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Ah, old /.

The days of CmdrTaco and Cowboy Neal.

When a link from the home page could bring another web site down, a.k.a the 'Slashdot effect'.
When all the linked tricks and traps ended up getting you Rickrolled an Troilfaced ad nasium.
And the interviews! Larry Wall, Kim Dotcom, John Carmack, Linus Torvalds, Bill Ottman, Hal 9000, Charles Babbage, Blaise Pascal...

Definitely an editor filtered-evaluated, user submitted content website of the highest order.
Ah, /. was popular with the cutting edge crowd back then.
Mebe it's we visitors that make /. a faint reflection of the greatness that was.

You know, don't you, that there's a dark web behind the Dark Web where another, better /. dwells. It's full of storied gambits that fell law enforcement, leaving only the cleverest to dissect and decrypt and produce the dialogs the loftier nerds hobnob with.

...NSA here, please ignore that little feature, nothing to see here!

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How many times are you going to ask me to say "Yes" to something Tesla never promised? And furthermore, I love how you've switched to this from "Tesla will never deliver a $35k Model 3" ;)

Yep, this is what you sound like.

Interesting, I found a picture of you on the internet.

Note that my statement was about specifically the Model 3. There's not merely "a couple hundred million miles" on S and X; Tesla's total miles as of April (when Model 3 miles were low) was 7,2 billion. Also, S and X use a different battery tech from the 3 (but are still an order of magnitude less likely to catch on fire than a gasoline car).

Short clip of the event in question.

The sterile male mosquitoes didn't bite or spread disease, but when they mated with wild females, the resulting eggs didn't hatch, and the population crashed.

A secret organization I cannot name is trying the same thing right now, in western countries we're releasing a bunch of liberal males into the populace - They just yell a lot and while not sterile, are so unpleasant they make breeding pretty much impossible so the result is the same - population crashing.

It's working far better than we had hoped!

This screaming "progressive" was spotted, likely on Jan 20, 2019, when Hillary! WAS NOT SWORN IN AS PRESIDENT:

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:-D

#WalkAway

I can appreciate your concern, since the recent history with Skype and some other acquisitions left a bit of a bad taste, but this article from ArsTechnica suggests that Microsoft might have been the best option:

I understand that, but in the 90's Windows 3.1 was considered "the best option" for an operating system. Fortunately a lot of people didn't consider it an adequate option and chose not to settle.

The Microsoft of today is not the same Microsoft as in the days of Ballmer and Gates.

There are a few running memes over the history of Microsoft. One I never not tired of is someone popping up to assure the world that today's Microsoft is not same Microsoft that did all the bad things that earned them their unpleasant reputation. I don't pay enough attention to know if they are the same people who stick up for Microsoft when it's been discovered that they've added some new underhanded practice to their repertoire.

In many ways pigs are flying.

Of course they are.

See you Space Cowboy

So if the company is raising the fee, you can bet that it discovered the current $10.99 was just not sustainable.

This is exactly why I look to /., to provide me with just this sort of keen insight not available in the mainstream press... Thank you Captain Obvious!