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Steve did it with Newegg. Tech Jesus has balls when gamers/enthusiasts are getting screwed.

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Whole point of the Hyperloop was to stop California from building out high speed rail. And it worked. Musky thought it would cut into his EV sales.

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One of these guys is promising to go dictator, eliminate democracy, and seek retribution against those that "wronged" him. Not hard to see why so many are committed to voting against him.

This poll isn't the knock against Biden that many think it is.

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"But you see, it's ok when we do it."

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We already have, Tubby. We have.

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I double dog dare ya.

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Maps with the jurors' homes circled.

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Use Firefox. The crypto bros running Brave have been caught multiple times gathering and selling user data. You use Chrome as the base when you want to hoover data.

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The first domino has fallen.

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Funny how the usual suspects aren't in here complaining about this. Meanwhile, Joe Biden doesn't kowtow their every policy wish and he's the devil.

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I love how you don't highlight the Israelis murdered in the rocket attacks and other activities that kicked this latest round of conflict off. Almost like the usual suspects don't care if Israelis die. The whole, "we don't believe in mass murder" is complete bullshit. You just want one side to win and you don't give a shit how.

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Because they don't complain when Hamas kills people. Simple.

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It's the 90s webguru all over again!

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Republicans can be dismissive, hold the left in contempt, threaten to murder us, but hey Hillary looks like an intellectual that won't put up with stupid people, this is a Democrat problem. Fucking "journalism."

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I've seen this before in the 90s. The companies that forced out the best, highest paid staff always suffered.

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Would Israel get their hostages back in this cease-fire agreement? No. So why would Israel agree to it and allow Hamas to regroup and rearm?

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Working from home does help the local economy, just not the right ones for the C-suite.

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Part of it is management that can't handle their duties if they can't walk over and intimidate workers. The other bit is many companies have cash reserves invested in commercial real estate instruments, and can't handle the profoilo hit. And many of those company leaders are also personally invested in that same real estate.

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They are examining it and evaluating how much this is just for Hamas to regroup and rearm. But I suppose most here would cheer unabashedly for yet another Hamas rocket attack on Israeli homes.

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This is going to be a pyric victory like when they sued Google where they won, but then the traffic and views dropped through the floor.

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Biden shares many of my values and goals, but because he isn't perfectly aligned with my values and goals, I'm voting Trump, a man that shares NONE of my values and goals, as a protest. What could go wrong?

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Rudy probably has it now and is sniffing the underwear.

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I've worked both the blue collar and white collar sides of the auto industry. The emperors are not wearing clothes. The white collar side is absolutely fucked. The highlight is when working for an IT contractor at GM and some plants went on strike. Every day there was a propaganda call from a guy that would have been right at home with ol' Baghdad Bob. Lies all the way around with a dose of Comcast commercial distain in the delivery. Just could never take the auto industry management seriously after that.

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It's like the writer knows nothing about Ukraine and Russia and the politics around them, but is just in a massive hurry to piss on Israel.

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As if we don't know how this Court will decide.

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Tennessee: How dare you, you sons of bitches!!!

Volkswagen: What took you so long?

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Attacking piracy AND competition in one fell swoop! Capitalism!

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Likely it is a revenge move because a couple of states booted Trump.

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Yes, but one consistent thing from Republicans is retaliation/revenge. Right out of the Fascist playbook.

Cybertruck Deliveries Halted Due To Car Being A Big Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Work ( defector.com )

Tesla, a future case study for securities law classes across America, had to stop delivering Cybertrucks this past weekend. No, not because the hundred-thousand–dollar medium-duty pickup, which is only any of those things in the loosest interpretive sense, tends to brick when it gets rained on; nor because its stainless steel...

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Ahhh yes, that time tested tactic of shooting the messenger. No amount of website blocking is going to get around the fact the cybertruck is terrible.

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Cruelty IS the point.

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Think that is just a Google thing. I took, got sick of it and use Duckduckgo instead.

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There are lots of streaming platforms, but no real competition. Because the studios and networks hide behind the streaming services and price gouge like crazy. They know people will blame the streaming service.

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The job of a programmer is to reintroduce a bug that was fixed in the last patch.

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My best comment ever in Reddit was describing Lord of the Rings as programming.

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If you really, I mean REALLY, want to hate printers, try being a Citrix admin. It's a bit better now but 20 years ago it was a pita.

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He published STOLEN documents. If you want to participate in Civil Disobedience, you have to accept the consequences. He's not in it for any cause other than fuck you.

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They can ask, but no one is under obligation to comply, just like the US asked and were rejected. If I personally published stolen classified material that would embarrass or materially harm a foreign nation, I would expect retaliation of some sort.

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But you're not thinking of the CEO's next yacht! Or the shareholders!

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I think they are VASTLY overestimating how many Democrats he will pull. Most Democrats understand what a right wing nut he is. He'll pull disenfranchised Republicans more.

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He'll keep doing it until he faces consequences.

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We did do something permanent: We let the private sector fuck us all in the ass while the rest of the world passed us by.

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Because these access companies DO NOT COMPETE with each other. Without that competition we all get the shit end of capitalism. The landlines all have their own fiefdoms. Wireless is balkanizing based on tower placement, and satellite is for rural areas that don't rate wired connections or cell towers. The politicians can point to all this and say we have options, but really you're lucky if you have two options.

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NO TRUE SCOTTSMAN!

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From my experience, the wireless carriers are trying their best not to launch in the same areas for home Internet. They're trying hard to avoid the competition like they do in phone service. Example: I get T-Mobile home Internet, but Verizon doesn't in my area. Asking friends, I'm finding that to be a common situation where one or the other is offered, but rarely both. Completely anecdotal, so take it with a grain of salt.

"Digital sovereignty": German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein ditches Microsoft for Linux and Open Source alternatives ( blog.documentfoundation.org )

Schleswig-Holstein, the northern German federal state, will be a digital pioneer region and the first German state to introduce a digitally sovereign IT workplace in its state administration. With a cabinet decision to introduce the open-source software LibreOffice as the standard office solution across the board, the government...

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Libre office and Linux desktops are not line of business apps. They are platforms to run/supplement line of business apps. There are very few line of business apps that run HR, the finance department, EMR if you're in a hospital system, etc, etc, etc as open source or run on open source solutions. For decades Open Source advocates kept thinking it was the ability to run Office that shut down "The year of Linux desktops!!!" But that isn't it at all. It's those specialized apps that run the businesses that prevented it. I work in a hospital system, our line of business app is Epic or Cerner. Apps that digitize the health records. The requirements to run these apps is Windows Server, because that is what the front ends are built on. And these apps, especially the front ends, are heavy and complex. Any attempt to turn them into web apps has failed miserably because the performance just isn't there vs running say, the Epic/Cerner front end in a Citrix solution. Client-Server isn't dead, it just doesn't get sexy press anymore. Obviously if you work in web development, it is a very different story. But even in those shops, I'll bet the business support apps (HR, finance, etc) run heavily on Windows.

Lord knows I've tried to advocate for open source solutions where I can, but if the apps the business picks to suit their needs only runs in Windows? You're infrastructure has already been chosen for you. And THAT is what the average wannabe IT person on the internet doesn't understand in the slightest.

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And you'll get the same story.

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Why would it matter, she's not running for anything.

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