The BBB was supported by the overwhelming majority of conservatives. That's why the Republicans passed it. One or two billionaires bitching about it doesn't change that.

The Republicans don't, and never have, cared about deficit spending. It was Saint Reagan who actually started the modern trend of overspending. Literally the only time they bring it up is when there's a democrat in office and they want to shoot down any spending that might alleviate poverty. Meanwhile, historically, Democrats have done better controlling the debt than Republicans.

So why hasn't Europe been bombed yet? The Euro is doing well and many non-EU countries are switching to it as their preferred reserve currency.

The EU also has plenty of military might. The fact the US has more is neither here nor there given both (and Russia) can destroy the world many times over in the space of a few minutes.

Try looking for the "Jump to recipe" button, that's on most websites.

The reason for all the garbage is that... get this... Google downranks websites without paragraphs and paragraphs of filler material that just display the recipe. Trust me, most recipe sharers don't particularly want to write 10 paragraphs of crap about Carrabbas Style Lentil Soup.

Their kids didn't. Treating everyone like an island is ultimately the purest form of the cancer that infects the US.

"those goals seem to be nearly impossible to attain"

Is it impossible to obtain - the national ethos sees absolutely no problem with the unbounded consolidation of wealth and power, so long as it is in the private sector.

The joke is the private sector is so powerful at this point, your public sector is just a sock with the private sector's hand up its ass.

That'll never change as long as the concept of even moderate, reasonable redistribution of wealth is a national non-starter. It's impressive watching the way the US twists itself this way and that, where everybody is just a temporarily embarrassed billionaire voting for less taxes, less spending to make their supposed future rich selves happy for when they finally join the billionaire class.

It *does* explain why he needs so much of your money for expenses . . .

>It's not clear this is a stepping stone to anything else.

perhaps to one-way trips for celebrities? I could get behind that!

(In space, noone has to hear Katy Perry sing)

hawk

>I didn't watch Independence Day that close. Did the aliens win or the people?

It starts as a win for the people, as the aliens destroy DC.

Unfortunately, they later turned out to be hostile.

> Or, buy and download a song in an electronic format, which will then be lost if I have a disk crash? Again, no thanks.

Unfortunately this seems to be the way the world is going. I do recommend doing two things: creating a media server of some sort, and keeping it in a back-up schedule.

(Disk media isn't immune from problems either, I'm finding a large number of DVDs I have suffer disk rot, probably because WB cheaped out in the mid-2000s)

Back-ups aren't hard these days. Use older, disused, hard drives of the kind you probably have a pile of anyway because you're a Slashdotter, and a device like this:

https://www.newegg.com/istarus...

This is something that means you can treat SATA drives the same way you did floppies back when we used REAL computers.

Second advantage of this is that you can save everything, including the time you'd otherwise need to re-rip your entire media collection if it fails. I've learned the hard way that's not as easy as it sounds.

They care about being punished if they're caught, yes, but only if the punishment is something somewhat more than 5000 quid.

It's not that they're afraid of innovating, it's that they're afraid of having to do the good, consumer friendly, form of innovation where you create better products for end users, rather than enshittify them to boost your share price temporarily through "innovations" that actively harm end users.

It was a rant, but one that was both on-topic and that didn't, actually, claim Trump was responsible for the satellite loss. But then you have someone with the real TDS (the derangement that makes someone admire him) jump in claiming the post said something it didn't, followed by a line of deranged Trump fanatics protesting it was unfair the false post was modded down or criticized or that liberals had claimed they are always right (?) and so on.

I'm so tired of this, but even more I'm so tired of *gestures everywhere* WTF has happened to the world? I miss the days when conservatives just had different opinions on how to provide universal healthcare coverage or whether we need to split marriage into a religious and civil part in order to give equal rights to non-heterosexuals. Sure, they had some pretty awful views about muslims, but FFS, this is just awful.

SpaceX is doing very well launching stuff into LEO and GTO. But plenty of organizations do that and have been doing that since the 1970s. It's (relatively speaking) fairly easy, and SpaceX's main success has been doing it more cheaply and more efficiently than anyone has before.

SpaceX is not having much luck going further or more complicated than putting things in GTO. They haven't orbited the moon, or have a working vehicle for doing so yet (Starship is nowhere near ready), and leaving Earth's orbit is part of the same not-ready project.

Don't get me wrong, with the exception of the idiot who owns the company, SpaceX are some of the smartest space people in the world. They may well get Starship working if they can handle Musk enough to keep him out of it but continue to fund it. The latter... I'm wary in the current political climate of assuming it'll happen just because it excites him. He might not have the funds or power he does indefinitely, and it's far from clear anyone else would take over and continue to fund SpaceX if he falls out of favor with the current administration.

Oh wow, that's interesting, I hadn't heard of that one! Amazingly, reading up on it it ran on AMPS and had a cellular modem. I thought having to use GSM CSD on my 9000 was kludgy!

I assume he's talking about the Nokia 9000? I had one, IIRC it ran something based upon GEOS, but you wouldn't have recognized it from the UI. It's entirely possible there was an MS DOS clone sitting managing the file system, but I don't recall having a command line (I'm not sure I even had direct access to files in the 9000's UI.)

TBH in the 1990s there were a lot of mobile OSes, mostly for use with PDAs, and many were influenced heavily by desktop OSes at the time, but I'm not sure I'd call any clones. But at the same time many were very unsophisticated at the bottom layers. So there's that.