The best deal I ever got on a used car at a dealership was achieved using strategies that are claimed not to work.

I arrived towards closing time at the dealership and, having satisfied myself that the car was suitable, I just sat there saying the price was too much. They kept coming down in price and I got a great deal on the car, when everyone wanted to go home.

I didn't lie.

Look at it from a CFO's point of view. The company will spend a bunch of money migrating and there is then nothing to stop Nutanix pulling the same kind of pricing stunt in the future.

Potentially, it's lower risk to just pay the Danegeld.

Dogs don't complain. They don't want the pack to abandon them because they are lame.

As a dog owner, you should know this.

I'll add to this. Microsoft or the NSA has discovered a vulnerability in VeraCrypt and the government doesn't want the author to be able to push out a fix.

You think that there is intelligent thinking being done by Hegseth and Trump?

You don't understand the math of false results.

The population of people who actually should have a negative result is far larger than the population of people that should have a positive result.

A small percentage of a large population [the actually negative] results in a significant number of false positives, while a small percentage of a small number of people [the actually positive] results in a very small number.

It takes longer on that Apple ][ to multiply two numbers than it does on a calculator.

No one needs to be able to drive 600 miles, stop for 5 minutes, then drive for another 600 miles.

People give up unnecessary capabilities in technology when moving to newer technology all the time.

The driver I described above is a menace on the roads.

For every person like you, there is someone else who claims they need an EV that do 600 miles (or more) on a charge and be ready to do another 600 miles after a 5-minute charge.

You need to have them all wired (not wireless) with backups for power. Criminals use Wifi jammers and also turn off power at the breaker.

As I said, you believe them when they say something that agrees with Faux News.

Those stats come from the police, so, if you don't believe the police, we should let everyone out of prison, right?

Or is it that you only don't believe the police when the information doesn't agree with your ore-conceived notions [actually, notions from Faux News]?

Except for the promises about racist policies.

The Wyden Siren has gone off a couple of times recently. What the FBI and CIA are doing is almost certainly far worse and intrusive than this news.

In the final episode of the first season, Christopher Walken paints over a real Banksy. The producers had got Banksy to create a piece of graffiti, which was destroyed as a minor part of the story line.