Will AI be used to censor their electorate like they did during the trucker protests? Will they figure out how to use AI to kill more of their population with euthanasia? Nothing good comes outta Canada anymore. Rush died with Niel. SCTV ended in 1984.

When governors tear down or restrict power generation to "green only" sources or try to scale back and restrict any fossil fuel or nuclear options, then naturally the cost of generation is going UP UP UP. Trying to blame AI hides responsibility and tries to whitewash the role green zealots have played.

Funny thing is, people don't like high electricity bills and when you preach at them and tell them they are rubes and sources of pollution, they aren't going to like that "solution" to their problem, either. Odds are this will mean anyone who was voting to shut down power plants or restrict fossil fuels will be pilloried for it in their next election campaign. Whoops.

Weak shitty people hate text. I think it reminds them that reading exists. They hate the command-line and want a finger-paint interface from Idiocracy. Making people read is now like torturing them. Asking someone to learn the command-line way makes them violently angry. Immediately the victim will furiously declare "THEY should have made a GUI for this. I cannot believe there isn't a GUI for this. This is so primative. This is so ridiculous etc..." They won't quit bitching until they are finished, if they finish.

When I tell people I read books and have a collection they immediately start dissing physical books and telling me how great e-readers are. I'm like "Yeah, I use mine all the time. I still like physical books, too. They don't need batteries." They look like a dog that's been shown a card trick. To them, having a purely oral or visual interface would be best since it requires the least amount of thinking or effort.

We aren't responsible, but we *will* keep it up. Your's truly, Trollistan

I worked for a company that was bought by a major Indian offshoring firm. They promised not to swap Americans for H1Bs. Three months after they took over they had given every American employee notice that if they didn't spend the next 90 days training their replacements, they'd miss out on the severance pay they'd need because they were being shitcanned. Within a year 97% of the white folks in the company were gone and replaced with Indians on H1B visas. They had about 3000 employees. This is the second company I've worked for that has done this and I'm not counting IBM, which is now just an H1B body shop, also.

Don't get me wrong I'm not angry at some Indian guy taking a better job. I'm disappointed that he cannot compete with me on level ground. He's got to be an indentured servant the company can threaten and intimidate into taking lower pay (or else he gets booted back to India). If they could negotiate their pay normally, they'd have to compete on quality. As it stands, the H1B program empowers the rich and harm the citizens (AND the immigrants).

Correct. The site was taken over after about 2014 by Communists and the authoritarian Left. Credibility: Zero.

Most of it is done via DNS blocking. Run your own DNS server like Unbound or others. Of course, a much more pervasive solution would be simply using a VPN until they make that illegal, too.

Yeah I just remembered- the CD drive often (usually?) connected to a sound card. They often were sold together. IIRC some sound cards had 2 or 3 CD drive interface connectors, so could support most drives. Ugh.

I barely knew about them at the time and was unhappy when I learned about the many. Company I worked for at that time was doing all SCSI hard disks and CD drives. I got lucky and got an external NEC CD drive (on clearance) that has SCSI and it worked very well. Also got early Linux CDs including SLS, Yggdrasil, and I forget what else. I tried several, liked SLS which became Slackware, which is still my primary Linux distro. I used to boot from a pair of floppies, but fortunately never had to install from a pile. Did some Xenix installs from 5.25" floppies, but I think it's only like 7 or so. And then Windows 3.11- I think that was 10 or so?

MSFT is just another US tech giant dead set against hiring anyone in the USA that was born here. They'd rather put themselves at any type of risk to avoid it. No price is too high to avoid hiring Americans according to the NASDAQ leaders.

I worked for a company acquired by Cognizant. They said they wouldn't lay off anyone during the takeover process. I didn't believe them and I quit anyway while I still had a job and could negotiate my salary elsewhere. Three months in they started laying off the Americans. The layoff targeted folks only get severance if they trained freshly imported Indians. Many didn't even have their work visa's yet and were staying on three month tourist visas. One year after 80% of the Americans were gone and replaced with Indians. Two years later it was more like 97%.

Maybe AI will result in layoffs, but if you want to know what DEFINITELY will cause layoffs, it's the H1B program and it's abusers.

The entire Uniparty wants cheap foreign indentured servants. They didn't do shit to the H1B program. It's still going strong. Mass deportation hasn't been massive at all and barely deported anyone (numbers under 1000 folks daily and less than Biden in many cases). Both "parties" want massive foreign immigration: the kind that's ruined Europe and will ruin the US, too. Thank goodness folks from Mexico and South America aren't Muslims, but we already have too many of those, too. It would be lovely to deport most of Minnesota to Rwanda.

Digital signing using hashes is very closely related to encryption. The immediate question that it begs is "Who's signature are you now going to have to trust by default ala SSL?"

And Lockheed, particularly the L-1011 which IIRC has a pretty good safety record.

I have several younger relatives who used to tell me they were going to major in Computer Science who now say they've decided against it. They point out that they'll be working twice as hard (and I'd say 4x as hard, personally) as a liberal arts or business major yet when they graduate they'll be forced to compete against H1B indentured servants at cut rate prices. I have a hard time arguing. They didn't mention AI.

Why should they work harder for less reward than someone who just parties and drinks their way through college?