Evil? This is the price of modern life. You want your electronics, medical devices, cars, cozy homes, etc, etc? They all require manufacturing that generates lots of waste. It has to go somewhere.
Fine. But maybe not somewhere near groundwater, hm'kay?
Is there anywhere in Western Europe that isn't "near groundwater?"
FWIW, the reason it's a 3 isn't (completely) a love of leetspeak, it's because Ford already had a trademark for the Model E.
the problem is you cant trademark a style.
Trademark? No. But copyright infringement? Yes. See "Blurred Lines" for more detail.
e problem is that there's no such thing as a captive big fish. The biggest companies might be captive in the short term
You can stop there. That's the point that so many people seem to be missing: this is a short term plan to extract the maximum amount of revenue from the product. They do not appear to care about the long term.
My reference to Goodfellas was not just for the literal words, "Fuck you, pay me" but rather the entire scene. This is a planned destructive act.
At that point, VMWare as a platform is done.
That's true, but it seems to be factored into their plans. There is no "long term" strategy here, this is all about short term revenue extraction.
Swap 'EV' with 'car'.
The powerplqnt doesn't matter at this point.
You completely misunderstand the business model that Broadcom has chosen to use here. For a primer, see the "Fuck you, pay me" scene from Goodfellas.
They are purposefully imploding their customer base. The goal is to squeeze every customer that cannot move off of vSphere like a lemon in a hydraulic press. They actually do not give a fuck if you migrate to another platform, because they'd rather have 10x the revenue from their captive big fish than worry about the small fish or the ones that got away.
The whole point of the essentials three pack was to give you enough of a taste of the vmware experience that you'll be encouraged to stick with it as your grow.
Was it? I thought the whole point was "how do we extract revenue from customers too small and price sensitive to buy vSphere standard?" Anyone who just wanted "a taste of the experience" could run the free ESXi.
The problem is that the sort of environments that went with that bundle rarely ever grew to need anything larger and many of them never renewed maintenance.
OK, I'll bite: why is that a "problem?"
Ever consider that with their tech level that you wouldn't see trans people? We only see them today because the transformation isn't perfect.
Dr. Bashir was apparently able to pull a sex change operation on Quark within hours as an out patient procedure. Then reverse it. Now, I know, not human, but you should get the point. Other things we see are artifical eyes, hearts, and cloned spines.
Basically, one of the main cases could have had a sex change and we'd never know it unless it came up in the background.
As for TOS, that would be a Doyalist explanation - not an issue yet even on people's minds. Racism still was. True through TNG at the least.
Indeed. For that matter, it just occured to me that it fits the "communist manifesto" pretty good.
Consider that Earth, that became a founding member of the Federation, had to suffer through WWIII and the Eugenics wars. Depending on the writers, those might have been separate or the same conflict. And if you follow the backstory, they had to be bad. Worse than WWI and WWII put together, higher casualty rates.
And what did Marx put in his writings? That the utopian communist society would have to be put in place through revolution - let's see, they eliminate money after an extremely damaging world war...
Though later writers did tend to moderate stuff a bit. I always keep in mind that we're seeing the Federation primarily through the lens of Starfleet, effectively the Navy. Of course, it's going to keep its crews fed and happy. It's probably not going to worry about money, though apparently, they do have "credits" - transporter, replicator, that sort of thing.
The Vulcans and most other races still seem to have money, so the lack is mostly human/earth based. Despite the Vulcan's backstory actually being worse, war wise.
That said, I have to disagree on "woke" and transhumanism. I'm a scifi nerd. Woke isn't even dipping its toe into that.
Perhaps, but the other side can display all the science showing that the specific event in question was casused by the emission of way too much global greenhouse gas emissions.
Then remember that civil trial evidence standards are not "beyond a reasonable doubt" but "preponderance of the evidence", IE "more likely than not". With a criminal trial the defense can win by injecting enough slivers of doubt to reach "reasonable doubt" to get a not guilty verdict. With a civil trial, they have to go much further and reach "probably not us", which is much more difficult.
But those calculations are tricky, and international flights are commonly slightly overloaded. This is why dump fields exist. As you never want to land with a lot of fuel still onboard.
Tell me you don't know what you're talking about without telling me you don't know what you're talking about--international flights are not "commonly slightly overloaded." Cargo and passengers are routinely moved around or offloaded when weight and balance limits are not met.
With regard to dumping fuel, it's because max takeoff weights on large aircraft are higher than max landing weights (because the forces on e.g. landing gear are higher when landing than they are when taking off).
We've always had "preaching" stories. What do you think the Bible nearly entirely is?
90% of stuff is crap. Survivorship bias means that you don't see the crap produced hundreds of years ago and forget about the crap produced dozens of years ago.
The problem with "woke" stuff is that they lose track of needing to "tell a good story" in order to successfully sell their morality play.
When someone is trying to kill you and has missiles and bombs to do the job if they know where you are, it tends to focus your mind a bit.
You'd think so, but the war in Ukraine shows otherwise. The Russians suffered heavily early on due to using cell phones--and they kept using them even after figuring out they'd lost something like four general officers due to them/staff/bodyguards using their phones, causing even more losses. I can't help but agree with the GP, some assholes are always going to come to the conclusion that "everyone else shouldn't do it, but it will be fine if it's only me."
Anyways, at least the passengers didn't suffer when it finally failed. FWIU, death was instantaneous, so there is that upside.
They didn't feel pain, which is good, but I would say that they almost certainly "suffered." They knew they were fucked for some period of time before they died, and they spent their last minutes sitting in their coffin in the dark two miles below the surface. I imagine the father/son duo had it particularly awful, with dad knowing that he killed his kid, and the kid knowing that his dad killed him. I wonder if they discussed that fact amongst themselves while waiting to die.
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