errr... Apple doesn't charge for its operating system. macOS literally doesn't have a price.

"Act of God" is a legal term of art. You should be blaming lawyers and governments.

Foreign automakers sell better products at better prices. The US industry shot itself in the foot because they see the short term dollar signs selling $100k trucks that never leave pavement. Gas hit $5 a gallon here and the domestic companies are tooling up to sell the new 2027 6000 SUX.

The one thing that ruffles their feathers is that dumb bitch who got shot in the neck on Jan 6th. That shooting would be clean if she was doing that in my home.

I watched her bleed out while draped in a Trump flag.

This sounds like your first encounter with the orange jesus administration. Allow me to educate you.

1) Stephen Miller whispers something into the fully healed orange leader's ear
2) Orange leader makes a decree
3) Loyalists praise dear leader and his wise words
4) Lackeys carry out dear leader's wishes regardless of legality
5) Courts intervene
6) Many appeals later the supreme court (6/3 ruling) rubber stamps orange leaders plans

Because it's cheaper to lobby the government and let the tax payers fund it.

So after the construction crews and trades are finished up, how many people does a data center employ?

Basically the same point I raised in an earlier discussion of this... What to call this? A leveraged buyout of the imagination?

However it makes about as much sense as most merger shenanigans and I would approve if at least one of the side effects was that eBay disappeared.

But I want to find a recursive joke somewhere around here... Something about eBay auctions/sales of merger/acquisitions/divestitures?

Do you really mean that if your git repo were corrupted, restoring a snapshot of the repo from backups wouldn't work? If that's true, then it sounds like your backup system is broken. The hashes after restoring ought to be identical to what they were before the backup.

If git used the files' iNode numbers for its hashes, then I could understand how a filesystem-based backup/restore might not really work; you'd have to backup at the block level instead. But git doesn't use the iNode numbers.

git isn't magical. It only knows files. It doesn't know if you moved the repo, copied the the repo, or restored the repo from a ten year old backup. I have moved git repos around plenty of times, `cp -a`ed directories with repos, tared and un-tared directories that contain repos, and the copies have always Just Worked without any hash mismatches.

mkdir ~/test. cd ~/test. git init, touch test.txt, git add test.txt and git commit. cp -a ~/test ~/test2. cd ~/test2 and check out the backup repo. The backup is valid. Then simulate a disaster with rm -rf ~/test. Then recover from the disaster with cp -a ~/test2 ~/test and you've just restored a repo from filesystem-level backup. The resulting repo works perfectly and its hashes aren't off. git has no idea you deleted and restored under its nose. Try it yourself.

What am I missing? I'm not surprised to be called idiotic, and the shoe often fits. But I'm surprised to be called that over this.

How the FCC is powerless to enforce net neutrality while at the same time enforcing bans under the guise of software security.

My router's hardware's parts were made in China. Its software was made as a worldwide effort but the team seems to be officially based in the Netherlands. And I'm not asking my government's permission for updating either one. Trumptards and their micromanaging far-left centralized-economic-planners can go fuck themselves. Keep your damn dirty ape hands off my computers, comrade.

At least some of this will be stress. If you're enjoying something, then you won't be stressed. If you're feeling positive and delighting in what you do, then you won't be stressed in unhealthy ways. This looks similar to the Mozart Effect, which turned out to be that if you liked something, your brain functioned better.

Yes, charging around the stage playing rock music isn't exactly gentle, but it IS extremely good exercise for the heart and the rest of the body. Again, that's going to have positive effects.

(We can ignore Keith Richards in this model, as he's older than the universe and only created it as a place to store his guitars.)

It's dead, Jim.

It's not coming back.

You forget your metamucil this morning, grandpa?