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Comment Re:And this is why people are reluctant to update (Score 0) 77

Redhat also does the backporting thing. IME they have even older versions than Debian in some cases, although it's been a while since I was dumb enough to mess with a rpm-based distribution, and certainly don't want to do business with enemies of the GPL.

Comment Re:Interesting, but... (Score 2) 63

No idea whether these people have lives so empty that work is all they have or whether they have some other defect.

They don't want anyone poorer than them to get anything they had to work for because they think that represents a theft from them, while they are ignoring the wealthy having orders of magnitude more that they didn't work for. It can only be prosperity theology, as only religious thinking is this daft. They are worshiping success.

Comment Re: I don't understand (Score 1) 1371

The lack of critical thinking skills and memory of recent history among Americans is a very sad thing to see.

It was deliberate, it was done by Republicans to create low-information voters, and it worked.

And they are proud to be who they are, and are in denial about how much they don't know, which is why you can't tell them shit.

Comment Re: Democrats and Republicans both (Score 1) 1371

"nobody has suggested or tried to mass disenfranchise democrat voters."

I was purged from the rolls before the election where we didn't elect Trump, there was no reason for it to happen, and I have a Hispanic surname. Most of the purges focused on apparent Hispanics. I managed to re register timely and cast my vote, but only because I was paying attention.

Comment Re:Investigating what exactly? (Score 3, Insightful) 28

The EU is looking into exclusive sourcing obligations that have required device makers to source "all of nearly all" of their glass from Corning, enabled rebates for exclusivity deals, and forced device makers to report on competitive offers and only accept them if Corning failed to price match.

I'm not sure how Corning has any power here? An exclusivity contract is typically for a period of time and simply locks in pricing for a buyer. How could the company providing the glass have any power whatsoever over their buyers?

Through their dominance of the market. "Buy only our product or we will raise your prices, and you need us." Pretty simple and obvious stuff here, and also exactly what Intel got dinged for by our government.

Comment Re:What about charge port location? (Score 0) 99

It was probably styled after regular cars, most of which have their gas tank opening on the driver's side.

Most regular cars made by Japanese companies, and they have the filler on the side where the driver would be in their country... on what is the passenger side in this country. Ironically, having it on the non-driver side is MUCH smarter, because it means you can pull up closer to the pump and still get out of the car. (I know the filler and the driver's door are in different places, but there's usually other crap between the pumps.)

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