SpaceCowboy

People aren't liabilities. Thinking this way is why US doesn't really have healthcare. Healthcare is a service, not a liability.

Do you consider infrastructure and the legal system to be liabilities because the budget of these things scale with the population size? Or are they just things the government is supposed to do?

So anyway, I don't want to live in a country that thinks my health is a liability.

Didn't know there were Star Wars tankies LOL.

Order 66 would fall under the emergency powers the Senate granted to him.

It's possible the emergency powers bill was written by a complete idiot.

And how will the Emperor maintain control without the bureaucracy?

Even if Luke didn't know anything about the Senate, Storm Troopers killing his family and burning down his house might've clued him in about the Empire being a little bit fashy.

Also he didn't officially join the rebellion until he got to Yavin, after he met Princess Leia. Kinda feel like Leia would be in the loop about the Senate being dissolved.

He used an armada of tanks assembled into a Voltron-style robot that shoots Flammenwerfer capable of turning air into fuel.

I really wish this was in the prequels.

I use some joke distro that names their releases after Toy Story characters LOL.

"it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks"

Liar!

Yeah but what does it look like where people live?

I picked random spots in European cities in google street view and most of the places did not look at all like the photos above. Brick streets, people driving bicycles, people chilling in out door cafes. I did see some spots (mostly in Eastern Europe) that looked like the photos above. I did same bigger cities and some cities I never even heard of.

Doing the same thing in the US, I got dropped into a train station in Charlotte NC, so that was cool. But besides that, I saw a lot of suburbs, parking lots, and places that looked like the photos above from random cities across the US.

It's a joke so it only needs an element of truth to it. And it's directed at American culture, not about landmarks. From what I can see from my very non-scientific survey, the joke definitely has an element of truth about American culture being very samey in terms of how the places the live look.

It might also be fair to say Western Europe all looks the same with people driving bicycles on brick streets to cafes and such. But that probably wouldn't sting all that much.

In Canada when a budget doesn't pass, the government doesn't shut down. Instead all of the politicians are fired and they face an election where they have to explain to the voters why they couldn't do their fucking jobs and pass a goddamn budget.

The US would have to make significant changes to their political system so it doesn't suck. Also change to the Canadian flag, the US flag is tacky as fuck.

It's definitely a possibility that can't be discounted. The Civil Rights movement changed a lot of things and set the US on a path of cultural progress. A slow path, but it was going that way. Trump entered politics by saying by saying Obama wasn't eligible to be President. There was some obvious bullshit about a birth certificate, but there's the underlying meaning to it about a black man being ineligible to be President. A lot of people picked up on it and it's like they became free to be themselves. Their racist hateful selves.

Trumpism is a rejection of all progress made in the Civil Rights movement and afterwards. So they're going back to the way they were before.

To me, it's the apathy towards this that's most concerning. In every country there's racist assholes, but in the US it seems they generally just accept that's what their country is now, or believe that somehow the problem will just fix itself. They only seem to protest when social media tells them to protest, and social media is owned by Trump's allies. The power these companies now know they have doesn't bode well for this going away when Trump is gone. They'll want to maintain their power by just bringing in some other racist asshole that appeals to the base instincts of Americans. Too many interests are lined up now for this to go away easily.

Fuck developers, I’m talking about USERS.

Remember the Ballmer "developers developers developers" meme? Cringey as fuck, but MS did actually try to make things good for developers. Do you think they did that out of altruism?

Nope, it was a strategy. Obviously you don't appreciate the people whose job was to make systems actually work, but Microsoft used to because they knew there's a million different details involved with integration of a businesses software with their software. Make it easy for developers to make things work, then from the USERS perspective the software does what they need it to do.

They’re forcing people to the cloud, you’re right, but if they didn’t you would still want to force yourself into the cloud by running critical services in a datacenter for your organization.

Is it though? The Australian government lost a huge amount of data when they moved to the cloud. Someone at Google fucked up and databases were deleted and the backups weren't all that good and so data loss. I'm sure mistakes like that won't happen when they have AI making decisions about maintaining data, right? LOL

Also there's privacy considerations. Maybe you work at a startup that sells customer data to whoever will buy it so that's not a concern. But some places actually do have confidential data. Places like the government. These places forbid sharing data with third parties. Microsoft is a third party. So cloud isn't going to work for those situations.

It's part of the overall issue in IT security now. Just make security someone else's responsibility so we won't get blames if something goes wrong. People choose cloud not because it's better security (it's worse), but because it allows shifting blame.

Sorry buddy, but if you're a user just that wants your shit to work every day, then you probably should listen to the developers who actually know how the shit works. Microsoft isn't the same company it used to be. It was never all that great, but at least their strategy is all about making things work for businesses. Now they've shifted to making businesses work for them. Get everyone to do LinkedIn classes to train into you that Microsoft is the only way to do things.

Things will break and you'll probably blame the developers for it, seems to be your attitude. Then the developers at your company leave because they're tired of your shit. Then your job is manually entering data into excel because you refuse to question the direction Microsoft is going.