Kubuntu works just fine. KDE just isn't interesting to distro maintainers because it's not broken enough to need to write a bunch of their own special new tools for.
Kroger owns dozens of differently branded store chains that are doing different things, and continues to make billions of dollars a year profit. Being the third largest retailer in the world and seeing a minor decrease in how fast the buckets of metaphorical gold come pouring in is not a dire situation.
The main issue will be with people who are ordering their groceries online because they have a disability or sickness which is preventing them from going out. Such people will need to switch to driverfull delivery stores (if some continue to exist), or hire custom services for it.
A car with a very lightweight collapsible frame -- so collapsible that it'd allow any occupants to be killed easily, imagine a car that practically disintegrates on impact -- is also the car least likely to kill someone it hits. Typical Americans in their SUVs and pickups might hardly notice the bump from the 60 MPH collision. Even if such a driverless vehicle gets into significantly more accidents than human drivers, it could be considered safer if those accidents are much less likely to hurt anyone.
$3 trillion is a drop in the bucket and sounds way too good to be true, so I think you've got your numbers wrong. Climate change is projected to cost the world economy $33 trillion a year by 2050, and already costs the USA alone $300B a year (couldn't find a figure for current worldwide annual cost, but you can assume that it must in the trillions).
In reality though, my PCs have never been compromised in 18 years running desktop Linux... and never needed an antivirus. It's true that running as a limited user isn't a huge advantage in itself, just a small one. The main thing that makes Linux safer, I think, is that nearly everything I install is from a trusted repository -- not random websites that may have been compromised themselves. Microsoft tried to copy that with Windows Store, but they allow adware and don't review the source code to prevent outright malware either so it doesn't really help.
There've always been discount days. I go to a movie every month or so always on a Tuesday when it's $5. Usually late at night when the theater is pretty empty. If moviepass can reinvent itself into something that's limited to non-peak times, there's a market for that and a case for the theaters to help it.
Bezos would tell everyone he's going to do it, then spend 20 years failing to get a rocket into orbit. (Blue Origin was founded 18 years ago and it's safe to say they won't be reaching orbit in the next two years.)
Perhaps they specialize in kids movies. It's harder for a parent to refuse to buy concessions for screaming begging kids. Anyway as someone who never wants to eat in a theater and probably wouldn't take the popcorn if it was free, I'm happy being subsidized.
Having a comedically over-patriotic Russian and making minorities all obey all orders of a midwest American white man was not nearly as liberal as Roddenberry wanted to believe.
I would take the Ghostbusters reboot as an example. An all female cast, is that a leftist agenda, or a gimmick to fuel a marketing campaign?
When a [non-comedy] show uses a cast of all unattractive overweight women, I'll believe they're pursuing a leftist agenda. Until then, they're just trying to simultaneously sell men on sex appeal and women on empowerment to take money from both.
It's not lack of experience, it's too much experience. It's a one party state for the last 24 years, and that's long enough to corrupt any party into outright looting.
Japan is one of the very few places on Earth with a sufficient number of huge cities close enough to each other. That's why high speed rail has been so successful there. It doesn't mean it can be applied to most of the planet.
It's ridiculous how concerned people are about eliminating the most horridly unpleasant jobs in a time of historically low unemployment. Get rid of those supermarket checker jobs nobody actually enjoys and either the freed labor will go to something more pleasant or -- in your nightmare scenario which there's no evidence of whatsoever in all of history and so much evidence against in the present -- we can all work 30 hours weeks to share the miraculously decreased need for work.
I think this will lead to a virtual store where everyone will shop online either using a phone or computer and a location at the store where one could use a store owned computer.
People can do that already. Most of us don't want to. Browsing actual items is a lot more fun than ordering off a screen, especially for food, especially if you want to be sure you're not getting certain things near their expiration dates.
Clearly you don't live in a large city with a metro and have probably never even been on one. They work extremely well, far better than a few hundred "pods" would.
Take Sacramento light rail, since I've ridden it. To go from Folsom to Downtown takes about 50 minutes via train, or 20 minutes to drive. That's the best case direct route. If you have to transfer to a different rail line, it'll take you 90 minutes to go a distance you could've driven in 20. Why? All the stops. Can it work out better for you if you happen to live in the perfect location in a megacity that has an express train from exactly where you live to exactly where you want to go? Sure, but 99% of people don't live that scenario so we need to think of solutions for everyone else.
We didn't pay Comcast billions in subsidies and tax breaks to give away free internet. We paid them to expand broadband to more smaller towns, and expand fiber in cities. Be mad at them for not doing that -- and be mad at your government for not supporting competition -- but don't be mad at Comcast for charging market rates for internet.
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Kubuntu works just fine. KDE just isn't interesting to distro maintainers because it's not broken enough to need to write a bunch of their own special new tools for.
