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Schroedinger’s polecat

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Yep, capitalism is at direct odds with competetive markets almost by definition.
“free” is the non-specific term tht they use rhetorically. “Competition” is the market feature that might theoretically benefit consumers in some circumstances - and they don’t often include that word in their rhetoric.

It’s always been about acquisition of market power, this is sort of opposite of a free market.
If any threat of consumer rights / anti-trust / labour rights or balancing of market power arises, their incentive is to acquire political power and influence to defend their power.

It was the same story in western Europe before industry and “capitalism”, just the landed class monopolising land vs peasantry (and/or enslaved/indentured labour). Landowners monopolised all the votes and even when suffrage expanded it was usually top down. Until maybe 1789 when something else happened to the top.

Unfortunately I think many of the major progressive changes of the past (that benefit people in general rather than the elites - again in “the West”) have mostly followed catastrophic events or political upheaval, or martyrdom.
Peasants revolts, black death, aftermath/stress of major wars, civil war, workers uprisings, race riots, 1929, ww2.

I guess the 1929 and all the FDR stuff and strengthened social policies in western Europe was all widely democratically backed (honourable mention to the banks’ major incompetence , to hitler for being such a massive c*nt and a decent 50-or-so years of European imperial decline) .

So maybe there’s some hope for the democratic or the MLK/Gandhi type approach - not that it worked out too well for those two individuals.

“micro soft pp”

A lot of trickle down economics fans in this thread.

Either way, assuming I can find a large stick or rock, I’d have enough patience to do a manual physical uninstall and get back to my solitude. So I think I’d be pretty ambivalent.
I guess smashing the shit out of windows would be slightly more satisfying - but that’s not really the main reason I’m alone in the woods.

And yes - before you ask the obvious follow-up - I have smashed the shit out of a thinkpad in the past, they’re not as tough as people say they are; it’s mostly false bravado. Don’t be afraid to stand up to the bully (ymmv).

The rock . . . and a piece of string to wind around.

widdows 2000 was the pinnacle for me, beat XP until i wanted to go to 64 bit.

Apart from having 64-bit, XP was a step back; even if I don’t count the fucking dog thing.
XP was a fair bit harder to de-bloat than win 2000 and they were hell-bent on forcing internet exploder on the world.

XP was also at a time when Linux was becoming pretty easily usable and mac osx was impressive too - I remember using those imac coloured egg things at university in 2000. They were good apart from the mouse, and ran MS office pretty well.
StarOffice was already better than MS-Word at dealing with .doc format across versions.
and ancient version of Wordperfect were miles better for WP anyway (“reveal codes”).

windows XP was already down to gaming, adobe and CAD/other specialist apps, plus maybe MS Excel that just weren’t as good or not available on linux.

I wonder about raspberry pi - it’s the image you download that has the known user and password.
It might mean that you can’t sell one with a pre-imaged, pre-installed sdcard unless you customised the image.

I use “4cab”.
They’ll never guess that.

oh i was just making a stupid joke about 2KB.
I didn’t realise there was an actual other y2k problem.

How did they get to a 32 bit problem within only 2038 years?
Oh is it like 32 bit counter of seconds or some dumb shit like that.
Stupid shortcut data structures.
That said I’d better check the RTC module in my arduino alarm clock.
It’s a clock module though so i assume it was designed by someone who gives time enough respect to store the data properly.

Year 2030 will not start before year 2029 has ended.
I think it’s not til year 2048 that we get the actual Y2K bug at which point I’m a bit less sure.

I’m not sure i rate this particular article.
They seem to sort of hint at the importance of power and energy efficiency
But why did they then “ask about TDP” ? Surely they they need to know the actual input power(or energy) to achieve the benchmark, not TDP which is itself a wierd thing for chips that self regulate temperature by throttling.

I’m not inclined to pay attention to this journo.

freetube?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IAj7UxMqiU

some of them might even have these papery things with brothers grimm or hans christian andersen stories in them.

I thought Disney was “nearly a requirement” . . . sounds to like those precious few who can manage without might have some useful information.
Typically this is what happens in a free competitive market, when a price goes up people look for substitutes.
And if they face constraints in moving to the substitute, they will benefit from help in loosening those constraints.

“are you still watching?”

5,4,3,2,1 Auto-pause

“MONEY ME MONEY NOW.
ME A MONEY NEEDING A LOT NOW”

do google also provide all the data on clickthroughs thorough which the success of campaigns might be measured?
And i mean “Measured” by extremely dumb people whose best hope in life is probably to bullshit their way into becoming a director of sales and ma . . .

That’s what the win XP search dog was for.
They’d send it out hunting for frogs so that they can boil them all.

Bill Gates first programme was a reverse frogger game, he’d get to drive the cars and score get points for squishing frogs.
I think it was called Grand Theft Amphibian or something. The dude just really hates frogs.