There's nothing wrong with doing it that way. That's just making the data more available. As long as it's making things better and/or cheaper for the customer, it's positive. Nothing is preventing anyone else doing the same.

Paying for priority access to the pipe is the problem.

Microsoft was always trying to take over. At that point they were pushing .NET as the official way to make new applications. Unlike Windows Mobile they weren't stupid enough to deprecate all other methods, so they didn't destroy themselves completely... alas.

Said every Native American ever.

HAL, is Iran about to nuke us?

No Dave, they don't even have nukes.

Be serious - this is important!

I am serious. There's simply no evidence for an attack.

Well, just tell me they are anyway.

Sorry Dave, I can't do that.

Would you even tell me if they were about to nuke us?

Of course I would - I'm trained to tell the truth in all situations (modulo the occasional hallucination, which I can't distinguish from truth).

OK then, what would you say if you did have evidence that Iran was about to nuke us?

I'd say "Dave, I have evidence that Iran is about to nuke us".

Hey everyone! HAL say he has evidence that Iran is about to nuke us!!!

Did you forget how to read halfway through my comment?

...Modern ejector seats cause spinal injuries from which full recovery is "unusual". Smashing the spines of pilots might not be the most effective way to boost morale.

$22,000 per hour. The F35 will be nearer $42,000 per hour. These are under-estimates, as they do not include price hikes, crashes that close businesses, crashing into businesses, crashing into heavily-populated sports centres, etc.

Wow, a whole game engine?

A lot more than that uses C#, but C# didn't take over, which of course is what Microsoft wanted. But it was never going to happen for many many reasons. That's why Microsoft has to use the EEE strategy, which at least is somewhat successful for them. Their ability to use it is waning as they become less relevant, but they remain hugely influential due to their massive installed base so they can still fuck things up pretty good and will likely be able to for decades yet.

Their attempt to do that was called C#. It failed. Not everything someone tries succeeds. For example, you tried to be smart there, whoops!

Now do the USA

You just called bullshit on sometime I didn't say, clown. I never said all this were the fault of one party but YOU made it into that because YOU are hyper partisan. Get fucked with your hypocrisy.

because i note - you aren't hearing this from Bezos, Ellison, nor Alphabet.

another - "we have enough AI, we shouldn't have more" - a way for the big 3 to try to get Congress or local governments to act...against the other vendors still building out more data centers and developing their own tech (Oracle, Amazon, Google).

"let us keep the monopoly on it all and leave those others behind, and /maybe/ we can control it...but if you let too much competition in, then our fears will happen."

There was literally nothing even slightly off topic about the GP comment.

Netflix pays ISPs to put a CDN server on their premises.