Pray tell, what team am I rooting for? The Democrats don't really do anything for me either. And I have no problem roasting the hell out of them for their ineptitude. Without which, Donald Trump wouldn't have been able to achieve an electoral victory. Twice.

An attack on Trump's stupidity is not praise for the other side. You've fallen into your own dichotomy with that one.

Actually, if you've ever read or heard an Altman interview, he has all the ingredients in place to match Musk given time when it comes to the delusions of grandeur. He either fervently believes his tech ambitions are absolutely essential to maintaining human existence, or he does a fantastic job of projecting that he believes it. And while long-term acquaintances (I don't know if he has actual friends) have said of Musk that he wants humanity to be saved, but only if he can be the one to save it, Altman is just a few dollar signs off from carrying that same attitude.

This relentless focus on whomever's on the Other Team as the problem this election cycle, is the problem.While money flows upward toward the new oligarchy class and corruption rises, you're kept bickering with no clue. But it sure feels great to have a team to root for, doesn't it?

And Payroll (UKG/UKG Wallet).

We have to save all our money to build a ballroom so the fiddler can continue to play while the ship sinks, or the civilization burns, whichever metaphor you prefer.

A good password needs to be something a human can type in. Password managers aren't sufficiently secure, robust, universal, or user friendly.

One would almost begin to suspect that there is a vested interest in making Linux appear to be far more vulnerable than the "alternatives" to Linux.

I was alive for Carter, but didn't really notice politics until the rise of Reagan.

Funny you mention the Interstate system. My grandfather worked a large portion of his life putting the Interstate system in in South Dakota. Our government is currently best considering how to monetize the Interstate system by making them into toll roads for non business users.

At this particular point the greed inherent in the elite class has become so firmly entrenched that it would take them wanting to outright hurt themselves to get them to refocus on the greater good. That's the crux of most of our issues. They've preached the idea that anything positive for the greater good is a negative for themselves for so long that they've begun to believe it. It's going to be tough to break through that barricade until their greed begins to impact them directly in a negative way, and something tells me even then they'll simply argue that it's the greedy lower classes causing all the problems.

False. Here in America we vote for the person who will do the least amount of damage to the country. No one running at the national level in our lifetimes has *EVER* been interested in doing the most for the country. They're interested in doing the most for their own pockets, and their sponsors. The rest of the country is only of interest to them insofar as they need those votes the next time around. The power of the vote pales in comparison to the power of the money necessary to get to be presented to the public as a viable option to vote for. We've watched our lawmakers and judiciary encode that fact into law in such a way where bribery and outright purchasing of congressional power (and even judges in some case) is not only legal, but required to keep them doing anything at all. The vote is a simple dog and pony show meant to blame us for the actions of those with the money to actually influence the government. "You voted for this," is a perfect example of someone who believes the smoke and mirrors are the entire story, and completely ignoring the fact that every single person in office that has any influence on the actual direction of the country has been bought and paid for long before they get past whatever filter, be it primary, previous office on a local or state level, or any other hurdle, allows them to run for national office.

The Democrats have done a lot to damage their own public image by simply playing the "we're not as bad as them" game to the fullest possible extent they can. That's the only thing they've run on since Donald Trump became Republican Captain and Commander, and it could be argued for some time before him. "We're only gonna fuck you a little," sounds real good when the alternative is, "WE'RE GOING IN DRY AND HARD, MOTHERFUCKER!" But it doesn't change the fact that the Democrats are *STILL* learning the wrong lessons from their defeats. They seem to believe that it's a winning strategy to become *MORE* like the Republicans, rather than less like them. Don't believe me? Look at how Gavin Newsom is rising in their ranks. How? By being an obnoxious twat online, like a knock-off Trump.

It'd be nice if there were a few more Bernie Sanders / AOC types that actually propose true alternatives to, "We need to hand billions to the business class and take the reigns completely off of all business interactions." But there's a reason Bernie was pushed aside during his rise. There's no profit in helping the general population. There's much more profit it allowing the business sector and their owners to ride roughshod over the rest of us. And the politicians willing to help them do it are the ones we get presented with to choose between.

And the sad reality is, I still vote, because I want to at least *TRY* to stop the worst of the worst. It's done me zero good, as I'm in prime MAGA country, and my state always goes red, but at least I can look myself in the mirror and say, "i didn't fucking vote for this assclown."

You sure there's one left? I see little evidence of sapience. Perhaps mindless animal greed sucking up what could be considered sapience if it were channeled in any direction other than, "Gimme that, it's mine."

While I get that, I'm trying to imagine the scenario where you have services running on virtualized Linux boxes and you want to leave VMWare. That, to me, doesn't hit as a "IBM Mainframes are my only choice" situation.

This is IBM trying to advertise that they're still viable, when in reality, nobody is going to move from Linux in VMWare to an IBM mainframe.

Now, it's not *COMPLETELY* outside the realm of possibility that Gartner is simply too unaware to understand that VMWare is/was not the only platform available for virtualizing Linux. They are, after all, notoriously unidimensional in their thinking on tech, and often seem to present information as if they were forced to wear blinders when doing their research. But it's really hard to believe they've remained *COMPLETEL* ignorant of the other possibilities available that are anything other than, "Spend a fortune on VMWare licensing" or "Spend almost as much on IBM licensing + Hardware."

One would almost think they're goal was to promote spending ridiculously too much money to accomplish a business goal.

I think jail time should be reserved for the marketing fuckwad that publishes a press release in a few months claiming every one of those commits as proof that Copilot has one the AI code wars.

I don't know, man. Melinda had to tolerate Bill for quite a while. That may not be worth the total sum of the money she has, but it'd definitely be worth quite a bit more than the average person's net worth.