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!

Thanks, that makes a lot of sense

There were a number of BBC scifi shows that used similar set pieces

Yes, I was torn by the disparity between the excellent rendered visuals, moon base, shuttles, and practical ideas of inhabiting the moon; and the complete lack of constraint to reality with the idea that a nuclear fuel storage facility could generate enough thrust to push the moon not only out of Earth orbit, but clear into different solar systems

That said, I used to eat dinner watching it due to show times, and imagined myself working on the moon some day. I had never considered it was being used to propagandize against nuclear energy

Market consolidation and monopolies are an inevitable outcome of Capitalism, that is why capitalism is regulated in America

Those who chafe at the idea of being limited in that fashion, have worked over the last 80 years to subvert this regulation (and the taxation that goes with it), and convince the American people that Starve the Beast is the only thing that will make them truly free

The BIG LIE is that the Beast (US Government) is the only thing keeping them from being proles

It's never a war crime the first time, let them get a hearing at the Hauge first

Maybe somebody needs to let trump know that if he nationalizes the oil companies, then he can force them to sell cheap gas to Americans and keep himself in office

>>They make pollution much much much worse than zero emission cars we have since a quarter of a century. I did say this before but no people are unable of any critical thinking and this forum is full of old right wing boomer farts they all are

No. Slashdot is full of people, who read the garbage sentence you puked out above, and said, "FUCK THIS LOSER AC"...

Beyond that the case you make is dependent on the falsehood that "smog" and "particulate pollution" are the same thing, when smog is a combination of tailpipe emissions (ozone, nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds) and particulates under PM2.5, while tire wear dust is up to PM10

In regards to "walkable cities", and the abandonment of "roadtrip culture"... That is a long long way from happening in a country that intentionally destroyed it's passenger rail systems a hundred years ago at the behest of the automotive industry.

It is particularly amusing that you rail against foreign oil use, while disparaging alternatives, which is really just an attempt to confuse people into doing nothing, and quite frankly doing nothing will not serve us well.

So, as a Gen-Xer to a Gen-z noob, sit down, shut up and spend some time learning how to post understandable sentences with a clear intent.

Oh wait, you are posting AC which means you know you are full of shit

Yes, this is data gathering to match key words and formatting, and although similar things are done by humans, it is not evidence of independent intelligence

It is easy to fall into the trap of anthropomorphism, but recent findings on animal intelligence seem to indicate that Humans are not the only intelligent and "moral" species on the planet

Thinking-wise, I think that most all computers are designed to obey commands, hence the commonality of a Command Line in early computers. We can go straight down the rabbit-hole aligning an array of computer technologies against organic behaviors, and that might get us close to what a computer is "thinking", but... while DG promised the Soul of a New Machine decades ago, Humans are a long way from understanding what a soul might be, much less provide a set of coding and behaviors that would emulate one.

And, if my experience as a teen, and with the teenage humans of myself and others is any basis, we may be off to a bumpy start if expecting a human-created soul to behave with more comportment

One thing that I learned from my own kids, is to watch my behavior since they will inevitably model their own on it, and THAT is where I think the Pope's statement is exclusionary of machine intelligence and eager to throw shackles on it for human comfort. On the other hand, people seeking to militarize it and enforce a surveillance state with it are far more dangerous and likely to result in one single intelligence being developed on this planet