Officers in charge of these kinds of programs rotate on to a new assignment after 3 to 5 years. Contractors keep personnel on staff whose whimsical title is "project manager" but whose real job is to work the rotating cast of government program managers into keeping the program going.

In such an environment it is almost structurally impossible to contract smart for any program that takes more than a few years from start to finish.

Shooting kids is the Number 1 reason kids die in the USA.... do those laws work ?

Oh please...this stat just is bogus.

They took the ages up past 19yrs old, I believe to 20yrs....

Legally you're adult at 18...so immediately that should be cut out of the mix, but also with ages 17-19...you're going to start counting heavily on the gang bangers who are criminals into drugs and drug wars...

Those are NOT children...they are criminal who more and more are being charged as adults.

If you took what most people consider to be actual children...1-10yrs or maybe even up to 12 yrs old....those "gun deaths" numbers plummet.

When those numbers are looked at...more kids die by car accidents.....

So please...get of the fucking high horse on children gun deaths...the REAL NUMBERS show a much different story...

And if you are not from here or don't live here....bully for you, you don't have to live with our "freedoms".....

But frankly I LOVE it here and love my country.

It seems strange to hear your rants while we still have people illegally risking death to get here.....

Look you don't have to like it. You don't have to live here in it.

And if that's your choice...fine. But otherwise it isn't your fucking business how we live here, now is it?

Why do you keep complaining about it if none of this is your problem much less none of your fucking business?

Ideologues who think they help open source by placing demands on developers are hilarious.

https://users.rust-lang.org/t/...

"You guys need to perform work I'm not paying you for on MY terms!"

If I wanted money for my open source contributions, I would have asked for it. If the idea of somebody else making a billion dollars off of your work and paying you zero doesn't sit well with you, then simply say so in your license. Be sure to tell the pseudonymous contributors what their share of that is while you're at it, assuming you allow contributions at all.

I had forgotten that Apple Card was even a thing because it's so fucking stupid.

Why do you think it is stupid?

I like it...I get cash back on purchases, it gives me on central place to readily check what I've charged each month (THIS is big for me, easy to track and manage budget)....and I get 3% off and 12 mos interest free on Apple purchases....

I pretty much only use one other card...my Costco Visa that gives me cash back on gas (5% at Costco pumps, 4% others )...and cash back on Costco purchases, which along with my Exec membership adds up quickly over the year....

What do you feel is stupid about it?

Or...easy solution, tried and true, age old.....don't use Facebook or any of those other social median apps.

We got along just fine before them....and I can tell you from experience....never being on them, hasn't harmed me a bit, in fact I think it overall has had a positive effect on my life....

Fuck it....

I'm gonna just go back to smoking real cigarettes....

It was MUCH more fun anyway...you got to carry a lighter all the time, play with fire....and flicking ashes at the bar while talking to a girl just felt....right.

Hell, maybe go back a bit further and buy loose tobacco and roll my own.

Pure analog pleasure.....geez I miss it.....

They aren't trying to require ID. They are trying to require either a passport or birth certificate. A lot of people don't have a passport, and a large percentage of the population does not have a birth certificate readily available. It takes money and time to get a replacement copy, and even if everyone requests one in time local agencies will be flooded such that the delay will cause them to be unable to vote. It is already well known that the way things have been done for many decades works just fine, and all claims of election fraud have been thoroughly debunked. Also, a poll tax is illegal, and it cost money to get any of the three (ID, Passport, Birth Certificate.) It's ironic that you are complaining about election fraud while supporting installing the means for Trump to commit it.

Phones can have multiple users also, either by allowing them to be physically shared or by creating multiple user accounts.

They have a king and a quasi institutionalized class system. What do you expect?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Anyone else tired of that word? "Slop".

"AI slop" has become as meaningless and overused of a term as "toxic".

It seems to mean nothing more than "some use of AI/LLMs that I don't like".

I have to click through a half dozen popups to get anything done.

No surprises there.

A tool. A very useful tool, if you know what to use it for and how to use it.

... in my $20/mo account.

(Well, except very occasionally for their own services.)

You just conflated desktop environments with a specific application. Linux has probably a dozen desktop environments that are superior to Windows.

Linux does not have a raster image program on par with Photoshop, but that is probably why you do not see any graphic designers using Linux. It is easy to take shots at GIMP because this community developed program cannot match up, feature for feature, with a multi-billion dollar Photoshop. But there are a great number of community led projects that blow their proprietary counterparts out of the water.