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It does make sense, especially with this update for games. After all, you can buy a Logitech gaming steering wheel with haptic feedback!

The cheapest 3d printer I can find (which I'm not 100% sure can even make the appropriate size pieces) is something like $220.

Let Me Amazon That For You (LMATFY, vs. lmgtfy): $149.99

Its also legal to post instructions online on how to make your own gun (again as long as they aren't for making things that are restricted).

Even plans for restricted items, like submachine guns (full auto) are perfectly OK, even to sell in book form.To make - not so much...

  See for instance this and that After single shot zip guns or a slamfire pipe shotgun, a fully automatic blowback SMG is probably the simplest firearm to make from scratch.

Its also legal to post instructions online on how to make your own gun (again as long as they aren't for making things that are restricted).

Even plans for restricted items, like submachine guns (full auto) are perfectly OK, even to sell in book form.To make - not so much...

  See for instance this and that After single shot zip guns or a slamfire pipe shotgun, a fully automatic blowback SMG is probably the simplest firearm to make from scratch.

Wel seeing as xlr is kind of the standard foe anything byr consumer gear (at keast when ir comes to analog) I don’r see a big problem, and you say double price, comared to what? I quess you ment comared to interfaces with 3.5 mm plugs thst produce the same sound quality

GP is presumably referencing the Yeti (USB only) vs the Yeti Pro (USB and XLR connectivity).

Wel seeing as xlr is kind of the standard foe anything byr consumer gear (at keast when ir comes to analog) I don’r see a big problem, and you say double price, comared to what? I quess you ment comared to interfaces with 3.5 mm plugs thst produce the same sound quality

GP is presumably referencing the Yeti (USB only) vs the Yeti Pro (USB and XLR connectivity).

In response to Hadlock's assertion:

I think we've firmly established, over and over, that banning books does not work.

Gravis Zero invited:

Do inform me when you find a book accurately detailing how to create a nuclear bomb. The FBI would also be interested.

Some things are kept secret for the good of humanity.

You ask for "a book accurately detailing how to create a nuclear bomb." There is no such thing.

A nuclear weapon is an immensely complicated and finicky creature. A simple assembly diagram doesn't exist, much less a single-volume specifications document. And that assumes we just wave away the issues of breeding fuel, enriching it to sufficient potency to serve as an explosive, machining it into agonizingly-precise components that willl fit together to form a critical mass (without ever actually brinigng them into contact with one another to check the fit, mind you), assembling them into the proper configurtion to be slammed together by the high explosives (which must all be configured to fire within a nanosecond of one another, or they won't form a critical mass fast enough to explode - in which case it would simply melt really fucking fast and contaminate the hell out of a few city blocks when those conventional high explosives blow chunks of the melt all over the place), to slam together on top of the beryllium neutron reflector at the center of the assembly to form a perfect sphere, just long enough to chain react with considerable explosive force. And buttloads of radiation and high-energy particle emissions, too.

No, you'd need a library's worth of instructions in order to provide enough information to the enthusiast for him/her to construct a working nuclear weapon.

Plus a pretty remote, secure location to manufacture everything, since there's going to be a helluva lot of contamination involved, no matter how conscientious you are about the various processes involved. Weapons-grade radionuclides are nasty, and shit like uranium hexafloride is not only dangerously radioactive, but is also corrosive as all get out.

So, you're also going to need a pretty big pot of money to pay the workers that'll be putting it together, because they're going to demand serious hazard pay. (Although, I guess you could use slave labor, if that's something you're willing to do. Stands to reason, right? If you're willing to set off a nuclear weapon, what's a little slave labor, after all? Hey, it worked for Lil' Kim!)

Anyhow, I'm just sayin'. If you're looking for instructions to build and assemble a nuclear weapon, it's gonna take more than one book, padre ...

