Delta_V @ Delta_V @lemmy.world

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over a certain amount of wealth - damn right

as a starting point of negotiation I would suggest any inheritance with value in excess of a lifetime of full employment at minimum wage gets taxed at 100%

do legacy admissions to estates next

because its not in the corporation's interest to incur the expense and organizational disruption if they're still going to get banned anyway - profit is maximized by continuing with business as usual instead of spending resources attempting to reach compliance

There's no guarantee that making the sale will prevent the ban.

An app would be allowed to stay in the US market after a divestiture if the president determines that the sale "would result in the relevant covered company no longer being controlled by a foreign adversary."

So apps can still be banned after divestiture, based on an arbitrary decision by one corrupt and potentially insane and/or senile person?

After all the talk of a "rules based order", I'm disappointed - this isn't a rule, its a leap of faith into the arms of serial liars.

like Python users forced to code in assembly

its still part of Russian geoplitical strategy - shifts to the right are self-destructive and help USA's enemies

during the 80's, USA pushed the USSR's allies in South America to adopt more conservative governments as a means of destroying them from the inside, and today Russia is attempting to employ the same strategy against USA

not just private ownership, but structures that ensure an increasingly concentrated private ownership by ever fewer people who use that advantage to create a set of rules that further increases the ownership gap

ie a system where the owners of capital get to make the rules

capitalism is antithetical to democracy

The problem with RTFM is that TFM often does not cover the problem, and broader knowledge of the OS is required. You can't expect every app to come with a manual that covers how the entire OS works, but that knowledge is often required to get work done in Linux.

People familiar with the guts of Linux or Windows will encounter these kinds of outside-the-instructions problems and know from experience what arcane setting to change or what 3rd party software needs to be installed before the procedures written in the manual will work as expected.

IMO, the Windows GUI lowers the bar to begin trial-and-error learning and makes the learning process faster.

The idea that one OS is easier than the other is misattributed familiarity.

Exactly. OP's meme makes no sense to me. My experience has been that using Linux is a never ending series of file not found and access denied errors.

insanity soap is all you need:

"You'll pay for that!"

Yes, I know how stores work.

The waiting is how you know its giving you correct answers.

I stopped buying their shit after they started hiring Pinkerton mercenaries to clean up their mistakes.

from the wiki:

Following the Civil War, the Pinkertons began conducting operations against organized labor.[5] During the labor strikes of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, businesses hired the Pinkerton Agency to infiltrate unions, supply guards, keep strikers and suspected unionists out of factories, and recruit goon squads to intimidate workers.[6] During the Homestead Strike of 1892, Pinkerton agents were called in to reinforce the strikebreaking measures of industrialist Henry Clay Frick, who was acting on behalf of Andrew Carnegie, the head of Carnegie Steel.[7]

Shield charging is too fun - like bowling with bandits for pins and you're the ball.

corporate sponsors like "the other guy is bad" more than "here's the plan to get the working class a bigger slice of the pie"

deftones, a t-shirt and some beer

center space: rum