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Comment Re: Meta (Score 1) 78

I did, once, about 30 years ago, lasted about 4 months before they went belly up from incompetent management in those early internet days. Small outfit, 20 employees, and I remember the day I knew it was doomed. The big honcho took us three programmers to lunch, telling us we were the future of the company, not those old-fashioned parasites manning the phones. The whole thing smelled so bad we immediately asked the phone people, and he had taken them to lunch the day before. They were the backbone of the company, not those incompetent bit pushers.

Fun while it lasted. He turned down two offers to buy him out, and was broke a month later.

Comment Re:Meta (Score 1) 78

wow, it must be nice to have such a perfect world view. its so simple! must make everything so much easier!!

If that were what I had said, your comment would be spot-on. However, your comment is wrong, and fits its own definition of being in such a stark world than only two choices are possible: perfect or wrong.

To elucidate: I said I was low in sympathy, not devoid of it.

Please learn to read, then learn to comprehend, and then learn to apply what you have learned to the comment you have typed out before clicking "Preview".

Comment Re:Lame, Lazy criticism - the only agenda is $$ (Score 2) 172

Also, a movie about a war veteran getting mistreated, and critical of the anti-war movement.

And I did what I had to do to win! But somebody wouldn't let us win! And I come back to the world and I see all those maggots at the airport, protesting me, spitting. Calling me baby killer and all kinds of vile crap! Who are they to protest me, huh? Who are they? Unless they've been me and been there and know what the hell they're yelling about! ... Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can't even hold a job parking cars!

Comment Re:A step in the right direction (Score 1) 124

It's absolute insanity that folks throw away $1k+ phones because we can't easily swap out a $25 battery.

Indeed, because even if it's not user-repleaceable, any phone repair shop can do it. (It's also crazy to buy a $1k+ phone in the first place, goddamn, there are fine options for much much less.)

It's absolute insanity they removed the headphone jack to force us to buy / replace battery powered headphones or an adapter.

It's annoying, but adapters are cheap. I'm not going to lose sleep over $5.

It's absolute insanity I have different chargers and cables for at least five generations of this crap laying about. Pick a damn standard already.

They did, the whole industry uses USB-C now.

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