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> Remember XP requires just a Pentium and 64MB RAM

--Give me a break, you can buy a halfway decent PC on Amazon Prime for under $100 these days and ship it nearly anywhere. Practically nobody is restricted to XP low-end specs anymore, and if you stuffed XP into 64MB RAM it would run like ass - even with an SSD.

https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-...

--The Core 2 Duo even has HW virtualization in the CPU, FFS. With a 64-bit processor and 4GB RAM, you can do a low-resource Linux host with ZFS, and a small Virtualbox XP VM.

https://www.amazon.com/Images-SI-Uranium-Ore/dp/B000796XXM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1532972723&sr=8-2&keywords=uranium#customerReviews

Yup, totally legitimate.

But it didn't get five stars.

I dunno,there are a lot of really helpful reviews out there. For example: This one, or this one, or even this one about gummy bears. These are the types of reviews people NEED to know.

I dunno,there are a lot of really helpful reviews out there. For example: This one, or this one, or even this one about gummy bears. These are the types of reviews people NEED to know.

I dunno,there are a lot of really helpful reviews out there. For example: This one, or this one, or even this one about gummy bears. These are the types of reviews people NEED to know.

Yup, totally legitimate.

I gave you a +1 funny on this - but it's more of an "A for effort" kind of upmod than a actual "Attaboy!"

The thing is - and I'm being serious here - your scansion sucks, beginning with the very first line. Here's a thought: try singing those words to that song. Go ahead, I'll wait ...

See? It can't be done without slaughtering the tune. Too many wrong stresses built into your choice of the words "Tesla technician." The only way to make the tune work is to pronounce it as "tek-NI-see-an," and, even then it still trips off the tongue like the town drunk attempting the first stage of Ninja Warrior.

I'm a writer. This stuff matters to me. I hold or co-hold copyrights on around 4 dozen songs, so I can't help hearing parody lyrics being sung as I read them. And these words don't work as lyrics to Gilbert & Sullivan's classic composition.

That is, they don't so much for me. But I upmodded you anyway, because you at least made an effort ...

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Google is moving radidly into the full PC desktop space with ChromeOS aka Linux (check out Crostini [chromeunboxed.com]) and they already have a lock on the cloud productivity space.

Are you high? ChomeOS is a blip in a rounding error of the market share.

Are you drunk? Chromebook shipments surge by 38 percent, cutting into Windows 10 PCs. Chromebooks are perennial Amazon bestsellers. Chromebooks hold a majority of the US K-12 market. Chromebooks can do everything Android can. Time to sober up. Or don't, nobody cares about your Slashdot upchuck.

Did I mention, Chromebooks are pretty damn secure.

You said "Its long been a tactic of the right to equate anyone who expresses disagreement with their extremism as extremists themselves", which was clearly the portion of the comment I was replying to

So, if that is the part you were taking issue with, then what non-extremism on the right do you think I was equating to extremism of the left? Do you think labeling liberals as fascists is not extremist?

Meanwhile, lets continue to examine how extremism has become mainstream in the right. For example, birtherism. They elected the guy who made his entry into the party by pushing birtherism. Not enough? Lets look at a "well respected" journal of mainstream conservatism - the National Review. Dinesh D'Souza, pardoned felon, and ridiculously over the top troll, is on the masthead. And the magazine's senior editor is the author of the book "liberal fascism."

But there's undeniably a tendency of the modern Left to misuse the label for dramatic effect.

No. You are just ignorant of history. People just like you were saying the same shit about germany in 1934. Its not like the nazis appeared fully-formed and gassing jews out of nowhere. We have been here before. The NYT even ran an op-ed rationalizing nazis as just having "economic anxiety."

We are stealing brown babies from aslyum seekers and then shipping the parents back to their countries without their kids. And in response trump's approval rating with republicans has soared. How much more nazi do we have to get for you?

Yep, I have the T-shirt! Random people come up to me and ask "What does that mean?"

https://www.amazon.com/Feitian-MultiPass-FIDO-Security-Key/dp/B01LYV6TQM

Just put one in my cart.

