Your friend had better have SERIOUSLY GREAT MEDICAL INSURANCE (such that doesn't exist..) OR be really wealthy as those drugs you see ENDLESSLY advertised on tv are SERIOUSLY expensive.

It depends on their definition of "large". EDC in May in May isn't exactly tiny... The cost to get in to Burning Man is high enough already without the tax bozos hitting them with a large tax bite.

Yeah.. there probably is a way to modifiy this bullshit behavior, BUT once modifed, I almost GUARANTEE you that the next major windows/msoffice "update" will turn this shit back on again.. The ONLY way to win with Windows is TO NOT USE WINDOWS or ANY MS product...

Speaking of Louis, I haven't seen anything from him in months. Hope he's ok and hasn't been shit upon by the powers-that-be.

A 50MT thermonuclear bomb dropped on their HQ ought to do the trick..

No kidding... The term "trusted" sure the hell isn't the system's owners' "trust"... I'm constantly so damn glad I flushed all MS crap down the commode and stick with Linux.. F--k TPM and "Secure Boot"...

Just another reason why I'd NEVER EVER buy a current model car.. Even if I was a millionaire, I'd keep driving my 10 year old car and keep fixing it when necessary. I suspect theres a growing number of people like me out there in fly-over land....

I have a better name for that useful tool... F**K_YOU_MS.. Just sort of falls off the tongue...

I don't care HOW MUCH $$ I had, even Musk-level, there is NO F-ing way I'd pay $500 for ONE f-ing meal, no matter how tasty it was...

... or until recently they showed up on Redbox, until that chain's demise. My plan while Redbox still existed, was I'd wait till any movie I cared to see (which were VERY few) came out in the Redbox, I'd then rent it and rip it to my Emby media server. Mostly, since Redbox imploded, there hasn't been any movies that i'd care to see. As an aside, there is one movie that I'd go see in a theater IF Spielberg made a sequel to Close Encounters of the 3rd Kinf... I remember seeing that movie first run in 1977 at a theater that has been one of the 60s-70s Cinerama theaters.. I walked out of that theater after the movie with my mind totally blown.. Imagine a sequel that returns Roy Neery to the middle of LA instead of the wilds of Wyoming and the government trying to say its swamp gas..

I spent a 20+ year career as a sysadmin/"windows janitor", and seeing now how more evil MS has become in the last few years, I'm so damn glad I moved my home systems over to Linux when I retired in 2010. MS has removed the gloves and is making no bones about f--king with those poor folks who, for whatever reason STILL uses anything from MS.. They have my pity..

What do you mean, Kind of????? They're a capital letter BULLY.. I can't imagine anybody desperate enough to work for them. As not buying from them, sure you can find items you need elsewhere, but their convienience is hard to avoid...

My primary browser is FF, but there are a few websites I go to that FF doesn't render properly, a couple that gives you a blank white page, for those I use Brave.. I don't like Brave enough to use it all the time, but it covers nicely the sites that FF shits the bed on..

I suspect there are a LOT of us out here who, if a commercial is too stupid, or too repetitive or is just too f-ing annoying (like those ENDLESS drug commercials), we make sure we NEVER buy their product/use their service... My mute control gets a real workout when I watch tv..

You and me both.. I escaped that insane asylum back in 1996. Why not call it what it is? That being Commiefornia...