VMware didn't do this in a vacuum. If they raise the prices that much it's because they have solid numbers that clearly indicate that their customers don't have anywhere to go.

I'm not a admin so I don't actually run my own VMs but from talking to other admins there is nobody who has tools for doing the kind of deployments you need to do in a large Enterprise except for VMware. I mean the tools exist but you're going to spend so much money paying people to monkey around with them you might as well just paid VMware.

There is a video from a YouTuber called Linus tech tips. His actual tech tips tend to be pretty shit but he does have one good video where he spent a few weeks trying to get all the people in his business off Adobe software and quickly found that yes he could do it but the man hours and the pay he had to spend doing it exceeded the cost of the licenses.

That's what Big Data gets you. You know exactly how much you can screw everybody over. You leave absolutely nothing on the table. Basically a giant fuck you to Leviticus 19:10.

If we don't let the AI bros and finance Bros do whatever they want the Chinese will win! And their communists! Communists I say communists!

They won't get better deals. These data centers are basically an apocalypse. I mentioned it on another post but they completely wreck your property values, they spike your water at electricity bills and they can use so much water that they start affecting groundwater and even your foundation because they pump too much water out of the ground. They also spew fumes everywhere from diesel generators because no matter how much power they get it's never enough. Especially in a rural community that doesn't have good wiring. And nobody's going to pay for that kind of infrastructure we stopped building infrastructure in the mid 80s.

The voters are correctly assessing the threat they just can't do anything about it because like I mentioned they spent 50 years dismantling democracy to stick it to the libs. You can't really do that. You can't get rid of democracy for somebody else and keep it for yourself democracy is a All or nothing proposition

So far so good? Surely the camera must have given this cop an image of the car that he could see was the wrong colour. It should never have got as far as her apartment.

Huawei was targeted because it was an R&D powerhouse, and all it did was make them redouble their efforts. Sanctions can't do much about patents because if they tried, it would just make other countries invalidate US patents in response.

Apple charges $300 for an additional 512GB of SSD storage on a Macbook Air. So that 12GB is worth $7.

If it's the hidden nature of the camera that you have an issue with, button and other wearable, concealed cameras have been available for years too.

We are way past inconvenience. Electricity bills typically go up at least 15 to 20%. Air quality drops tremendously and becomes a serious health concern especially for children. Remember even though they're taking all your electricity it's never enough so they are often running gas turbines with absolutely no oversight or environmental regulations. Your probably values collapse so you can't even sell and move. The noise is also not just inconvenient it's a constant drone that you never get used to and it bores into your skull and hurts. Finally they start taking so much groundwater that your foundation starts to collapse.

It's basically the death of any community. That's why people scream at those Town Hall meetings. But they haven't figured out that they can't do anything about it as long as they keep voting Republican.

They are the party of the billionaire and the fascist. That's what you get with the Republican party. There is nothing to save there. At a certain point an institution just becomes too corrupt to be saved. That point was around 1995 when newt Gingrich and his cronies took over the party completely and started actively hurting the country so that they could blame the damage on the Democrats and leverage that into election wins.

I do not think it's unfair to call the Republican party a terrorist organization. They have repeatedly been caught blocking critical legislation or passing legislation that hurts the American people in order to blame the Democrats for the damage done. That is causing fear and pain or political benefit which is definitely terrorism.

At this point what needs to happen is the Republican party needs to be wiped clean and the Democrat party needs to split between the centrists and the progressives. Trying to reform the Republican party would be like trying to reform the national socialists if not going to happen.

I had to tell a co-worker in his mid-20s to put his phone down while pissing in the office bathroom because it was rude.

There just is no common sense. What is so damn important to scroll through for the minute you're standing there pissing in the urinal?

A false positive rate of 10% _among the population of people you arrest_ is acceptable.

I highly disagree. I can understand if Flock's data provided a 10% false positive rate, it's then up the police to do their actual job and gather other evidence to reduce that to near zero before taking any action on that data.

A 10% false arrest rate is criminal. Arrests stick with people even when their is no conviction. Maybe 1 false arrest in 1000 is acceptable in a civilized country without corruption.

I hate when someone gets away with a serious crime, but I'm not going to balance that by lowering the bar for arresting someone.

I should add, it is kind of funny in a morbid way watching right wingers who have been voting to undermine democracy for 50 years in order to stick it to the libs finding out that you can't undermine democracy just for the libs.

I have watched several videos of local county level Town officials being screamed at by their constituents because they approved the data center. And they just let it wash over them because they know when election time comes it's going to be a choice between them and a Democrat and there is no way in hell those people are going to vote for a fucking Democrat.

4. Widespread voter suppression and propaganda in red districts undermines democracy to the point where they can blow off their voters even more so than they can in blue districts.

Should we accept jailing 10 innocent people to catch 90 actual guilty criminals?

Well, true. But that's not an excuse to keep repeating the same mistakes.

Should have made Web BASIC.