@mekkaokereke
I agree that switching is not smart, and also VEHEMENTLY AGREE that Harris is eminently qual8fied.
The wnti-DEI crowd can go **** themselves.

@clacke
Sometimes I just want it to stay saved, you know.

@thomasfuchs Do you know what specific editions will be affected? I assume that Enterprise either won't have the advertising, or that it can be disabled by group policy. Otherwise they'll have crowds of corporate IT people storming Redmond with torches and pitchforks. But what about Pro?
I mean, I wouldn't be thrilled with it even for Home, but I generally use Pro. (Currently only Windows 10 and earlier.)

@ryanc The whole point of IVR is to strongly discouraged the caller from talking to a person.

@freemo Confirmed. We are.

@freemo @lowqualityfacts If they should do.it by social pressure (which does exist), but don't, that is why I say they have some of the blame. I agree that government and society bear more of it.

@freemo @lowqualityfacts I mostly agree. I think companies bear a little of the blame. And I'm not singling out any specific companies here.

@freemo @lowqualityfacts I didn't say it had anything to do with CEO pay. I said it was a more interesting issue.

@freemo @lowqualityfacts
The complaints about CEO pay are often levelled not so much at wildly successful companies, as at companies with terrible financials that cut employee pay and have layoffs and furloughs while giving executive staff large bonuses. In my opinion, a much better case can be made there.

@freemo @lowqualityfacts Even counting all the part-time as full time, it's $266/year. For most of their employees that's a pittance, but for some people it's not trivial. Anyhow, it's a lot more than a penny (four orders of magnitude off), and as I said, I'm not arguing either way over whether the CEO is overpaid, only the numbers.
Does T.C. do a better job than a hypothetical CEO they could pay half as much? I honestly have no idea.

@freemo @lowqualityfacts
The non-technical or less-technical contractors, including facilities and food service contractors, were paid EXTREMELY low wages, given the cost of living in Cupertino and the surrounding area. There was no inexpensive housing available within fifty miles of the Apple campus. That was 35 years ago, and the situation has only gotten worse since.

@freemo @lowqualityfacts
The more interesting question about Apple isn't whether T.C. is overpaid, but whether low-level employees and contractors are underpaid.
I was a full-time software contractor at Apple in 1989-1990, and my hourly pay rate was about 1/2 of prevailing rate for mid-level software developers at the time, because I didn't have a good understanding of the industry pay scale at the time, and negotiated poorly.
But even that is not what I'm talking about.

@freemo @lowqualityfacts Sorry, you're correct. They have about 72,800 full-time contractors and 3300 part time. I'll update my numbers.

@freemo @lowqualityfacts
I don't know how you got 1.5M people, but if it is by counting the employees and contractors of Apple's suppliers, that would be non-sensical. The suppliers are responsible for managing their own CEO pay and their own payroll, out of their own revenue.

@freemo @lowqualityfacts
I'm not going to state my position on the overall issue here, but I think your employee and contractor total is questionable and your arithmetic is incorrect. Apple's count of employees and contractors, in full-time equivalents, is 161,000. Tim Cook's $63,209,845/year divided amongst 161,000 people would be an additional $387/year each.
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@freemo
Ketone test strips for urine can be useful, but don't distinguish between ketosis and ketoacidosis.

@freemo
[You may know all this better than I do. I'm not trying to mansplain it to you, but explaining for the benefit of other readers.]
Did you urinate more than usual? If it's not water loss from sweating, the main way you lose body weight is by fat broken down into ketones (lipolysis, ketosis), excreted by urination.
The other alternative is muscle tissue being broken down (ketoacidosis), which is very bad, but shouldn't notmally happen.

@Gargron Natural Stupdity is still allowed, and even encouraged.
:-)

I like the new rule.

@tk and his girlfriend breaks down

@snap2grid I got to play the two-player mode only once, with a friend who had an Amiga. He would never play two-player with me again, because he thought I played too cutthroat. I thought that was the point!
:-)