Uh uh. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking 'Does this inject a security flaw or hazard?' Now to tell you the truth, I've forgotten myself in all decades just how insecure Microsoft software is. But being this is a Linux kernel, the most powerful kernel in the world, and will blow Microsoft's kernel clean off the rack, you've gotta ask yourself a question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya?

LoB

Now explain how the noblemen is doing the herdsmen a kindness by charging them rent.

Also, in NYC, explain the chronically vacant commercial space (hint, no rent control).

What goes out to 4Chan: It's all about being able to use ActiveX in the Linux kernel so that WSL will have better security and reliability.

LoB

The thing is I'm not, I'm very laid back.

They took a major issue with cannabis use on the property, which I kept having to show them was a non-starter. In Canada, if you have a legal prescription, you also get federal protection, as you would with any other medication, on where you can use it. Initially, I would walk to the far end of the parking lot, but eventually, I couldn't, so I went to the smoking area, and finally a few meters from the door. They took issue that I smelled after smoking joints, which I kept insisting was not something I could control. They claimed I was a liability because I used cannabis, never explained why, or how, and the owner of our company never cared about any of this.

Then there was the intimidation stuff, which was equally retarded. The HR department wanted to foster some stupid DEI thing, and sensitivity awareness. Workshop #1, the lady running it went on a misandrist rant, that would soak any feminist, it was so hate fuelled, it was almost impressive at her pure vile disdain of men, especially Caucasian men. At near the end of the workshop, she asked all Caucasian men to stand and apologize, to which I refused and demanded she point out what I had to apologize for. Long story short, HR decided at that point, I was going to be harassable, and they really tried to pin everything on me. The owner of our company got involved, and that made the problem worse.

After that is when I got in trouble for being in the gym, but never told why. I didn't slam weights, I didn't grunt, loudly, I was just lifting heavy weights, and putting them back, and wiping everything down, something most people didn't do. The offensive clothing thing, again, no explanation, an anonymous complaint was made. Anonymous complaints, are not complaints, if there was an issue, why didn't the person with the issue tell me? Why? There was no issue, and they proved that when they couldn't tell me what the issue was!

The mail issue, my medication, medical pot, had to be handed off to a person. Since I was at work all day, the most sensible place to have it delivered was the front desk. This is a provincial and federal issue, so I can't just call a producer and request an exception, and I told all of this to the larger company, and included documentation from Health Canada. Once a week, a package would show up for me, and every single time I would get an email and speech about how I'm not allowed to have mail delivered. They never, not once, were able to show me a written policy about this, it was only ever stated verbally. At one occurrence they threw out the package, and it had ~$500 of medical pot in it, but the lady who threw it out, didn't get permission from anyone else, which caused legal to get involved. Legal then tried harassing me, over cannabis use and cannabis delivery, and yada yada yada, but, it's federally protected. I gave legal the phone numbers for Helath Canada, and told them to take it up with HC, which to their credit, they did, and realized HR didn't have a leg to stand on. Legal refused to force compenstation for the package however.

The cannabis stuff dropped at that point, and HR just found a new list of stupid, pointless, nonsense. Luckily for everyone COVID started, and we all started working at home, at which point we hired our own HR lady, and to date, I have had ZERO issues with her. The owner still calls me from time to time to chat, and he always bring up old HR complaints and tries to figure them out, since I've had ZERO "infractions" at our company, with our own HR person. The only one I had, was due to an accidental "winking" emoji, where I clearly meant to send the "smile" emoji, and that got sorted out in minutes, because it was very, very, clear what happened.

Use your imagination more. If you want the circle to grow, turn it into a cylinder. Eventually, you could call it a silo, and pay for it by shooting a TV series in it :)

Microsoft can't figure out a way to market/sell this so they're resorting to astroturfing

Strange that they can't figure this out. Have they asked their AI how to solve this problem? I assume it's as simple as creating an AI to simulate an influencer, that can influence people to use AI more regularly. No brainer, really. Does Microsoft even have any interns left who could be tasked with this?

Your negativity is why you've never been, and never will be, truly rich. This setback is only a failure of imagination! Time to tap a billionaire with a lot of tariff earnings he doesn't know what to do with, this ship of the desert will right itself up in no time!

