He is literally charging for insider trading knowledge. And no one in the US feels like stopping it. It says everything about the state of what is laughably called US democracy now, because its judiciary, and its legislature are flaccid and supine.

Trump has basically pulled his pants down and curled an enormous figurative shit out on the White House lawns. After already literally bulldozing and wrecking them with his low-rent circus, of course.

Well, yes. For many years, presidential candidates, both Democratic and Republican, referred to the United States as "the indispensible nation". And my reaction was always, "Doesn't that mean the US is a single point of failure for civilization?"

We are currently performing an experiment which addresses this question: can the US enjoy the benefits of soft power without the cost? That's the whole point of obeying *norms*. No individual force is going to punish you if you are treacherous, mercurial, foul-mouthed, disrespectful and generally unpredictable. Everyone will punish you.

I think an inevitable cost of this experiment will be that the world will decide that the US can't be a single point of failure for global democracy any longer. In many ways, that's something that will be good for us. But it's also going to cost us in painful ways. When the world decides to move away from the dollar as the international reserve currency, you will see both inflation and higher interest rates on everything from credit cards to mortgages, to business loans that will offset the export advantages. We will need *more* business investment to shift the economy to producing low value goods again, so the transition will be rocky.

Brother, at least for now, doesn't do this. And that's what I use at the house.

That was my experience with epson mid 90's too.

And back then, i was a frequent printer.

If you don't print often, go laser. Can sit for years without use, wake it up, and it all works.

My last HP was the 5L. nearly 30 years ago. Never had another HP. Brother ever since, even now.

It's a trade off: you get abundant free energy to run the server, with extreme constraints on cooling because your server is running in the most perfect Thermos bottle ever.

Others are taking the opposite tack: undersea data centers for abundant free cooling at the expense of having to get the power down to your servers.

If had to bet on which one is more practial, I'd go with undersea servers. Build them off the coast of Chile, run cables out from batery-backed solar plants in the Atacama desert.

Every single Indian IT outfit I've directly worked with has been a dumpster fire. Why should Tata be any different?

That Apple relies on them is scary. That Apple's info has been leaked thanks to Tata is no surprise.

Surely, in the meeting where this partnership was green-lit at apple someone must've objected, right? Right?.

I think it may be evidence that Amazon has a shitty corporate culture that squeezes every penny it can out its employees.

Corruption can happen anywhere, but it's more likely to happen in totalitarian cultures where people feel like the system is rigged anyway. That's why countries like Russia and China have corruption problems. But I suspect the same feelings of me vs. the system occur in a capitalist enterprise like Amazon where employees are governed by dystopian, rigid, computerized metrics.

OMG you do'nt know how to set up a car, do you.

1. Fore-aft. Slide seat forwards (or backwards) until your extended leg is past the pedals. Which means when you put the foot on the pedal, you'll have a comfortable bend in knee.

2. Set seat rake. Extend arm out, fingertips should touch radio / shifter when fully extended.

3. Set wheel. If telescoping wheel, extend arm out, put rim on wrist. That'll give you the proper bend.

4. Set seat height.

5. Set mirrors. And if you belive in blind spots, you're doing it wrong. Google "adjusting side view mirrors" and the old Car and Driver article shoudl surface. The one painstakingly explaining why blind spots are bullshit.

Only then are you "set up."

If you got gangsta lean - wrong. if your wheel is in your chest.. wrong. There's only ONE correct solution for cockpit position.

And as for seat height adjustment, IME is the ohter way around - most cars, even shitboxes, since the 90's have them. You may not *realize* it's there, but explore the car some, and you may find it. Some are manual, some are powered.

Christ. They don't teach this anymore, don't they..

Be sure to bow down and kowtow to the environazis mandating EVs. All that newfound mass is from battery packs.

Hilarious. My last 35 years' worth of cars have had them.

My '92 mitsubishi mirage had it. My rx8 had it. My mini has it.

My 70's claptrap didn't.

So much for "Most"

C'mon, people. Cars have seat adjusters.

If you're short, in a big car, and can't see past the hood - raise your seat.

I see so many hunkered down in their tank-like cars it's legit scary. "How can they even see?"

I give such vehicles as wide a berth as I do ones covered in dents, or with obviously degraded tires.

Use your mirrors to spot them. Don't be a passive motorist, be an active driver. There is a huge difference between those two points.

I feel ancient now.

Yes, I have a beard. and yes, quite a lot of it is grey.