I mean Cisco is not exactly known for high quality software.It can't get that much worse. For example, IOS famously left the TCP part of TCP/IP to be implemented by the process using it... and had no memory protection for quite some time.

of precious bodily fluids, iykyk.

Indeed. Roddenberry seemed to think he should be like an older Kirk, a bit more dynamic and physically large on screen.

I'm glad they went with a more thoughtful and philosophical Picard. I only wish he had been given more opportunities to flex it, because when he did it tended to be brilliant.

In early Soviet Union, there was indeed a maximum salary, called a partmaximum.

Wesley Lloyd representing the State of Washington proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would have limited annual incomes to $1 million

Another colleague John Snyder introduced another amendment proposal that would have limited personal wealth to $1 million.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a maximum income of $25,000 Also proposed a 100 percent tax on income over 40,000, yeah, I know those two numbers don't add up quite right, probably after the 25,000 was taxed.

Until it was fixed, people in Sweden occasionally faced a tax of 102 percent. Talk about a positive feedback loop. Astrid Lindgren was an example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

So there are plenty of people who demand a tax rate of 100 percent on any income over (x), which is exactly a maximum wage.

I think people call it a better distribution of wealth, that doesn't need a level field but when there is too much concentration of wealth there is also too much concentration of power (capitalism by definition?).

Well, I do suspect that if you create a maximum wage, and just give that money to everyone else, and keep doing it until there is a standard salary. That's a level playing field, where everyone makes the same wages. And then the question becomes, If I make the same mopping floors as I would in stressful dangerous jobs, what would be the reason to do those jobs?

What help was that, since you appear to be claiming I am dissembling? My family told me that I was on my own after graduating high school. And what kind of background makes for success. We lived on surplus food (no food stamps at that time) I wore clothing from second hand stores, or hand me downs from relatives. The only "help" I got was marrying a woman with similar values. Which means she didn't overspend by nature.

Sigh. If there is one thing I detest, it is people playing victim. No, I'm no victim. I find people pulling out replies like you just did rather unbecoming. and really, like uno reverse victim claims.

I hear people working very very hard to cast me as the mortal enemy. If you noted, I support the social programs we have her to help the poor people in teh country - but kind sir, I see this all the time. You need an enemy, someone to be everything that you believe is wrong. Your hatred noted, may it serve you and your narrative well.

I know, right? Success for me is having enough money to do the things that make life worthwhile. Money in and of itself is very boring. And many people on both sides of what was once classed as class warfare are consumed with money.

I even enjoy paying it forward. Success is living well, So I take vacations pretty often. I live in a decent but not ostentatious house. Now to paying it forward. When I go out to eat with the wife or friends, I tip 75 to 100 percent. My woodworking "hobby" allows me to donate a lot of rather fine bowls and flatwork to various charities that have auctions and they generate a lot of money for them. I’ve been the CEO of two 501(c)3 charitable organizations, one youth sports oriented, and the most recent one a public education and public service organization. Wife and I contribute to food banks. Do I have money? Sure. But my definition of success isn't just the number of dollars in my checking savings, and investment accounts.

In stark reality, all of the eat the rich people are just practicing their own version of hatred. And your narrative is just an attempt to cast me as that privileged class, who leech off of society, while stomping everyone else.

Regardless, since you have already accused me of lying, you. are likely just going to be saying all the other things I say do that don't align with your narrative are just some rich person lying.

I thought we might have a fruitful conversation. I was completely wrong about that part.

Remember when people here were hyping up Apple's Vision Pro as being the next big thing for professionals and on-the-go working? Unlimited massive monitors all around you on the plane, instructions overlaid over the thing you are working on, AI vision built in.

Who needs a 92 inch TV when you can put on a Vision Pro and watch a movie on the crapper?

These won't be any different. At least they don't need a front camera to relay the image to the screens just so you can see what is in front of you, but there simply aren't any good AR apps. Certainly nothing worth the cost of the glasses, the weight, and needing to charge it regularly.

Thanks, Fastmail looks decent. Non-US company as well.

I do not know that what I have posted qualifies as any "least" situation. What is your solution, tovarisch? A real solution, just not more of the incitement to eat the rich.

