Sadly, the answer to that question is never.

In reality we know they're upset that being white and male doesn't get you preferential treatment any more. It's not that non whites and non males were getting preferential treatment, it's that they were getting the same treatment as a white male meaning that their pale pee-pee wasn't a magic job ticket any more and they actually had to compete on their merits... of which they had few.

The thing is, Roddenberry wrote a sequel series set in the distant future, however Paramount rejected it out of hand as it involved the Federation being destroyed.

So it was turned into Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda by a different network after his death and they did a find and replace on the names. The Federation became the Systems Commonwealth, Nietzscheans were the Klingons, Vulcan became Tarn Vedra, so on and so forth. It wasn't a bad series per se, especially for the early 00s, despite the terribad acting (and I'm not just talking about Kevin Sorbo) the show runners managed to keep it interesting, worth a watch if you can get past the kitch. Maybe enjoy with a few beers.

Earth: Final Conflict was another of Roddenberry's shows produced after his death but unrelated to Star Trek. Same problems with bad acting that plagued 90s SciFi but it was still a good series (I find the Donald Trump character (Jonathan Doors) particularly hilarious now).

I did a complete rewatch of TNG, DS9 and VOY a few years back and it was a surprise to remember that none of the series really found their feet for the first 2-3 seasons. DS9 didn't become the DS9 we all remember until there were some serious changes with Season 3 (I.E. the introduction of the Dominion, Michael Dorn joining).

As for Trek, we've still got the Orville. It's green lit for S4 but Seth Macfarlane is busy.

The irony is, despite Visa and Mastercard holding a near complete global duopoly over card transactions, it was US cards that had the most trouble being used overseas simply because US banks refused to adopt the EMV standard that every other country in the world adopted. I was recently in Colombia and Americans still complain about how much their cards get rejected, never been an issue for me with either UK or Australian cards as they're fully compatible with EMV as are Colombian banks (so the cards are 100% compatible with the ATMs and terminals). It's hit and miss if an American card will work in an ATM that my cards work flawlessly in.

Had the reverse issue buying petrol on visits to the US for the simple reason that so many terminals were not compatible with EMV. I always had to go in and pay and some stations flat out refused to accept foreign cards.

But you're right that countries are now implementing their own systems to get out from under the thumb of the Visa/MC duonopoly because the government they're most beholden to can no longer be trusted. Had you told me 20 years ago that this would happen, I would have called you mad... yet here we are and it is because you and your country went mad.

The company that shmoozed the local politicians into giving them the contract made bank... the actual person doing the work was paid a pittance. Yay capitalism.

I think they're more concerned about the gene pool, 1 Latina could potentially disrupt centuries of inbreeding.

It's difficult to figure out who's the worse party in this, the blood sucking lawyers or the blood sucking social media companies.

Whoever wins, we still lose.

Less of a need and more of what would be beneficial. They don't actually need any such training but one thing the armed forces teaches in basic is how to work together, even with people you don't like and that would be beneficial in an office environment (have you ever tried herding cats into a coherent meeting).

But it's a moot point as those with an abundance of ego and dearth of talent or self awareness would never accept that they'd learn anything from "basic" training.

What really scared them was other countries not tolerating that bullshit and in most other countries if you lose a lawsuit like this the other party can come after you for damages. They don't care about negative PR, but a case where they are forced to pay out for having their spurious claims disproved scares the living shit out of them because it sets a precedent.

Yeah... Android manufacturers need to pull their finger out and give Apple some better ideas.

Multiple manufacturers have tried the folding phone several times with little to no success. I can't see Apple succeeding (they'll pretend they are though).

What I can see is Apple presenting their most rigid phone ever as "the iFold 1billion and 2 PRO" with someone standing on stage showing us that it flexes slightly if measured with laboratory equipment... and when people break it in real life telling us "you're folding it wrong".

Special Operator type training is far too advanced for a corporate retreat, what they really need is basic. Learning how to march as a unit, work as a unit, understand and follow orders, et al. Shit that a soldier is expected to have down pat long before they ever get advanced training. Training that might actually be useful in helping people work together or improving discipline... However the ego of your average corporate dick will never allow that, they think they're special so they want the special training.

But in reality they aren't getting anything special, just paying to be shouted at by someone who claims they were a SEAL, SAS, et al. but in all likelihood never were.

Not really an unknown consequence.

Popular brands know never, ever release your cheap products under your brand. Airlines are famous for this, when QANTAS wanted to release cheap, no frills flights under a LCC model, they didn't brand it as QANTAS CHEAP because that would cheapen the brand QANTAS, they created a new airline called JetStar and even though they are wholly owned subsidiaries. It's not unusual for a budget airline to operate under the parent airlines AOC (Air Operator Certificate... the bit of paper that says you're allowed to carry passengers), LEVEL (Spanish low cost carrier) operated under another AOC until it got it's own (Iberia's I think). The point is, they didn't want to associate the parent brands just in case they got successful.

But this isn't exactly off brand for Apple, they're charging $700 for a $300 laptop and $300 is being generous as we know it's really a $200 phone.

Lets be honest, if there were anything worth stealing in Germany, the British would already have done it.

Jokes aside again, criminals, even wanted criminals are by still protected by law. The law doesn't stop applying to people when they break it. The definition of an "outlaw" is someone who is expressly denied the protection of the law, so by definition an outlaw can't be wanted (hence the old trope about the wild west outlaw being wanted dead or alive is completely wrong), in effect an outlaw can't seek the protection of the law for crimes committed against them meaning another person can rob or murder them without consequence.

How is this any different to the FBI's most wanted list?

Clue By Four: it isn't.

Or the US seeking Osama Bin Laden, all criminals they have/had little chance of getting so they release the info in the hopes of someone coming forward with info leading to a capture. It also limits where they can travel to as it's a public notice that they're wanted.

This is the exact opposite of a doxxing.

Jokes aside, I think the point is this isn't really a doxxing. Doxxing is an unauthorised release of personal information (usually with the intent to cause harm), this is really the opposite as it's a state releasing the name of a wanted criminal.

In many countries including the UK, speed camera locations are public knowledge, the locations are published and there aren't that many mobile cameras (and they're housed in giant Transit vans). I don't bother with anything like Waze simply because the cameras are bright yellow boxes on the top of poles or huge transit vans with police markings. You can spot them a mile away and if you cant, you probably shouldn't be allowed to drive.