TBF a "few" is a relative term, and time is measured in seconds. So unless Bitcoin transactions magically take under two seconds all of a sudden, they're right.

Since when is Adam Black a publicly traded US company? You're off your rocker.

What would be the libel here? For something to be libel it has to be more than false, it has to actually cause damages and, generally, be negative. Calling someone a mastermind behind a technology is not libelous even if it's false.

The ThinkPad line started life as business grade notebooks. They were never consumer laptops, and company IT centres were expected to service them. Even ex corporate second hand ThinkPads were both desirable and very usable. To Lenovo's credit, although they messed around with the designs, sometimes badly, they have generally preserved the quality until now. It's their school and gaming laptop offerings that are pretty shaite.

Seems like the "ceasefire" is already broken.

The correct response to reacting to a crazy asshole madman is to bomb his shithole country to the ground, pour prevenir les autres.

At least, that was the theory of Iraq 2003-2011.

Maybe they're both true. Maybe they're both false.

Or maybe don't engage with talking points dreamed up by propagandists?

My best guess is that with the second season of Jury Duty being about a corporate retreat

Occasionally I need reminders as to why I havent owned a television set in 20 years. Yep, shits still brain-damaged out there in TV land

Leaving aside Ideapads, which I don't think are intended to be the same quality, Thinkpad's modularily varies quite a bit depending on what series you get. E-series Thinkpads are (in terms of modularity and build quality) almost only slightly better than an Acer, for example, and have been for the last 7-8 years at least. One bad yank on a USB-C charging cable can result in you needing to replace the entire motherboard.

Unfortunately Lenovo's Thinkpad division is just as obsessed with trends like "thinness" as every other laptop maker, and to be honest, this didn't start with Lenovo. Remember IBM's wonderful modular designs from the 1990s, with bays that gradually got smaller as time developed as IBM felt the need to trade functionality for some never-good-enough target of thinness, before being taken away from us completely?

> - Putting ports on a separate board than the CPU and ram and such. Physical damage comes to ports, especially charging ports. Having this delegated off board minimizes risk of having to replace something expensive.

This, 100X. I learned the hard way not to trust USB-C for anything critical (like charging) because compared to USB-A and standard barrel-style charging ports, it's trivially easy to break. Like trip-over-a-charging-cable easy. And if, as it is with cheaper laptops, including, alas, Lenovo's cheaper Thinkpads (E series in my case), the critically important port is soldered to the motherboard, you're basically screwed. Replacing the motherboard is half the cost of the entire laptop.

By comparison, in my entire lifetime of owning laptops, going back to the mid-1990s, I don't think I ever had a laptop charging port break on me.

Agree with your other points, but there's also the wider issue of modern keyboards being terrible because of the thinness fetish among marketing people and "tech journalists"...

I've been very fond of the "actual money" currency. Its got a much less "fiat" backing than cryptocurrencies, doesnt involve any expensive proof of works and is reliably handled by almost all brokerages.

And you can buy pizza with it. Hell, keep it in paper form, its even anonymous.

I think you give him too much credit. I don't think his "messaging strategy" has any design, nor is it a strategy. It's just Trump saying whatever shit bubbles to the top of what sometimes passes for a mind. And it's random and changes every four hours because he's random and changes what he believes every four hours. Or every four minutes.

I don't think he even "learned" to act like a reality show... I think this is just who he is and who he always has been, albeit with an added layer of growing dementia. He was moderately successful on reality TV not because he figured out how to be moderately successful on reality TV, but because his normal personality, style and complete lack of ethics, morality or consistency just happens to be perfect for reality TV.

It might be a hallucination, or it might be a real problem. And there are other possibilities. (E.g. earlier it was suggested that MS noticed a bad bug *somehow* and the government didn't want the bug to be fixed.)

If you want to be fair, it's been headed that way ever since the 1860's. And prior to that the individual states were headed that way.

People in power like to make their jobs easier.

"Security by obscurity" doesn't work by itself. It's a necessary component of every security policy, however. You can't just pick one. (It's called "defense in depth", but that's not really a good metaphor.)

I think after this moronic attack, they now know they don't actually need nukes, at least not until the world loses its appetite for oil, or finds other sources that make Gulf state production irrelevant.