the fact that you are masquerading as dmb, a respected slashdotter, sends all of your replies into the shitter

Thanks, I thought that dmb had gone insane, it all make sense with drnb and high userid. that russian trolls are earning their potato for the day

Because utilizing the DOJ to attack political opponents breaks long standing behavior in the US government, and even after that was ignored with Clinton's run, the Dems have historically tried to preserve such 'civil' traditions

I know, it is like Superman letting Lex Luthor get away and not just smashing him to goo, but it is part of what most Americans find to be noble behavior

Oracle has faced a sharp surge in automated and AI-driven critical vulnerability discoveries throughout 2026, pushing their Critical Security Patch Updates from a quarterly cadence to a monthly cycle.

High-profile RCE vulnerabilities across Oracle enterprise stacks—such as deserialization flaws in PeopleSoft or CVE-2025-61882 in EBS—stem from unauthenticated web application weaknesses, insecure Java deserialization, path traversal, and exposed endpoints that allow remote exploit execution.

While migrating PeopleSoft to a PaaS model offloads OS and database-tier patching, the application layer itself still demands manual testing and patch application. Savvy administrators must maintain immutable backups and aggressive patch SLAs to avoid compromise.

Ultimately, while Accenture and operational leads share culpability for execution lapses, systemic exposure is a leadership failure. The responsibility lies squarely with the executives directing risk tolerance and architecture oversight.

Just to avoid the chances of getting eye-cancer from your 4chan vomit, I have asked AI to reply:

1. Correlation vs. Causation (Economics over Ideology):

Single motherhood correlates with youth delinquency primarily through household poverty and resource strain, not gender or partisan ideology. When studies control for household income, neighborhood safety, and educational access, the gap between single-mother and single-father or two-parent outcomes shrinks dramatically. Attributing systemic poverty to "toxic feminism" ignores decades of empirical sociological and economic data.

2. Made-Up and Distorted Statistics:

The argument relies on fictional figures masquerading as data:

The "80% virgin men" claim: Actual demographic surveys (such as the General Social Survey) show young male sexual inactivity hovers around 20–30%, not 80%.

The "USAID funded gangster rap" conspiracy: USAID does not fund domestic American music genres; it is an international development agency.

The "28% of Gen Z aborted" voter fraud trope: Conflates debunked election conspiracy theories with unverified demographic claims.

3. The Irony of Accountability:

Blaming single mothers for absent fathers while lecturing about "accountability" is a contradiction. A single mother is, by definition, the parent who stayed to raise the child. Framing paternal abandonment as the fault of liberal feminism absolves the very men who walked away from their responsibilities.

4. Crime Trends Disprove the Premise:

Over the past 30 years, violent crime in the United States has declined significantly compared to its peak in the early 1990s—even as non-traditional household structures grew. If single motherhood were the sole, unchecked driver of violent crime, national crime rates would have scaled exponentially upward rather than trending downward over multi-decade horizons.

Rage-baiting internet subcultures (OF, dating apps, culture war buzzwords) do not substitute for serious criminology or family policy. Addressing poverty, expanding early childhood education, and fostering parental support across the board will always accomplish more than grievances posted from behind a keyboard.

Throwing money in trump's direction, you say?

AI Overview
Investigative reports by organizations like ProPublica, Reuters, and the Center for American Progress describe various financial conduits connecting Russian oligarchs and elites to figures and family members within the Trump orbit through real estate, shell companies, and direct gifts.

Luxury Real Estate Purchases

  According to a Reuters special report, at least 63 individuals with Russian passports or addresses bought at least $98.4 million worth of property in seven Trump-branded luxury towers in southern Florida.

  Critics and investigators note that cash-heavy luxury real estate purchases provide a way for foreign nationals to move large amounts of money into U.S. assets.

Shell Companies and Campaign Financing

  The Center for American Progress reported that Kremlin-linked actors used anonymous bank accounts, shell corporations, and wire transfers to move millions around the 2016 campaign and presidential inauguration.

  In 2018, public documents released by attorney Michael Avenatti alleged that a firm linked to Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg deposited $500,000 into a shell company controlled by Donald Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen.