Which pretty much is the exception that proves the rule. Sure, some people need actual portability but why do you undock it? Have you really thought about it and whether that is the ideal work flow for you? Maybe it is but maybe not. Sounds like you use your laptop as a desktop much of the time so what are you giving up to gain portability?

I just don't want to deal with all the cables, and the bulkiness and immobility, plus laptops have batteries so they don't mind that much if power goes out.

You just got done saying that you have a docking station with multiple monitors, etc and thos all have cables so your argument makes zero sense. And on a desk who cares about the cables? They aren't going to be in your way and you'll never move them. You effectively use a desktop most of the time. As for batteries, you can put a VERY large battery that will run any desktop PC (plus other equipment) for hours for less than $200. Far larger than the battery on any laptop.

I feel like it's not as much that someone doesn't need a laptop because they use the computer at their desk, and moreso that they always use the computer at their desk because they don't have a laptop.

Look around you. Most people in most companies work in a defined space - usually at their desk and they rarely need a computer elsewhere. There are exceptions of course but there are a LOT of people using a laptop which they essentially never use anywhere except their office. I see it all the time. Heck I used to do it. Then I realized I was using a slower weaker computer with a ton of compromises for portability that I almost never used. You might be someone who really does need the portability (though given your other comments I doubt it) but an awful lot of people use laptops for their job when a desktop with a lot more screen real estate would serve them better.

Most humans cannot service anything they own. From their dryer to their toaster to their television to their computer to their cellphone. I guess rationality left the market when the first TV repair shop opened in your mind. I don't think you understand what rational means in this context. I think people who have neither the time, skill nor inclination to fix things letting someone else fix them is entirely rational. Or maybe you think women who take their car to have their oil changed are all insane?

And why do you say batteries aren't "user replaceable" when we all know users replace their batteries all the time. It costs $20 and takes 15 minutes after watching a youtube video. I've replaced several myself.

I have PS Vue as well. I like it for the most part, but really wish they had an a la carte option. I could do without the majority of channels--Hallmark, Lifetime, Oxygen, OWN, etc. It's also a little wonky in that it works differently on my PS3 vs. the PS4. On the PS3, I seem to get every single local channel that is available across the country. I have hundreds of different ABC/CBS/NBC affiliates listed, which is a pain. The other mind-numbing thing about it is how feature poor the PS4 remote control is. Some Vue functions depend on the R1, R2, L1 & L2 keys, but they don't even have those on the remote. It is actually a step back from the PS3 remote.

Sure thing. All you need to do is go to a site like eBay or Amazon, purchase the cartridge/disc for the game you want (buying it used should be fine), and then rip it yourself using one of the numerous ripping devices that are legally available. Easy peasy.

When you get down to it, the process is more or less identical to ripping audio from a CD or a video from a DVD (in fact, I used to rip all of my PS1 games from disc, just like I would my CDs, and I actually intend to go back and do so for all of my disc-based games in the next few years here) and, for the most part, just as legal.

The most obvious way that you might run afoul of the law with the steps above is that some emulators require that you separately download a copy of the console's BIOS before they'll work, which is an act of copyright infringement. Thankfully, more and more emulators are moving away from that practice by doing the tough work of reverse engineering the original BIOS so that they no longer need a copy of it to work, and the standing precedent in the US is that they are perfectly legal. The other way you might run afoul of the law is that newer systems may have copy protection mechanisms in place. Just as you're allowed to format shift a blu-ray but you're not necessarily allowed to break the encryption on the blu-ray to do so, you may run into issues with games on newer consoles that have similar protections in place.

