What matters is for its CEO to lay off as many people as he can so that the stock will go up and the Intel's executives will collect handsome bonuses.

"Cheap" being the key word here: in 2025 50 GB is a good-for-nothing pittance, and one can get 64 GB USB drives for less than $5. I have no doubt that the iSheep will go for it anyway.

For many of us it is very, very easy.

Senators have to do as those who paid for their campaigns tell them to do, not as those who voted them into office want; the wishes of the latter are secondary. Americans really have the best government that money can buy.

At least Amazon have made it clear: they just let you read the books they have. Their service is more like that provided by a library, not a bookstore.

Say it ain't so!

And until it becomes more expensive than somewhere else.

They are interested in companies that will make them money, whether or not they have a predictable healthy return.

Venture capitalists have lots of money for sure. They most certainly do not have a crystal ball to give them a clear view into the future, and also probably not more brains than anybody else.

Stupid lawmakers coming up with legislation that one can trivially work around. Why do people in the US and the UK keep electing morons as their representatives? Surely not all voters in those countries are morons? Or are they?

It is not like further evidence for that was required.

The current American way of doing things consists of maximizing profit, particularly short-term profit. In theory, this should result in better products for customers. In practice, this may work for a very limited time only.

Stick your 996 up there where the sun never shines. Here's a hint for you and your ilk: many of us out there do not want to become billionaires, and do want to have a life outside or jobs. We work to live, we do not live to work.

I have long configured my browser so that my Google searches default to the Web section, rather than the AI Mode one.

We are going to apply better and more pervasive surveillance on you, and you are going to like it!