They will not. A non-activated offline Windows presents no problem for such machines. The fundamental limit to an inactivated version of Windows was that it was blocked from updates and that it set your wallpaper black. The former doesn't matter (out of support), and the latter ... whop-de-fucking-do.

No it doesn't. Virtually no one has ever activated windows by phone. In fact I challenge you to ask 100 people in the street (limit yourself to windows only users) if they even knew phoning Microsoft was an option. I would bet you actual money that not a single person would say yes.

It impacts virtually no one. Not directly, not indirectly.

Nitpick1: British Petroleum does not have any stake in Venezuela. They do in the Caribbean islands though (Trinidad). They are also a major player in Gulf of Mexico and a major supplier into the USA, and a major employer in the USA. The name (which they don't use) is sort of irrelevant for a multinational. This "British" companies is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (as well as London), has a predominantly American shareholder investment, predominantly American workforce, and has most of its major assets in America along with it's biggest office (though not main office, that is still London). America stands to gain a lot by supporting "British" petroleum.

Nitpick2: Royal DUTCH Shell is Shell plc. They are a 100% British multinational listed on the London stock exchange. They haven't been Dutch for a few years now, they moved their headquarters to the UK, and they dropped all references to Royal Dutch (the former oil company) during the movie and with great irony now only reference the Shell side of the business (the irony being that Shell no longer have a shipping division which is what Shell originally was when it merged with Royal Dutch Petroleum). Shell stands to gain a shitload from this though. They were a player in the Venezuelan oil industry.

Nitpick3: What USA companies say is related to the situation of the day. Exxon, ConocoPhillips and Chevron were all major players in Venezuela but got bitten. They had no interest in going back *under the current government*. As the situation evolves so does the business strategy. IF (big if) the outcome of this invasion is a stable international Venezuela, you can bet both your kidneys with safety that all three companies will come racing back. Their shareholders will very much demand it.

Yes, most of those messages were the result of harassment over the phone, nothing to do with online. Stop reading rubbish news and get some real facts into you. They are mostly domestic abuse cases and they ARE ON THE DECLINE HAVING PEAKED IN 2012.

It shouldn't be too difficult to explain to a customer if you have basic communication skills (and by that I don't mean to insult you but rather have an ability to distil something complex into something more simple). The P rating was an equivalent rating. You could have educated someone with information they were going to very shortly need as the entire industry moved away from MHz a few years later.

As for issues, I was also a tech back in the day. The leapfrog principle also existed. Both companies produced flawless products. Both companies produced epic turds. The question of who sent what back was only a question of *when* we are talking about. As is the question of which company's products were better.

In this industry it is utterly stupid to avoid any company for any long term duration for any issue what so ever. All companies go through phases. E.g. ASUS was a great company, right now I wouldn't recommend any of their products to my enemies. I'd recommend Gigabyte, something which I definitely would not have done 5 years ago. You need to get with the times and stay on top of things in this industry.

Literally no corporations DoD or small enterprises rely on Microsoft for activation. They use a Key management Service to activate locally provisioned windows systems without any need to reach the internet outside the organisation. This has been the case since the days of Windows Vista.

Heck KMS is the default piracy workaround for windows in general. Pirated copies of Windows and Office are activated by running KMS locally on the machine.

Once again you're not going to convince anyone. If you're relying on situations like this to get people to use Linux you're going to find 99.9% of users say "What's activation? What do you mean phone call? Nurse, nurse, the man's off his meds and harassing me!"

This impacts virtually no one so virtually no one will be convinced by you that they are using some kind of dystopian abomination. Find a better way to market Linux.

Precisely zero of those other buildings host the security council or has the facilities for that. These aren't just people who stand in the room, there's a purpose built room laid out with clear functional design choices (such as the location and view of translators, media, non-council members, specific video conferencing facilities.

Regardless of the fact that the UN has other buildings, for this institution you still want a purpose built room.

Well so far the only time any of these boats have been publicly investigated by the courts the people on the boats (who survived the extra judicial attempted murder) were released without any indication that they were committing a crime.

I'll take the courts view over whatever shit you trust from the world's most prolific liar.

No, the speedometer is probably analogue. Even with all LCD screen displays *MOST* cars on the market proceed to mimic and analogue gauge. Those showing speed digitally are more an odd curiosity (I say that as someone who does have a car with a digital display, but it's a Chinese import which does quite a few things differently to normal)

Honestly, I'm not surprised.

A "skill" that is the equivalent to being able to tell when something is diving a circle by 1/4, 1/2 or which number is being pointed to is not a skill. It's not complex, and it's not something worth while losing.

Let me guess, when you get pulled over by the police and asked how fast you were going you also say "dunno, can't read the dial"?

No you don't, you need to remember what 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 is. Precision is often not relevant, and when it is there are minute markers on the watch dial itself for you to count.

Having a requirement to teach does not mean a student is forced to learn. Some students forget, others never learn in the first place. There's no requirement to know everything you ever learn at school.

I mean... who cares at this point. The man has breached the constitution, the powers of separation, declared war unilaterally without congressional approval, ignored courts. Him doing something illegal is just another day in the office at this point. There won't be any backlash. Actually many are seeing this as a potential political win for Trump.

Quite a lot of them are dancing in the streets. I'm in the Caribbean right now (stuck in paradise, our flight out today was cancelled) and the Venezuelans are certainly partying. It seems a majority of them aren't sad to see the man gone. His presidency has fucked over the Venezuelan people spectacularly and done immeasurable damage to the country, and the last 3 elections have been considered to be unfair by all watchdogs to the point where the most recent election resulted in so many of the world not considering him to be the recognised leader that it has its own wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I don't think the US citizens in Venezuela have anything to worry about. If anything they may suffer liver damage from too many shouts of free beer. I'm no fan of Trump or that this attack is a breach of international law, but Maduro going won't upset very many people.