Wellll... I *am* of the opinion that electric guitars killed my enjoyment of music, but I'm not sure that has anything to do with the charts.

It's not clear that "48.3% who wanted a black woman". It's quite plausible that a reasonable fraction of those just didn't want Trump.

I don't think a woman can be elected. This isn't a statement that one shouldn't be, it's and estimation of the voters.

You seem to be under the impression that the "master" these days is on analog film. It ain't. It's a digital computer file. There is no difference between "master" and "copy of the master". And as someone else has said, the problem isn't that they don't have other copies of the master, it's that somebody who's not them has a copy of the master and can churn out perfect pirate copies.

The present administration is an extreme case, but ALL administrations like tools that make what they want to do easier. So does just about everyone, but larger groups tend to take more extreme positions, because some of their members are more extreme, and they are supported by the other group members.

You really need the 0-th law for that to be a relatively safe position. Even that is going to hinge on your definition of "human".

Calling him a Nazi may be technically incorrect, but Elon seems to be favorably impressed by Hitler's actions. Enough so time cause emulations like MechaHitler.

It told me that I was a minor. I wasn't a minor when Slashdot first hit the web.

The problem is "How do you tell?". Certainly many things that claim to be evidence really aren't.
You can check that the code does what it claims to do. You can't really check that the claimed author really wrote it.

"Mostly" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here:

So three out of seven got home confinement, but one of them had it come after the completion of a prison sentence. One of the remaining two was "a contract intelligence analyst" which is hardly an executive. The last is "a manager of global intelligence" who reported to someone who got prison time ("senior manager of global intelligence) so I would also say "not an executive."

WRT to the CEO, I agree he got off easy and should have been prosecuted, for, at the very least, destruction of evidence. It appears his response to being notified of a litigation hold because there was an ongoing criminal probe was to... delete everything.

Oddly, the wikipedia page disagrees with the lengths of various sentences but does tend to support that "home confinement" was not really how executives were handled. It also mentions Ebay's internal investigation (which was conducted by an outside party) found that he neither directed that knew criminal acts would follow. While I am suspicious of "we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing," the outside firm suggests this was above board. One would hazard to guess that the destroyed evidence may very well have shown that he did, but here we are.

By the way, your sig is amusing as heck.

You're focusing on the US. What are other countries seeing? My guess is that they're seeing China as a more reliable vendor.

sudo chroot --userspec=nobody:nobody /mnt/jail /user/local/bin/chatgpt --pleasedontgorogue?

Why do you accept that the reasons he give mean anything?
He wants to get rid of the power inverters. His excuses are just whatever sounds good at the moment. (That he wants to do it to cripple solar power sounds plausible, but I don't really believe it. That someone asked him to do it sounds more likely.)

And a funeral wreath. And, apparently, a plan to send Polynesian gangsters (one imagines that this might consist of Dwayne Johnson showing up at their house singing "What can I say, except, Ex-tor-tion!") though it thankfully appears that did not come to fruition.

They are. The summary states that seven former employees pled guilty to criminal charges. I know it's tradition not to RTFA, but you are supposed to at least RTFS.