We get it, "sabbede". You love trump, you hate the environment, you hate protections for the American public, and you hate public servants. You keep posting the same tired screed, calling public servants "unelected bureaucrats" and celebrating the demise of any government behavior designed to better life for Americans. In short, you suck ass, and serve the forces of evil, but I guess that's par for the course for all MAGAs at this point.

Oh, like when the DC (and so many other cities') police stopped reporting crime?

You linked to an article that does not support your lie; I just read the article, but it seems that you either did not read it, or you're an even worse liar than you first appeared to be. The article you linked to is about a police officer who was a "whistle blower" and claimed that managers within the Washington D.C. police department were down-grading crimes (and pushing for their subordinates to do the same) so that they could get promoted (etc.) for lower crime numbers. While these practices are dishonest and hurt the policing effort, this is a far cry from "police stopped reporting crime".

But since you're a MAGA, I guess any lie is a fair play for you as long as it's in service of your shitler führer.

The UFC fights were paid for by UFC, no federal taxpayer dollars.

There is no evidence that the UFC is paying for the full cost of the event. US taxpayers are on the hook for this, and the UFC will pay some portion of the cost of this inbred hillbilly shindig.

Trump is busy making our nations capitol beautiful for our 250th

Holy shit you are one stupid ass-licker.

That's either major sarcasm or Fox News, and I can no longer tell the difference.

This is a ridiculous conspiracy theory. It's simply not possible for trump to lie to us.

EditorDavid doesn't know what an editor does.

They publish puff pieces for GM?

Maybe stop voting for the politicians who sell out Americans, then?

Since that rating is what they use as the basis for their warranties (i.e. failure to meet those numbers means the replacement cost of the battery pack comes out of GM's pocket) , it's realistically the opposite of a marketing claim. What we've found over 2 decades of Tesla batteries is that the reduced capacity curves were quite pessimistic.

The reason that Oracle keeps offering and selling JDK 8 support for years past when they originally planned to is easy: Because so many companies are "stuck" on JDK 8, so why not offer super-expensive annual support for it? Betcha anything other companies (e.g. Azul) keep offering JDK 8 support, just because it's so lucrative.

Both companies using Ada appreciate your service.

I have no idea why this Java "version" thing is even an issue on the internet. No one talks about C++ or C# issues, because there are none.

C++ broke bigly going from 16- to 32-bit Windows, and again going from 32-bit to 64-bit Windows. And a lot of code that people had written broke bigly, too. But it was possible to write code in a very careful way to not break across these changes, which most people only figured out after the fact.

As for C#, it used to break every single application with every single C# release. Backwards compatibility completely sucked with C#. I haven't used it now in over a decade, but even by then they had started making compatibility a goal, and things had settled down quite a bit since the early "break everything always" days.

Almost all Java 1.0 code written in '95, on the other hand, still runs fine today on Java 27 or whatever the latest version is.

Java 9 introduced "Java modules" which changed some low-level classloader and security details, which broke a lot of hacks that open source libraries were using. So a lot of people just didn't upgrade to Java 9, or anything after that. Companies like Azul continue to sell commercial support for JDK 8 and even a few versions older than that, so this isn't really a big deal.

Moving off a platform that auto-expires constantly in order to force you to migrate to a newer ($$$) platform that will also auto-expire shortly after you move to it does seem to be a good idea.

Java 8 (cost: $0) will continue to work forever, so long as you keep running it on the same OS and hardware. It just won't be patched to support new features, new OS versions, or to fix security flaws. It's just like Windows 95 is no longer supported. This really isn't hard to understand.

For reference, we recently declared VC++ 6.0, from 1998, unsupported, not because there's a problem with it but because getting it to run under the latest Win11 is too hard. Having said that, binaries built using VC++ 6.0 still run fine under the latest Win11, and that's a nearly 30-year-old dev.system which, admittedly, is quite a bit better than what MS is shipping today.

With very few exceptions, Java code written in 1995 still runs without modification today. That's 31 years, and counting. Not bad for a free platform.

Purchase the government of the United States

He already did that, in 2024, for only $277 million. As a reward, he was given control over what parts of the government to kill, and he killed off all the parts that were investigating the crimes committed by his businesses.

He bought Twitter with (mostly) other people's money. Including big piles of Saudi royal money and Qatar's sovereign fund. And of course, Andreesen Horrorwitz.