And it is for reasons like this we donâ(TM)t want age verification as a core requirement for operating systems.

And US companies sell off their renewable technology IP to China, because they arenâ(TM)t getting the investor or government support in the US. This leads to a furthering of Chinese strength, while US businesses build and lobby for a world that is 20-30 years in the past.

Which regime? The current Iranian one, the one running is Israel or the one running the US right now? They are all kinda crap quite honestly. At this point Israel's and Iran's leaders are probably competing for body count. Iran it is is its own people and Israel its the Palestinians, which they treat as scum.

Certainly not Java blood, unless we are talking the blood of the developers writing software or the black stuff that comes from grinding a few beans and adding liquid to them.

Maybe, but then maybe they shouldn't price it as if it was ownership? I'd even argue that if publishers don't provide a way to self-host a server, then they should be required to keep their servers running for 4 years after the final sale of the full price of the game or refund the "purchase" fee.

We are moving to an economy where if you aren't in the 1%, then everything will be a few months wage. This is definitely a case where a US administration was doing everything to increase prices, intended or not. Its what happens when you let a monkey and his buffoons run a system that requires understanding of consenquences.

Everything requires maintenance. Hopefully the repair equipment can be migrated to hybrid and then fully electric in the coming years. It’s going to take years, given the investment, but when oil is politically risky and environmentally risky, then there are incentives to move beyond it.

Who remembers with fondness the McBride times? Ah the shit show that was.

Its complicated. For some its a saving and for some is lost business. For smaller "mom and pop" style businesses or those who prefer I'll go with cash.

One thing I forgot is that in a number of cases using plastic means dealing with a business tied to another country, making your ability to buy stuff dependent on them politically. Then the other risk is choosing a purely national system that cuts out travellers. For this reason mixed options are the way to go, though my pecking order would be cash -> national entity -> foreign entity.

Most everything that involved a plastic card, or a proxy for one, involves some third-party to make a transaction, and those third-parties are also typically wanting a transaction fee. They also sometime decide their "morals" are law onto themselves.

Ensuring money exists in a physical form ensure that the ability to do a transaction does not depend on the access to a device, so helps keep the ability to spend money democratic.

Which isnâ(TM)t necessarily a bad thing. Consider systems still using software written in COBOL that are still running today with minimum interference.

With node.js if you sneeze you are out of date. There is a balance between keeping things up to date, and not creating new breakages and risks while doing so.

And now his fight in the Middle East is going to cost the US its remaining allies and make the US look even more of a liability. Yes, everything he touches turns to shit.

We've run into this misery and had to spend vast amount of hours trying to find solutions. Heck, even legitimate SendGrid emails end up being blocked.

The main issue is Microsoft doesn't even treat these emails as spam, for the user to decide, but instead just sends them into the void.

Hmm, another site to add to my block list.

On the bright side, if they are going to focus on AI related articles, then they should be fine losing human readers and just becoming content for AI bots?

"Article above written by your friendly AI over lord"