Direct Event Funding and Personal Gifts

  A September 2026 investigation by ProPublica revealed that Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev bankrolled hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses for Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding after-party in the Bahamas.

  ProPublica reported that Kremlev—who has close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin—paid for private island rentals and fireworks through a Dubai-based entity.

  Donald Trump Jr. and his wife acknowledged the funding on social media and called Kremlev a personal friend. President Donald Trump later stated that his son would repay the money to Kremlev.

Things that make you go, "Hmmmm"

...it seems like the current US administration is acting as an agent for the country's enemies

The heart of the problem is Fox News Lies and the constant feed of propaganda they produce that the boomers willingly swill

America will fail if we continue to allow fox news lies to sway the American people

... because, as soon as they have eliminated wages the next outrageous cost to eliminate will be social security/pensions

Arizona's problem is an underfunded public education system due to billions of dollars being bled out to charter schools

Where I live, the numbers are different, and they don't meet basic cost of living

AI Says:
The average entry-level teacher salary in Phoenix, Arizona, ranges from roughly $44,000 to $46,250 per year, though urban district starting pay can edge higher depending on education and credentials.

Salary vs. Cost of Living
Starting Pay: Data from the National Education Association puts Arizona's average starting teacher pay around $44,886, while localized figures for a first-year teacher in Phoenix average about $46,259.

Living Wage Gap: Estimates for a single adult's minimum living wage in Arizona (covering basic baseline needs) range from $66,744 to over $71,277, meaning a single entry-level income falls significantly short of these basic thresholds without a dual-income household or roommates.

Professional Pay Gap: Arizona educators earn roughly 67 cents for every dollar made by peers in other college-educated professions. While Arizona features a lower overall cost of living than coastal states, rapid housing and living cost inflation in the Phoenix metro area has outpaced starting salary growth.

You are relying on an outlier value (Washington State), not including cost of living and seeking to sway through emotion rather than logic
In fact you are a perfect example of the FAILINGS of our educational system

It is a sign that you have to push this slop as an AC

The implementation of the public school system is left to state level politicians.

Arizona's universal Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) voucher program costs taxpayers roughly $1 billion a year, while public charter schools receive about $2.09 billion annually through the state funding formula.

This has been crammed down our throats by right wing politicians who get elected in the sticks, but push their political agenda in the large urban populations

We started pushing back through citizens initiatives to properly fund the schools and pay a living wage to teachers, but the legislature recently castrated the process by allowing out of state PACs to sue and force initiatives off of the ballot

But, thanks for sharing the partisan dribble, us involved parents will use it to train our children how to spot propaganda

I grew up in a state where Honeywell, Motorola, Intel, Allied Signal and a thousand supporting tech companies were based, and you know damn well that there was a great effort to educate people to fill positions at those companies, with early identification of IQ in grade school, alignment with college degrees in High School and industry sponsored technical majors in college.

That is nothing new

The intrusion of political indoctrination into the public school system IS a continuing problem

This is exacerbated with local school boards acting at the launching point for political careers, and an inherent distrust between those politicians and the union supported educators who largely want to educate children while suffering under continuing low wages, while the politicians push for defunding education though charter school allowances

It is a shitshow that is prevented from training students to question the propaganda that the tv spews at them and apply critical thinking to the simple solutions that politicians push

For the curious
Prompt: I am curious about the corporate mergers that resulted in Open Text owning such a large portion of EDI sector

AI Reply:
OpenText’s dominant position in the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) sector was built through an aggressive, decades-long strategy of consolidation, rolling up the largest legacy EDI networks and modern cloud integration platforms under one umbrella.
Instead of building a network organically, OpenText utilized major corporate mergers to absorb billions of transactions and millions of enterprise relationships.