Never said it was, you just saw something you didn't like, and stopped taking input. to clarify, I'll repeat - I wrote:

"Well, to clarify, since we're. worried about communism versus capitalism, the US is in no way shape or form capitalism. It is a mixture of corporatism and (cover the kid's ears folks!!) socialism."

We have quite a few socialism based benefits for people of low income. I already pointed that out, but by that time, you were freaking out.

There is a reason why section 8 exists. That reason is the failure of the so called "projects", where apartment buildings were built for low income people. Ironically, one of the reasons they failed was that they would not take working class families, but only the poorest, most needy, and oftentimes most troubled. They were also built in the poorest urban areas. They also had rent control caps, so maintenance often couldn't be made - there was no money for it.

Section 8 is not perfect and has its issues, but it does a couple things the projects did not. Section 8 has mixed income housing, the poor are living in the same places as middle income people not on section 8, and mixed social integration.

People make the decisions. Money indeed does play into it.

That said, with your apparent desire for the poor to make decisions, we do have to deal with some unfortunate truths. Wealth, or the lack of it, does not translate to worth. Some people are born to wealth, some achieve it via hard work, some achieve it through unethical means. It is a mix.

And the poor - it is very similar, some is bad luck - think the handicapped, some of the mentally challenged. Some is drive - not all people have drive. This is also a mix.

We have other things in the mix. Wealthy people who believe all poor are deserving of it, and poor people who believe that worthiness and ethics are inversely proportional to the amount of money a person has. Both are abysmally brain dead ideas, and leave the believer in a highly manipulable state.

I might have a viewpoint based on my personal experience of starting out in poverty, and working my way many rungs up the social and wealth ladder.

Asshats and good people are on each level.

And I do judge. I do it based on character, not the contents of the wallet or amount of melanin in the skin, or country of origin.

Trump didn't elect himself & most of the people who voted for him 3 times would do it again.
future article - "MAGA - the fucking idiots who elected the hateful moron who killed the USA"

Kurtzman gave us Picard. Although it had some severe problems, it did also give us some great moments with Patrick and Picard.

It's a shame it never reached the highs of Strange New Worlds or Prodigy in terms of the writing, but I'm glad we got it.

He brought credibility to a genera that had previously been lacking in it. Instead of cheesy dialogue and hammy plots, he showed that it could be a solid drama with great performances from the actors. Then he did it again for superhero movies.

His final movie, Avengers Doomsday, is going to be bitter sweet.

Pissed off a comrade, did I?

Thanks. Based in Germany is good. It's a shame they only do a few services. Part of the problem is that to completely de-Google you need to replace things like Google Maps and Android as well. YouTube is another big one. Nothing else offers anything like as much for sharing video, and of course everyone you want to watch is on there and isn't going to switch to a PeerTube instance for the the 3 people who use it.

If only it was as simple as "don't use it". Used to be that communities formed around mailing lists and webrings. Now if you aren't on Discord, Twitter, and YouTube, you are going to be isolated from them.

I am involved in the Japanese electronics and retro computing scene. When many people left Twitter due to Musk turning it into a Nazi bar, the drama seemed to mostly pass the Japanese users by. English speaking communities fragmented onto BlueSky, the Fediverse, and Twitch. So I lost contact with both some of the English speaking ones, and almost all of the Japanese ones. Man, I just want to read about unusual Japanese street lights, or the new project someone made for the FM Towns Marty, but it's all happening on Twitter. At least the Japanese still use blogs I guess.

They have already put far too much emphasis on AI with their phones. When Pixel phones started they had A+ cameras, the absolute best you could get on a phone, at least for still photos. Video was always a bit weak, but for photos there was nothing else close.

A few years ago they stopped really pushing the camera technology and went all in on AI instead. Their CPUs have mediocre performance, but always tout big AI chops, which rarely amount to anything. The supposedly exclusive features that they unlock always get back-ported to older devices within days of release.

Their cameras are maybe B+ now. Some considerable distance behind the leaders, especially Xiaomi and Honor with their huge sensors and optics. It's so sad.

He was cast by Robert H. Justman. Roddenberry had different ideas about who Picard was supposed to be, but in the end going with a British actor with that commanding voice, a mixture of Yorkshire and stage trained, turned out to be perfect for the role. Steward brought gravitas and subtlety to the role, in equal measure.