That's Baastin, you ignorant ^H^H^H^H LOST CARRIER

Oh, dear God, you missed the class on the OSI model, TCP/IP, class v classless addressing, and Ethernet. If you get a chance, take the class on aliases...

True or false: Trump isn't finished yet.
True or false: Trump alone is not enough.

Your halfway there. Rand Paul hangs his moral hat on the debt ceiling, which will go up. Unless, in reconciliation, budget items are struck off. And that's the process that's referred to by those who say 'we'll fix it in reconciliation'.

It's been so long since regular order produced a budget that we forget how it worked. Ultimately the budget is sent, by Congress, to the President for their approval, and is then law.

You're looking to blame? Blame Congress first. After decades of CRs and pretending to 'pass a budget', they fear the voters, and for good reason. They also fear leadership, and losing their positions of power and influence. So preparing the end of the Department of Education, an agency with no positive effect on education (check the results), existing only to redistribute federal money, is sheltered why?

I've watched this my entire adult life. And I'll wait just a few months more to see more and different results. You think I'm following Trump like a lost puppy? To do not understand the movement yet. Next year we move to the next step - changing Congress. Maybe. It's not over yet.

Stop listening to the media. They is no unlimited funding, Paul objects to debt ceiling hikes, the opposite of unlimited. Expanding the border patrol etc at the expense of the FBI in particular I favor. Soon enough the illegal migration reversal will allow for reducing even that. Handouts? Gawd, you're so in the 90s. Maybe even eliminate the SALT provisions, let the states suffer the impacts of their financial decisions.

But cut the federal government. By half, a good start.

'Not eligible' isn't the same as 'Taken away from'. The first, proper. The second, a gross misstatement.

Oh hell, no half measures. Cut the federal government by half. Or more.

Yeah, I heard that a while ago...

Millions that should never had 'free' healthcare are going to be met, considered, and most likely sent back from where they illegally came. Some of them will actually be excused or forgiven of that offense, and given a proper path to real citizenship, and the opportunity to find employment that also provides real benefits.

And gamblers deserve only the assurance that the game is as described. Fraud is bad enough, and the ideas that poker is a game of chance, that sports betting is innocuous, and lotteries are harmless, deserve to be further explained. But protect gamblers from those awful taxes? Ha. How about protect our children from being groomed into a life of sexual slavery...?

Eventually your stud CPU will be 'old'. It may lack a feature. You will move on.

You bought Threadripper because it had something you wanted, and was supported by what you wanted to do. Enjoy it while you can. My current mail laptop is about 4 years old and does all I need as fast as I need it. I'm 3 revs behind, soon to be 4, but no need to replace it. My field laptop is 5 years old and on its third battery. Both do the job.

Your Threadripper CPU is no more than 7 years old. Your rig should have had TPM 2, that's 10 years old. Making a 10 year old hardware requirement mandatory for Windows 11 forced us to figure out why it was not industry wide...

I've been using Windows 11 for so long, and in fast ring/beta/preview/insider channels, it's not the 'next' anything. It's more than 3 years old. With over a billion users it's not unexpected that you will get horrible reports of flaws. 0.1% of users is a million...

I pay no heed to anything about high contrast mode, or dual-boot problems, or my *&() doesn't work. My problems have been minimal and resolved as quickly as any version.

I'm guessing not many of you used Windows when it wasn't described with a version number. Not many of you fully appreciate the complexity of maintaining Windows before even minimal virtualization of device drivers was a thing, and a new mouse would cost you an afternoon cleaning up .dll errors.

Win11 isn;t the next anything. It's not even the future. It is the Windows if you don't have a dependency on 10. Or 8. Or 7, blah blah blah. You wanna complain? Complain about PHP.

Truly insignificant fines and consequences. Add a zero minimum to the financial penalties.

What WF management did was encourage, promote, and reward theft. And the employees seemed to, actually did, abandon even minimal ethics and knowingly cheat their customers. For money. Theft. Should have been jail time. And true crippling financial penalties for all involved. I doubt we can be certain the victims were even made whole, but pretending they were is part of the process.

"simply because they had tattoos"

You are so unaware of the significance of those particular tattoos? You're not alone. Make do not wish to considering the truth that evil people have sought to come into our nation, as fertile ground. I prefer decent people come. But of course I appear so wrong to those who cannot easily define right.

For being a prison 'nobody ever leaves', this is pretty remarkable.

You were...?

Scared of what? There will still be a CEO, that's as secure a job as ever. Losing customers to unemployment? Are you paying attention to the push to reinvigorate manufacturing in the US? Those are just that car-buyers will fill, and not half will be replaced by AI or automation. Infrastructure jobs? Those will come with manufacturing and even AI, as that needs more energy.

Not scared. The modern CEO sees opportunity, to reshape their business, create new things, new markets, it's a huge change coming, and the clever will profit.

Don't project your fears on the rest of us. I may come out of retirement if the right opportunity appears.