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So, he's managed to encourage and support the coal-rolling Right-wing, and alienate the Green-friendly Left, while demanding a $50 billion payout, from his electric car company, that has lied about FSD since, what, 2013?

Now, fire whole teams, cease all hiring, and ... profit?

Well played Elon!

With 30+ years of personal experience, my qualified statement to the next reader is that the above is 100% accurate.

Is there a listing of what data is sent back to your servers and how that data is stored/handled?

I work in a secure environment. I like the idea of this app, but leakage is a huge factor for my teams.

That aside, I've already downloaded a copy and plan to try it out in a non-secure environment. The concepts here look like a great idea. GL and thanks!

This is still about legislating morality, which has never worked, in any circumstance that I'm aware of. This is simply minority groups imposing their personal views upon everyone else.

Why does a minority group get to decide what books are available?

Why does a self-described religious minority get to impose their values upon everyone else, in a country founded, in part, on religious freedoms?

A simple example of the fallacy of book bans is the Bible. The bible covers things that most people would not want a 9-year old to read about, yet, it'll never be banned, because it's special. smh.

People can censor things all they like, at home, but shouldn't get to determine who gets to read what, based on their own personal POV.

That's bullshit. The people I disagree with spent the last decade yelling, "Fuck your feelings", and you think discourse is going to pull their heads out of their asses?

My rant won't either, but I feel better, and if any of them happen to read it, I hope they enjoy it.

Good luck with your campfire and mallows. I'll even send over an .mp3 of Kumbaya and you can hold hands with them, and discuss whatever you like.

Sources: The internet and news. If you look, you'll find it easily.

This isn't really about morality alone, imo. This is about attempting to legislate morality with a hammer, which is just as bad. There is no basis for many of the books being banned, other than Republican horse shit. For the record, I'm not seeing Dems line up to ban books. It's activist clowns with an axe to grind.

It's all wrapped up in Jesus and FOR THE CHILDREN, but that's a lie as well.

I seriously doubt many 9 year olds checked out The Diary of Anne Frank, yet it's being banned, because some idiot thinks they know better than everyone else.

Since, you don't seem to google, I'll take care of this one for you: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2022/06/2...

We do agree on the govt. staying out of child rearing.

The current crop of "people" that get to choose what people can learn are not the people any sane person wants making these calls, yet here we are.

Lastly, your kids, along with everyone else's are exposed to things, daily, that you have zero control over. You have zero input, when the event happens. You're sole option is to teach your kids to think like rational humans, have some compassion for others, and lastly, just leave people alone to live their lives.

I swap between Androids and iPhones every 18-24 months, so I can stay current on both. I use both equally well, and find both to be fine, generally.

I've used a lot of Androids over the years, but the Pixels, in my case, all had substantial issues that never should have been, which really is garbage, considering the price.

Shall we wait for the factual rebuttal or just assume this offhand dismissal is all of it? I have yet to hear a word about the content being inaccurate, just people like you, that didn't like the presentation.

My apologies for not refraining from charged words when my country is being stolen out from under me, by some of the worst people in the world, that keep getting elected by the "fuck your feelings" crowd.

Also, it's germane to this topic.

You, however, remain above it all, so enjoy your pedestal.

Not Trump, Republicans.

Trump is the symptom made public.

This is the issue.

Even when an entity is cornered for wrong-doing, it'll be a fine, paid with other people's money, that amounts to a pittance compared to the profits gained from their malfeasance, all while "admitting no wrong-doing".

The C-suite that made the call, set the culture, and determined budgets suffers zero penalties in a majority of the cases, so there is literally no incentive to comply.

We can thank congressional bribery for that.

Keeping certain books out of school libraries for younger age kids is not a bad idea.

Except, this isn't what's happening. FFS, it's happening in all libraries, not just the ones meant for the kiddies. You know this, yet paint a different picture, in support of your position.

Just like preventing children from watching porn is not a bad idea.

Now we draw the false parallel between non-pornographic books and actual pr0n.

Parenting is about finding a balance between protection and pushing their boundaries.

