Boss' Boss: "Why are we paying him to remote in when we can hire an international team to remote in for 24/7 redundant button clicking at half the price of one person?"

International team: "North Korea is willing to pay us to do the job we were hired to do. Sounds tempting..."

Function did its job, exactly as designed.

Whether it's legal to use or not is dependent on jurisdiction and circumstances (and still hasn't been established!), but the function existing and allowing a user to use it is no bad thing.

Think a mugger demanding you access your bank accounts. Oh, no, look, the phone's stopped working...

a.k.a. throwing money at rubbish ideas, and seeing what sticks.

The greatest business strategy of all time /s

We can always hope that the pigs who fucked-up with the user names will be skinned alive, but of course, we all know this will never happen because pigs enjoy an inordinate amount of immunity totally unwarranted by their well-below average intelligence.

It's like a miniature version of the "big kernel lock" thing that took years to resolve.

Sure there were some blocking issues causing performance setbacks for it in certain locations but it was orders of magnitude more difficult to slice it out and replace things with smaller locks, and it still didn't have MASSIVE increases in performance or any user-visible way at all.

It's just code maintenance.

Yes, they become an economic superpower and they slowly take the place of the USA on the world stage.

A very nice country, with very nice, hard-working but still fun-loving (take that, calvinists!) people, thank to them not having religious hangups and neuroses.

"Over time, with process improvements,"

And like that, you've spent all three.

A lot of people don't understand that. take the time to work it out, you lose fast.

If fast isn't most important, you can spend cheap. Then you can get good, maybe.

If good wasn't the goal, well, then you choose the desired, and the rest sorts itself out.

See? The equation is proved by your example.

He sent me the first e-mail I ever received, some 40 years ago...

It was so early that it actually was printed by some service and (snail-)mailed to me...

True. Apollo suffered huge costs because of the deadline, forcing development costs more. The NASA equation - good, fast, cheap. Any 2 of the three.

SpaceX is doing very well indeed, and so far as I can tell making no excuses. Don't need to. They are kicking it, and NASA is trying to stay relevant in the launch business.

With a little luck Starlink will satisfy the broadband access mandates the rest of the ISP business has taken money for and not delivered for *decades*.

Of course people hate Elon. He's successful. They don't envy him, they resent his success, while they languish in sub-mediocrity and blame all else for their malaise.

Pus.

Who the fuck leases a PHONE.

I think that's the question we should be asking. Just buy the thing. If you can't afford to buy the thing, then get a loan/card to buy the thing.

And a phone just shouldn't be that expensive or difficult to maintain or break so often that you can't do either.

You can keep your vanity plate names and waste all the money you want on them.

Nobody cares any more. They just google or bookmark you.

Yeah, I mean, who would call a website slash dot, because it then becomes w w w dot slash dot dot org....

Only one example of the species...

You think rsilvergun is a Democrat? He's just a shovel in a manure pile. Not an original thought. Having a pension does help defocus your life.