And? The US Federal Government already owns about 85% of the total land area of Nevada.. The majority of the population of that State is contained to a few cities like Vegas, Reno, and a small handful of others. There are vast tracts of desert that are uninhabited and were already used for testing.

How so? You think this country has a shortage of available land? The US Government owns 85% of the total land area of Nevada.. 45% of California, 40% of Arizona, and 65% of Utah. There's plenty of desert land in those states to dig a few holes and run some tests...

As opposed to what? Being allowed to make a decision that will mutilate a child for their ENTIRE FUCKING LIFE????

It's not reversible, you clown. Why the hell can't you wait until the kid is an adult and able to make his/her own decisions?

Point to the right to abortion in the Constitution. What the Constitution is perfectly clear on is that any power not given to the Feds or prohibited to the states belongs to the states.

Since the Constitution doesn't give you a federal right to abortion, nor does it prohibit the states from granting you that right, that power belongs to the states.

What the actual fuck are you talking about when you say we're killing people for fishing?

And how the fuck does "we" fit into people being fired for speech? Firings are done by companies. YOU FUCKING HYPOCRITE! You retards cheered for firings over misgendering (no such thing) and people refusing the vaccine.

Yeah... I don't think this is a fixable problem anymore. I think you fuckers have go to go.. You do shit and then LIE THROUGH YOUR FUCKING TEETH about it. Deny it ever happened. It was you fuckers dancing like idiots when Kirk was murdered.

Obama deported 3 million people you idiot. Trump? Less than a half-million so far. Where was all the goddamn outrage when he was doing it? (To be clear: I hope Trump deports every motherfucker that is here illegally. I don't give a shit how "non-violent" or "law-abiding" they are.) And I don't give a rat's ass about race. White, black, yellow, or brown... If you aren't supposed to be here, you can GTFO.

Have you lost your fucking mind? Nobody is telling gays to get out of the military. We're saying no fucking trannies. Nobody has said shit about the gays or lesbians. He certainly hasn't and it's his show.

It's you goddamn liberals that have been absolutely hostile to the Jews. At this point I think you might be legitimately retarded. Christian conservatives are extremely pro-Israel. It's you goddamn lefties that are running all over the place with the "Rah Rah Hamas" bullshit.

Nobody is working to make abortion illegal at the Federal level, fucktard. That's the whole goddamn point of the most recent Supreme Court ruling. The feds NO LONGER HAVE A FUCKING SAY IN IT.

What the hell are you on, exactly?

Weird... I know you liberals would never do that.. Oh wait... I can't buy gasoline powered lawn equipment or mini generators anymore because of you retards.... In less than a decade the purchase of new gasoline cars will be illegal in my state.

You think the stance on Slashdot is "Buyer Beware"? Are you actually high right now?

Are you aware of how stupid you are?

Last I checked, fucktard, we weren't the ones killing people for their speech. I'm also 100% sure we don't give a fuck who you worship or don't worship. Your body? CA / NY / OR / WA and the vast majority of other states still have legal abortion, fucktard. Why? Because the power to regulate that was kicked back to the STATES where it BELONGS.

I get you can't wrap your tiny brain around this concept, but that's the better situation. If the Feds control abortion, that's a single point of failure, retard. You really want abortion being tied to a pendulum that swings from legal to illegal and back again every time the power shifts between Democrats and Republicans?

If the states control it, then no matter where you live, you won't have to leave the country to obtain one, should you wish to do so.

You don't think the government should have any say in whom you do business with? Seriously? Where do you draw the line? Kids? Mentally incompetent? Hostile foreign nations? How deep down your throat is China's dick?

Whom you fuck? Where the actual fuck are you getting this? Has Trump, in any of his terms, uttered anything that leads you to believe he wants to regulate your bedroom? You think he's hostile to gays or something?

I'm not talking about people being clones of each other, and I'm pretty sure you knew that.. But our society has entered a phase where we're forgetting our commonalities and ONLY focusing on our differences. That's not how you keep a country together...That kind of diversity splits nations. Yeah, the founders wanted SOME diversity.. That's why there's that whole "freedom of religion" thing in the document. But if you want a stable and strong country, your citizens need to view themselves as AMERICANS first.. Anything else should be a distant second.

I don't call blacks "African Americans". That's a bullshit label. How many fucking generations do you have to live here before you're just an "American"? If I absolutely have to specify, for some bizarre reason, I'd say "Black American". The left is CONSTANTLY labeling people in an attempt to highlight their differences. Nobody is just an American anymore.. You're a Gay-American or a Mexican-American or an LGBTQ-American.. FUCK THAT. Just be a goddamn American. I don't care what your religion is, I don't care who you like to fuck, and I don't really give a shit what country you came from. All I care about is "Is your loyalty, however you wish to express it. to America first? If the answer is yes, then we're cool. If your answer is "No", then we have a problem...

Some, yes. Some core beliefs should be inviolate. Freedom of Speech.. Freedom of Religion. The right to a Jury trial.. Those kind of things..

Just for clarification: Who is this "we" you speak of?

Diversity was NEVER our strength... UNITY was our strength. The United States was supposed to be a melting pot. Diverse peoples coming together and uniting as AMERICANS. Diversity was simply the ingredient.. The finished product was supposed to be people who viewed themselves, first and foremost, as American citizens, no matter where they came from.

There are few things that piss me off as much as some cunt flying the flag of the shit-hole he/she left to come here.

Share whatever drugs you are taking. They seem to be wicked effective...

