> Walmart had few real competitors that were as smart / pervasive as they were. Sears? Puh-leeze. K-Mart? More of the same. Woolworths'? Died sometime in the 90's. Failed competitors doesn't mean they weren't "real competitors". Target, Dollar Tree, Dollar General, Kroger, Publix, Macy's, Best Buy, etc ALL compete against Walmart. > Which is why I will not bat an eyelash when a bigger, badder fish continues to eat away at Walmart. I don't care how bad the world thinks that bigger fish is, Walmart has to pay for destroying so many business and livelihoods over the decades. None of this really answers my question. I think you missed my point.

Why exactly aren't Walmart's competitors (since you took no issue with Walmart and Amazon being looked at as competitors) not Amazon's competitors?

Well put technically, it's an email that's sent during an integration test.

Ugh. C is assembler for people who didn't enjoy assembly. Its use cases are limited these days and for the vast majority of developers and scenarios and considering modern hardware - it's time to accept that modern languages that incorporate features (like .NET's managed code) is THE way to go for the vast majority of development.

"Most humans require about two decades of education and training before they can do useful work" --> this entirely depends on what you classify as useful work. Take the Amish. Their kids can be out of school as soon as 13 years old (8th grade) and most children start around 5 years old (so 8 years of education). They train on the job, but typically are working fairly well on their own by 15-16 and that's more or less due to strength needing to develop (generally puberty is a big thing here) for the men and the girls/young ladies are effectively working well by 13 themselves. They build houses, farm, and live in self-sufficient communities, do general contracting work, etc. I realize that it's not technology nor science nor medical related, but I wouldn't call their work useless either.

There's a lot of maybe around that. Willful and malicious acts, including those in civil cases, could be considered nondischargeable. It's possible, but not guaranteed.

I was hired by Verizon just before the Frontier Communications buyout was announced. Within months Maggie was sending out company-wide emails extolling the value of DSL and how it could "compete" with cable. FiOS wasn't the way forward according to her, it was expensive and apparently she didn't think speed was necessary. DSL was "the path forward", except it was priced against cable which could offer 3-4 times the speed (at least) and that was in the BEST of circumstances. All too often a home's copper infrastructure was so poor that signal degraded, COs used antiquated equipment, and what few homes could get advertised speeds rarely saw much above 3.0Mbps. I was a business sales associate and I couldn't sell DSL. Maggie wanted us to say literally whatever it took to sell the shitty products...but when you're not investing in the future, you're getting left in the past. I left that shithole and while I used their FIBER service, I never forgot how stupid Maggie Wilderotter was.

I'm sorry if I don't like liars, anonymous coward. Actually, no I'm not.

Ah nothing like Turn the Other Cheek conservative Jesus freaks to tell us how to have sex and with whom, that minorities and blacks are bad people, and that Regan economics works. This ontop of the entire "government doesn't work - watch me prove it to you by doing everything in my power to make it fail" ideology. But no dawg, you tell me how few standards the "left has". The Left has no "standards" and The Right is just a bunch of fucking retards who want to reenslave "them blacks" and fuck their sibilings while praying to their magic sky fairy.

It's called the long-con. Sanctions don't hurt the oligarchs. They change business names, funnel shit to other countries, etc, etc. It does hurt the people of Russia, but since he's basically a fascist dictator (with a LOT more nuance) their wishes aren't really a concern. There is, however, a tangible benefit for putting someone like Trump into the Presidency. Trump wasn't what one would call...a thinker. He's pretty simpleminded, boastful, and and easily manipulatable - but more importantly is that the advisers around him are corrupt and bendable. So he pisses off key allies (which he did), tries to shake confidence in NATO (yup did that too), and ultimately weaken the west's stronghold on areas around Russia. That's not to say Obama didn't make mistakes either, but Obama's choices were much tougher. Trump has let Putin run rampant and Putin's overtures have become much more pronounced and grabby. He needs scaled back.

Except not really. In America the idea is to get bought out by a large conglomerate or massive industry leader. We're a corpocracy that's being formed with multinational mega-corps ensuring through monopolies, campaign contributions, and coercion or backroom deals with each other to ensure us Americans are pumped for every penny we have while minimizing the cost as much as possible and utilizing inflated marketing budgets to increase perceived value.

That's just true of a lot of experiences in America. Our investment style has forced companies to focus only on the bottom line - to the detriments of quality, service, innovation, ingenuity, risk taking, and have instead replaced them with: DID YOU FUCKING MAKE MORE MONEY THIS QUARTER THAN THE LAST 4 QUARTERS WHY THE FUCK NOT.

Project Veritas has been shown time and time again to deceptively edit, stretch "facts", or otherwise act in unscrupulous ways to promote a right-wing ideology. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... shows a laundry list of rather poor behavior from a "journalistic" organization. The fact that your post is riddled with red flag statements makes me think your post is more political and than factual. Poor show.

I've had luck creating virtual zones and having the robot clean those specifically once or twice. I then have a "whole house" zone that encompasses the other zones and it all works good for me.

I keep seeing this "argument" here. Who gives a fuck? Android is also a security nightmare. How many Google store apps were found to be trojan horses out to steal data? How many "Candy Crush" copies exist? There's a conference talk out there by a couple of guys (one of them was Alex Schwartz) who wrote a bot that generated shitty solitaire clones for Google's Playstore. They hit about 1500 apps before shutting down the bot. This is what I don't want. I. don't need/want a lot of "freedom" in my mobile device. It's a fucking phone. Maybe you do and that is OK. That is FINE. That's what Android is useful for...so why can't those of us who want that walled garden approach enjoy that walled garden approach? If you hate it, move to a different platform that's fully open. It's almost like this is the most simple of solutions and yet for some reason a bunch of people have to demand that Apple acts like Google/Android. But no one can tell me why and the best I can figure is that they either feel the iPhone platform is a superior platform in some way, the support is better (it is), or some other magic sauce. Just switch to Android (or whatever else) if you want openness. Why isn't THAT the answer?