Well, it *seemed* like a good idea at the time.

I'm willing to pitch in $60 to a Kickstarter if we can ban *everybody* from the platform. And then we can work on Facebook and Twitter.

The "churn and noise" has nothing to do with HTML, any more than paper size or binding has anything to do with the content of a book. Great, eschew HTML for PDF. The linked PDF only contains the screed itself, it provides no other value. You want to "fight back"? First, you have to make an impact for your change to have any weight -- and to do that, you need to provide some other value to the world. Maybe the author has done this. It wasn't obvious from following the link. And you don't need PDF to follow the "call to action" at the end of the lengthy pro-PDF diatribe. A plain-text ASCII file works just as well; better, even, since every browser and operating system can view text files. Even systems that are 20 years old or more. Most likely systems 40 years from now will be able to, too. Sign and hash the content of the file, if you wish. And *neither* format involves spying on users.

> Id honestly prefer him not to use an EO. They are bull shit. Amen. How many times must we play *this* game? Obama issues EOs. Trump reverses the EOs. Trump issues EOs. Biden reverses Trump's EOs. Biden issues EOs. Guess what happens next? Getting Congress to put this shit into law is the only way to achieve any degree of stability, for the things we want to have in place.

More importantly, it isn't the same as actually achieving orbit.... which requires far higher speeds. This is literally straight up to the point where scientists generally go "yeah, the atmosphere pretty much stops here", and then straight back down. Nobody's going around the Earth. You couldn't launch a satellite from this thing, and you certainly couldn't get to the ISS on it. It's a stunt, either to get cheap publicity for Blue Origin or to give Bezos a thrill. Maybe both. But this rocket has no practical purpose other than joyrides, and Bezos' company is a long way from delivering anything else. Don't be fooled that this is in the same league as SpaceX or any of the more traditional aerospace companies.

Nice to see a shout out for trueSpace. I *loved* that suite, it was the first 3D modeling and animation program I ever owned. That Microsoft let it rot was a crime. So much wasted potential there.

Well, it was fun while it lasted. Everyone who will tenaciously hold on to their servers and accounts: hope you look forward to the inevitable Microsoft account integration and shameless monetization of the platform.

No thanks. The link to Cambridge Analytica should have been enough to scare people off the first time around.

*Anybody* contributing their own hard-earned money to rich old men so they can amass more power is a fool.

> “We try not to refer to them as robot dogs,” said Jiren Parikh, the president and chief executive of a Philadelphia-based company called Ghost Robotics. “We refer to them as Q-UGVs: Quadrupedal Unmanned Ground Vehicles.” Boy, really rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?

This is the future of **every** Right-leaning or centrist platform under a Biden Administration. The totalitarian Left will only grow bolder.

This is a blow to Intel, but far from a fatal wound. Apple's [market share](https://www.statista.com/statistics/576473/united-states-quarterly-pc-shipment-share-apple/) is lucky to hit 15%.

Every Republican in Congress: "Jerry, put this in the file for the mid-terms. We'll run some ads then saying how I'm fighting against social media censorship for my constituents!"

You're assuming that **a)** they haven't moved on to other opportunities and **b)** government employees give a damn about how government money is spent as long as their individual job assessments are positive.

A perfect example of this is the advertisement disguised as a poll ("paid for by the NRDC Action Fund") at the bottom of the article (above the byline, which just seems to add its legitimacy). It asks, "Did you know this election may be our last chance to solve the climate crisis?" The options available are "No" and "Yes, *we need to act*" (emphasis mine). Americans have been beaten over the head -- for decades now -- about the looming *man-made* planetary apocalypse first called "global warming" and then switched to "global climate change" when the 'warming' part was thrown into doubt. We have been told that "the debate is over" and "the science is settled", and even if you accept *some* of the arguments made by the parties citing alarm over the environment, the entire issue has been **polarized** to the point that if you don't accept the threat of human-caused environmental disaster wholesale... you're lumped in with the "deniers". And a "denier" is defined as anyone who raises their hand and asks "how are you sure?" **This is why Americans are uneasy with science: not because they reject the scientific method or logic, but because of how it has been venerated as infallible and used as a political weapon.** *Edit:* to further my point, I went to the [NRDC Action Fund](https://www.nrdcactionfund.org/)'s website, and was immediately confronted with a popup that said "Help us raise $65,000 by September 30 to Defeat Trump".

Fixed the headline: "Are You A Hypersensitive Texting Twat? The Answer May Lie In Your Lack Of Knowledge About Punctuation"

Take a look at [HexChat](https://hexchat.github.io/).

> Once you're large enough to have an influence on the rest of the internet, you can then create your own CDN and get as far away from CloudFlare as possible. But that requires convincing upper management that it's worth the cost. And most of them are likely non-technical MBAs who will go, "it's already working, why should we spend more time and money to achieve the same result? Next!"

...until the latest wave of attention to the matter dies down, then it's business as usual. That Chinese market money is like crack, and few tech companies seem able to resist it.