I was following along, and understanding your points, for most of your post. But then you just went off the deep-end. I wasn't agreeing with any of it, but you were understandable. I swear, it sounds like so many of you just always want to be the victim of some giant conspiracy designed solely to fuck you over.

Come off it, man. There tech industry didn't orchestrate any of this. People orchestrated this. This shit has been going on since DAY ONE of the Computer Era.

Yeah, tech companies only get paid if you buy their product. That's true for every single business out there. And since no company's reach is infinite, if they want to persist and grow, they have to convince those customers they can reach to give them money more than once. A one-off customer isn't really all that valuable.

I was there at the dawn of the Personal Computer Age. The rate at which we went from slow, relatively primitive machines, to the computational beasts that we have now has been astonishing. All of that advancement driven by a desire, by tech companies, to convince you to give them money over and over and over again.. But this hasn't been a 1-sided transaction. This has been driven by public demand the whole damn time.

My first machine was a 1 MHz Apple.. It sure seemed fast when I got it.. But as the software for it grew more capable, more useful, more mature.. that 1 MHz chip really started to bog down.

Whose fault was that? Apple for introducing a 1 MHz chip? The software assholes for having the gall to produce software that grew more complex and more powerful with each new release?

So Apple poured millions of dollars into developing a faster machine that would be able to run that software at a rate that would be satisfactory to their customers.. And again the same situation played out.. That whole cycle has repeated itself over and over and over and is still occurring today. Games get more realistic, more computations are required to generate that realism, and the public demands more and more and more..

Microsoft is no different. Generally speaking, they respond to public demand. I'm not talking about the UI.. I'm talking about the capabilities of the software and the need for it to be able to talk to an insane amount of hardware and also be expected to run whatever blob of user-land software you want to force on it.

The phones.. Same damn thing. A better camera, better battery life.. A better screen.. More rugged, more versatile.. More everything. C'mon.. You really think the public would be okay with still having a 2MP main camera? People throw money at Apple for two reasons. They really want that better camera or they've come to associate the latest phone with a status symbol.. The only reason people buy those insanely expensive designer brands (Versace or Louis Vuitton for example) is to flex.

Did Apple engineer that? I don't think so.. They got co-opted by the pretentious cunts decades ago. Well, if you've got customers who want to give you money just so they can be cool... What? You aren't gonna respond to that? No, you innovate and improve and give them a damn good reason to keep you as the status symbol.

I'm not a Rolex guy... But from what I understand, it's not all "hype". Yeah, they're a status symbol.. But apparently they're really good watches. For a mechanical watch, they have a precision of +2/-2 seconds per day. That's... impressive. You certainly can't claim Apple hasn't done quite a bit of innovation between the 1st iPhone and the most current iteration.

But I digress. No, the tech companies didn't dumb down their user-base on purpose to enslave them... Yeah, most people don't know how a computer works. So fucking what? Most people don't know how a car operates, how electricity is generated, how pharmaceuticals are developed, or how bread is made on an industrial level. So what?

Microsoft and Apple both figured out you can make a metric fuck-ton of money if you develop machines that don't require the user to have a phuckin' PhD to operate it.

Likewise, I'm fairly sure you're happy you can operate your automobile without having to have an engineering degree.... Humans specialize. The more we specialize, the more dependent we become on each other but the faster our technological progress occurs.

I'm a Linux guy.. I haven't used Apple since 1993. I stopped using Windows about 7 or 8 years ago.. Whenever Windows 7 was officially EOL'd. I'm not an advocate for Linux outside of someone inquiring of me, personally, on what I use and why. I say what and why. I'm not trying to sell it to anyone.. My PC is probably rubbing up against 10 years old. I have no real skin in this game.. But I've watched the industry from birth and I have been truly amazed at how often I am amazed.

I remember when cellular phones weighted north of 50 lbs and you mounted it in your trunk. My first one tipped the scales at well over 20 lbs. (A Nokia-Mobira model that was bolted to my vehicle's floorboard under the passenger seat). And now? I fits in my pocket, runs for about 2 days on a single charge, recharges in about an hour.... Has like 50 apps on it that I use constantly... And takes relatively decent photos and video... And it cost me $125. (I drop my phones from comms towers all the time. So I have a cheap phone that doesn't make me cry when I have to replace it for the bajillonth time..)

Honestly, how is anyone fucking you over?

Okay. Why the decree? I'm assuming it's not capricious. Microsoft gets paid if you upgrade your old PC or buy a new PC with it pre-installed.

Microsoft isn't a hardware company. They don't give a crap how much hardware moves. So, why the decree? There's got to be a technical reason for it.

Ah, turns out there is. They've listed a specific set of hardware features they require. TPM 2.0 - And a processor that supports SSE4.2 and PopCnt (among other specific requirements). So it's not just a decree. These are requirements that the development team has set. Windows expects to find those features on the machine or it's not going to operate properly. How is this unreasonable? I can guarantee the requirement for a CPU that supports SSE4.2 does so for performance reasons. TPM 2.0? Turns out it's "more secure" than previous versions. I'm assuming that there are active exploits, in the wild, for previous TPM versions. How you gonna get better security if you don't implement better security? None of this, not a single requirement, seems arbitrary.

So, it would appear to me that you want to force Microsoft to support, develop for, and operate on insecure hardware and at some measurable performance hit.

What am I wrong about in this? Change my mind. Persuade me.

That's absolutely incorrect. Dish-style transmitters use the dish to focus the energy too. Damn near every point-to-point microwave link is two dishes pointed at each other.