You don't get to come back a year (or a century) later and say, "Hey, I just found out what that painting is actually worth. Give it back."

Actually... Why not? You said yourself you're in the wrong and you certainly acted in bad faith, so why shouldn't your victim have their demand to annul the deal enforced?

As opposed to people with nativist and inward looking views, companies like Apple HAVE to work overseas, and if you keep following the US govt kool-aid, then you will only be able to do business with Western Europe and other allies.

Try to understand that a big part of the world actually sees the US as the big bad empire that they portray China to be and it makes sense that they ask Stewart to tone it down a bit.

It's not that China is a big bad empire, it's that Xi is an emperor who's unable to placate his people with promises of a better tomorrow due to China's economy having caught up enough that the rubber band has gone slack and dictatorships being inherently incompatible with the rule of law which a strong economy requires, so his only hope for survival is to placate them with promises of glory which makes a confrontation with China and West pretty much inevitable, and Xi knows that. It's the same deal as with Russia, US is simply being wiser than EU was.

Basically, what's business to Apple is a weapon to China, and China is a fundamentally hostile nation to anyone who doesn't think Xi would make a great world leader, which he wouldn't judging by everything I know about life in China and also because he's a genocidal tyrant. That's not "nativist" or "inward looking", that's simply realism.

I recently saw a very insightful interview where dictatorships are defined by things you cannot criticize, like the CCP in China, Kim Jong-un in Korea, etc. In the US the thing that will absolutely get you canceled will be talking about the Israeli lobby and the influence such a small group holds over US culture in general.

Seriously? You're equating getting canceled with getting disappeared?

Note that such a system would also prevent Slashdot from leaning left and censoring conservatives, which they're doing now by institution an idiotic "karma". Slashdot karma is all about politics. And Slashdot is left leaning. One could express that cutely as "CowboyNeal is an imbecile".

But you're not being censored. Your comment is right here, readable for all who care to engage with users with bad reputation. That you have managed to earn a bad reputation through your own actions does not reflect badly on Slashdot or CowboyNeal, it reflects badly on you. It is the consequence of your actions, in other words, your karma.

That most people ignore you doesn't mean you're being censored, it just means that they think you and your opinions are not worth listening to. That your response to this is that the government should force them to pay attention just serves to demonstrate that their judgement is completely right. It's not a political judgement, it's a judgement about you as a person.

Given your vitriol here, I think you know that too, and judging by the fact that you keep posting on Slashdot despite hating the place I doubt you're more welcome elsewhere either. So perhaps you should reflect on the only common factor for a change, try to see your self from other people's eyes and maybe, just maybe accept that you might actually be the one who's in the wrong and needs to change? It's painful, but so is eternal bitterness, and there is no government big enough to make other people like you, so those are your options.

I was picturing it more at the Iraqi information minister saying it.

Kickscammer strikes again! And the real kick in the nuts is that the orders that could be charged back are of course getting fulfilled, probably with the money from the poor saps who ordered on KS.

Almost like the post was written by ChatGPT

This thread is the quality content that keeps me coming back. And I thought this site was cratering.

Says the guy with the 5-digit ID LOL

The expense will come when the backend grid needs to get upgraded to support the usage level... but by that time, really, it means people are actually using them, so, mission accomplished.

There are a good number of places where these won't even need to turn a profit... the local tourism board will be more than happy to subsidize the shortfall if it means they get the other business from sightseers and whatnot.

No. Tesla did us the disfavor of not bothering to serve other EVs. The federally subsidized ones in TFA will have to have universal compatibility. That's universal for major brands that have gone through some sort of approval process... some networks have removed support for home made kits and such, I guess a few of them were damaging the chargers. Dunno how they tell what's plugged in or whether that's just a legal liability matter.

There are several charging networks and many of them share their charger locations with each other and have reciprocal agreements. For example you can see a lot of existing locations on a map of the U.S. at chargepoint.com.

Many need chargers. I would not be able to "top off" my car during winter months because no outlet can deliver that much per hour, since I commute >100 miles round trip. (I spent a couple grand to get a line buried and a panel put in my landlord's garage, my state govt subsidized the charging unit itself... home units aren't horribly expensive since they have no UI. Totally worth it at this point, for all the inconvenience it has saved me.)

People who live in rental units with no off-street parking need to use the public infrastructure. They wouldn't be able to charge even if their commute was light enough to do it from an outlet.

Incentives for landlords to install chargers and reserve charger spots for as many EVs as they have EV driving residents would go a long way, I think. If I were trying to rent a place out I'd definitely get one in there, it's a great way to justify an above-market rental rate.

I'm not one who has any need for IDE functions whatsoever (you know, not all work done in text editors involves working in source code trees) I still use EMACS for daily stuff. If the system has only vim, I'll use nano instead. I don't often need to use EMACS features I just prefer it in a comfortable old pair of shoes sort of way.

As to TFA: If one thing was going to make me leave EMACS, it would be the attempts to modernize it. Every time I get on a fresh system they've done something to make it "modern" that screws me up. Like autodeleting trailing spaces off lines... do not want... and unified clipboard and kill-ring on -nox... also do not want. Usually there's a way to fix it in your .emacsrc, but man, the naming conventions used under the hood are pretty slapdash and I'm not so into it that I ever actually bothered to learn my way around (or even learn LISP), so it can be a chore to keep my comfy shoes comfy.

But, since absolutely no FIDO2 keys seem to have any way whatsoever of telling you what site/resource you are about to approve a login to, you have no idea if your fingerprint is being used to unlock just your zappos store account, or a request to access your master keyshare on lastpass launched from a javascript some site managed to trick your browser into running on the browser tab you have open on lastpass.

Some keys do seem to have LCD screens but it appears they are only for time-based OTP outputs.

... they're not wrong.

NT