It's very common for sensors to be on ISA, but that's really about it any more. It was common for a long time for mouse and keyboard, but I don't think even they are there now. If you put the sensors on some other bus, and there are several options, you could reasonably ditch ISA.

Hmm, wow, apropos of nothing except running sensors to see whether I was still using ISA, I seem to have a bunch of temp sensors in my system now. Besides the mainboard (which uses a nct6798, which it says is on ISA) there's the two real and one emulated that are exposed on the processor, 2 on my NVMe storage, and one on each of the wifi and wired NICs.

What's happening at Microsoft today is a direct result of what happened at Microsoft in the past. Their entire history is relevant, not only because it is part of how they got to where they are now, but also because every action you take affects every potential action you can take in the future. These mass firings are attempts to change their corporate culture, but they're too deeply steeped in equal parts incompetence and market manipulation to do business any other way.

You seem to have a hard-on for capitalism, don't feel bad, it's a common sub kink. You love being dominated by dollars. But think for a second about the benefits of educating someone in a way that increases their employability. I personally would argue that any degree does that because a degree is often just used to prove to employers that you have the patience to get one, but the specific definition of a degree that makes you more employable isn't important to this argument right now.

If that someone is employed, then instead of paying for social services for them, they will be paying their own bills. Isn't that something you would like to see promoted? Further, people who are educated and successful most commonly have educated and successful parents. Don't you want people's kids to grow up to be successful so that they can pay their own way? Isn't that something that would be worth investing in? You know, the future?

Unless you're a doom cultist, in which case nobody should give two twinkly shits about your opinion since you're not planning to be here in the future, you should be able to recognize the value of empowering others who then go on to empower others. Then you get to live in an empowered society. Isn't that what you want?

Whoosh. I would use an exclamation point, but since this is dark humor territory, I will simply leave you to figure out what I meant on your own and without emphasis.

I'm not against that, but the telcos are, and they have enough money to prevent it from happening.

I only care about his stance on chicken.

Your idea is that a bunch of ignorant chucklefucks should dictate behavior to a better educated minority simply because there are more of them. It's argumentum ad populam and it's bullshit every time.

If you could reasonably put all the waste in one area it might take up that little land. But you reasonably have to have zones around them that you're not using for anything else. It's also not just the space, it's the shipping and sorting and processing.

"But they each need to be marched through the camps and made to look at the bodies and smell the crematoria stench."

That won't be possible until we get into the full swing of our Holocaust, by which time it won't help

"The purpose of the fee is Universal Service Fund.. That is the fee all of us pay on top of all our Landline phones and Cell phone bills collected for the purpose of providing universal service. At this point the focus of these funds should be on making sure that 100% of households have gigabit internet available."

We tried and failed at that already. The telcos pocketed hundreds of billions of dollars (insanely this is not an exaggeration) and we got nothing for it. They did buybacks and have big executive bonuses though.

As crap as Google's AI search results are, and they very much are crap as they often give completely nonsensical answers which do not make sense on any level, they absolutely do point to sources. I know because I read those sources, which often prove that Gemini is hallucinating.

Anyone with a brain would read the provided links to find out if they said what Gemini says they said, because they often do not. If this is decreasing traffic significantly then it's proof positive that most people are stupid. That, of course, would not be news.

But should we be trying to protect business models which depend on people being smart? They are bound to fail eventually.

When the prices were determined by what you could get the government to pay, they kept them lower. When the government started giving students loans, they started pushing up the prices, because students still needed degrees to get jobs but you didn't have to expect the government to pay.

"racism should be determined through the lens of circumstance?"

When is circumstance not relevant to whether some action is racist?

My comment didn't speak to benefit to society except in terms of employability. As long as the jobs will get people employed then paying for the education means not having to pay benefits. The objection to which I was responding was about employability, so I was on topic. You should try it.

Steel is also worth recycling. It doesn't save you any energy to speak of, but it does reduce mining. Same for glass, it doesn't save any energy in production itself, but you didn't have to go get more sand.

Some plastics are recyclable, some not so much. But that doesn't mean it's not worth recycling what we can just to avoid landfilling it.