justin66

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> Knowing nothing about it this particular movement

It's a pity this disclaimer cannot be made to serve as a header for about 99% of the comments here today, because, holy shit...

The cringey thing about boards of directors in general, and about the discussion surrounding Biden and his scandal specifically, is that board members being picked for superficial reasons and being paid to vote mindlessly with the majority when the board votes is regrettably very common and normal. Perhaps most people don't understand that, and think that "board member" is usually a real job.

> he was paid $65,000 per month, which is pretty high.

I doubt it's high for a petrochemical conglomerate.

Being extradited to Arkansas for a crime one didn't commit, one which is impossible to refute because there is no evidence to begin with, seems like a weirdly American spin on Kafka.

What I'm getting from this is that fascists are also to blame for Wayland. I always suspected.

Those Matrox cards were remarkable for having strong, clear analog output in an era before we managed to rid ourselves of a reliance on analog video signals. (have we rid ourselves of the reliance on analog video signals? I don't do professional A/V work so I could be missing something there)

It's daunting to think about about how hard it must be bringing that equipment together with the few people (retro enthusiasts, legacy businesses, etc.) who could benefit from it, rather than sending it to the landfill.

All credit to Ton for being able to joke about it in the moment. :D

Of course it was illegal.

Who do you expect to charge the woman with a crime: the local prosecutors who are basically cop-adjacent, Georgia's attorney general who supports the lawless ICE, or a federal prosecutor working under the Trump administration?

I mean, maybe you'd like to do something about it via a civil lawsuit, at which point you ought to acquaint yourself with something called "qualified immunity."

Living in a police state is fun, right?

The application for the trademark was apparently abandoned when the project failed. There's a link to the details in one of the other comments here.

The legal side of Gibson's protest certainly did not go beyond sending a cease and desist letter. People tend to overestimate how much money even successful science fiction authors make (unless one of their works hits big in Hollywood).

The OP's actions and remorselessly douchey recounting of them ought to be read in that light: Autodesk cost Gibson time and money and then the OP wrote a letter to taunt him about it. All credit to William Gibson for his amused tolerance of the situation, assuming that part of the story is accurate.

Unless the products that are real are Cybertrucks. No way in hell you're selling more of those.

> Wild that they devoted so much effort to an economically completely infeasible model.

You could say the same thing about the Cybertruck.

> The first flawed assumption is that an argument, discussion, or point that disagrees with you must fundamentally be a Russian talking point. That I can tell you is just untrue.

You write just like someone whose brain has been softened by Russian propaganda. That's why you're seeing the responses you are seeing, not as a response to mere disagreement.

Strange question. What do you think high-pressure diplomacy on the part of the most powerful nation on Earth accomplishes?

According to Taco Bell's website that's $0.10 less than the same burrito costs in my midwestern suburb. Weird.

> Call on the phone and yell at Putin more strongly?

Nobody in the current administration is “yelling” at Putin, strongly or weakly. Perhaps that would be a place to start.

FAQ Where do these files come from? They were uploaded to archive.org by thousands of different users. Think of this site as a partial mirror of select archive.org items, extracted and presented with a different interface.

I'm pretty sure if you've seen figures in the 100 year range, that's something that was largely aspirational, put out after the 100 year anniversary of the armistice. Some of the experts in France still say over 500 years at the current rate of remediation.

Do they want to let Russia keep Ukrainian land, kids, etc?

> Actually there is a budget cap so small teams have the same resources of big teams.

Not really. The budget cap does not include the salaries of active drivers and the three highest paid non-driver employees, as well as some other odds and ends.

You and Jamie sure landed on opposite sides of the AI debate.

Why would anyone buy a Pi when they could simply burgle the home of a friend or neighbor and steal their computer?

> One thing I'm seeing which irritates me is people are starting to call backing singers backup singers.

Rolling Stone magazine has been using the phrase "backup singer" for a genuinely long time.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/dylan-gets-gos...

Examine everything wrong with the analogy you just made and you'll understand why nobody else is making that comparison.

Building a machine that can travel at speeds exceeding Mach 3 for a brief period of time is probably well within aeronautical engineering's current capabilities, with today's engines, yes. The innovation with the SR-71 was that it could fly at those speeds for an hour and a half, thanks in part to that JP-7 fuel with its high flash point.

Either way it's unclear why NASA, with its decreasing budget, might feel like they need to be taking this on as a research project.

Little known fact (but not a secret): the F-117 is still flown today, even though they were "retired" in 2008.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZFwOGfhRZ8

I gather they serve mostly as aggressors and test aircraft - certainly one wouldn't fly that plane into combat. They were never ruinously expensive to operate. The SR-71 on the other hand...

> The Air Force and NASA destroyed a $600 million supply of spare parts for the Blackbird fleet in 2007. The move came long after it seemed unlikely, if not impossible, that an SR-71A would return to operational service.

There's also the issue of converting a tanker back so it can carry the SR-71's unique fuel again. And for that matter, making a supply of JP-7 again. No other planes today use JP-7.

"It's not my money!"

> If it didn't come with such a high karma risk, I would have mentioned it myself.

What worst case scenario are you envisioning that would somehow justify censoring yourself? The text of one of your comments will turn grey?

I have no idea why somebody flagged his last few comments or why "vouch" doesn't work. Frustrating.

Interestingly, there are a few places that will sell you a warrantied and new desktop or rackmount PC with a Windows NT 4.0 license. I imagine buyers of their systems are often in similar predicaments, not sure who else would buy these.

https://nixsys.com/products/nx370-t90

There are some things I don't understand about the OP's constraints (are you sure you can't run that Amiga VM on a newer version of Windows, or better yet, run that Amiga-based software on one of the currently supported Amiga VMs?). But they can probably pretty easily keep going as they're going with this software until some other, more significant thing in that plant becomes fully obsolete and the place is shut down.