If it's a toss-up between a de-facto Chinese takeover or a de-facto Israeli takeover, then the question is not what the resignation is trying to distract from, the question is why a vital strategic manufacturer is being taken over by a foreign power at all.

(Obviously, there's good reasons for a foreign power to want to have absolute leverage over how US businesses work. Whether those foreign powers are "hostile" or "benign" is irrelevant there and so of absolutely no consequence to the discussion. What matters is that the US should not place critical industries, on which essentially all other parts of their economy have become utterly dependent, in the hands of anyone not subject to US scrutiny or US law. As it stands, I dislike how corporations work, boards have accountability to nobody outside themselves and majority shareholders - which are also usually themselves. That's not an effective system.)

I'd certainly investigate the entire corporation. If the guy is abusing his position of authority (which means that any "consent" given is a fiction) and the employees actively support this, then there's a good chance that the behaviour is rampant in the company.

There is, however, a flip-side. He's undoubtedly led the company to produce some superb products and has pushed them in a well-identified direction. Far more so than virtually any other US corporation. There's very obviously something about his personality and mindset that is actually wanted to have a successful business, and this something is lacking within much of the western business community.

Basically, much of the western world is stuck in Harvard MBA Land, and companies operating under such principles invariably collapse from complete incompetence. They're popular because those with MBAs are usually brash, arrogant, controlling, dominant, and abusive - typical sociopathic traits - and sociopaths in the boardroom tend to be very good at producing stable management structures and very high stock returns. Just not successful busineses. But who cares, if you get rich?

This does not mean we need more sex offenders or Chinese spies running US megacorps. It means we need to find out exactly what in his attitude allowed him to identify successful patterns, we have no reason to want or desire any other aspects of the guy.

This is cheating on your homework, except you're cheating yourself out of the experience of picking JUST the vacation house that you and your loved ones will like. Friction is not bad. So much friction is load-bearing.

On that subject I saw a very funny interaction some kid had with claude, where he's asking claude a question from his test, then claude gives him the answer, tells him to put the phone away quiet like, and pretend its not there, and its alll good "I got you", then the next line is "Im the teacher , was he just cheating". Claude immediately replies "Yes he was, Im sorry but I cant lie to a a teacher", then tops it off with "You should fail him, he's good for nothing". Frigging snitch lol

I wasn't worried until that moron opened his mouth and stuttered some BS. Now I am questioning everything. That bozo could claim the sun was hot and I would have to check myself.

"History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man"

Should we email Microsoft and advise them on how to install Linux and FreeBSD on their servers?

This is why I set all my timers to a prime number like 59 or 61s, 29 or 31s. You get the same relative frequency, but the timers sweep across the clock regularly.

Sony very famously scheduled the PS2 launch in Japan to happen right after exams - so schools would finish for the year and exams are over and a shiny new PS2 for you the next day.

Thats a ...... weirdly.... responsible bit of corporate behavior. The Japanese are surprising people sometimes.

Eh.. not necessarily. Starfield was supposed to be a game of this scale, touted as another Skyrim or Fallout. And it went over like a lead balloon, and about a week later everyone shrugged and went back to Baldurs Gate. Though I'm not expecting this to fare as poorly, since Rockstar do not have the reputation for jank that Bethesda have

But more to the point, this is a console only release. I wont be playing it, cos its not on PC. I *will* be playing it when it releases for PC however.

Welllll, I didn't say it was Waymo that killed taxi service in San Francisco. No, that would be Uber and Lyft.

However, a lot of people -- particularly women, for reasons -- increasingly prefer Waymo.

It dances like the whitest guy on the planet, no hips.

I read it as "Data Centers Are Being Powered by Gas Giant Planets" and I said to myself, "Hmmm, I never thought of that one..."

Yes, because animations use animators ,not actors.

AI slop uses neither. No humans or art are involved. Hence why people who backed a crowd funded project to make art are pissed off that instead of art they got AI slop.

What actually is your point here?

Oh you'd be surprised. Back in my younger years I worked in the court technology group for the (west australian) DOJ and for a while I was detailed to the WA supreme court, and was a bit surprised to find that the Judges quarters had an absolutely epic collection of very expensive aged whiskeys and brandies, and those judges would be hitting that booze pretty hard between hearings. What was weird was , you'd have a judge with enough whiskey to kill an elephant in them, having a debate with a QC lawyer (queens court is, or was, the highest rank of lawyer in our legal system) over the finer point of some obscure metaphysics axiom in Kant's Prolegomena , or an arcane ruling in a 1500s court case in the UK or whatever and would usually utterly thrash the lawyer. If it was me I'd be slurring my words and demanding the lawyer meet me in the carpark for fisticuffs lol. Those old yodas are just wired differently.

This does seem to be a modern issue.

My folks where dirt poor, and while often dinner was just... scrambled eggs again... Mum was adamant we had to eat a balanced dinner with NO sugar or salt (back in the 1970s doctors where a bit more worried about salt than we are now. We largely think salt isn't the heart killer we thought it was back in the day, though added salt still isnt recomended for folks with high blood pressure), and junk food was very rare indeed.

With that said, we lived in rural Australia, so that might have been a very different upbringing to an urban American, even in the 1970s.