Probably nothing, the same thing that stopped Obama from secretly seizing two months' worth of telephone records covering 20 phones lines at the Associated Press. Oh, you goldfish brained folks forgot about that one didn't you? Nothing new under the sun.

The game isn't out yet and it's somehow become woke and abandoned "its irreverent roots".
Demos and leaks are a thing in current year.
"I want everything to stay the way I imagine it forever" said everyone's 6-yo nephew. Have you never liked a band and as they get more successful their style changes? Sorry if this is your first disappointment with selling out, that's something you should learn as a teenager.
Hey man, I think my scissors cut just fine, but they should shove bluetooth or some fuzzy logic or AI into them. Not everything needs to be ever improving.
GTA V made billions of dollars with it's online component and people are whining about GTA VI having online stuff. "Why would a company who's decade long game still has 10 million weekly playerbase make their new game somethign they would enjoy?!" You know what you can do? Not buy it and not play it. GTA V was a fun single player campaign but I never played it past that. I probably won't ever play VI.
Ah yes, whining about people complaining about a game you probably won't even play. Way to really give off that, "old man yells at clouds" vibe.
WoW Forever is out, go play that!
Yeah that notorious single player franchise WoW.
Does every single thing in our lives need to a game piece in an eternal culture war? I have to imagine this very thing will be amongst the topics lambasted in the game, it's one of the few thigns still able to satirized in today's insane world.
I don't know does people complaining about a game you probably won't play really require a comment on /.? What if they declared a culture war and no one showed up?

If you've never had a boss like this -- a lazy narcissist -- you're lucky. But if you have, the pattern is familiar and unmistakable:

* Doesn't understand the issues.

* Doesn't do his homework.

* Believes he's a genius whose "gut" overrules people who do understand and do do their homework.

* Plays his subordinates off against one another.

* Highly susceptible to information from random sources: thing he saw on TV, or heard on the golf course.

* Not particularly fussed about contradicting himself because he doesn't care about being right, but does care about being in charge.

* The more chaotic he can make things, the more in charge he feels.

* Has a cynical view of the people he works for but has a genuine gift for flattery when it suits his purposes.

Once you've seen this up close it's really obvious when you come across it again. You can't *not* listen to a lazy narcissist boss because he absolutely will try the stupid shit he says he will. But you can't count on him either, because he has no commitment to anything other than how he looks and feels *right now*.

Neither. Commerce didn't drop it, it got taken away and given to DoJ, but not because Commerce couldn't handle the invetigation of where the chips were going. The case goes to DoJ because we're talking about criminal charges of smuggling, corporate fraud, violation of national security statutes. Also because the Commerce investigation was tained by potential political interference. And possibly because it ran afoul of a counterintelligence operations siloed in the DoJ -- although by this point the cat is so out of the bag everyone must assume they've got a FISA wiretap warrant on them.

However, the *effect* may be to slow the progress of the investigation and delay any actions being taken.

The first reason for this is that criminal investigations are slower, the standards of proof higher, and potentially involve a criminal trial. Commerce could simply make an administrative law determination that put Megaspeed on some shit list and come to some kind of agreement with NVIDIA.

The second reason is that putting this into DoJ's hands is putting it into a department that has had staff turnover and loss of institutional knowledge, strife between career personnel and political appointees, and difficulty replacing lost employees. It's also led by lame-duck appointees, facing turnover in the next administration. So if they don't make progress in the next two years, allowing for transition delays, it could be years before anything gets accomplished. By then a lot of people will have left their jobs, memories will get hazy, evidence will go missing, and defensive positions constructed.

So while the investigation hasn't been *killed*; it has been delayed so long that it's effectively in suspended animation. It's not possible for Commerce to sanction anyone because the investigation is out of their hands.

Money may be an aphrodisiac but come on, Jensen, look in the mirror. There's limits to anything.

No, that's just plain silly. For example, it wouldn't make one damn bit of difference if this happened today or in two months, legislatures don't have authority over court cases or their outcomes.
You are partially correct, legislatures can change the statutes of limitations and change other things that can have impact on the court cases.

2) The US military dominance of the world is gone. Yes, the nukes still exist, but drones have changed things and a military that spends millions at a time against threats that cost thousands will bleed to death quickly.
That is a very naive view. Drones don't hold land, soldiers do. You haven't seen a truly industrial war in your lifetime. Drones don't work if I jam the signals controlling said drones. And make no mistake against all but 4 nations the US could easily control the airspace to allow for such jamming.

Do you mean the miles-long lines on the non-American side of people trying to get in? Because if they're not in the US, they're not "illegals".
Oh look, you're doing the meme where the left pretends not to understand things to make rational discussion impossible. Ok, the caravans of non-Mexican nationals who were making their way north for the purposes of immigrating to the United States with less than reasonable chances of being able to claim asylum in the hopes that they'd be allowed to stay in the US pending said asylum hearing where upon win or lose, they had intended to remain in the United States. But that's ok, b/c clearly once the Democrats are sworn in they'll fix all the problems(fuel shortage, food prices) and enjoy a permanent majority, the way every single election prognosticator claims after a shift in power. And what usually happens is the fickle electorate shifts again. So good luck, and please /. keep providing the shittiest political takes this side of reddit.

How much has your government money grown in that time?

You can have subscriptions without annoying paywalls. I have no subscription to NYT and I make no effort to try to get their article details without one. But I still wind up in their subscription funnel because they purposely pursue a strategy of providing just enough access to get the link. It is at least mildly annoying to me and I don't think NYT is planning on compensating me for my wasted time the way they want to be compensated for their effort.

(That said I don't care enough to say there should actually be a prohibition on them doing that.)

"By a police department now forced to hire Morons. Why? Because society decided to Left No Moron Behind. That’s why."

Jordan v. City of New London, 1996. Police departments aren't required to hire steroid addled, white-supremacist dumb fucking retards. They just CHOOSE to do so.

Jordan v. City of New London, 1996. Police departments are literally allowed to refuse to hire people they think are too smart to work as police.

Which works out for them since qualified immunity holds if they claim the dumb steroid addled badged criminal retarded fucks called "police" only BELIEVE that they were somehow following the law while they do things like this.

It's nothing but corrupt fucking drug addled steroidal retarded pigs from top to bottom.

Illegal doesnâ(TM)t mean I donâ(TM)t have the right to record, tho. Government doesnâ(TM)t give rights.

Hey look, Right Wing Retarded Incest Bitchboy is back to lie again. Fuck off back to your trailer park, Retarded Incest Cunt who never served or went to college, you Valor Stealing Dumb Fucking Subhuman CUNT RAT.

While this is true, being the subject of an experiment to see what happens when you do that is not something most people would choose for themselves. It's not *irrational* to be concerned. Absence of evidence on a largely unexplored question like microplastic infiltration in human bodies is not the moral equivalent of absence of evidence in an extensively studied question like a vaccine-autism link.