist bias in private / catholic / christian education. And even that's no guaranteed, there are plenty of Leftist churches to go around.

Holy war / Civil war, before this decade is out, in the US, UK and France, at minimum.

The Left's problem is they're even more revolting than the Christian Right, and that's saying something.

Everyone was so busy being amazed that no one paused to think "maybe this is a destructive force that shouldn't escape the lab."

Reap what you sow, suckers.

I'll celebrate AI when it displaces CIOs instead of Regular People.

Up until that day, a pox on it, and all who are pushing it as hard as Pet Rocks.

There's a line, and we're either dangerously close to going over it -- or already have somewhere in the last three years.

The Era of Machines is rising.

This is just so dystopian it is bothersome. I don't think it'll be something as cheerful and (allegedly) helpful as C3PO, it's gonna be much darker.

Or maybe it'll go a different way - back in the stone age, I was married to a boricua girl. If she'd call a complex after a move from base to base, and they heard her accent, no deal, no vacancies. I'd call a few minutes later with my best Chuck Yeager, and sure we got vacancies, come on right on down.

Happened more than once, too.

Surely machines would be immune to such bias, right? Right?

Nice, but not what was being discussed. The discussion is wires. Cables.

Will planar cans beat dynamic? I'm sure they do.

Do horn speakers beat cones? Yes, yes they do (two sets of Klipsch at this house.)

Will a Sumiko hand-made cart beat a mass-produced Audio-Technica? Probably. But by what margin?

Does $10,000 dollar speaker cables beat 14ga. zipcord? Doubt it.

MRI won't tell you your ever-present shoulder and back and neck pains are caused by forever assuming a physical defensive posture, itself coming from old PTSD.

That problem lies in the mind, not the body.

It's easy, fooling audiophiles. I am one, but the guerilla kind that builds his own stuff from time to time, not one of the "believers" in shaatki stones, magic bricks and such.

I do have a friend who is such a believer. He's also quite deaf in the upper ranges, he's 20 years older than me and has a lifetime of abusing his hearing.

If you'd take 14ga lamp zipcord, put a fancy jacket on it, fancy connectors, ship it in a velvet-lined wooden box, price it at $2000 / meter, and you'll sell tons.

I should do that. So much stupid out there with mad, mad money.

Who let China into WTO with "Most Preferred Status?"

It wasn't Tricky Dicky.

It was Billy Bob Clinton.

Nixon opened the door, but Billy Bob Clinton took the door off the hinges.

Wherever you're getting your talking points from is failing you miserably.. you should really return all the yuan they're paying you to shit all over this site.

Manufacturing in the US didn't crater 'til after China was let into WTO. Fact.

https://global-uploads.webflow...

Now. Would you care to re-assess your statement, or are you gonna be a bitter clinger and hug your pillow stuffed with yuan?

Toxic empathy at work, yet again.

Bad results, yet again.

The very definition of insanity. Doing the same thing over and over, and still get the same, shitty results.

Can't seize what was willingly given away.

Sony chose to give up the market to others.

So did Panasonic

Sad to see, but as they say, "all good things.."

Company staffing the place was already Indian. All he did was stand up the new building, connections, lines, etc.

Paperwork is dispensed with, if you have the right "government forms." DD Form 100 is universally accepted.

Old boss once told me, he'd set up a complete call center for a US client in India, for less than he paid any one of his engineers, maybe 10 years before he and I worked together.

Just move to India already, Google. It's cheaper, and no burdensome regulations. You'll be free to exploit your workers far more than you do here.

I mean, that's Google's purpose, right? Pay as least as possible for everything, including people and talent?

Ageist much, you little poltroon?

Why not post it with your username? Oh, I got it... no balls.

Yep, no balls.

Apple will be around a lot longer than you will.

With the projected RAM price increases this year on just about any device that uses it, I bet many buyers bought "out of cycle" to beat the increases.

He's just bombing more countries than any other president.

I'm trading one asshole for another. AT&T is currently ripping up my neighborhood, laying fiber. Nearly 20 years after they said they would.

They likely won't lose the elderly, inertia and all that. But I'll jump ship the instant it's declared 'stable'