Alternatively, if you don't want to deal with ripping ROMs from your own, legally-purchased copies of the game, most of the popular games from old Nintendo systems (as well as others) are available for purchase on newer Nintendo systems. Were you actually interested in pursuing this legally (rather than simply asking a rhetorical question as a poor rationalization for your illegal behavior), you'd already know that the Wii and Wii U provide a rather extensive back catalog of old titles that are available for purchase (though I think the Wii is losing access to the store in a few months). Likewise, many old console games are available on Steam, GOG, or similar storefronts. And for older games that had a PC release, many are still playable thanks to WINE, ScummVM, or other pieces of software that allow you to simulate outdated hardware.

Honestly, it's easier than ever to go about this stuff legally. Unless you're talking about obscure games that have been lost to time, there's almost always a legal avenue open that (after a possible fixed cost for the some necessary hardware) only costs whatever the prevailing price is for the game.

Do you think most Prime customers will click that option, or even know that it exists?

Well... I do and now several /. readers, including you, do. Admittedly, I don't know if combining items and orders is the default, but wouldn't be surprised if it was, or determined automatically on an order-by-order basis. All my shipments from Amazon seem to be packaged efficiently - and I've sometimes (once last week) even gotten some earlier than expected combined into another shipment (obviously, the order window between the two orders was pretty small for that to happen).

Also, from About Combined Shipments

When possible, items from multiple orders will be combined into the same package. This helps to reduce the number of packages sent to you, so you receive fewer packages and have less packaging material to dispose of when you receive your orders.

Items from multiple orders may be combined into the same package if the orders meet the following criteria:

• Multiple orders are placed through the same customer account
• The orders are being shipped to the same address.
• Items from each order are located at the same Amazon Fulfillment Center.
• The orders are shipping at around the same time.
• The items will be delivered by your promised delivery date.

I'm not sure what this guy is whinging about. From About Shipping Preferences: (emphasis mine)

Every time you place an order via the Shopping Cart that contains more than one delivery date, you can choose for your order to be shipped in the fewest possible packages or for your order to be shipped as soon as each item it becomes available.

You can change your shipping preferences in Your Account at any time after placing your order as long as the order hasn’t entered the shipping process yet.

Prime Customers

FREE Delivery in fewest possible packages
This is a free shipping option for Prime members purchasing Prime eligible items that are in stock. Your Prime orders will be consolidated into the fewest number of packages possible and may take longer to ship depending on product availability.

I want my items faster. Ship each item as soon as it becomes available
This is also a free shipping option for Prime members purchasing Prime eligible items that are in stock. Your Prime items ship as they become available. You should choose this option if you want to receive each item as fast as possible.

There are similar options for non-Prime customers.

Or we could just not do it. It really is that simple. Of course, let's ask ourselves why we want killer robots. We're pretty much past the stage of "defense". Nukes & MAD make that pointless. And hell, so did globalization. You don't shit in your own backyard and for the same reason we're not going to go off and start blowing each other away. The damage done would outweigh the benefit. There'll be brush fires here and there but big scale wars are a thing of the past, if only because they rich won't let us wreck their stuff anymore.

Oh, I wish. But I surely do not trust leadership. And there is at least one - but no doubt a few more - who are itching to use nucs. Crazy thing is there are a fair number of people who are actively wishing for a world ending conflict.

https://www.amazon.com/Have-Ni...

https://www.livescience.com/14...

http://www.signs-of-end-times.... Dr. Thomas B. Slater, Professor of New Testament at Mercer University On end times date:

“The end of times is something that we all expect and hope for and look forward to but most Christians aren't in the business of trying to predict that date. They are working toward that date.

I've heard a lot of this hoo-haw from religious people who are happy to have the world end. Of course, they just want to light the fuse so they can be raptured. What a death cult.

But that is what we are up against.

Oh hell - I'm harshing my mellow.

An Anonymous Coward cautioned:

I don't want to cast unfair aspersions on the pointiness of this new telescope, but, IIRC, the Hubble Space Telescope was fairly blunt, and is not a high benchmark for judging the acuteness of new observatories.

Prompting Reece Tarbert to remonstrate:

Fair enough but, unless you actually want to cast aspersion, could you please get your facts straight Mr. AC? Although new instruments become operational on a regular basis, this "new" telescope has been operating since 1997.

