Like it or not there are legacy industry specific hardware adapters out there for ISA. That's why it was quite late to be removed from motherboards.

Patents are designed to make it worth to invest in research and development, by granting a law-protected exclusive use for a period of time. If you put taxes on holding a patent, the developer/manufacturer will just add that on top of the consumer price (remember, exclusivity - nobody else can manufacture it), or will just not bother with the R&D in the first place, if the consumers are not willing to pay for that.

Some patent reform is probably warranted. Maybe a patent should be valid for a shorter period, or maybe it should not be possible to "extend" patents through various tricks.

> not that they'd have the money to travel to begin with.

The reality is that as relatively important international tourism is for NYC, the overwhelming amount of tourist dollars is domestic. NYC is a lot cheaper way to see "the world" than actually flying to those places. Especially now with the utterly unnecessary inclusion of US tourism in the tariff war...

I'm not here to defend MAGA retardation. I just don't believe good discourse is served by presenting pro or anti bubble, factually flawed arguments. While on one hand, I can understand the rationale for the US to initiate tariff actions, in order to "holistically" encourage domestic investment in manufacturing. But its being done in the most incompetent way imaginable, thanks to our "Dear Leader".

You forgot medical and pharmaceutical advances. the US lets the pharmaceutical industry rape its customers to provide the 0.1% the bleeding edge medical tech and treatments, and then lets the rest of the world access it for a lower price than Americans. Granted, one can blame American voter stupidity for that, but it doesn't change the overall point.

Fuck you for Jar-Jar. You cratered your esthetic directorial reputation with your arbitrary desire to constantly revise your cinematic works.

It could; its not a "won't". There's nothing wrong with dreaming.

If you're not completing a full orbit around the Earth, you're just on a "vomit comet". Any pencil pusher can say "62 miles means you're reached "outer space". The Laws of Physics determines that one can't complete a full orbit around the Earth and not have reached "outer space".

...says the Anonymous Coward.

> The final death rattle of US-bound tourism, as if it wasn't terminally ill to begin with.

Speaking for New York, we're part of a nation of 335 million people. Domestic tourism alone can keep NY's tourist industry propped up. Its just that the tourist that required a visa usually have more spending money and superior manners.

I thought that was a complete no-no for republicans?

Tariffs are actually *tax cuts*. Karoline Leavitt told me so, very strongly.

There's always "powershell.exe -command ..." to get PowerShell to download an .exe from a web server and run it.

> Climate science is getting utterly wrecked

climate science is junk science, so there's that

"PC" meant "primary cassette", the main paper tray of HP printers of the time. Other paper trays connected would say other things there when out of paper. "Letter" is the paper size.

Steve Ballmer.