Kroger owns dozens of differently branded store chains that are doing different things, and continues to make billions of dollars a year profit. Being the third largest retailer in the world and seeing a minor decrease in how fast the buckets of metaphorical gold come pouring in is not a dire situation.
The main issue will be with people who are ordering their groceries online because they have a disability or sickness which is preventing them from going out. Such people will need to switch to driverfull delivery stores (if some continue to exist), or hire custom services for it.
A car with a very lightweight collapsible frame -- so collapsible that it'd allow any occupants to be killed easily, imagine a car that practically disintegrates on impact -- is also the car least likely to kill someone it hits. Typical Americans in their SUVs and pickups might hardly notice the bump from the 60 MPH collision. Even if such a driverless vehicle gets into significantly more accidents than human drivers, it could be considered safer if those accidents are much less likely to hurt anyone.
$3 trillion is a drop in the bucket and sounds way too good to be true, so I think you've got your numbers wrong. Climate change is projected to cost the world economy $33 trillion a year by 2050, and already costs the USA alone $300B a year (couldn't find a figure for current worldwide annual cost, but you can assume that it must in the trillions).
In reality though, my PCs have never been compromised in 18 years running desktop Linux... and never needed an antivirus. It's true that running as a limited user isn't a huge advantage in itself, just a small one. The main thing that makes Linux safer, I think, is that nearly everything I install is from a trusted repository -- not random websites that may have been compromised themselves. Microsoft tried to copy that with Windows Store, but they allow adware and don't review the source code to prevent outright malware either so it doesn't really help.
There've always been discount days. I go to a movie every month or so always on a Tuesday when it's $5. Usually late at night when the theater is pretty empty. If moviepass can reinvent itself into something that's limited to non-peak times, there's a market for that and a case for the theaters to help it.
Bezos would tell everyone he's going to do it, then spend 20 years failing to get a rocket into orbit. (Blue Origin was founded 18 years ago and it's safe to say they won't be reaching orbit in the next two years.)
Perhaps they specialize in kids movies. It's harder for a parent to refuse to buy concessions for screaming begging kids. Anyway as someone who never wants to eat in a theater and probably wouldn't take the popcorn if it was free, I'm happy being subsidized.
Having a comedically over-patriotic Russian and making minorities all obey all orders of a midwest American white man was not nearly as liberal as Roddenberry wanted to believe.
When a [non-comedy] show uses a cast of all unattractive overweight women, I'll believe they're pursuing a leftist agenda. Until then, they're just trying to simultaneously sell men on sex appeal and women on empowerment to take money from both.
You're replying to a headline and article that credits the White House, not the President.
It's not lack of experience, it's too much experience. It's a one party state for the last 24 years, and that's long enough to corrupt any party into outright looting.
Dublin is on an island. The ocean seems like a pretty big geographic barrier, doesn't it?
It's not better than a taxi service -- it's a better taxi service.
Japan is one of the very few places on Earth with a sufficient number of huge cities close enough to each other. That's why high speed rail has been so successful there. It doesn't mean it can be applied to most of the planet.
Because what we really want is a world where everybody's stuck in a horrific retail job because that's where they're needed.
It's ridiculous how concerned people are about eliminating the most horridly unpleasant jobs in a time of historically low unemployment. Get rid of those supermarket checker jobs nobody actually enjoys and either the freed labor will go to something more pleasant or -- in your nightmare scenario which there's no evidence of whatsoever in all of history and so much evidence against in the present -- we can all work 30 hours weeks to share the miraculously decreased need for work.
People can do that already. Most of us don't want to. Browsing actual items is a lot more fun than ordering off a screen, especially for food, especially if you want to be sure you're not getting certain things near their expiration dates.
Take Sacramento light rail, since I've ridden it. To go from Folsom to Downtown takes about 50 minutes via train, or 20 minutes to drive. That's the best case direct route. If you have to transfer to a different rail line, it'll take you 90 minutes to go a distance you could've driven in 20. Why? All the stops. Can it work out better for you if you happen to live in the perfect location in a megacity that has an express train from exactly where you live to exactly where you want to go? Sure, but 99% of people don't live that scenario so we need to think of solutions for everyone else.
We didn't pay Comcast billions in subsidies and tax breaks to give away free internet. We paid them to expand broadband to more smaller towns, and expand fiber in cities. Be mad at them for not doing that -- and be mad at your government for not supporting competition -- but don't be mad at Comcast for charging market rates for internet.
Comcast does have a $5 monthly discount available for people who use less then 5 GB of data per month.
Not suicidal, just homicidal. Old rich people have nothing to fear.
Nobody is banning anyone from buying plastic garbage bags. The ban is on plastic grocery bags.
Waymo should develop a bee-driven car.