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Wrong question. Why does he continue to do business with a company who clearly doesn't want him?

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Did this prompt some reflection on your part?

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What, that businesses lie?

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It’s like most lifetime warranties. They’re not what they seem to mean colloquially. They have a contractual meaning.

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Or my grocery store that has certain products with signs "Always $n" but over the past 5+ years n has increased regularly and dramatically.

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They never said WHOSE lifetime...

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I think with some it’s the lifetime of the product line. If it’s sunset, no longer sold; lifetime ends when support ends.

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That we accept the lying doesn't mean it's good.

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Who are their customers in this scenario?

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Disney+ subscribers.

Google the story.

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Oh, refreshing that the people watching are simultaneously the customers.

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They're Muslims. You can debate whether that means 'stupid', but they've come to totally erroneous opinions on the structure of reality.


Equal to any other religion?


No, not equal. They're all varying amounts of stupid.


About the same amount of stupid as the other Abrahamics I'd say.


I disagree heavily with them too but that doesn't mean we should eradicate them. We can't expect the whole world population to be aligned.

But once we start shooting they will obviously shoot back and we're many steps further away from the desired "agree to disagree and live together anyway" outcome that is the only way to peace.

I mean the US tried this too with Afghanistan. Many lives lost, trillions of dollars wasted and everything was back to 'normal' in two weeks.

Change has to come from within and the thing is this was actually happening in Iran. Now with military law and the regime uniting people against a common enemy this is much further away.


first, what does it matter whether they are Muslims or not? second, what is the structure of reality?! you may have some notion you know what “reality” is given what your media allows you to think - the actual reality is vastly different than you think it is - that is a certainty


Arithmetic may have updated.


Nah, analytics. Some PM needs to know which operands are most used so they can optimize the calculator layout to improve the UX. And for the least used operands, they'll take a pragmatic stance and remove them to clean up the interface.


This sounds wildly optimistic. I buy the metrics compilation, but I'll be damned if there's any PM at Microsoft (or Apple or Google for that matter) who's interested in '[optimizing] the calculator layout to improve the UX.'

I need that Drake meme here, where he's negative about the idea "Optimize the calculator layout to improve the UX" and very enthusiastic about the idea "Find ways to get incremental revenue from users of Calculator with ads or selling of data"


The fact these people are probably making 300k/year is seriously starting to piss me off.


Have we considered math results in the context of GDPR? Maybe it needs a cookie configuration dialogue.


Now with new Plus++


Yea, it's called Mom & Dad.


Code is speech, so how on Earth isn't this a First Amendment violation?


This needs to be higher


Your problem is that you chose an OS that respects you and treats you with dignity.


> Weren't they just slightly modified pagers essentially rigged to overheat, rather than they actually put explosives in them?

No


No! That would make you stand out with the fiery intensity of a sun.


How about personal canisters of chaff that get fired off whenever I enter a room? Before long, folks will get so annoyed with all of the metal fibers I leave behind, that I simply won’t be invited anywhere and my anonymity will have been protected.


If the metal bits are floppy enough it should add quite a bit of noise


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