How do you decide what the value of someone's work is?

The problem came up before the Russian revolution. The socialist revolutionaries thought yours was a great idea, but the best they could come up with for actually assigning value was "um, a committee of some kind maybe?"

The market answer is that competitive buyers will pay you what your work is worth. That obviously requires competitive buyers, and the absence of obstacles like, for example, health insurance benefits interfering with your ability to switch employers or go out on your own.

Everything for the parking permit was above board, they just denied it, baselessly. I had all the paperwork, and the regulations cleared, they just didn't want to give me it.

The office was 1/2 way between my house, and my parent's house, and I was driving to my parents, and had to go, so I stopped in quickly to use the washroom, twice.

Nothing like giving people the runaround until they're exhausted...

HR often has an Orwellian aspect to their communication. They say things in a way that sounds like they are there to help you, but they are really there to gatekeep. Not everyone can have the salary, promotion, office, etc that they want, and HR is there to control those things, and minimize the company's legal problems in doing so. The double-speak and gatekeeping make them incredibly frustrating to deal with.

On top of that they also know a lot of private info, from salary to disciplinary actions to disputes they got involved in, so they're often in a position of quite a lot of leverage.

I'm in Ontario, Canada, if that matters. Honestly, what does HR actually do? I'm not really sure if I know, but they usually get in my way a lot, and they really do not like being assigned work.

I work for a great company, have for 8 years now, I was employee three, I joined when we didn't have HR. To be honest, the HR lady is great, she's friendly, answers questions, helps find solutions, and the opposite of every other HR person I've had to deal with in a professional capacity. When the company started looking for medical benefits, I made a simple request: “Please get medical cannabis coverage!”, and they did, they took that request seriously, honestly, with respect, and helped cover a fairly substantial monthly medical cost. We have very few overall issues at this point, and it's great, so let's move to other examples.

When the company started 9 years ago, we were part of a larger company (whom I won't name), they partnered with us, and gave us two free office rooms, which we used for the first 5 years of the company. The larger company had HR people that we had to interact with, and holy crap, it was terrible. To summarize the list of issues (with some exaggeration):

1. I wouldn't sign a pledge that I was an abusive monster for being biologically male.
2. They tried to stop me from using prescription medication (seriously).
3. They tried to stop me having my medication delivered to the building.
4. They wouldn't approve my disability parking permit, to spite having paper work from my doctors.
5. I got in trouble for standing in the wrong place during a fire drill (I wasn't).
6. When I requested, people kept their voices down outside the offices, write up.
7. Using the gym, they wrote me up ... (I never found out, and I didn't drop weights).
8. Drinking too much coffee, out of my mug, that I brought from home.
9. Wearing an offensive shirt that someone else took offence to, never found out why.
10. Requesting paper work from the HR department be in a certain format.
11. Requesting the larger company reimburse when they threw out medication (seriously).
12. Smelling, like I just used medication (honestly).
13. Looking like I had just used medication...
14. Intimidation, yep, just intimidation, which caused 15.
15. Questioning, yep, asking to see the defined set of standards and rules, and what I did.
16. Coming in on a weekend, to use the bathroom...
17. Refusing to use some platforms and software, that had abusive privacy / licensing polices.

Any way, I could go on, but that's what HR has typically been like for me. It's roadblocks to a construction site that doesn't exist.

Science? Really? There's a lot of soft-brained, unscientific and technophilic pseudo-religion in the article.

Let's work with the argument's load-bearing phrase, "exploration is an intrinsic part of the human spirit."

There are so many things to criticise in that single statement of bias. Suffice it to say there's a good case to be made that "provincial domesticity and tribalism are prevalent inherited traits in humans", without emotional appeals to a "spirit" not in evidence.

We also have 2022 and 2023 settlements of similar merchants vs. credit card companies lawsuits that haven't resulted in mass chaos.

I suppose they could take my "rejected" card for an additional fee. A great way to ensure I never go there again, but up to them I suppose.

Funny. American restaurants almost univesally expect an additional fee of 15-30% called a bri.. er, "tip" but you'll boycott one over the 2% they might pass on to you to use a reward card?