To be strictly accurate, this "new" telescope has not "been operating since 1997." The recent addition of laser-tomographic atmostpheric blur correction has increased the previouslyt-existing telescope's resolving power to unprecedented levels for a ground-based instrument. So, although the physical structure and physical optics components have been around since 1997, the upgrade essentially renovates it into a very much more advanced device than it was.

BTW - "renovate" means "to make new again" ...

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ArchieBunker hypothesized:

That anti Trump guy must still live at home. Who has enough time to be the first to reply to every single story? I do give him credit for being able to keep that mighty Fedora upright on his head.

That anti-Trump guy probably punches a clock at the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburgh six days a week.

The most prolific agit-prop-slingers on both sides of the USA's political divide post from IP addresses that resolve there ...

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It is mono-atomic and uncorruptable. Most likely the aliens just convert it to powder and eat it.

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Se...

I can assure you that Putin and his government have no real long term vision beyond maybe a couple of years, so that's definitely not it.

I disagree with this assessment. I argue that countries like China, Russia, and North Korea tend to look more long term then our representatives, who seem to only care about the time between now and the next election cycle. Here in the U.S. we do have the Supreme Court Justices who I believe do consider the long term ramifications but you're selling these other countries short to assume they only care about the short term.

If you have not seen it, I recommend watching "Rules for Rulers" by CGPGray. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It's based on a book, "The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics" https://www.amazon.com/Dictato...

These have helped me not get so angry at politics in general and has given me a much better understanding as to why different leaders do what they do.

Funny! I have several persons in my circle of friends and acquaintances who still use 2G phones and don't want anything else. And why should they? Why should someone need to use the internet at all with their mobile phone? But then again telcos won't try to switch them off anytime soon in the country where I live, I guess.

Actually, maybe in the country were you live those 2G and 3G phones will be swtiched off sooner than you think.

I live in Venezuela, and it will happen, In india is happening already. Only africa remains a question mark about 2G 3G shutdown.

See, spectrum is expensive, equipment shelters are overcrowded, spectrum is super-expensive, communities are reluctants to allow new anteannas (for "reassons"), and 5G needs lots and lots of small coverage antenas.

So, a way to 5G is to eliminate the 2G and 3G equipment (freeing up electricity and space in the towers), and refarmiong the spectrum (saving money on spectrum purchases) as well as simplifiying O&M (with the corresponding cost reductions).

there are LTE "Dumbphones" for around $80 (in india are more or less free). And those will only get cheaper as time pases.

for example see:

https://www.techradar.com/news... [techradar.com]

https://smile.amazon.com/Alcat... [amazon.com]

Why should it? I still use a 2G feature phone since it does everything I need, i can operate it without looking at the screen and while wearing gloves and the battery lasts over a week on standby. What is so welcome about me having to spend money on a phone with 4G when I don't need the functionality?

By that same token, analog phones worked fine! Why did they sunseted the standard? Oh, the Nikel-Cadmium batteries contaminated the soil more than the lithium ion of today, and while there were less phones back then, those contaminated more and used more raw materials.

The same could be said about IS-54/136, or CDMA2000, or TD-SCDMA... Those worked fine... Why discontinue them?

Anyway, you do not need to buy a smartphone to enjoy the benefits of 4G, here you can have this phone for around $80. It has 4G. You can operate it without watching the screen, you can operate it using gloves, the battery lasts for 25 days on standby (or 7.5 hours of 4G talk), and you can hang up mechanicaly.

The internet thing is a bonus, if you decide to use it in a pinch.

https://www.techradar.com/news...

If you do not like the Banana phone, you can have a 4G flip Phone for around $80 as well:

https://smile.amazon.com/Alcat...

And many others. Check around.

(For example, I'm in the market for a new iPhone stand, and there's a nice $10 aluminum one on Amazon and I haven't seen it anywhere else yet.)

