Your citation is some one said so? I'm asking for data backing what you are saying. In other words, a proper citation. An authoritative person saying something doesn't make something reality. For instance, Trump says things all the time that don't match up to reality.

Probably because we were busy learning what constitutes a proper citation rather than off walking around being condescending to people. What should I expect though from someone who believes a state with property values like California's can also be a hell-scape at the same time. Hint: People don't pay California money to live in a shitty place.

And Brin makes up half of all billionaire wealth in California?

It was a question with a point.

Good lord you're tiresome.

Cite a source.

I've been hearing for decades this thing or that would doom California for ever and yet here we are in 2026 and California is still the largest economy in the union by a long shot. At this point, wolf has been cried so many times I'll need some real tangible evidence before I'll believe anything conservatives are trying to tell me about California.

Making people wait an extra day because of crappy delivery methods is bad for business. Then there's the issue of waste as many of us don't like seeing stuff go through all of the efforts and energy expenditures of being manufactured only to be destroyed without even being used once.

Got of those, too (the early USB 1 ones, with the exposed ATAPI connector. I ended up buying Iomega's Firewire expansion that attaches on the back of the slim USB and latches on that ATAPI connector, as Firewire 400 had much better bandwidth than USB 1, provided enough power and thus required only a single cable, and I had a cheap Firewire 400 adapter laying around from some video project (funily: the Firewire 400 card was a free bundle bundled with some crappy movie software that was selling poorly and was on heavy sale at the shop I bought it from. Threw the useless CD, kept the Firewire card).

Mine still works too. The most difficult was trying to find the barrel power plug (since back in the days I was mostly using the Firewire attachment and because Firewire provides enough power, I wasn't using the barrel jack much. Nowadays most of my machine are USB only.

Yup. The slim USB were also a good solution to carry data around.
Bring the slim USB and the cables at the university, download shit with the fast bandwidth, then bring the drive back home, plug into the Firewire attachment and load it onto the computer.
Later the university aquired computers (from Dell) that came with ZIP IDE drive built in, so I only carried the Zip250 disks and kept the drive permanently plugged into the Firewire attachement. And almost lost the power barrel adapter as mentioned above.

There is a very rational argument in that bunch of insults and expletives. Do better.

Yes, that ass-backward approach came in my mind.
Your bank notes are too easy to copy now that color photocopiers and color laser printers are a thing?
- Rest of the world: make better banknotes (see swiss money, euros, etc.)
- USA: make bank note detection software mandatory on each piece of tech (HP and other US manufacturers have a boner at the thoughts of the sudden illegalness of cheaper competitors from countries without that function) and also mandate yellow dot tracking (now in addition the police-state is having a boner, too) (*).
- Rest of the world: why the hell is my color cartridge constantly empty on yellow and why is this preventing my to print even black and white?

Same here:
USA: has a problem of violence, bonkers level of gun proliferation, on tops of tons of ways to make life shitty for everyone (lack of proper health care, social welfare, etc.)
also the USA: lets add "gun detectors" to 3D printers so nobody prints a gun without a serial number. Surely that's the best solution to address all of the above, right?

Trouble is that this time, most 3D manufacturers ARE NOT in the USA.
Most of them are in China, and the US is only a fraction of their exports, and the required function requires magnitude more compute power to implement than the tiny micro-controller that is usually found in those printers and implementing would require massively driving up the cost of the printer.
Chance are high that the manufacturer will just say f-u, and merely just stop selling complete pre-assembled kit to the USA, only stuff that can circumvent the restrictions (e.g., kits with only motor and drivers that require adding a sold-separately microcontroller).

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(*): fun fact: on some printers (E.g. with very low memory) those "functionnalities" were implemented in the drivers instead.
My ancient HP color lasterjet works this way. There are no yellow dot when I print from CUPS.

It's entirely possible that the "gun detection" is going to be the same: crappy buggy detection +additional privacy invading tracking implemented into the management software shipped next to the 3D printer as the MCU cannot handle that. Circumventable by downloading Octoprint from some european server and running that on a Pi to manage the printers.

From what I'm looking at https://pcpartpicker.com/trend... they're close enough.

What's not to like about Data centers using as much power as 100,000 homes moving in to neighborhoods and jacking up the power bills for all the locals all so that these companies can replace American workers with AI!?

How about they spend that time and money on improving Plex? I haven't seen meaningful improvements in their software in ages and it needs quite a few.

And we're expected to believe that can just flip a switch and rebuild a nuclear program that took them decades to build? What a laugh,

No country has ever created regime change with air power alone. It's a pipe dream.

Plenty of people quit without going cold turkey. Never mind the fact that smoking is far more addictive than junk food thus is harder to beat then giving up junk food.

As I said before, we've never tried anywhere near as hard with our obesity messaging as we did with smoking. To dismiss a solution that worked in another context that we haven't even attempted in this one is foolish.

Because the bad lifestyle choices that cause obesity negatively effect the body beyond obesity. Refined sugar is still bad for you even if you're a healthy weight. Ultra processed foods are still bad for you even if you're a healthy weight. Exercise is still good for you even if you're a healthy weight. Eating lots of produce is still good for you even if you're a healthy weight.

And they choose to use such things because they decided to quit smoking. Guess what was happening that was encouraging people to stop smoking :)