Fair enough. But this specific movie is not an example of something that brings in new subscribers. There's nothing niche about it and nothing that targets a specific group of people or especially hobbyists or enthusiasts.

This is just a straight up bad movie, considering the amount of money that went into it.

For example, if Dune or LOTR were flop movies, I would agree with you and say that it still made sense for Netflix to finance those movies because those are cult classics and people will join Netflix just to see them. Or many of your vintage classic movies. Or Clint Eastwood Westerns. There are people who are super passionate about those genres and niches and even fans of those specific movies.

You mean, a window?

Seriously, just stop spreading BS. Intel cannot be remotely compared to AOL, and even your fear-mongering of "stock options getting stolen" is largely BS. For the record, Intel switched from stock options a long time ago to RSUs or restricted stock units. Intel has been in existence for decades and has made steady profits for shareholders for decades. Intel's employees have become literal millionaires - and thousands of them. You're comparing this to some BS based on some cherry picked anecdotal data or some skewed comparison with startups.

Intel is not a startup. It has been rock solid for literally decades - spanning the career lifetime of many many employees. People have literally joined Intel fresh out of college and have retired out of Intel and have seen massive wealth creation from stock options they received. Not the paranoid BS you are writing.

Show me ONE example in Intel's 55+ years of history where Intel's lawyers have screwed Intel's employees out of stock options? Otherwise you're just farting in the wind.

Why is Tesla on the list? Is a car company. How is the entire company that is trying to combat global warming and move to a sustainable future a threat to democracy?

Or are they just talking about its CEO and tarring the entire company for him?

If they hate Musk, X is a more appropriate thing to list. But Tesla?!

The main reason is Europe commonly has 3 phase AC service even to residential areas, with lower current per phase than North America delivers over a single split phase. To fully utilize what's available for AC charging in Europe, you need 3 AC pins on the charge port, where North America only needs 2 for the high and low side of the one phase.

Europe never used J1772 because they needed 3 pins, in NA when J1772 came out DC charging wasn't yet a thing and when it did start gaining ground, the high voltage pins were undersized for the currents DC fast charging provides without room to make them larger and stay compatible, so both CCS and CHAdeMO utilize a completely separate set of DC pins. NACS was designed with DC fast charging in mind, the high voltage pins are physically bigger and the car can use one set for both AC and DC charging, with a set of contactors inside the car to route it to the right onboard charger module. NACS is less useful in other markets because it doesn't provide the third AC pin, there's no point in every car sold in the US taking on the added expense of supporting 3 phase AC charging when 99.999% of them would never use it, and cars in markets where 3 phase are common need it to support efficient AC charging.

Rivian's headlamps look like a giant pair of USB-C sockets to me.

Their usefulness for me finding answers to tech problems has nose dived lately due to SEO shenanigans to get these tech solution pages full of ads to top of results.

Like no matter what error code you search for lately you get the first page full of

"The problem you searched for" [SOLVED] ... then a bunch of pages that say to run SFC /SCANNOW, the trio of DISM commands and if that doesn't work, try system restore.

It's gotten so bad I get better answers if I just append "site:reddit.com" to any issue I want to look for.

Without RMS *AND* Linus, all the benefits of free "Unix" we have now would have never existed.

It used to really suck when a copy of Unix, even for a 386, was a few thousand dollars.

Look, if China placed aggressive technology sanctions on the USA, the US would respond by spending billions to aggressively develop the technology that's being withheld. Sanctions just piss people off and give them something to challenge and defeat. And let's not forget that TSMC's 5nm node plant is located in Taiwan, ROC.

Schiller has made millions of dollars and is transitioning from an extremely demanding career to retirement. Not sure why this is newsworthy.

Congress went to year round DST back in the 70s and people hated it so bad it only lasted one year.

https://www.mercurynews.com/20...

Why would it be different this time?

Well that article was lacking in a lot of details. It'd be helpful to know how the compromises happened.

From all the cases I've read, none of the MSPs had 2FA enabled on their accounts.

I'm old.

I don't get people around my age who are starting to retire and complain they have nothing to do and are bored. My God, I wish I had the time to play the games I want to play.

I just hope by the time I end up in a nursing home they are equipped with decent VR stations. Just plug me in in the morning after breakfast and don't bother me until it's time for dinner. Then take me back and plug me back in again.