What, this one? If that's the case, you can buy it direct. Most things on Amazon are available elsewhere, like eBay, direct, or Asian market sites like AliExpress.

Not sure if by "external card" you mean "can add an SD card" or "can change the SD card while the phone remains running" but I would point you towards this.

Why not just point towards the Galaxy S9?

..less expensive, smaller screen so it is considered a phone not a tablet, decent battery that lasts at least 3 days, audio jack, external card?

Not sure if by "external card" you mean "can add an SD card" or "can change the SD card while the phone remains running" but I would point you towards this.

Your concession that the two situations are not similar happened here:
""Yep.""

They had actionable evidence on day one in the watergate investigation. Two years into this shit you have not ONE incident of Russian collusion with Americans to bias the election. Nothing.

As it stands there is literally ZERO evidence of collusion between not only the Trump Administration but ANY AMERICAN and the Russians regarding election fraud.

And to make matters even dumber, the Russian interference in the election amounted to some Facebook ads which only a blithering idiot would think were relevant in the fucking unending blizzard of propaganda that bombards voters during an election.

What was in any of those facebook ads that swayed anyone?

Keep in mind, the argument is that it changed votes. Examine the literal facebook memes... they were more memes than ads... name one of those memes that actually changed a vote or was even remotely unique?

Here is a New York Times article where they link a bunch of them:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1...

Do you HONESTLY think that did anything? Because there is no way that someone that was going to vote for hillary or bernie looked at those fucking things and then said "I have decided to change my vote". They're shit posting at best.

You think a 2 year FBI investigation is worth sustaining over some facebook shit posting. That isn't a question. That is an obvious fact. Feel shame.

I went through them all. They were ignorable because there was a shit load of obviously not russian inspired memes saying the exact same thing that were dramatically more common.

And let us also not forget that the REAL scandal was that Hillary perverted the the DNC against Bernie.

SHE EVEN WROTE A FUCKING BOOK ABOUT IT:
https://www.amazon.com/Hacks-I...

This woman was head of the DNC during the end of the presidential election. She details in there what went wrong.

1. Obama f'ed up the Democratic party by focusing on his own political machine to the exclusion of the party leaving it starved of resources and organization.

2. DWS who was head of the DNC was a best incompetent and possibly corrupt and also ran up a lot of debt leaving the DNC in debt to the tune of 20ish million dollars going INTO the presidential election. Going into that election the Republicans had a cash surplus and the Democrats after 8 years in power were 20 million in debt going into the election. Rather than blaming boogiemen for your failure maybe clean your own house?

3. Hillary bailed the DNC out on condition that she would control it PRIOR to winning nomination from her party. Which meant that the primary was a farce.

It goes on and on and on. And no, it isn't controversial... there is empirical evidence for pretty much all of that. Unlike the Russian collusion circus which has no empirical evidence of Russian collusion.

And all you chuckleheads want to talk about is Russian collusion of when there is more evidence of Obama colluding with the Russians. Or did you forget this:
https://youtu.be/keXx0zxTarE?t...

Imagine if you had a video clip of Trump saying that? You would cream your degenerate pants.

But here's the thing. Everything you're doing is predicated on the assumption that people are dumb enough to not follow along. And sure, there are a lot of stupid people for you to prey upon. But you've painted yourself into a corner. Your economic policy. Your political tactics. Your reliance on heavy handed false morality.

You have no credibility, no integrity, and there's no possibly of extending you even common courtesy in this environment so absurdly egregious is this behavior. This political faction you've married yourself to is out of control. And carrying their water in the face of overwhelming evidence is only making it worse.

You're running out of floor, machacho.

Putting on a brave face isn't going to stop this.

Here it is on Amazon (sold by Hodgson, not a third party) for $2.03: https://www.amazon.com/Hodgson... Guess you are wrong.

