Ah, missed that. It's too bad that most journalists have never done anything else for a living.

If I need something short that follows me around the house to trip over, well I already have a dog for that.

It has, more than once. There used to be a lot more user-alterable parts on computers than there tend to be today.

They ended up under Fiat after Mercedes found out what they had actually bought. The board of Mercedes sued the former board of Chrysler for having given them fraudulent financial documents. I was a little surprised (but only a little) that neither government got involved. I suppose fraud to the tune of billions of dollars is somehow different than if it's in the thousands.

It is as if I wrote it over the years here, in my journal and comments https://slashdot.org/comments...., except I would first get rid of all government spending, then restructure the debt and pay out the remainder of it, then I would annihilate all taxes related to production (income, capital gains, dividend, any form of work and capital investment taxation would be gone). Then I would have tariffs to cover the minimal government that would remain.

I wouldn't have any departments, any agencies, no money would be taken from anyone to subsidize or help anyone else at all. The only purpose of the federal government would be defense and it would have to be paid with defense/war bonds that the government would have to convince the population to purchase, this way people would control if they want the defense, how big they want it, if they want to go to war by limiting the revenues that government could collect. We observe over time that the very concept of government is flawed, government shouldn't exist, nothing should exist that forces people to behave as if they are part of a collective, it is destructive for the individual freedoms.

Trump does what he does because even though I wrote all of it, he never read anything, so that's the issue - Americans electing someone who doesn't read.

The article describes essentially every computer lab I've set up at home since about 1997.

Since supercomputers don't do it I think it's just more Apple propaganda.

They just followed Detroit's lead.

My thought is that the alternative OS groups should be thanking MS and Apple, I drop Linux Mint and Apache Office on older laptops now and give them to my wife's relatives when we go to Peru. Perfectly adequate for 90+ percent of users out there.

(I see on the article that there are comments about this, with one trying to excuse it as "The influence is so great that its greatness is very obvious, making it unlikely that anyone would believe it to be lower than the actual value." Nope, I don't buy that at all. It's just plain wrong.)

> It's difficult to underestimate the massive influence that Disney's 1982 cult science fiction film, TRON, had on both the film industry

Really? As in, it had *so* little influence that in order to underestimate the influence, I'd have to estimate that it had no influence at all, or negative influence?

I don't see why it's apparently so hard to get "it's difficult to overestimate" right here. (Obviously this isn't the sole example. It's a source of frequent frustration - with "understate/overstate" causing similar difficulties.)

They've certainly got the experience, their systems were used to keep track of the Final Solution.

I'm not sure why they think that being a citizen would save them, they've already deported a naturalized citizen for leading protests against genocide.

It's a sad day when opposing genocide makes one an enemy of the state.

Actually Israeli officials are pretty open about it now, too. You should look at some of the stuff that Ben Gvir spouts.