Amazon took nine years to reach profitability.

I'm not sure Amazon is a good example here. The company famously opted to reinvest its free cash flow into growing the business, rather than saving them and booking them as net income. They likely could have been profitable sooner otherwise.

Also, I am not aware of Amazon receiving billions in government support in the 1994-2001 timeframe.

Just stop. Flying saucers, golden tablets, bigfoot, ghosts, honest politicians, universal simulations, men in black, crashed spaceships, etc.etc. Don't feed the idiots with "well you never know they may exist.." NO. They do not exist. Shoot down every idiot who says otherwise.

Because they will no longer obey any laws going forward. The law was there as a check point whenever they overstepped. Now it's the wild west with no restrictions. It's time to start putting all the "snooped" words into every email as an attachment to flood their systems with false positives. Start with everything that youtube flags and work from there.

Correlation is not... Oh forget it.

Good bye X-Box. You are going the way of the M$ phone. You're only reason to exist was to push Sony and Nintendo to keep innovating, which they have done nicely. But with this gap, who's to step up. Revive the Apple Pippin? (Joke, joke, stop with the pitchforks)

May as well start the class action suit right now. This is going to be a train wreck of a dumpster fire. Popcorn at the ready.

And then they will be demanding that the paper manufacturers limit what can be printed on their paper! Paper is to blame for so many social ills. It's been on a slippery slope since the printing press was used the first time to print a book. A BOOK! Time to ban those too.

(Yeah, it's the something absurdum fallacy, one of my favorites.)

This is yet another way that perl is superior to every other language! Oh wait. (For the record, perl IS the best scripting language for what I do.)

Score one for K'Breel and the Council of Elders, I guess. We'll get you next time, you crafty Martians!

Pages, Numbers, and Keynote are still included with every Apple device. The current versions are fully up to date and are free for any device owner.

What Apple has done is put the AI features and licensed stock images behind a paywall. Which isn't great, but those weren't core features to begin with; the iWork apps existed long before they were added.

To quote Apple: "Yes. You can continue using Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform for free. And while these apps remain free for everyone, an Apple Creator Studio subscription offers premium templates, a library of high-quality, royalty-free photos and graphics, and powerful intelligence features."

Why would an otherwise routine software update even come with new EULA terms?

Off the top of my head, I can't recall an Office for Mac update ever coming with a new EULA.

While Office 2021 is affected by the expiring license, it's still under support until Oct 2026 and users just need to update. It only reverts to read-only if you don't update.

Thank you. I had been wondering about this precisely because Office 2021 is still receiving updates.

So this is really only an Office 2019 issue. Which still isn't great, but it is at least older.

And from the sounds of things, this only impacts the retail-licensed version of Office 2019. The volume licensed LTSC version doesn't rely on an activation server or certificates.

Don't remove the cameras. Just send duct tape. Cheap and easy. (Which chapter of 1984 are we on now?)

History says that there is a next phase when the downtrodden finally have incentive to act. What is that act? See world history. We all know what the next phase is. US is mostly past the peasant stage. The power is really with the educated workers. And the elite? The people may need some initial help from the more idealized elite, but that too hast a "permanent" solution.

As what salary? I have a tire repair place really close, and it's all 20 something kids WITH DEGREES, working for $12/hr.