to avoid a public backlash, then you are, in fact, an evil conspiracy.

Fortunately, the odds of them ever selling more than stock certificates is slim.

Why would these people (and I use the word loosely) care of poor people can afford their services? They're poor, and therefore inferior, and therefore disposable, and not even really people. If you're not rich, you deserve to die quickly. But we must do everything we possibly can to make our masters immortal, to ensure we're never without their benevolent control.

Just ask them. They'll say the words out loud. They really are that arrogant.

That's why it automatically sets up the old address as an alias to the new. Permanently, if I don't miss my guess (there's no reason it shouldn't).

Lets you take your time updating everything dependent on it, or not bother at all.

Nothing new about this at all. Pay for the business version with your own domain, and it's been possible for as long as I've run things. This is *exactly* the same thing, including using the old address as an alias. They just expanded it to free accounts.

It's not exactly rocket surgery, after all.

And when a company doesn't say they won't share personal information, they share it.

In other words, any company you give personal information to will share it. Whether they say they will or not is irrelevant.

And in other news, the sky is blue, water is wet, and politicians lie.

Why comment the ads out? Include the pulling and display of ads as part of every program.

If I understand correctly, you can have GitHub do the compile for you as well, so there's not need to bother the programmer with details like including their spamware code in the source code they see.

And once they've proven that the automated compile is more efficient than doing it yourself, why even have the option to do it manually?

You know that's the end game. And you know they're planning to do that in any complier Microsoft has any control over, as well.

It's for your own good, after all.

Will it cause collateral damage, or will it end (at least some of) it?

Does social media do anything but collateral damage?

It's been tried. Didn't work out so well.

Rubbish. It's doing what it's programmed to do. The goal is for the AI to have complete, 100% control of the computer, to the exclusion of any human input. The tech bros want us to believe this is a good thing, that it will automate your life and make it easier, but they don't believe that either. It's about control.

They intend to make AI the 21st century form of slavery, where you are their literal property.

Some people (and I use the term loosely) don't see The Matrix as dystopian.

As an irrelevant side not, the producers of Sesame Street did issue a formal statement on the subject:

"They're puppets and puppets don't have a sexual orientation."

You have established that you're a pervert loser already, you can stop shouting it from the rooftops.

And you've admitted I'm right. You would show me, if only you had any.

There's a difference?

And if you don't, Microsoft's games aren't the problem.

It's not that it's not cost effective over time so much as the up front cost in one big bite. It would literally double the cost of opening a new store for us, is not more.

Then I guess we should burn the store to the ground and all go live in a cave and hunt dinner (or each other) with sharp sticks.

And dead batteries aren't a problem with the digital tags, they're a problem with managers who don't maintain their store competently. The managers who don't check for dead tags for 5 years (which is how long the batteries tend to last, since e-ink only uses power while you change the display) also won't check for outdated paper tags for that long, by which time they will have faded to the point of not being readable anyway.