Timeline of Major EDI Roll-Ups
OpenText systematically absorbed competing Value-Added Networks (VANs) and cloud players, following a strategic timeline:
[Inovis & Harbinger] --(Merged 2009)--> [GXS]
(Acquired 2014)
  [OpenText Portfolio] ---------- [OpenText Cloud] ---------- [Liaison Technologies]
(Acquired 2018)
(Acquired 2017)
Covisint]

Key Acquisitions That Built the Behemoth
1. GXS Group (2014) — The Foundation
The Deal: Acquired for $1.165 billion.
Why it mattered: This single transaction transformed OpenText from a content management provider into a global B2B powerhouse. GXS itself was an amalgamation of legacy giants—originally spun out of General Electric Information Services (GEIS)—and had already merged with Inovis (which owned Harbinger, TrustedLink, and Peregrine Software).
Scale Added: Over 600,000 trading partners and 12 to 16 billion annual transactions.

2. Liaison Technologies (2018) — The Cloud Shift
The Deal: Acquired for $310 million.
Why it mattered: Liaison brought a powerful, modern differentiator called the ALLOY Platform. While GXS provided massive legacy footprint, Liaison added cloud-native capabilities and sophisticated API-to-EDI translation. This enabled OpenText to cater to mid-market enterprises looking to bridge older EDI architectures with web APIs.

3. Covisint (2017) — The Automotive Monopoly
The Deal: Purchased from Compuware for $103 million.
Why it mattered: Covisint was originally founded as a joint venture by automotive titans (General Motors, Ford, and DaimlerChrysler) to handle secure supply chain messaging. Acquiring it locked down highly complex, secure supply chain verticals for OpenText.
The Business Rationale
EDI systems exhibit massive network effects. A supplier prefers a network where their buyers already exist, and vice versa. By executing an M&A roll-up strategy, OpenText cleared out competing infrastructure, captured the critical mass of global traffic, and positioned its OpenText Business Network as the default central utility for enterprise global trade.

Still Curious?
Prompt: did opentext grid network involve maintaining legacy systems or replatforming?
AI Answer:
The short answer is both, but in a highly strategic, phased timeline.

OpenText initially maintained the legacy systems to avoid disrupting global trade, but eventually executed a massive replatforming initiative to consolidate everything into a single, cloud-native architecture.
Because EDI runs the daily supply chains of Fortune 500 companies, a sudden, forced "rip-and-replace" replatforming would have caused catastrophic business outages. OpenText approached this consolidation through a specific two-stage evolutionary strategy:

Stage 1: The "Keep the Lights On" Legacy Phase
Immediately following major acquisitions (like GXS in 2014), OpenText maintained legacy architectures
Minimizing Disruption: They allowed acquired Value-Added Networks (VANs) and translation tools to run natively on their original mainframes and servers.
The "Bridge" Approach: Instead of moving the data, OpenText built software hooks and data-forwarding layers over the acquired platforms so different legacy grids could talk to each other without forcing customers to change their setups

Stage 2: The Replatforming to the "Unified Trading Grid"
By 2020, maintaining dozens of fractured, aging codebases became too costly and inefficient. OpenText launched a massive engineering effort to replatform its entire B2B network into a single cloud infrastructure.
The Cloud-Native Shift: They systematically migrated billions of transaction streams off acquired on-premises hardware and onto a modern microservices architecture known as the Unified OpenText Trading Grid.
Standardizing the Data Engine: Rather than hosting separate translation engines for old Inovis, GXS, or Liaison systems, OpenText consolidated them into a unified "any-to-any" data translation layer.
The API-EDI Convergence: Replatforming allowed OpenText to bake modern web APIs directly into legacy EDI transaction paths, which would have been impossible if they had just kept maintaining the separate legacy systems.

Summary
OpenText used legacy maintenance as a short-term shield to preserve revenue and customer trust, but ultimately used replatforming as their long-term weapon to eliminate operational overhead and unify their monopoly into a single cloud dashboard.

OpenText operates the world's largest B2B integration and electronic data interchange (EDI) ecosystem, anchored by the OpenText Trading Grid.
It processes over 30 billion transactions annually and connects millions of trading partner relationships globally.

AFAIK, they bought up and consolidated all of the legacy EDI platforms.

Business plan
Corner essential piece of electronic processing market buying up companies who had bought up "dead" legacy companies
Maintain in place forever?
Replatform?
Profit!