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It's relevant to Win11. Win11 is supposed to be going SaaS. So if you want to stay on Windows but don't want your OS to be SaaS....

Edit:

Having said that, it looks like this may not be as much of a lock as I thought. So maybe I'm talking out of my butt.

I'm simultaneously embarrassed by that if so, but also kinda happy that my days of running Windows are so far behind me that I've stopped subconsciously paying attention to MS news enough to be wrong about something like that.

Doesn't hit your checklist point by point, but I think it's impossible to go wrong with the Recluce books if you haven't read them. (Most recent was published in 2021 which was news to me - guess I have some catching up to do!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheSagaofRecluce

Oh it's you. Hadn't noticed or wouldn't have replied. In that case though, your argument is with the petition, not with the person you replied to. Win11 is to go SaaS so resisting that upgrade makes complete sense.

Anyhow, goodbye now!

Maybe because it's a wise investment to encourage knowledge workers gain additional experience working on things they enjoy even if you might not be able to pick up one of those things and directly make another revenue stream out of it.

That's all well and good, but choosing Microsoft is choosing their bullshit too. It's your right to choose, but if you're sharing a rowboat with an alligator don't be amazed when it eats your chicken. (or something like that)

Do you understand what software as a service is?

Not wanting software as a service is also not proposing anything like your strawman.

kind of think this double entendre was intended from the beginning.

Well I feel dumb now for not having ever thought about it.

I eagerly await the super-chill Afroman rendition of "Fuck the Police" after this case is resolved.

Holy shit he’s FUCKING EIGHT YEARS OLD. Did they just see a black kid and lose their fucking minds

Yes. It's called adultification, and it's a common example of unconscious bias in policing.

The Adultification of Black Children

‘They saw me as calculating, not a child’: how adultification leads to black children being treated as criminals

Even if he was it would just be another fine that he can dig out of his couch cushions like the last two. He will never see the inside of a jail cell.

I would love nothing more than to be wrong.

LOL. :-D Despite the topic of the article and OPs repeated warnings that we should all be worried about violence from the left, I'm not ready to start vandalizing my neighbors over their views, satisfying as I'm sure that would be.

Before I'd do that I'd start putting up signs of my own that really piss off the US right like "Everyone is welcome here" and "Hate has no home here."

What's happening is we'd like someone in authority to start doing something about the fascists.

That tracks 100% with my anecdotal feelings. There's one and only one guy on my block whose doorbell I'd be afraid to ring out of the blue. Guess what kind of signs are on his lawn?

Of course nothing is 100%, but ascribing equal weight between 1% and 99% is a false equivalence.

I long for the days when this didn't require explanation.

Old school way to do a burnout with an automatic transmission.

https://itstillruns.com/do-brake-stand-7554714.html

While we've got a lot of problems over here, and this event highlights some of them, I'm not in a rush to give up the Posse Comitatus Act.

The probably should bring in the National Guard though, to get as many armed people searching for this guy as possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PosseComitatusAct

Well, we did get a red premature-ejaculation instead of the red wave that historical trends and polling at the time expected us to receive in the last mid-terms.

But yeah, despite a completely obvious and open moral bankruptcy folks keep voting for them.

Even pre-Covid they have been dying faster though, so there's that.... https://scitechdaily.com/a-mortality-gap-republicans-are-dying-at-a-higher-rate-than-democrats/

Reagan wrote the second amendment?

On the off chance this question was asked in earnest:

The typical deflection from the US right is that the real problem is that we need to put more effort into addressing mental health. (and IMO there is some truth to that)

However, Reagan (R) dismantled funding for our mental health infrastructure and was responsible for the closing of many mental health treatment centers, and Republicans since then have (to my knowledge) voted against every effort to resurrect it.

They won't support restrictions on gun ownership because they say the problem is mental health, but they won't support spending on mental health either. (Most likely because they seem to oppose anything that would actually help people who suffer.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MentalHealthSystemsActof1980

https://sociology.org/content/vol003.004/thomas.html

This last one is a ddg search - you can just pick which article you want to read about Republicans voting against mental health funding.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=republicans+vote+against+mental+health+funding

you should clarify what exactly you mean by ‘free’, cause as an outsider it just seems like you have the freedom to get indiscriminatly mowed down by high powered rifles owned by mentally ill spree shooters.

As an insider it seems like this too.

But to the guy you replied to it's most likely the freedom to have a gun which you never do those bad things with, while also plugging your ears regarding the reality that the same laws protecting your ability to have a gun and not do those bad things are enabling that endless stream of indiscriminate deaths by the folks who do those bad things.

And although I don't know him personally, he probably also deflects to mental health being the cause while continuing to vote for the party that both is responsible for our lack of mental health infrastructure and also refuses to consider restrictions on gun ownership.

If your argument is we need to address mental health, I'm not going to argue with you there. But guess which party in the US is described by all four of these bullet points:

• gutted our mental health infrastructure
• Consistently votes down legislation to fund investment in mental health infrastructure
• Consistently opposes any measures to implement Red Flag laws or other attempts to make it harder to own guns
• Consistently deflects to mental health being the problem whenever we have more people die

While they are refusing to budge on either of the two middle bullet points, people are just dying.

So I have little sympathy for folks who defend guns with the premise that mental health is the real problem. Fine, let's say it is, doesn't matter because you are preventing us as a nation from addressing either of those issues.