So I actually read your citation which apparently either you didn't do or didn't expect others to do:

The ACFTU is the country's sole legally mandated trade union, with which all enterprise-level trade unions must be affiliated. The ACFTU is managed by the CCP Secretariat. There has been dispute over whether ACFTU is an independent trade union or a trade union at all.

Chinese unionization is fake. It's just another way for China to control workers.

No, the problem is that the surveillance business model is legal.

China had bureaucracy for literally thousands of years before the USA was even invented.

Ok Nazi.

So your solution to shit billionaires is to return to being hunter gatherers? I do not think you will find many other to enlist in your scheme.

It isn't. It's sold to customers building a system. That's why they have different names which sound different to everyone but you.

That depends on what they were trained for. Was it to uphold the law or... not? If the latter then yeah, sure. If the former, then no. The LLMs are trained on a fat core dump. The training corpus was produced without a thought even for accuracy, let alone honesty or fair play.

Ideally we get rid of MS in a cleaner way.

(To continue the discussion... Naturally they are different from IBM and cloud services are different from IBM's consulting services, but still services, if in no way other than in the sense of "being serviced".)

Portables are trash. Mini-splits don't cover a window, the connection between the inside and outside units goes through a fairly small hole, and they are much more efficient. Window units exist for stupid reasons to begin with, the solution is mini-splits.

An AC posted above about waiting for this inevitable type of comment posted by idiots and here it is!

I paid $99 for a fully legit copy of Windows 7 Pro, system builder's edition. That's simply intended to be sold alongside parts for a new PC, which in fact is what I was doing. Therefore I'm confident that an OEM license for Windows 7 Home was less than that.

It's groovy when the representative of a corporations admits deliberate violation of the Magnusson-Moss act. It's always nice when they confess in writing.

It is rather easy to blame others for climate change. Yes, the poor consume products which do ecological damage. But they wouldn't be able to do that damage without rich people deciding it's what they will be allowed to buy.

Come on now, leave some billionaire cock for the rest of us to suck.

How did it become controversial to think Nazis and child rapists were bad? When this is the state of political discourse and debate in the USA, we deserve for our nation to fail, as it is in the process of doing.

It was a step in developing morality perhaps, now it's an impediment to developing it further