Weiss is full of ****. Her original post on X said it was because the White House hadn't been given the opportunity to comment, like she's running RT or some Dickwad Dicktator's personal Pravda

Even in the best defense of Weiss then she is so far proving to be bad at the EiC job as it was reported this segment was already "screened 5 times" and had already passed review by standard and practice and CBS legal department. They also reported that Weiss ignored any requests for discussing the matter. Not good management!

What Weiss is talking about is the type of thing you bring up do well in advance of a story getting to that point. Even if it's redundant you already fully produced it, the tape is ready to go. Did they replace it with something more compelling?

It can seem reasonable to you but to me and I think many others that's a paper thin cover story from someone who has shown herself to be I think well over head.

Spot on, when Johnson blocks something it should be the default assumption that all the Republican members also support the block even if they don't say it.

I think while way way less relevant today that the human travel agent has at least justified itself more than the 3rd party travel booking sites. Back when your places like Travelocity and Priceline were coming along it was the fact that the pricing was better, you could score a cheap deal you couldn't get elsewhere and the fact most airlines and hotels didn't have robust online systems.

Now the companies themselves are well aware of, in partner with or sometimes outright own those 3rd party sites so the pricing has turned into a bland milieu of standard rates no matter where you look and all the 3rd party sites offer is some mild convenience of shopping in one spot and price comparison but after that it's really all liability versus booking direct with the airline/hotel. Really I end up using Google more than the travel sites since all I really want is an aggregator.

The human travel agent can offer me all of that and the only downside is I have to pay them direct as opposed to the booking site where their payment is opaque.

The 95% thing isn't quite true because if that majority of members did support it they could file a discharge petition to get the vote, it's usually presumed the Speaker has the support of their majority. It's a nice tactic because it let's the members speak from both sides of their mouths, they can toss the blame onto the Speaker.

Pretty sure this is called the Hastert Rule (crazy they still call it this) and it's not an actual rule, it's just a norm there is no binding mechanism.

There is no freedom to sleep outside in urban and suburban areas and in fact it's bad.

Most folks, even liberals like myself, don't actually have an issue with draconian homeless enforcement but it's the manner in which it's done in that there is no solution really being committed to on the other end of things which to break the cycle. People sleeping on the streets is not good for greater society, just the hostile architecture alone is a negative effect. I can't find a public bathroom in most US cities because of homelessness. We do everything around the problem but don't actually care to solve it.

If the cops drag your ass off the street but it's to a safe bed where we can triage, sort out (lot's of different homeless with different solutions) and rehabilitate people I don't think you'd find as much opposition. It's drag them off the street and just shuffle the problem to another town or out of sight or just clean up for an event that's usually at issue and that's on all of us, government, people, liberals, conservatives we all share some blame for failing to do any real action for their own reasons.

And this is exactly why Ryanair will not discontinue business with Italy and we have seen it time and time again. Have any of the big tech companies exited the EU after all their rules and rulings? Hell no, they go crying to big daddy US government to bully them and write their own protective laws for themselves.

So when the companies themselves don't even buy into your anti-regulatory stance that shows me they acknowledge such rules are just another price of doing business, because they are. Regulations and the state are as much a part of the market as the companies themselves, there is no separation, meddling is required.

Externality

I have been making that same argument to conservatives for two decades, they do not care, they are dug in on the anti-climate change. Now sometimes they acknowledge it in the free market type of things, like how Texas has a fuckload of wind power but the party platform and Trump have to do it with a wink and a nod to the hoax because a lot of their base still thinks it's a hoax.

It is a huge issue that we can't understand each other because we are living in two different realities, we cannot agree on a real set of facts. It's part of why the right has become so anti-science and anti-academia, they are the ones who provide facts and the facts diverge from many of the Republican agenda. Easier to just shout bias and generate your own alternative facts. It's bleak.

Yup - letting them take off was bloody irresponsible. I expected to see a bunch of fired program and QA managers. They didn't, so I can only think they did not have any...

My original comment was referring to Microsoft as the anti-trust experts. It was a tongue-in-cheek reference to their history. And their known power and dominance within the corporate space. Point is if they wanted to try and force "Professional" versions of their OS onto some specific hardware (which they happen to currently be all tooled up to make and do,) it sure as shit wouldn't be coming from an unknown place of profit (cough, Apple). And it would eliminate most problems of hardware compatibility and make IT easier with a single platform.

Would they piss off a lot of 3rd party hardware vendors? Sure. But there's always the Home market for them.

And as GenZ's name becomes more "Boss" and "Sir", we'll see what the break room morphs into. The LAN party might be the new smoke break.

I chose a Mac over Windows in 2008 regardless of my Windows needs at the time. Because virtualization. Yeah. I'm well aware of the 5% of fringe cases in business.

That seems an extraordinarily high efficiency rate. I am very dubious.

the classified reason is the USA economy obviously. It is in bad shape and cheap oil is not helping to keep production going, oil is cheaper now than a few years back. Between covid, the wars, Saudis opening the spigots, the price has been going down steadily. Thus USA is no longer in the way of Ukraine hitting ruzzian oil tankers and facilities and thus the attack on Venezuella (by the way, USA is not worried about ruzzia helping Maduro. Americans have to admit that Ukraine tying up one of America's main rivals, ruzzia, a nuclear power at that, is quite an accomplishment for a non nuclear smallish country, that trump hates so much). Anyway, this is all about oil prices, oil demand and the fear of losing oil revenues, that is the classified part.

Maybe not the smartest thing, to go flying when you know you have a condition that prevents you from passing a medical.

Let me clairify once again, to dispel that whole most corporate machines have integrated graphics problem. The Xbox hardware, with great graphics and plenty of power, BECOMES the corporate machine. Running Win12 Professional. For those that wish to be called Professionals at work running an AD instead of those non-professional losers stuck over there in a Workgroup. (Not unlike the “Home” versions before.)

For any large business that does not want Microsoft products today, they often do not have a choice. Microsoft wouldn’t give a choice here either. You want Win12 Pro capable of joining an Active Directory? You’ll buy the hardware with it. Which happens to be, an Xbox. Or technically, you’ll probably lease it.