Trump is the same kind of conservative as the rest of the Republicans, i.e. not actually interested in conserving or preserving anything but his own privilege.

"No the EU should act like vassal state that it is"

The US is rapidly leaving its first world status behind. Not surprised you can't see this given where your head is stuck.

Or indeed, any time before we institute some strong controls which somehow prevent this from happening again. And good luck to us on that.

Can't trust the old stuff not to fail, can't trust the new stuff not to fail or spy on you, but I can trust my ability to replace capacitors

Fuck off, Ivan. No one debunked Trump's well-documented collusion with Russia.

I want them to keep the software working and supporting current standards. I don't want them shoehorning things into it which don't make sense. And because I actually remember what was promised when the project began, I also want it to be an extensible platform which things are added to using extensions, not to have everything shoved into it in the first place. There's a ton of stuff in Firefox which has no business being in the base install, like the stuff that used to be in the Web Developer extension. They have literally made it less modular over the years, when the premise was modularity. Defending their reneging on the basic premise is anti-user.

No, they don't, at least not in features. They could innovate in performance.

Most of us chose to use Firefox at least in part because we didn't want things that we didn't want in the browser, and they are fucking that up, and I don't care what you think about it. There's already a browser for you, it's called Chrome.

How nice for you and the other guy.

It's a collecting information about your activity service. It's not for you, it's for them.

What a surprise, modded down by someone on Slashdot for condemning a bank for willfully and deliberately doing business with child rapists.

A whole fucking lot of you need your hard disks checked.

"You, in contrast, got pushed out of your role, which doesn't sound very smart."

What's not smart is blaming victims of capitalism for being victimized.

Not random, no. Just add some latency period. That would do most of the job. Another solution is to penalize trades which are shorter than some time period. You can still make them but it will cost you. Either of these things would eliminate HFT.

No it is not. The Mozilla foundation has pissed away tens of millions of dollars on "features" nobody asked for and which have since been removed, like Pocket which cost US$20M alone. What's hard is to keep the CEO's multi million dollar salary funded while also enabling them to waste money on things no one wants, which in turn is only done to justify their salary by looking busy.

This is like claiming it's hard to keep Wikipedia funded. Again, no it is not, because they have somehow spent millions of dollars producing multimedia bullshit that hobbyists could have done for free if there was any demand. Simply don't do that and funding is no problem.

The problem as ever isn't the thing, it's the people managing the thing and claiming that their malicious interference is necessary. It's only necessary for their yacht-buying capabilities.

Like the person who responded to my comment earlier in this thread, I just switched inputs when it asked for my network credentials and I was off to the races. He didn't say he tried that. If a person doesn't tell me exactly what they pushed and when, I don't assume. I've done too much tech support and similar.

EVs require less service especially since they don't have an engine, dealers make their money selling service and parts, and engine problems are the source of the biggest and most expensive service jobs.

They'd be perfect if you could get a tradesman model with the big battery, but you can only get the upper trim levels with it, so you're paying extra for upholstery you're going to fuck up when you get in the truck with concrete on your pants or what have you. Maybe they're ideal for someone who only does cabinetry and trim, though.

Pickups are bought by two kinds of people: those who will tow, and those who think they will. For the first group, range anxiety is real. For the second, they will only imagine it will affect them, but it would if they actually tried to tow.

To be clear there are lots of little trailers out there that don't affect range much, but there are also lots of TTs which absolutely do.