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…and even those are likely pre-ElonSeigHeil purchases.

The “give away” requires a request. I think Florida would simply like to look at everything private without having to ask.

Most of those are based upon non-English language references.

• Tencent - The company name in Mandarin 腾讯 or in téng xùn. When pronounced it sort of sounds like ten cent (but not really to my ear).
• Xpeng - The company name in Mandarin is 小鹏汽车; or in pinyin: Xiǎopéng Qìchē. So for a romanization Xiǎopéng is shortened to Xpeng
• Crunchyroll - Isn’t Crunchyroll a type of a sushi roll?

Or to put it another way, if you’re upset by these names, you should be equally upset with names like Starbucks, LA Fitness, or Del Taco.

• Bytedance - Totally made up, I think for this for this one I think.

Even in that case you can opt-out and take a pat down instead. So in every situation you can avoid the pornoscanner, if you so desire.

And get rid of the pornoscanners.

Domestically in the USA you can skip those if you have TSA Pre/Global Entry. You only have to walk through a metal detector with those.

That’s my point. Basic SMTP email is a far cry from today’s modern email suites like Office365 or Gsuite. Suggesting a self hosted basic SMTP email as a replacement for a modern enterprise is not realistic.

They already have their own programs to do all that. They have had them since outlook was just a client and before Microsoft and Google offered email services.

I can’t quite tell what you’re recommending here. Are you saying the government should go back to using Sendmail SMTP servers, telnet or IRC chat, and NFS shares as replacements for modern enterprise communication suites?

I think you’re just thinking about word processing and spreadsheets neither of which covers the big things orgs want out of these suites: email, chat, video meetings, shared document storage.

I hope they don’t fall for it, but I’m sure they will.

The other alternative is Microsoft with Office365. If taxpayers are going to have to pay for one or the other, the cheaper one sounds like the better alternative.

I can see that you were very angry when you wrote this

I’m not angry. I’m shocked at your position though. I see your position as dismissive of someone who is actually doing something about the crisis she will inherit with the tiny fractional power she had before adulthood. She, and her generation, have no time for a timid approach. We’re going to be long dead and she’ll still be here trying to live through the mess we, and our parents, have cause her and everyone else her age.

so I think it’s better that we stop here.

Thats fine. I don’t see a path to anything that would yield productive conversation from here.

Wait, you think Putin has credibility when speaking on climate change? To quote the late Sen. John McCain describing Russia as “a gas station masquerading as a country”. Putin’s life and livelihood depend on continued world’s unchecked consumption of fossil fuels. Putin has zero credibility on the subject. Why would anyone consider him an objective source?

While the public saw Greta behaving like a petulant child during the speech

You and I must have seen different speeches. Part of Thunberg’s appeal was her eloquence in speech especially speaking truth to power. Here’s part of 16 year old Greta Thunberg’s speech in the UN:

"The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50% chance of staying below 1.5 degrees [Celsius], and the risk of setting off irreversible chain reactions beyond human control.

"Fifty percent may be acceptable to you. But those numbers do not include tipping points, most feedback loops, additional warming hidden by toxic air pollution or the aspects of equity and climate justice. They also rely on my generation sucking hundreds of billions of tons of your CO2 out of the air with technologies that barely exist.

“So a 50% risk is simply not acceptable to us — we who have to live with the consequences.”

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I can’t imagine a world where you’re calling that “petulant”. At 16 years old she had more poise and gravitas than many of the world leaders she was speaking to. You say she hasn’t done anything. I beg to differ. Further, if what she has done is nothing, it raises the obvious question: what have you done to avert climate catastrophe?

George W. Bush and Barak Obama’s secret love child:

George Takei and Megamind’s secret love child:

(George, keep being your awesome self!)

Tony Sirico’s secret love child:

Anthony Bourdain’s secret brother:

SegaCD was solving for a different problem that 32x didn’t solve. Back then data storage was EXPENSIVE because it was in ROM ICs in cartridges. Each requiring expensive components and assembly. CDs solved the data storage problem making storage dirt cheap and very fast to reproduce.

The Genesis platform was a 5 year old console platform when 32x was released. The days of getting 8+ years out of a hardware platform were gone with the Famicom/NES. Technology had evolved quite a bit and the underlying Genesis platform was not up to competing with N64 which would arrive just 3 years later.

The problem with a platform with limited titles is it makes the stinkers really stick out. Look at the Jaguar – very few “killer apps” to be remembered.

I don’t disagree, but Genesis’s issues were too many, even compared to Saturn. Genesis, even with SegaCD and 32x couldn’t compete with Saturn, certainly not with N64 or PS1.

The games were actually pretty decent, especially for the time in which they were released.

This statement isn’t universally true. There were some fantastic games that really used the hardware like Shadow Squadron or T-Mek. However there were also games that barely used it, but slapped the 32x logo on the game offering little to nothing of added effects or gameplay. Primal Rage was one of these. The only 32x anything used was a side scrolling background. The made game was the same 2D fighter from Genesis. Many of the SegaCD/32x games were this way too.

Again I was buying the games on the cheap, but if I’d paid full price for Primal Rage and only got that slight background effect, I would have been very disappointed.

It was cool but way too expensive for what it did when it launched. I picked it up along with lots of its games when it hit the discount rack and really enjoyed it. There were also SegaCD-32x games that were also on the clearance rack. It pointed out to me how much development fragmentation was occurring at that time in the console wars.

Solutions?

Carbon tax.

In this micro example, imagine if you could access all of your data for free when there as abundant sunshine (carbon free), or had to pay for carbon based energy at night. You’d start to sort your data for what you really wanted so that you’d only be paying a small amount for a small amount of data.

He’s in the same bucket as Greta Thunberg. They just like to scream and blame people instead of providing practical solutions.

Greta Thunberg is 22 years old right now, and was “screaming” and “blaming people” when she was 11 years old.

She saw the world she was going to inherit and forced conversation to work toward solutions. Expecting an 11 year old to provide answers that none of the established world has is silly.

I’m past caring about giving my IP to a website that I want to use, but what this is doing is handing out your information to every single advertiser that is published on any page you visit. In some cases this plugin would match the definition of “leaking personal data”.

You do you though. I won’t stop you.

That HTTP request would also show up in the advertisers web logs with your origin IP address.