Oops, we forgot to have a society women would want to have children in. Maybe try making it not massively disadvantageous in every way to have children. People's kids used to be low cost workers. Now they are just expensive. Defray those costs if you want people to have children.

If you want women to have kids then make it an attractive option. If you don't care enough to do that then you don't care.

"Maybe Kristi can do an ad for that too."

At least the costume will be cheaper for the taxpayer

Who wants to bet that the IRS suddenly has a massive drop in taxes paid by small businesses this year.

Because receipts are a lot more important to the IRS than to corporations, and the current leadership is NOT very interested in investigating fraud by business men.

I am open to discussions about my confirmation bias. I do not know everything. What I do know is that masked men with guns, no uniforms, and a severely unprofessional demeanor are wandering about kidnapping people based on the appearance of the people being kidnapped. Citizens have been kidnapped. We know this is true because we know some of them were released. Nobody knows if any were not released. The highest court in the land signed off on this. Let's talk about confirmation bias...

Lol mickeysoft dildos with mod points

It's inertia, largely from government, but also institutionally. When businesses originally adopted Windows (3.x) there was a massive cost difference between Windows and anything else capable of doing the job of allowing users to run business applications, and in many cases the software simply wasn't there. Putting everyone on a Unix workstation would have cost 3x as much or more, even if the software existed. Putting them on X terminals and using centralized systems to support those would not have saved any money vs. Windows, at least not up front, and required a strong network.

Today they could switch, but now would have to face the cost of switching itself, and they would also find themselves incompatible with government in a number of cases.

You mod yourself up with multiple accounts. There is no other explanation for your consistently +5 posts as you are not insightful nor notable enough to justify such bullshit. Anyone who has been here for a while can see the effects.

Which word confused you, not-a-car-guy-coward?

Vultures circle around the weak and dying, so yes, Sears management failed them.

If they were dropping this proprietary stuff in favor of a standard then this would be really great news. An API for car integration (so that you don't need iOS or Android) would be a true advance.

But it turns out they were merely thinking "We're letting the wrong people fuck you over. We should have a piece of that action."

Corvette is no longer a sports car. Some would argue it never was, it was just a muscle car with better handling. But now it's a supercar, and it needs to be bigger. A smaller car doing the speeds it will do will be unstable. You need both some wheelbase and track, and you also need the wheelbase to be significantly greater than the track, or you will have a twitchy deathtrap.

If you live in the USA and want a sports car, the answer has been Miata since it was introduced. It used to be 240SX, but nobody knew, because Nissan is shitty at marketing. (You needed more power, but the stock "truck motor" used in the USA would do 300hp with a turbo on stock internals reliably, and there is a shitload of room for engine swaps in that vehicle.) The 240SX used to absolutely dominate autocross when it was in the E/SP class. Then because they won too much the SCCA moved it to D/SP where it had to compete with M3s and other shit with twice the power, which was some absolute clown shit. Nissan never brought us the S15 Silvia which would have been the post-1998 240SX, so the Miata has been the answer ever since unless you want AWD, then it's been Impreza. They still have a model or two with a stick.

When you load an Explorer window in Windows 10, the window loads and then it loads the stuff that's supposed to be in it. In Windows 11, in an apparent attempt to hide how the sausages are made from the user, it loads the stuff that's supposed to be in it before it draws the window. That way it's usable shortly after it appears. But what happens if you have a network failure? Now the explorer window no longer appears until after the network timeout passes, even if you open e.g. "explorer c:\". This means that you cannot use Explorer to load local resources during a period of network failure without waiting for at least a few minutes. If I want to open a local document I therefore either have to load it from within the application (which itself may have a variation of the same problem related to file dialogs not becoming usable until the network timeout passes) or go find and "start" it with the CLI.

While I'm complaining about stupid by-design fuckups in Windows 11, I used to use Notepad as part of my workflow in Windows 10. Not only does all text appear the same with no formatting, but it strips formatting, so if you paste something into classic notepad and then C&P it out later it goes without any of the text formatting. Sometimes this is exactly what I want. Windows 11's notepad breaks both of these things by supporting RTF, and by having a shitty autosave feature which you cannot disable. You can stop Notepad from loading its prior state on launch, but you CANNOT disable autosave. If a network share goes away while a document is open, NOTEPAD HANGS. If it doesn't come back before the timeout is exceeded, THE DOCUMENT IS UNLOADED. It literally just closes the tab, ALONG WITH YOUR CHANGES.

Microsoft has always been incompetent but this is well beyond the pale. This is beyond amateur hour level bullshit, this is a new low of incompetence even for Microsoft. And since their servers are pathetically fragile and need to be rebooted once a week or more for something simple like file services to even work reliably, this is causing me real life problems which result in less work being done.

Wow. You are so cool. I mean, your ability to take an intelligently written argument, think about who could have made it, then insult them, all in such few words.

It is amazing.

All without countering a single thing said.

You should be a politician. Or a 9th grader

I currently own two GM cars, a Malibu and an Acadia, and I like them a lot. But like you said, there is NO value to ANY consumer in dropping CarPlay and Android Auto, since they could even offer it side-by-side with their proprietary and most likely subscription-based garbage that nobody wants if they thought it could compete.