Coming from the party that loudly boasts "freedom!," it's kinda weird - among other things - that they hate freedom of speech like this. Government is specifically *not* allowed to impinge on our rights to speak our thoughts. This is a clear First Amendment violation thinly wrapped in bureaucratic rules. If Republicans had any sense of shame, they'd die of embarrassment about now.

Does Fox "News" give equal time?

What meds finally brought you relief? My wife's in chronic pain, and it kills me to see her suffer. She's against the idea of medication, in general - I swear, she's a Puritan trapped in a modern body - but I could probably convince her to take some, if it actually worked.

developer.apple sent out a "Making your app ready for Duo" notice - I didn't really read it - so there's at least *some* differentiation for apps that run on a Duo. It remains to be seen what level that is.

Oh, they knew, because they're the biggest abusers of it: just look for stories of cops using Flock to follow their girlfriends and exes. This is just CYA now that there's some backlash. Standard operating procedure.

And how is that any different from America, today? Our own government is abducting citizens and locking them in concentration camps, or deporting them to countries that aren't their own. That's if they're not murdering them for protesting against such actions. America is no fkn paragon of virtue.

But, honestly, the bigger issue is that China doesn't have to sell anything in America to overpower us, in the mid-term. They just have to sit by and watch as we destroy ourselves from within. We'd rather fight pointless culture wars, and direct money toward already rich people, than put resources toward new R&D, or infrastructure. Because of the critical mass of MAGA, our downfall is inevitable.

As an American, my experience with American cars - Ford, Chevy - has been crap. The only cars I'd buy again are Hyundai and Toyota. I've never had a Honda, so I can't say much about it. Oh, though I do drive a Ford Transit 250 commercial delivery van, and aside from wear and tear, it's running solidly at 228k miles.

They don't have to get into a war with us: they just wait us out, and let us die under the weight of our own fkn stupidity. Culture wars over R&D, anyone? We're too busy punching ourselves in the face; they don't have to lift a finger.

The task was connecting a common Linksys home router between two Solaris-based medical devices to create an ad-hoc network between them. That router model was chosen specifically because it was simple to configure. The instructions were, paraphrased, "Start the router; connect a network cable to it; bring up the configuration page in your browser; configure the router with this IP; save configuration; connect Solaris machine 1 and machine 2. Finis."

The big "assumption" was where to type in the IP address in the Linksys configuration page. And these technicians still fkd it up. Who fks up a Linksys home router? Who even needs instructions for a Linksys home router? "Oh, you want to use this IP address for the router, and there's an entry box for IP address right there. I'll just type it in. Do-de-do." Do you need to be specifically told, "Move the mouse to this field; type in 192; move the mouse to next field; type in 168; ...; click on Ok; breathe in..."?

Apparently, some people do. I learned my lesson.

You haven't had to give instructions to people, have you? I once wrote an installation document for a group of service people that I thought were reasonably intelligent; they were all highly-trained senior professionals who worked for a Fortune 100 company. So I took many liberties with the instruction document, assuming that they did not need to be told every. last. step. I then observed them while they deployed the product with my instructions. It was a freaking disaster. I went back and rewrote my instructions to include every. last. step and mouse movement because it was, in fact, needed. What I thought was patently obvious from the on-screen context threw these "professionals" for a loop. So if Google changed their phrasing, it was probably because they found it necessary. Because, quite frankly, people are stupid, even the ones you think should not be.

It's an international body of water. In spite of that Wiki entry, the president does not have unilateral power to change it. The only people that believe he does are the mental toddlers that lick his balls between every step.

They hate what they ain't, and Trumpers ain't intellectual. Or compassionate; or empathetic; or considerate; or any other of many decent qualities that they lump into "woke." But when they see something that reminds them of their inadequacies, they tear it down, like the mental toddlers they are.

The only time I consider Linux on Apple is when Mac OS won't run on the hardware anymore. I tried the "Mac Patcher" approach, and it got me another two revs or so, but then I just threw Linux on it, instead. Otherwise, Mac OS is built real fine, and she has all that Uncle John needs.

I'm under no illusion that mankind will do the right thing. If the survival of all of us depended on just one of us, we'd be fkd. And if it's up to all of us, collectively, to change things to improve our one-and-only Earth, we're still fkd. Mankind is its own worst enemy.

I'm at a loss for how you'd come up with that, but no. I'm saying that that portion of the population would do the opposite of sensible just to claim "freedom." For example, during the ramp-up in Covid, the sensible approach - and if you don't believe it, we can just stop the conversation, here - was to wear a mask, and stay away from other people to minimize the spread. Many people did the opposite, just to be selfish dicks. Sure, they had that right, but they were still dicks about it.