Now the feel-good statement, providing us all with a justification for their statements. THE KIDS! All of this is somehow aside from the fact that the parents and other children and the internet are much more influential than a book by Gloria Steinbeck, that makes racists uncomfortable.

Schools should be safe places to learn without having to worry about your kid coming home wanting to transition into an asexual raccoon or whatever the hell is trendy that year.

Finally, we draw another parallel between 2 things that are completely unrelated, because we have no real justification for our point, just feels.

Well done?

Standing on anyone's neck, while searching their car without a warrant or probable cause is a problem, for everyone. I'm not even sure why I have to clarify this, but ok!

I sincerely hope your experience is different from mine.

My experience was, "overpriced garbage".

I cannot wait to read the reviews about which core piece of smartphones they fucked up with this one. After 3 Pixels, ALL with issues that never should have been present, I decided Google can shove it's Pixel phones.

I prefer AOSP, rather than all the shitty overlays, so I went with Pixels and just FML. Complete pieces of shit.

What kind of fucking clowns make a smartphone with a shitty, barely functional fingerprint reader, in this decade?

GL to anyone that uses them, and I sincerely hope YMMV.

It happened almost entirely due to DEregulation.

Some economists are idiots.

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Would stronger typing help here?

While we're not programmers, we can say with certainty that hitting the keys harder, does NOT change the behavior.

-Ops Team.

Democratic freedoms, in the United States at least, protect people from UNREASONABLE search and seizure.

You're conflating what's written in the law and the sad reality of how a lot of that is simply ignored by law enforcement, while they are standing on your neck, searching your car.

There are better examples than this one to complain about the justice system.

True, but why bring the Count of Mostly Crisco into this?

What you missed with WAC is a hardtime setting it up, for a result that was mediocre.

The only ones that really bother me are crippleware.

Either provide the full product, for a limited time/usage, OR, just skip it. The last fucking thing ANYONE needs is to work through the UI of an app, get everything staged, then get a fucking "buy me" prompt when they click "ok" to start the process.

As far as the 7/14/30 day trials, I'm fine with those, as long as the above is respected, otherwise, GTFO.

and unironically, you have no idea what you're talking about.

Agreed, to a point, but we're talking about the accel pedal in a vehicle with more torque than god.

Glue is insufficient. It was insufficient with it was decided. It was insufficient when it was implemented and while I'm not a car designer, I can state that glue, in this case? Predictably insufficient.

I started a bit earlier than you, but essentially the same. I'm a 35 year SysAdmin and manage Ops & support teams now. ;)

It was the metric of the time. I was 13.

Cool amongst peers, sure, but chicks still never paid any attention to me, even after I started carrying around a DTMF tone generator and the knowledge of how to use it... ;)

Ironic considering that the sole reason I ever BlueBoxed was due to computers. I wanted to connect to BBSes at 300bps that were long distance from my home. I started blue boxing entirely to access those BBSes.

After I got started, I got really into it. A friend and I did some dumpster dives at the local CO, we learned how to connect to inward operators directly, and using the right jargon were able to essentially control parts of the phone system. We explored and exploited diverters, voice conferencing systems, voice mail systems and more. That friend and I even created our own box, we named the PSI-box (Phone speaker interface). Hold your phone up to your speaker NO MORE!

It led to many things, but what started it was a computer. ;)

When you consider who's running it, it makes perfect sense.

Only a moron of the scope of Musk would own an EV company, and then become a literal Nazi online alienating the left leaning people, you know, the kind of people interested in climate change, technology and EVs, and cater non-stop to right wingers, the kind of people who think climate change is a hoax, "EVs are for pussies", and love coal rolling.

That's gonna be tougher when they just fired 10% of the work force.

Yes and no.

Yes, because recalls are a good thing, because the manuf. has acknowledged the issue and is trying to address it.

No, because what glue sniffing idiot thought glue would be the best option, instead of just riveting the damn thing down, and never worrying about the pretty little piece of garbage coming loose and sticking the accel pedal down.