The difference was almost entirely to FORCIBLY OBSOLETE a ton of perfectly serviceable machines merely because they came with TPM 1.2 or less from the manufacturer, or they had a CPU "not quite new enough," because OEMs were screaming "we need to force people to trash computers and spend money buying new hardware from us."

OEMs started salivating at Apple's "3 year old hardware? Fuck you, throw it in the trash and buy something new" sales model and demanded MS start doing the same thing.

If someone like MachineShedFred is getting a forced reboot in the middle of the day, it's because he's the Dumb Fucking Retard who's been pushing "delay" on the machine over and over and "sleeping" the machine during the mandatory reboot times rather than save his work and pick a sensible moment, and now he's run past the mandatory delay allowance. He's known this reboot was coming, he just chose to IGNORE it and be a whiny little bitch about it.

Most IT departments have no idea how to set up automatic updating properly so that it still gets the job done, but doesn't piss off the users that you can't really piss off...

Most Dumb Fucking Retard Users like MachineShedFred imagine that they are above the requirements that IT have been ordered to apply to everyone, or that they've found some magical "workaround" to the system. I have no sympathy for his bullshittery.

Elon Musk is an anagram for Leon Skum. He's a white-supremacist inbred Nazi Shitrat who masturbates every night to his fantasy of restoring the Apartheid regime that made his Disgusting Nazi Cuntrat Dad and Shitty Nazi Whorebag Momma "rich" from gem mining run using slave labor.

MAGA are all disgusting inhuman inbred trash who would happily hold the match to light that cross. They're Sick White-Supremacist Evil Sociopathic Inbred Shit, no exceptions.

MAGAtrash are all inbred crossburning Klan Shits. Every one of them will do nothing but gaslight and lie to you, because they're Subhuman Fucking Disgusting Sociopaths and dangers to humanity.

in the free market businesses form and compete for consumer money with other businesses, it is the competition that is pro consumer. Unions, like any other political formation, exists to protect special interests, preventing businesses from competing to the best of their ability and pushing prices up - anti consumer.

Businesses are pro-consumer by definition, unless they are government subsidized. Being anti-union (as I am) is being as pro-consumer as possible. Unions push prices up, consumers want lower prices, unions are anti-consumer.

Delete yourself dmb you Dumb Fucking Retarded Inbred GOP Nazi Shit Klan Fuckwit. You're not even human you fucking cockroach.

You need to stop lying, Senile Fucking Treason Shit Klan Bitchbag Tony. End yourself, delete yourself from humanity you Nazi Affiliated Ku Klux Trash Bitch KKKunt.

Nixon and Reagan were LITERALLY shit-eating Treason Fucking Traitors to the USA.

Nixon went behind Johnson's back to end peace negotiations in Vietnam, getting tens of thousands of our troops killed so he could win an election, including my uncle. He should have been put in front of a firing squad and shot dead for the TREASON he committed.

Reagan did worse, going behind Carter's back, telling the Iranians to keep holding CIVILIAN HOSTAGES in exchange for a weapons deal. Reagan was a shit-eating Klan Fucking White Supremacist Bitch Traitor to the USA.

No member of the GOP can ever be trusted. They are ALL America-hating Treasonous White-Supremacist Scumass Bitch CRIMINAL TRASH.

It's insider trading, 100% illegal, you dumb fucking Retarded GOP Shitbag Treason Bitch Cunt.

Acquitted by the Senate. Read the Constitution and what it says about trials, and then go fuck yourself, DMB, you TreasonCunt AmericaHating ConstitutionHating ReTARDican Fucking Useless Bitchrat.

It was when TreasonBitch Nixon betrayed our country going behind the POTUS's back to torpedo peace negotiations and caused tens of thousands of our troops to die in an ongoing, unnecessary war.

It was when Crossburning Treason Trash Shitbag Reagan went behind the POTUS's back to make his Devil's Deal with Iran to keep the hostages in return for a weapons payout later. And when Shitass TreasonCunt Reagan tried to give Nixon's hatchetman a seat on the Supreme Court and helped Oliver North stay out of jail for the TREASON of the Iran-Contra Affair.

The lesson is that ALL MEMBERS OF THE GOP, ALL RETARDICANS, ARE SHITASS GARBAGE TRAITORS TO THE USA.

What Putin-Owned Bitch Trump is doing is 100% corrupt insider trading. There isn't even a QUESTION that this should be illegal, it's the TEXTBOOK DEFINITION of insider trading, giving people "advance information" on market-shifting events so that they can make sell or buy orders accordingly.

All ReTARDicans are dumbfucking shiteating Inbred Treason Trash Traitors to the USA, all GOP ReTARDicans are Disgusting Fucking Criminals.

Well, yes. For many years, presidential candidates, both Democratic and Republican, referred to the United States as "the indispensible nation". And my reaction was always, "Doesn't that mean the US is a single point of failure for civilization?"

We are currently performing an experiment which addresses this question: can the US enjoy the benefits of soft power without the cost? That's the whole point of obeying *norms*. No individual force is going to punish you if you are treacherous, mercurial, foul-mouthed, disrespectful and generally unpredictable. Everyone will punish you.

I think an inevitable cost of this experiment will be that the world will decide that the US can't be a single point of failure for global democracy any longer. In many ways, that's something that will be good for us. But it's also going to cost us in painful ways. When the world decides to move away from the dollar as the international reserve currency, you will see both inflation and higher interest rates on everything from credit cards to mortgages, to business loans that will offset the export advantages. We will need *more* business investment to shift the economy to producing low value goods again, so the transition will be rocky.