Oil cooled with "Canola"

Being an unskilled but charismatic person has been a desire since the start of human trade. Ask the first person doing the worlds oldest profession if they'd rather have charm or technique to earn their keep. Humans have always wanted the cheap, fast fix for the ego.

I live in a no fly zone corridor near a bombing range. No RC planes, No kites above 50ft, No personal flyers of any kind. What I do get is sonic booms and bombing runs but that's entertainment.

OS/2 should have taken over the world. It was THAT much better than anything else. I'd love to have seen OS/2 on an Amiga...

This is everything you need to know about running an airline into the ground. The worst in customer service, the worst in maintenance, the worst in cleanliness. Garbage In Garbage Out, the saying applies all kinds of places.

I've got my modem, router, NAS and printer attached to an extender from the closet they reside in. If Comcrap, or Rectum cable turn this on they get the 5x5 room. closet.

All crap I do not want. The .exe installer for my game please. Game spy did it right as far a match making goes. I don't buy on Steam, and I don't use GoG's Galaxy. I don't care about Achievements, and if you are into Mod'n a game you should be able to figure out how to load and manage them. I write DOOM2 maps and I can do that just fine without Bethesda. An online server multiplayer game should handle client side issues itself. All the crap you are pushing is just more info for someone to cache about you...

Why is there a need for a 'Linux' storefront. The front-end should be web and OS neutral. Just sell, AND SUPPORT, for more than a week, something. Epic will spout shit and go on their merry way happily fsck'n customers, just as always.

Why is Editor David posting trash like this ? IS he getting paid under the table, HAS he just thrown in the towel ? Shouldn't a LONG time editor have some baseline knowledge of fact checking, or should we just continue to accept this subpar performance knowing this site is the palest of imitations of what it used to be.

AI isn't inherently bad, the system under which AI is being developed is. Capitalism commodifies everything, including humans... slavery is the logical end state of capitalism, commodifying not just the factory or the raw materials, but the worker themselves. In a non-capitalist society, it wouldn't matter that AI ingests and reuses creative output... creators are not beholden to capitalists in order to have food or housing or healthcare. In a non-capitalist society, AI would not be trained on winner-takes-all modalities. We get to a Star Trek world where you can conjure up damn near anything you want in a holodeck by leveraging AI... but only if it's in in a NON-capitalist society.

Not a generational problem ?
Helicopter parents weren't a thing when I was young. We were the free range hose water generation. We walked miles to school. Sadly a bunch of us vanished, but we didn't notice at the time.
Maybe he lives somewhere where it's not required?...Are you asking me ? I know where the "kid" lives. For the sake of your point it is South Bay, think San Jose, and a car is very necessary. His apathy with a drivers license stems from the fact that he has a parent who arranges his every interaction. He has never been forced to rely on himself for, well anything.
What part of highschool was freedom?..." The part I was talking about....Getting your Drivers license so you could GO PLACES.
  I've been corrected in that minors can't drive together ...^@%$@%@#. Every morning I picked up nearly a dozen friends in my parents old Dodge Caravan on my way to school. We called it the starship intercourse....
  I guess I'm back to my point. I don't have a clue about the young gen what-evers born in the 2010's. The world they are growing up in is a very different and frankly hostile place.

it will be a subscription thing. You know what they say...if you are not paying, you ARE the product.

I love my nephew, he is smart, funny and has zero drive. His helicopter mother rarely lets him make any decisions. When he stays with me he expects me to have a detailed plan of what he should do in 15 min intervals. Luckily for me his mother provides just such a plan. When faced with any deviation from the plan he goes into panic mode. I think back to my childhood...tossed from the house and told to be back when the streetlights came on. We biked miles to BART and were in SF China Town getting fireworks. This kid sees no benefit in getting his drivers license. That was the high point of high school...FREEDOM. I no longer have any real idea what motivates kids today.
I guess I can start working on the lawn now...sigh

This is Grifting at its best. It will decades if ever we get rid of the "new" carpetbaggers that have ridden on the coat-tails of Trumplstiltskin.

All your jets are belong to US !!!!