Thanks for the suggestion, but when I tried it, I got

:ZZ
E492: Not an editor command: ZZ

The quest goes on.

When I left the organization, I saved that PDP-11 image in an emulator VM, which I'm running on my laptop now.

I'm still trying to exit that vi session.

It all makes sense when you consider the prime directive that was baked into Siri:

"Think Different."

They'll be plenty of jobs picking lettuce and screwing phones together. Just what every white collar worker was actually aspiring to do all along.

Meanwhile, once protected by tariffs, everything you buy in this country will become as much of a bargain as American full-sized pickup trucks, which have enjoyed lavish tariff protection for decades.

The original Underwear Gnomes had a more realistic business plan than this.

1. Propose privately funded cockamamie geoengineering schemes.
2. ??
3. Profit!

Ignoring an existential threat because it is supposedly a "political statement" is a (stupid) political statement.

It might be possible that they are "masters of their domain".

However, with these stories it's usually only a few weeks before some random researcher demonstrates that the same problem could be solved in a couple of hours on a Commodore 64 or something. So I'll wait a while and see.

In harmony with today's national trends, they're harking back to the Roaring 20s, when a handful of industrialists called the shots and the mechanical typewriters had round keys.

It's not a burden on the taxpayer, because it's self funded. It already survives based on fees vs delivery cost, even while feeding a mandated vast surplus in their retirement fund.

The USPS *is* a burden on all the people who don't live out in the boondocks, because with nationwide flat rates, their postage subsidizes deliveries of MAGA hats to the sticks.

What privatization would actually do is cause the postal service to reallocate costs in a quest for "profitability". Basically, boondock service would be slapped with significantly higher rates or simply cancelled altogether. Urban areas would still enjoy regular delivery, and there are more than enough junk fliers being sent out to keep it in business indefinitely.

>> I'm afraid it's not worth the electricity to do that, Dave.

The original program was probably never tested for edge cases either.

Why do these Google employees need to work so hard when they have AI to boost their productivity?

Well, if I have to be enslaved by AI machines, I'd rather have it be by super-cool looking vintage CDC mainframes than by monotonous racks of Nvidia GPUs.

Long answer:

Look in the terms and conditions before you buy.*

*We may modify these terms and conditions at any time at our sole discretion.

Short answer:

No, you don't own it.

There's more:

We'll also monetize any and all data we can glean from you, and you agree to binding arbitration.