The bar is where it always was. It is odd that you say you don't understand the resistance to EVs and then immediately mention the most important aspect of keeping an EV charged.

It's okay. Humans are not meant to be rational or logical.

I am unsure where you are from, but I am here to inform you that vehicles made in America have been complete trash for ... well, over 60 years. Some motherfucker at General Motors decided that cars should be built to fail so that the dealerships can 'earn' money. I remember back in the 1970s, a car with over 20,000 miles on it was certain to break down, which made the used car market very not fun. Even in the 80s, the Honda CRX would just be getting started at 200,000 miles and American vehicles were proud that they could get 70,000 miles before being tossed as useless garbage. I have absolutely no idea why anyone has bought an American vehicle over the past 60 years.

To be fair, all of the American automakers make a decent truck from time to time. Which manufacturer and which model was always a crapshoot as they changed each and every year. But I can understand why some folks love their American trucks.

General Motors has no right to exist. I am surprised that Ford exists. It is unsurprising that Chrysler doesn't really exist anymore.

If charging locations were as ubiquitous and reliable as gasoline stations, or even better, battery swapping, then you couldn't get people to stop buying EVs as long as they were priced reasonably. As it stands, only homeowners who live in their home can participate in a gainful manner.

I am uncertain what the opposite of shining a spotlight on something is, but purposefully "darkenning" an area is just as obvious as shining light on it. I think they may need to retry. It looks like they caused their own views to shine through.

https://www.howtogeek.com/3032...

I used this so I could keep playing my content during an extended internet outage

Unless you are banning smart phones too, I doubt the degree of commitment that you are trying to project. Your phone is already constantly listening. This is Microsoft trying to get into that game.

... how do people pirate these days? Is Pirate Bay still a thing? Usenet?

I am curious. Why do you hide your 'identity'? If you truly believed what you said, then attaching your pseudonym would provide more substance to what you are claiming. You have this dumb mother fucker wrapped up so tight, he once accused me of being you... whoever you are.

Look, rsilvergun is either a paid propagandist or he is just too stupid and unaware to be real. Often times, he talks about the right things but then draws a conclusion that is so stupid, a 3 year old kid could see the flaws.

Ummm, it is already too late. The fix is in and nobody with any sort of power seems to care. *shrug* I guess I will see the world burn.

Sooo, the people who worked the hardest are getting tossed to the curb to pay for management's mistakes. Typical. I am betting that the body count will be less than 10,000, but... each one of those people are real people and their lives mean NOTHING in the face of greed. I am betting upper management have kept their own retirement options unchanged.

Mind you, Kodak was once a bluechip stock. As solid as IBM and General Electric (was/were). They created one of the earliest digital cameras (maybe even the first one, at least for sale?), but management shut that shit down FAST. They didn't want their outrageously successful and profitable film and cameras to be eaten by digital photos.

Well, we can see how greed misled this company and now we can see how greed kills their employees by revoking promises.

Kodak and its management should burn to the ground.

If the light is encoded properly, you could embed SHA-256 hashes, which, while mimicable they would not be able to produce the hash if the video were altered.

Already +5 so I can't mod you up any further but this is art

Without all of those data centers, how will they track you in all aspects of your life? Want to run for Congress? LOL, every action you have done or every piece of data that is generated about you takes space within the datacenters.

Long story short, those data centers relieve the powers that be from worrying about your stupid decisions.

Want to create a group to stand against racism? They will be more effective at silencing you now than when Martin Luther King was was silenced.

You will never get rid of those data centers without taking down the entirety of the federal government. It is a valuable source of their power over you and I.

Wow! Very strong reasoning there. You did forget one aspect of the situation: Apple has been known to employ shady tactics in the past, so you also have to wonder about Apple's credibility here as much as Musk's credibility.

But otherwise, you argument was excellent.

Dude, I am one of the most pessimistic people around and you are wrong. Firefox will die when it stops receiving money and the users are not the source of money, so none of this matters. They could make Firefox wholly unusable and it would still exist until the money runs out.