Think back to 2+ years ago. January 2024. What sort of government did we have? What Administration was in office?

From the Wikipedia:

" and the Bureau of Land Management extended the auction to January 25, 2024 to allow for increased bids.[14] In 2024 the remaining reserve was sold to the highest bidder, Messer Group.[15] "

And, perhaps, you begin the effort by 0) migrating the documents, all of them, even archival docs, to earlier and earlier versions - reducing dependency on features perhaps not supported in your POA platform, and 1) testing against the POA and refining.

Drop-in replacements for Office do not exist. Nothing out there. So downgrade and find a POD that can be supported.\

Seems pretty basic, just costs in the preparation.

"they have been more then forward with their intent to replace us all with AI and robots"

Citations needed. Focus on the word 'all'.

I get the anger towards technology displacing human workers with no apparent plan to re-employ them elsewhere. But this is just the latest in a series of such revolutions. AI isn't replacing plumbers any time soon. Unless the AI can direct robots to manufacture housing with preassembling utilities, but that's a fantasy away from happening.

I was repairing desktop calculators for a while until they became too cheap to bother. I repaired typewriters and older, more proprietary word processing systems, until PCs took over. Then I went into the PC service and support business. And the PC networking business, because networking was a thing. Then an ISP, because the Internet was seriously sucking the air out of the world. Then I migrated into support and customer service, which after 17 years became much less demanding of head count, and now I've retired, 50 years after those nixie tube calculators sat before me and my soldering iron. There is more after this particular bubble. Watch. The real threats are philosophical, disguising as politics and religion, of which they are neither. Ideas spur more killing, because it is in the end all ideas.

Watching chip fabs, housing, and so.much.retail being built around here, I think you got to get out more. Data centers are experiencing another in a line of booms, as new tech spawns new needs. Most of the complaining about data centers seems to be more hate the rich, with AI the current boogeyman for that. And many construction trades are shorthanded.

Besides, Microsoft is probably admitting they are going to do fine with 3/4 of the head count they had yesterday, and that's rarely a bad business decision, unless you subscribe to the theory that they never really knew what they were doing, which explains the billions. Not.

SO narrowminded I'm genuinely surprised you can use words with more than 2 syllables.

Eh, no, you really just failed at reading that and wrote a long screed about something I didn't say. The post I responded to claimed that "another rocket company" would develop a replacement for Falcon "in a few years" if SpaceX folded. Then claimed Starship, a program that began active development 8 years ago, was 20 years ahead of anything else.

I'm pointing out the logical gap in "Falcon can be replaced in a couple of years" but any competition is 20 years behind 8 years of development. It's a nonsensical claim.

You can put public domain code in your project.

When a company like Penguin Classics puts out a public domain book with their own introduction, only their introduction is actually copyrighted.

The idea that the license covers all the code in your codebase has always been incorrect. And with AI, AI can take any source code and write a new version of it that isn't traceable. So it doesn't matter what your license says. Unless the code is super unique, claiming a copyright is absurd anyway.

I don't think the Open Source community cares "who owns it" as a lot of it comes from random users on the internet who posted it to help people solve an issue.

The only people who care who owns it is corporate.

The right different backgrounds, sure. BTW, nice attempt at a stupid projection, you dumb fuck.

I've only ever bought cable internet if there was literally no other option. Case in point, I had Spectrum (not Comcast, but just as crappy) because there was no other broadband in the area. As soon as high speed 5G became available to me I jumped ship. The service is twice as reliable and costs 1/4 as much.

I fly 200ish flights a year so figure 70-80 nights away.

2025 was 100% hotels but 2019 was about 80% Airbnbs.

Airbnb will never get my business back. Ever. The professional scammer hosts are so good at finding a way to nail me for a fee. Iâ(TM)ve taken perfect check out video and still had to spend hours fighting fees.

Airbnb allowed making guests do it.

They lost so much money to hotels theyâ(TM)re banning hosts from requiring it.

I am going to make a dangerous assumption and assume that does not mean "we think we should use the written word to train our LLM" as that isn't actually anything that requires consensus. So presumably, the "team" discussion was about how to acquire said books. That the "consensus" answer was "through shadow libraries" sounds an awful lot like "conspiracy to commit commercial copyright infringement" and appears to be a rather shortsighted argument to be making.

Wait, "some other company" can replace Falcon in "a few years" but everyone is "20 years behind" a design that has only been under active development since late 2018? Your math ain't mathing, dude.

Whelp - the lawyers never hard of leaching.

You would think the video of a French woman standing outside her market, pleading with the mob to stop looting her own space, pleading that she supported them, spoke in favor of their continued residence in France, and watching these criminals ignore her. Nope, her support was neither necessary nor appreciated, the mob intends to win by violence.

But, while you might think on this, the Leftists dare not think, for to do so is to expose the perfidy of their leadership and their utter failure to discern plain facts.

England may be lost. France has time. The rest of Europe is waking up, though many nations are feeling trapped, it seems, and cannot respond to the invasion. And, given the nature of the invaders, it will be blood that decides this.

An objective position based on a neutral observation.