Posts by SundogUK

Re: A sideshow in the overall economic war

"China's economy has been rapidly advancing"

No it hasn't. China has an enormous problem with it's real estate sector right now, which is crippling their economy. Let's wait and see how that pans out.

Re: OK, let's follow this through then..

The Chinese government has no limits on its power; the US government, for all its flaws, still does.

Re: And for the people....

You don't like the human race, so you want to get a different one?

"reasonable price" is a meaningless phrase but otherwise...yup.

Re: Dumbf@cks

Yeah, much more knowledge and experience accumulated than those dumb ass millennials.

Re: King David Hotel

Usually at the point of a sword.

Re: Reputation over time? Yah, about that

Not going to happen until the banking system can cope with true micropayments. I am not going to sign up and pay a subscription to a site I may never look at again. But this just opens another, possibly worse, can of worms.

Re: newer != better

And to remotely control usage when the inevitable brownouts start happening.

Re: I guess it's a plan. Kinda. Sorta. If you squint.

It's not going to cost all that much if SpaceX has anything to do with it. That's kinda part of his point.

Re: Microsoft's Threat Analysis Center

Because 'decent' people always agree with you.

Re: Not quite a Chinese company

ByteDance and TikTik have there headquarters and management in China, where the CCP can arrest and imprison them for whatever reason they want.

Re: "for businesses with fewer than 10 employees."

Yes it does. It only ever goes wrong when governments intervene.

Re: It is worse

Oh wow, you called Elon Musk Xitler! Aren't you a clever boy.

Re: It's inevitable

Yup. It's the cost of the people involved that is the problem.

Re: No clean hands

"...they are eyeballs deep in a literal genocide."

That's a bold claim with zero evidence.

Re: Capitalism is back, with a vengeance.

You think a communist society wouldn't do the same or worse?

Re: Rogue national regulators aside

Hungary = Honest.

France, Germany, Spain = hypocrites.

Re: Not really

I still use a Zoostorm Windows 7 laptop I bought in 2012, at least weekly, and it works fine for what I want it for.

Re: More than surprising

My grandfather flew a Beech Bonanza (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft_Bonanza) from north America to southern Africa in the early sixties. Work that one out...

Re: Hold your horses!

Good lord, that article is nonsense from start to finish.

Re: Given the layoffs...

Given the financing involved it's cheaper to demo it and start again.

Re: Free speech 101

Again, Who gets to decide who is a Nazi?

Re: I think the WFH rate will creep up

Regardless of wiki's bloviation, it is still true: Egypt was never a UK colony.

Re: Hey, there's an idea...

That's the M1 I mentioned. The ratio is controlled by the central bank.

Re: I gig, therefore I am not

Absolutely. If your business plan requires employing people at x/hour and nobody is willing to work for that, you don't have a business. Go do something else.

Re: Reap what you sow

No it doesn't.

Re: Flexi time

And I don't blame you. But this simply isn't a thing in the UK.

Re: Did anyone ....

"malicious compliance"

Can you even hear yourself?

Seriously? $3,500 simply to mirror another display? There's one born every minute...

Re: Air Canada must really be terrible

Canadians used to be reasonable. Now? Not so much. Recently, a Canadian military veteran, when complaining about not getting funding for a stairlift, was asked if they would consider suicide instead...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/christine-gauthier-paralympian-euthanasia-canada-b2238319.html

Re: ChromeOS *is* Linux

Sadly?

You don't own the company, so you don't make the rules.

Re: Alternative solutions please

Nah. Put them all in prison.

Re: Problems in the future?

Yes but you have a real job, so you don't count!