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Gina Carano, Who Plays Cara Dune On The Mandalorian, Will No Longer Be On the Show (gizmodo.com) 683

"Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future," said a Lucasfilm spokesperson. "Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable." io9 reports: The news comes after a day in which the hashtag #FireGinaCarano trended on Twitter for hours. The night before, the actress shared an anti-Semitic story on her Instagram. It was soon deleted but many fans captured it and shared it on social media. That, of course, came after months of complaints about Carano's online presence, including mocking covid mask mandates, spreading conspiracies about the United States election, liking posts disparaging the Black Lives Matter movement, and deriding pronoun usage.

Carano's character, Cara Dune, was one of the main characters on the award-winning Disney+ show. And it was assumed, though never confirmed, that she might play a role in the upcoming Star Wars: Rangers of the New Republic show. That, apparently, is not happening anymore. Even if it was.

Comment Re:Not shopping at any store with MS? (Score 1) 253

"I am not shopping at ANY store that has the Microsoft system in it"

I hate to break the bad news to you mate, but you won't be shopping anywhere then. 99.9% of point of sale front end systems (known as tills to non geeks) are microsoft windows based and have been for decades. Before that it was DOS with the occasional OS/2 based system. The backend could be linux or something else non windows, but tills almost exclusively run Windows.

That's not really true, there are TONS of POS's that don't run MS systems at all. That includes every standalone portable POS system which there are a great many. Majority of small business don't use the large bloated POS systems you are referring to.

Comment Re: 120 whatchyamacallit (Score 0) 286

I will probably be down voted but I don't care, I rarely ever bother posting anyhow. Celsius is convenient but not nearly precise enough for me. The whole argument of "it works just fine for everyone else" is irrelevant. I don't know how so many people are in favor of a scale of 0-100 for freezing to boiling compared to 32-212. A spread of 100 vs 180 is just easier rather than dealing with decimals or fractions of a degree.

Comment Safenet (Score 1) 247

Our company has been using Safenet for the last year or so since we implemented 2FA for VPN and it has gone quite well. Being software based that can be loaded on laptops or smartphones makes it convenient and we don't have to worry about the tokens being lost and having to get a replacement out causing downtime. The downside is it can be locked out requiring some back and forth to unlock the token.

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