And did you miss the quote from the summary? "whose music video included things being lit on fire." It could have been jazz, rock even classical. The key is the lyrics. Although I'm not aware of any classical suggesting burning Rome down. Maybe one out there, dunno.

Agree, Used to backpack. Almost never did a fire, usually a little kerosene burner and even then only if not super dry out.

Really depends on what you do. I've never had windows. For me as a developer, linux is just better, period full stop. But I came from a Sun *Nix development environment. What this latest thing does for me is now when I buy a laptop, I'll boot it to see if it starts, and before it completes the install, I'll do the wipe. Before I'd boot into windows and just check a couple things to make sure the new box worked before i wiped the drive. I think Costco would take it back even wiped though. So far they have all worked before (and after) the wipe/linux install, so have not returned any, and I think I'm on number 4 after over 10 years.

Why did this get downvoted? It is an option to dump windows instead of downgrading to V 11 of windows.

There are around 8B people in the world. 1 in 10, every week, I don't think so. Maybe if the count the person using it 5 days/week 5x maybe. Most people I know look for ways to avoid AI. I know I setup my google search so that it always adds the magic to the query to skip the AI summary at the top.

Yahoo weirdly has a better story via bloomberg. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffinance.yahoo.com%2Fnews... It appears they got something, "At least one company has confirmed that data from their Oracle systems has been stolen, according to one of the people." So I don't think complete BS. Other things in the bloomberg/yahoo describe a bit how the hack happened via oracle exploit. Too soon to claim real/fake I think. And if they really got some pee-pee tapes or epstein sized data, the exec's companies will just pay and we will never know.

I thought the deal was at least 1/2 your parts have to be made in the US or no cookies for you. So as you say, they'll have the Intel fab make a bunch of trivial parts for pennies each, and just flush them. Cheaper than paying 2X tariff on those 100 dollar parts. You can always game the system. Trump of all people should understand that. He was excellent at it. Well his tax accountant was, donnie was clueless beyond "bring me back a return with a 5% tax rate or less, or YOUR FIRED"

I think more complex with humans though. I agree the more successful at procreation wins, Not so sure it is all about resource availability. Wars are often fought over things besides resources amongst humans. I think we are the only species that is known to kill for things like ideology(religion). And we've had some doozies over it. Other species do (and so do we) kill & maim over who gets to have sex though. That is pretty common.

And I kind of get why. Also from memory, there was no place to change it. I thought it ran around a hill. Short of redoing the entire section of freeway, unfixable.

Kind of like here in Austin the 2 level 35 thru downtown. Very poorly designed. The bottom level has the short ramps, and considering it was built way after Pasadena, no excuse there, and the upper deck has no exits, so crashes mean wreckers take forever to clear. It is the problem with tunnels as well, which is what they are proposing next. Its like they never learn in some places. And of course tunnels add the air becomes an inferno if a crash with a fire happens. So why make it better when the obvious thing to do is make it worse at 10X the price. I get it though, east of 35 has been gentrified, and now we can't have a barrier between the east/downtown anymore.

Yes, it seems the Chinese are now competing against each other instead of the Euro's/US. Who will win, Xiaomi or BYD? EV racing has come a long way since the plaid sputtered out at the track.

When I lived in LA, there was one on the Pasadena that I never figured out what the road designer was thinking. If I remember right, you twist around a tight curve and merge onto the freeway 10' later. Death trap.

Mine was accurate. I don't take kindly to insults. And how would YOU characterize, "Shove your soapbox up your ass."?

If you look up the chain one more post the convo is about a job. Unless this person in Pittsburgh wants seasonal work at very low wages, his living near farmland is pedantic at best.

Have you read your HOA CCR's? My bet is no. If you want the house, you take the conditions. Further in the US, anything built after around 2000 is in an HOA. I'm in a small neighborhood, 17 houses. You'd think HOA, wtf? Well, we got one. And if you think anyone on the street has read them, think again. Mine is pretty benign as their is no fine mechanism in it. Fortunate. EVERYONE and I mean everyone would have been fined by now. Just the no more than 2 cars in the driveway would get most people everyday. And I have tried to get it dissolved. Weirdly, those same people with 2 cars in the drive every day are the vociferous voices to not dissolve. Everyone is afraid someone is going to paint their house purple. And even after I explain there is no fine mechanism, whatcha gonna do? Head shrugs.

As middleroad also said, this is the answer to the rhetorical question. There is a new big dog at the bowl, and it is ravenous. And the owner is letting the big dog have all it wants.