9JollyOtter

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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
> And that is wrong. It's even better than the "cash cow" it used to be, I provided some values of what Windows brings in over the years, and it has grown and grown. You ignored that. No and I've never ignored it. As
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
This is true for quite a number of brands of vehicles. Also I don't understand what a modern Porsche is. Porsche to me was always a Rear Engined, (normally) RWD sports car i.e. the 911. I am personally on the look for a 944 (believe it
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
> This isn't "semantic wankery". Yeah it is. I never said it wasn't a cash cow. I said "it wasn't the cash cow it once was". I obviously meant relatively compared to other parts of Microsoft's busi
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
I've listened to a lot of Malcolm X. He was a better speaker IMO, his rhetoric was better. I believe he had a more accurate understanding of the reality of how power really works. It has nothing to do with wanting to justifying violenc
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
> people paying for things at stores is not because everyone has actually agreed on the price. Yes it is. If a normal commodity item such as bottle of milk was outrageous overpriced in a particular store. I would just go to another stor
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
> Yeah, you're still just wrong. No. All you are doing is engaging in semantic wankery. > So your assumption that Windows is somehow "not the cash cow it once was" is false. It's bringing in more money than it ever
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
> Twitter had a lot of engineers on its payroll to look for the next big thing. What was the "next big thing" before acquisition? There seems to be more features added after the acquisition than before it.
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
My original comment: > The fact is that Windows isn't the cash cow it used to be for Microsoft My second to you: > Windows isn't a cash cow it once was You really need to learn how to read or all you are doing is arguing
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
> That isn't how you compare things. I compared once segment of the business to others. Several other websites had various estimates on what percentage of the business Windows took up. Most of them said 6-10%, so I took 10%. Other w
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
I am English. It took me all of like 30 seconds to look up the relevant law using Google. Most of Anglosphere has a definition of Burglary that is essentially the same and I suspect it is the same in Europe.
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
They don't need it if everything is in the cloud running oh their servers. They won't care if you are running Windows, Linux, Chrome, A tablet with a keyboard and mouse hooked up. The vast majority of people that don't work i
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
The comment you are replying to has no idea what they are talking about. Burglary is defined in the Theft Act 1968: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/60/section/9 The door can be wide open. The i
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
> In the UK, there is no crime "burglary". Yes there is: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/60/section/9 https://www.college.police.uk/guidance/residential-burgla
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
Yes. Similarly, If I leave my car unlocked with the keys in the ignition, and someone takes it is still a crime. It might be unwise to do that (depending on where you are), but nonetheless it is still crime.
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
> It's still the foundational underpinning of everything Microsoft does. It's just that the other revenues dwarf it. If a corporate customer is running their stuff in the cloud they don't care if people are using Chromeboo
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
I am encountering it almost not at all. I work in a org that basically doesn't know that Linux exist and outside of top management nobody uses Word. Excel is still massively useful.
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
The fact is that Windows isn't the cash cow it used to be for Microsoft. Windows makes up less than 10% of Microsoft's revenue now. Server and Cloud and Office 365 make up the bulk of their income now. As time goes on Windows is g
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
The post office will attempt to deliver if you put an address on it. There is guy living off grid in I believe Dorset on YouTube called "Maximus Ironthumper". The post office told him to try sending himself letters, eventually the
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
> Can't you drink non-alcoholic beverage? If the point is socialising, alcohol is not a requirement. It kinda is though depending on who you go to the bar with. I went to the bar to get fucked up, a lot of my career I've worked
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
I generally don't pay attention to the news at all anymore (the vast majority of it is rage bait). I think the last time I paid attention to the BBC news when it was on when the Bibby Stockholm Barge was being moored in Portland. The w
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
TBH, I don't care generally what happens up in Scotland.
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
When I lived in Spain getting my NIE number was a pain as the office was open for 2 hours in the morning. Luckily I was with an English person that spoke Spanish that helped me fill out the forms.
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
They won't be any better. Farage is ultimately untrustworthy.
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
I haven't shown my photocard drivers license in literally years to anyone, other than renewing it. I normally just use Birthcert and Utility bills.
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
The government is famously dysfunctional in the UK. It is unlikely to get any better. So most of us would rather they do nothing than make the situation worse. I've lived in other countries in Europe and their government isn't tha
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
There is always something in the UK where I find out something utterly ridiculous is allowed, yet they are quite happy to legislate thousands of other things.
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
> No concept of government ID other than a full size passport, which made the many silly age checks in pubs and stores rather laughable. Memorising your Birthday to be 2 years earlier to fool the pub bouncer was what we all did.
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
That why they have party whips and threaten deselections for people that have their own ideas. Many of these people would not be in Parliament if they weren't selected by the party. Most people vote for a party, not the MP. So why woul
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
It is a "use it or lose it" style campaign by the looks of it. Lots of Pubs in the UK are closing down in recent years. Pubs have traditionally been a big part of socialising in the UK. I don't drink anymore so I don't
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
> You don’t have to, but it would have taken less effort than your responses so far. Actually it wouldn't. There are many arguments from fringe figures to more mainstream with various rationales. Much has been written about it. >

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