> compares other political party to animals
> thinks he's "on the right side of history"

Sad!

> Whether or not uranium-cycle nuclear is safe enough, the reality is that it does not have a net positive production of power

Honestly who do you think is investing 400twh+ in refining uranium for French nuclear power?

EROI - energy return on investment - is the fundamental measure of thermodynamic efficiency of concern in this discussion, and includes all energy input costs, such as building construction, building material manufacturing, and fuel mining and refinement. For nuclear power, EROI is approximately 70x.

> Are we still supporting censorship, tearing down statues and erasing history

Only during election years. This is an off-year, so the concern is man-bear-pig.

The basis would be the dead body found in Joe's office. That's the basis.

Whenever I want to end a conversation, I bring up the potential presidential greatness of Pete Buttigieg. Some people actually run away.

It's more that you have to prevent it from being patched out and avoid any new Intel processor that has it patched in microcode.

If you work at Wells Fargo, you know that they require training about practices that might be seen as infamous. At the top, the company is divided into functional units that provide direct lines to call for employees who notice a practice exactly such as this, where customer intent is clearly not respected.

So, it's interesting that something like this is even occurring. Very interesting. What happens to people who call those direct lines, if bad things like this just keep seem to happen for month after month, year after year?

Not good.

If Trump uses all available leverage in the international arena to improve the finances of the United States, as Larry Ellison does for Oracle in the corporate arena, he's doing what I voted for. I expect that other countries are run by people who are out to improve the lot of their citizens. The applications for which I'd even consider Oracle are few and far between. I promise you, if I ever license Oracle, it won't be because I like their *brand*. Likewise for a Chinese power plant burning American coal.

Delete all source code commits to the skype repository from the day Microsoft acquired it. Fix any outstanding security issues. Skype goes from being a piece of shit to a mature, reliable, multiplatform service that everybody loves. Just run qmake and nmake or make to build the skype client - from the same source tree - on Windows, OS X, and even Linux!! Can you imagine? It's like something from a distant utopian future that can never be!

Interesting choice. GitHub apparently doesn't recognize \R line endings, which is understandable, considering \R line endings are brain damaged. At the end of each line, let's direct the cursor to the beginning of the line! Not to the next line. To the beginning of the current line. Think different! Really brings back memories. The last time I compiled Mac OS classic sources was 19 years ago, when "mac weenies" had currency, and hockey-puck mice were a thing. Cooperative multitasking in the gulag, ZIP drive click 'o death, Soft|Image for Windows NT. The writing was on the wall: cash in your x86 chips, turn in your crapintosh, stop support contract payments on your SGI, because Merced would soon exponentially eclipse all else. Any day, now, analysts said. It's a brave new world free of UNIX dicks! GARTNER PREDICTS!

I pay my power bill using bitcoins. I noticed that I have to build out exponentially more bitcoin mining infrastructure every month, but I thought that was normal. I guess I should have realized something was amiss when we built the 60-acre data center. Anyhoo, the 3,600-acre data center will be sufficient, I am confident.

Socialized medical care makes it my business what you do to your health, and in that sense, is an un-American as it gets.

Take your "shame" and cram it up your ass.

Steam is working quite well on my workstation, which is a 64-core 4x Opteron 6386se system, running Gentoo. What sort of Windows version would even let me use 64 cores and 256GiB of memory? Advanced DataCenter Gentleman's Edition Now With Metro ($9,999.99 per CPU socket, $2,499.99 per additional inbound TCP socket beyond 10 sockets)? That # of sockets = number of client licenses thing is a huge bitch for the MPI stuff I do, but it's possible to work around - so long as the systems in the compute cluster aren't Windows. Even if I do pay as much for a Windows license as all this hardware cost me, would I be able to play games? I'm not sure how good the NVidia driver support is for the non-toy versions of Windows, or if Steam would even run. I do know that piping stdin/stdout would probably be hilariously slow, as it has been in every Windows version I've used since Win2k. And, how is the OpenGL support in Windows these days? Would I see much benefit from my Quadro K6000 when the GL implementation is just a wrapper, written by Microsoft, around Direct3D? It is very convenient to be able to manipulate both the front and back multisample buffers separately. This worked on Irix (RIP) and works on Linux with a Quadro. Perhaps it could be done on Windows in full-screen mode only - IE, because Windows is a toy OS for video games.

It is true that you don't notice these things if you have an econo-box that does econo-box things such as run Donkey Simulator and a pirated copy of Photoshop. For those of us with needs beyond the mundane, Valve's support for Linux is awesome. I don't need a Windows box, anymore, at all. To be quite honest, I feel embarressed for Microsoft when I use their latest stuff, with the ribbons, Metro, and constant clamoring for me to make a Microsoft account.

It's not even that I'm glad to be off the Microsoft shit-train. It's more like having an unstable ex who you learn finally alienated everyone and now lives on the street. How could things have possibly gone so very wrong? It's a shame. But the world is full of problems, and I have shit to do, games to play, and no more appetite for being abused.

In as much as AOL was an overgrown BBS that put out its own client software and eventually offered "the web" (AOL's terminology at the time, back in '94; "the web" "coming to AOL" was a big thing) and IP connectivity, soaring to epic heights of revenue and heady exponential trends extrapolated to infinity through the 90s resulting in AOL purchasing Time Warner with overinflated stock just as broadband started eating away at AOL's dialup empire followed quickly by the .com explosion, an order of magnitude drop or two in AOL's customer base, and the death of newspapers... no?

I think the answer to your question is, no; AOL went away because they invested in a dinosaur of a media company rather than buying up and building out broadband. Any sensible engineer would have strongly advised going all-in on broadband if the MBAs had bothered asking, and AOL would own the planet right now. :( However, seeking good advice, strategizing, evaluating options, and competant grand scale decision making are MBA weak points, so it's understandable that an internet company went with newspapers right on the cusp of the broadband revolution. :)

PS: fuck AOL. (It just feels good to write that. Been a while!)

"Linux audio was a joke before Poettring fixed it."

Wow. Talk about NO.