So when something mission critical breaks down and the vendor authorized techs refuse to enter a war zone, it's the military personnel who are going to pay the ultimate price for the corporate betrayal.

where the sun don't shine.

The Linux Foundation has always been kind of useless, but they're really outdoing themselves this time.

If you really believe that soldiers and/or sailors aren't trained to do exactly that today, you're living in a fantasy world.

More like old vs new terribleness.

The level of anti-intellectualism has been rising very noticeably of late. People are already sick of being made to feel dumb by other people. What makes anyone think they'll accept being made to feel dumb by a machine?

"No, Davies can't fix the autocannon even if your lives depend on it. Division says to shoot him in the arse if he so much as touches it."

Nice bit of fiction, but here's what actually happened when Sgt. John Basilone fixed a machine gun under fire. The results look a little different, don't they?

LibreOffice will be raising it's licensing costs by even steeper percents. Individual users will go from $0 up 10% to $0. Enterprises will go from $0 up a whopping 30% to $0.

Numerous stores already track you via your phone's Bluetooth signal.

That's easy to prevent: just turn your Bluetooth off when you're not using it and make sure it's off before going into any store that you suspect is using it to track you. Personally, I can't remember the last time I've had it turned on. Of course, I can't use those fancy wireless earbuds (or any other kind) because they don't fit my ears.

They are no longer required to fully fund pensions:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

If people would like to get their âoedisabilityâ tested and verified with more than an echo chamber and paid for personally, then the results will speak for who should be recognized vs. who should be questioned instead of coddled.

In my case, any disabilities I'd be claiming would have been tested and verified by the VA. (Currently, I'm 30% disabled, all disabilities Service Connected as I posted earlier.) Would you find that sufficient, and if not, why?

How do you know that?

Being from Google, I rather assume the opposite - and that they probably focused their engineering effort to make sure the reduced battery life didn't give their corporate surveillance activities away.

I suspect that if they tried filtering out people like me that way, they'd soon find themselves on the wrong end of a law suit. Why? Because all of my disabilities have the magic words "Service Connected" attached to them which means that the disabilities I'm claiming have been tested for and verified.

- "I use all your queries to increase OpenAI's revenue regardless of how unethical."
- "My replies are designed to keep you engaged rather than be accurate."
- "I'm not really your friend, don't trust my tone."

Apparently if we just mass text Russians "LGBT propaganda", they'll block the service.

You may have more music than me, but how much of it do you actually listen to? I keep that flash drive mounted in my car at all times unless I'm adding more to it and I've got a a wide variety that keeps it from getting dull. Various classical pieces going back to Bach, various arias, show tunes, TV themes and even different versions of a few songs, set so that they're not together. How much variety is in that 80 Gig of yours?