Comment Re:So what? (Score 1) 89
Do you
Not if my wife is nearby.
Do you
Not if my wife is nearby.
I just cancelled Disney+ and Hulu a week ago. Obviously this was their response.
Why is this a project of the Secret Service? Isn't the FBI or one of the myriad DHS departments supposed to be in this lane?
The FBI and DHS are now focused on Trump's round-up of illegal aliens.
So close... but no cigar.
macOS has been doing this (using a video wallpaper) by default for a while, and I'm guessing that's what brought this idea to the fore (again).
And yes, it's basically just a pointless, silly distraction - why would anyone want this? Unfortunately (from the OS manufacturers' position) operating systems are pretty feature complete, and basically the only "new shiny" thing they can offer is adding pointless bloat. Oh, also they can actively break things I guess... which always seems to go hand in hand with adding pointless bloat.
If "general public thinking" is the metric... the naming seems unhelpful in that regard since, at least based on TFS, it's not orbiting the earth - it's orbiting the sun and just staying in earth's proximity.
I would think something like "near earth asteroid" would be a less confusing term for such objects.
Al Bundy.
From a personal point of view, my parents moved when I was -2, -1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 11, and a few more times (I put -2 and -1 because I have an older sibling who was affected by moves before I was born). I think it did a lot of harm to me and my siblings emotionally.
Oh, you are 100% right. This was basically my childhood experience. My dad was in the US Army; and, back then (1960s-1970s), he was getting moved a lot. In terms of my age, my family moved at: 0, 1, 4, 5, 7, 7, 7 (yes three moves while I was in second grade), 9, 10. On top of that, at (my age) 8 he was shipped to Vietnam, then they wanted to ship him there again when I was 11... so he decided to get out.
Interestingly (and possibly ironically) when he left active duty, he moved into a mostly equivalent full-time position with the Army Reserve - doing personnel and logistics management in support of the frequent moves of active-duty personnel! But he never had to move again, thank goodness.
Eventually the army figured out this wasn't a good way to get people to re-up... but yeah, it totally sucks to keep leaving your friends. Doubly so if you're a shy kid, like I was.
We have only his word that this is actually what happened. And, this being Facebook / Meta, they are known for lying through their teeth.
I wouldn't put it past Zuck to demand his minions make up some explanation that didn't boil down to "our tech sucks".
Just to be clear since I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, the subject is wrong - they are criticizing the end of support of Windows 10.
(do I really need to say it?)
Apparently, I really needed to say it...
PIRG, Other Groups Criticize Microsoft's Plan to Discontinue Support for Windows 11
Yeah, that does seem ridiculously quick for Windows 11 - they're only just now ending support for Windows 10, after all...
(do I really need to say it?)
I don't think that's a particularly defensible position when we're talking about World War II. As screwed up as things seem right now, the world would almost certainly have been a much worse place had the US stayed out of the war.
I'm assuming, of course, that "stayed out of the war" would have also included not manufacturing huge numbers of tanks, planes, and ships for the Russians nor the British.
I'd go as far as to say... in a free society, comedians are more than valuable - they're indispensable.
Alternatively...
Fiction; Non-Fiction; Non-Existent.
Or, just lower your voice, and whisper to the person asking: "I should not tell you this, but that book has been black-listed by the government, so we are not allowed to speak of it anymore."
Oh, yeah, THAT is going to make the overall situation in that locality so much better!
"Oh what wouldn't I give to be spat at in the face..." -- a prisoner in "Life of Brian"