This! Fuck those assholes :)

Transfers have always been messy, no one has fixed that problem, period.

I don't see how T-Mobile running their cell towers on VMware or not is going to have a direct impact on your transfer. Onboarding is just another app, slightly more critical than most, and it does touch a lot of systems. But it's hardly a big problem even if things go offline for 72 hours.

They care bout money, so billing is probably top of mind. Then cell towers.

IBM invents the stuff that TSMC, Samsung, Intel, and the big fabless designers adopt. They are an important player in chip design, even if they don't own any fabs themselves. For instance they design their own mainframe chips.

You're right that their claims on quantum computing have fallen flat - in fact that entire industry is going nowhere IMO. Their "Blue Jay" 2000 qbit is now slated for >2034 ffs. In their own charts they were promising >10k qbits by this year. All those old promises seem to be gone from the latest press releases I've seen.

You're not right in that IBM's stock price is not a mirage. Their revenue has gone up 8%, and the AI part of that growth is up 21%. All of that is real income, not fake stockholder deception. They are selling, and sales are up.

If only we could get the gun nuts to start using electrical guns...

Oh it's "there's no alternative" now? Why this preoccupation with testing? Where do you even get your ideas from? You can't conceive of anything else?

Teaching isn't the same as testing. How about you start with a conversation with the student, like "what did you find simple, and what did you find difficult studying the material?" and go from there.

5 years? I did get a checkbook when I opened my first bank account around 1990, but I have never used one. At the time I couldn't believe they were actually giving me checks. I mean, not in 1990?

I thought you did innovation and stuff. Lol

Seems you're correct, these guys usually launch using SpaceX's Falcon 9, on a Transporter rideshare mission.

There are ways around that IIRC. You can bypass the checks during installation, not sure about the details.

Given that they've been doing this shit from the 1980s, they'll just be continuing it till pigs fly.

I believe you're right; in fact Sweden was almost cashless not too long ago, but they are going in the other direction again.

In the end I think things will work themselves out. People will vote with their feet and governments will follow.

You use it because you have no other choice. Time to take away their monopoly.

I don't know what's worse, VISA/... controlling your money, or the US government. But right now, both do.

I'm glad you Nazis are on the other side of the pond.

We also have pensions, weekends, maximum working hours per day and no child labor. And public fire departments.

All of those were introduced by socialists.

I'm trying to figure out if you're serious. In case you are: no. I work for such a company BTW.