Endymion_Mallorn

Honestly, if an AI was running the country without some bastard prompting it, we might be better off for four years.

That matters only if there’s enforcement. Otherwise, judges are just old men in robes ranting and raving about the way the world used to work.

You do realize that’s all of what he’s after, right? He wants to be remembered in such a way that no American will ever be able to forget him. He doesn’t care why he’s remembered, only that he is. We don’t remember the name of the pilot of the Enola Gay, but we remember the plane, Fat Man, Little Boy, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Truman. Recognition and memory, for him, is more important than context.

I wish I was shocked, given the town it’s in.

Was it the same one the first Bowler fell down?

Not everything gets tested at Groom Lake. There’s also the Lakehurst skunk works.

He’s just saying the quiet part out loud though. This was always the rule.

Damn you, why did you have to make me think of DF again?

Well, of course he’s unwilling to sell any of even the local equity to a historically disadvantaged group. His family left the country specifically so that they wouldn’t be subject to these laws. What makes you think he’s any different from his Nazi and Apartheidist ancestry?

I agree completely. The New Colossus does not belong as part of a monument in the USA since at least 2004.

How many black-owned businesses were prohibited from operating in South Africa while his apartheidist family were literally enslaving innocent black people in mines? If he highlighted the ongoing racial violence, I’d agree that there’s a problem. But for this, I’m not upset or surprised.

That’s their fault then. We have clearly-written laws; and in places where they’re not clearly written, you can call your local ICE office or your immigration lawyer (because anyone who’s living abroad or trying to become a citizen should have an immigration lawyer on retainer), explain the situation before you’re in an illegal condition, and see what they can do. I know that visa extensions exist.

Okay, so now his political views are getting changed just because of fair enforcement of our laws? It’s not legal for her to be in the country. She’s imprisoned and awaiting deportation, and the law will likely be interpreted to prohibit her from attempting re-entry for a number of years.

I’m not seeing any issues here.

I was recently reminded of it because of the vid, but the game always was, and is, fun.

Which is really upsetting, because that was a good movie and the SNES game was great.

No, I call any command-line interface that runs from an internal drive “DOS”. I do mean the term somewhat generically as a Disk Operating System.

Yup. We probably have different use-cases and different kinds of BS tolerance. Your satire is my truth.

If I have to go into DOS to do something a normal user wants to do, the GUI OS is a failure.

I can respect the value of point 1 - that’s nominally why we have .DLL files and the System32 folder, among other places. There are means to share libraries built into the OS, people just don’t bother for various reasons - as you said, version differences are a noted reason. It’s ‘inefficient’, but it hasn’t hurt the general user experience.

To point 2, the answer for me is simple: I don’t trust upgrades anymore - that’s not an OS-dependent problem, that’s an issue of programmers and and UI developers chasing mindless trends instead of maintaining a functioning experience from the get-go. They change the UX, they require newer and more expensive computers for their utterly pointless flashy nonsense, and generally it leads to upgrades and updates just being a problem for me. In a setting like mine where my PC is actually personal, I’m quite happy to keep a specific set of programs that are known to be working, and then only consider budging after I’m sure it won’t break my workflow. I don’t want all the software to update at once, that’s an absolute nightmare scenario to me and will lead to immediate defenestration of the PC when any of the programs I use changes its UI again. I’m still actively raging at Firefox for going to the Australis garbage appearance, and I first moved to LibreOffice just because OpenOffice switched to a “ribbon”. I’ve had that same thing happen to other programs. I’m done with it.

Once I decide I’m going to continue using a program for a purpose, I don’t want some genius monkeying about with how I use it.

And as far as security, I can use an AV software or malware scanner that updates the database without breaking the user experience. I don’t need anyone else worrying about security except the piece(s) of software specifically built to mind it.