Yeah. For those of us who actually shop, Prime isn't that good of a deal on most things - especially when you have to pony up $119 for the "privilege" of giving your money to Amazon.

So I can buy Hodgson Oat Bran on Amazon for $9.97 or a Pack of 2 for $19.99 or I can buy it from Kroger for $2.19.

Sure, I can buy a pack of 12 for $28.20 ($2.35/box) but I'm still shelling out money and storing things that I have no room for. So, it's a false economy.

Yeah. For those of us who actually shop, Prime isn't that good of a deal on most things - especially when you have to pony up $119 for the "privilege" of giving your money to Amazon.

So I can buy Hodgson Oat Bran on Amazon for $9.97 or a Pack of 2 for $19.99 or I can buy it from Kroger for $2.19.

Sure, I can buy a pack of 12 for $28.20 ($2.35/box) but I'm still shelling out money and storing things that I have no room for. So, it's a false economy.

Yeah. For those of us who actually shop, Prime isn't that good of a deal on most things - especially when you have to pony up $119 for the "privilege" of giving your money to Amazon.

So I can buy Hodgson Oat Bran on Amazon for $9.97 or a Pack of 2 for $19.99 or I can buy it from Kroger for $2.19.

Sure, I can buy a pack of 12 for $28.20 ($2.35/box) but I'm still shelling out money and storing things that I have no room for. So, it's a false economy.

Hodgson Oat Bran $9.97 on Amazon

$2.19 at Kroger

Why do people lie when you can look it up on the Internet.

Indeed.

You will have to provide the mob yourself but pitchforks are available here https://www.amazon.com/Pitchfo...

You're behind the times - AmazonMob is currently being rolled out in select cities nationwide.

You will have to provide the mob yourself but pitchforks are available here https://www.amazon.com/Pitchfo...

> The problem is that neoliberal free market capitalism isn't exactly delivering flowers and unicorns

Point of fact: It is delivering flowers and unicorns
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/aw...

Would you like next-day delivery, or free three-day delivery?

since the Russian Trolls are busy citing Zerohedge and other Russian PR outlets, here's what the NY times says:

"Mr. Mueller has filed more than 100 criminal counts against 32 people and three companies. Among the people previously charged are fourteen Russians and three Trump associates who have already pleaded guilty."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...

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An Anonymous Coward declared:

This. A million times this. I would rather have Putin himself be our president than her.

Prompting TheFakeTimCook to caution:

Careful what you wish for!

Er ... I thought it was pretty clear that the sock puppet quoted above is ALREADY on Team Putin.

I'm just sayin' ...

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Sadly, you only get USB-C connectors, which is the main reason I have asked my company to refrain from upgrading my 2015 MBP (my existing peripherals won't work, plus there will be an extra little box to carry around with me)

Your existing USB-A peripherals will work fine. You may need to buy a couple of these. Not sure what extra little box you're talking about, but maybe you mean one of these? I have one (not that model, but similar) and I think it's great because it combines all of the less-needed ports into a single compact unit -- HDMI, Ethernet, SD card, etc.

One non-obvious upside of USB-C on Macbooks is that you can use any of the ports for charging, which means you can plug your charging cable in from whichever side is convenient. This seems like an irrelevant advantage until you've actually lived with it for a while. Another thing I really like, since my phone and bluetooth headphones use USB-C as well, is that I now travel with only a single charger, my laptop charger. I used to carry extra charging cables so I could charge the phone and headphones from the laptop, but now I don't bother. One charger and one cable, is all I need. It even works if I need to connect phone to laptop because the cable between the computer and charger is a normal male-to-male USB-C cable. So I can just disconnect it from the charger and use it to connect laptop to phone. The fact that it's a standard cable also means that when I got annoyed that Apple's provided cable was too short, I just bought a longer one and swapped it out.

So, IMO, the USB-C ports are great.

However, there is a good reason to stick with your 2015 MBP: the new keyboard sucks, and while the touchstrip isn't awful it's not great either.

