The only reason they are changing their tune is because of the backlash to them putting data centers in our backyards and vacuuming up the cash we'll be spending on electricity bills. Do not trust them, they do not deserve it.
Is that the only reason?
A simpler explanation is that they predicted in good faith but the evidence doesn't bear out the prediction.
The address and web site may say "AOL" but the mail servers are actually Yahoo
AOL mail as it was has been dead for years.
AWS doesn't even do that. We have to manually shut down and restart VMs to have them move to newer hardware. We regularly get emails about "end-of-life" hardware that we need to manually shut down and restart on AWS.
I like Microsoft's thinking.
You now only own a license that can be revoked at any time.
That was true back in 2006. Every disc bought since then would not actually let you play the game, you had to connect to the internet and download gigabytes more.
I was in the middle of nowhere, had a PS3 and an unopened copy of Need for Speed. I popped the disc in and was excited to play the new game. Yeah, that didn't happen. It insisted that I connect to the internet and download gigabytes of data. I couldn't download because I was in the middle of nowhere. I did not ever purchase another console after that experience.
Long story short, the current status is not really a change. At least they are not misleading you anymore.
It is a good thing that the second law of thermodynamics doesn't exist.
I advocate for Linux; however, I also have to be realistic. Try patching Ubuntu 24 LTS and then check what vulnerabilities are still left with the note "no patch available". It is currently over 100. That will not fly in any organization that cares about security.
over their whole 45 year work life
What country do you live in? I live in the USA and have been working for 45 years and I will not be able to stop until I die.
Peaceful protesting gets zero attention. Recall this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Did even the slightest change happen after that?
The people who have all of the money do not care about anything other than their own money. You could have every single person in the USA outside protesting and absolutely nothing would change until infrastructure started getting destroyed or the wealthy families actually felt threatened.
And you dare to insult "smart" people with guns from joining protests? WTF is wrong with you?
Flock is a private company. I think you need to change how your argument is worded because it does not address how the government and Flock are colluding.
You need to start making a choice between candidates that will actually put money in your pocket and keep it there and candidates that give you that warm feeling inside from grievances.
Ok, I am willing to play this game: How exactly do I determine which candidate will actually put money in my pocket? Every single one promises they will do that, but absolutely none have in the past 50 years that I have been observing. Some are worse than others, but ALL of them appear to be bad. I wonder if that has to do with political parties and "first past the post" type of elections that we have... but if that were the case, then it wouldn't REALLY matter how I vote as the general outcome is already determined even if the details and specifics take more time to pass.
An example: Social Security. The "elites" have wanted to plunder Social Security since it was first established. Back in 1978, they finally passed a law that both Democrats and Republicans voted into law which allowed them to plunder Social Security. Essentially what happened was that this law in 1978 allowed the administration to take all 300 billion of surplus cash within the Social Security ecosystem and replace it with IOUs. That allowed all of the existing cash and all future payments to be used for the General Fund. Unsurprisingly, within 10 years, there were already cries from the government about Social Security would be insolvent soon.
Fuck you. Fuck your voting system. Fuck putting this on the voters. The outcome was predetermined and there was nothing the average person could have done about it. The system is completely and totally corrupt. Might makes right.
Allegedly, they also tried to buy America Online (AOL).
This was a persistent rumor in the 1990s and 2000s.
But, umm, the actual password data is encrypted with a key that only the customers have access to.
Oh, look, the same story I submitted days ago.
Whatever.
Just pay your fair share of taxes, and let us, collectively, decide on our priorities.
As if you live an in real Democracy. LOL. That tax money will be spent on Whitehouse renovations or Reflecting pools, all contracted out to the sycophants of whomever is in charge in order to receive kickbacks. The country is cooked and will inevitably become as full-fledged dictatorship.
Almost anything derogatory you could say about today's software design would be accurate. -- K.E. Iverson
