“You say, ‘$1.9 billion, what’s wrong with [saying] 2?’ Well, it didn’t get into China, but in my mind [the film’s box office is] over 2 [billion] because I know what we would have done in China.”

These people need a fucking reality check, for a litany of reasons.

If only

They’re the best

*lonely top noises

I kinda dug it myself, but to each their own

When that pie and coffee just goes right through you

Bones was always just jealous of Spock absolutely drowning in sexual attention from any beings of any gender.

Hell, I even heard that the matter-energy cloud only went after the Enterprise because it wanted to get with Spock. Even non-corporeal beings want on his junk.

The Monarch Formerly Known as Prince

I feel bad for writing that, like I just insulted Prince simply by association.

Weirder than responding to someone who obviously understands the issue to stop buying them?

Weirder than ignoring the entire original point which is that they won’t have the ability to make new ones because of parts shortages, and to keep making them they’ll have to resort to making models that don’t include those features?

Yeah, OK.

I haven’t bought a new TV since 2010 and it wasn’t a smart TV.

Since then I have only bought monitors.

My car was built in 1999 because I am poor. I try to ride my bike or walk as much as possible to put fewer miles on my old shitbox car plus for the environment and less traffic yadda yadda.

Fuck me go be a contrarian jerk elsewhere please. I’m obviously not part of the problem here.

Linux in general is the wise choice, no matter the distribution.

Of course. My point is that we might see a return of these kind of devices to the consumer market if they can’t afford to build smart-televisions to drop on the consumer market.

Our tax dollars is what is making us vulnerable.

Abso-lutely. Western governments like USA and the UK learned the wrong lessons from the end of World War II and have practiced security through obscurity for decades since cracking the enigma machines codes and keeping that a secret during and long after the war. They sit on vulnerable exploits under the false notion that they’ll be the only ones to ever find the exploits and use them. Instead of taking security seriously by reporting exploits when found, they use them in stupid fucking hacking wargames that make the whole world more vulnerable. Security through obscurity always works right up until it doesn’t.

“For instance, how am I gonna stop some big mean motherhubbard from tearing me a structurally superfluous new behind? The answer? Use a gun.”

I hope I’m right, too. We need at least some positives to come out the AI shitshow.

While the AI arms race is an unmitigated disaster for the personal computer and consumer electronics sphere (and the environment no less), on the small plus side, we might see fallout resulting in less digitization of vehicles and a return to some computer electronics such as televisions back to “dumb” models with no extra features other than being a television due to the shortage of memory and storage. They can’t just dip on producing things like TVs and cars forever (they’re already planning on short-term production reductions) while waiting for RAM and storage to become freely available again.

Just for you, here’s an Australian source, too.

https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/media/wikileaks-vault-7-dump-reignites-conspiracy-theories-surrounding-death-of-michael-hastings/news-story/0df1d06403d0223ce1cfc286a1e75325

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Rulios Mío!