Sadly, you only get USB-C connectors, which is the main reason I have asked my company to refrain from upgrading my 2015 MBP (my existing peripherals won't work, plus there will be an extra little box to carry around with me)

Your existing USB-A peripherals will work fine. You may need to buy a couple of these. Not sure what extra little box you're talking about, but maybe you mean one of these? I have one (not that model, but similar) and I think it's great because it combines all of the less-needed ports into a single compact unit -- HDMI, Ethernet, SD card, etc.

One non-obvious upside of USB-C on Macbooks is that you can use any of the ports for charging, which means you can plug your charging cable in from whichever side is convenient. This seems like an irrelevant advantage until you've actually lived with it for a while. Another thing I really like, since my phone and bluetooth headphones use USB-C as well, is that I now travel with only a single charger, my laptop charger. I used to carry extra charging cables so I could charge the phone and headphones from the laptop, but now I don't bother. One charger and one cable, is all I need. It even works if I need to connect phone to laptop because the cable between the computer and charger is a normal male-to-male USB-C cable. So I can just disconnect it from the charger and use it to connect laptop to phone. The fact that it's a standard cable also means that when I got annoyed that Apple's provided cable was too short, I just bought a longer one and swapped it out.

So, IMO, the USB-C ports are great.

However, there is a good reason to stick with your 2015 MBP: the new keyboard sucks, and while the touchstrip isn't awful it's not great either.

Another Anonymous Coward incredulously demanded:

50%?!? You are telling me it is too difficult and not enough to go around to provide more than 1 out of every 2 individuals a second ISP... in the US?!?

Actually, that's pretty much exactly the case. There are still a fair number of U.S. residents who live out in the boonies, where the cost-per-mile for pole space is high and the customer density is low.

At some point, it doesn't pencil out, so you stop building out your network, and folks who live beyond the edge are reduced to crap like satellite internet or cellular data for broadband. (Soonish, though, maybe, one of the current batch of low-latency, high-bit-rate NEO satellite ISP startups should have enough coverage to permit a real alternative. My bet is on Elon Musk, since he starts with the advantage of owning his own, considerable launch capacity.)

Anyway, yeah. In urban areas, it's really expensive and difficult to find new pole space or underground your cables. In rural areas, there's just too sparse a population to support two or more multi-megabit-to-customer-premises ISPs simultaneously. So, effectively, broadband competition in much of the USA is economically infeasible ...

(Posting as AC only so as not to undo prior upmods in this thread.)

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Considering that media matters has a long history of "quote mining" aka manufacturing news & outrage, lying through omission, and pushing political agendas despite it's classification status. You're simply ignorant, and are happily defending a company that's just as bad.

I enjoyed the "white supremacy conservatives" bit. Get that racism and bigotry out early, fly that flag. It's doing a bang up job for the democrats and progressives. When you finish frothing at the mouth, you can sit down and read just how dirty of an organization it really is.

How *in* *the* *world* is that 'late stage capitalism? From where I sit humans have been doing jobs exactly like this for a very long time. We call them assembly line/factory workers. They do one task over and over and get modestly for it. "late stage" would indicate that this is a recent thing near the death throws of what is going on. It is not. It can only be what you are thinking if you IGNORE 150 years of the since the start of the industrial revolution.

I propose that you re-think how you talk and what words you use. Perhaps read a bit of history. You will probably find it quite fascinating that people treat other shitty all the time. They have been for a long time. You may find the industrial revolution quite fascinating. Much of what happened there continues to this day. It got so bad we invented laws to curb the abuses. Some countries flirted with communism and socialism to combat the abuses and found it a neat way to exterminate well over 100 million people and centrally abuse people. If you want to see what an anti capitalistic society would comprise of I suggest this book. https://www.amazon.com/Gulag-A... This dude lived it for most of his life.

Slashdot is where I come to get lectured by illiterate 15 year olds in Pepe T-shirts, so thank you for this.