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On 2024-08-09 03:53:17 +0000, Robert Carnegie said:
> On 05/08/2024 12:02, D wrote:
>> On Sat, 3 Aug 2024, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>> On 8/3/2024 6:18 PM, Your Name wrote:
>>>> On 2024-08-03 17:41:44 +0000, Paul S Person said:
>>>>> On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 15:26:19 -0500, Lynn McGuire
>>>>> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 8/2/2024 12:13 PM, Paul S Person wrote:
>>>>>>> On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 08:46:39 +1200, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 2024-08-01 07:58:16 +0000, BCFD 36 said:
>>>>>>>>> On 7/23/24 00:56, Charles Packer wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 16:01:25 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> xkcd: CrowdStrike
>>>>>>>>>>> https://www.xkcd.com/2961/
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Make the best of bad times.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Explained at:
>>>>>>>>>>> https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2961:_CrowdStrike
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Lynn
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Was anybody here affected by the CrowdStrike Thing?
>>>>>>>>>> My nephew's wife flew to Europe that day without incident.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> We were on a river cruise on the Columbia and Snake Rivers. We were 
>>>>>>>>> about 2 hours late leaving from one port because of the problem. It 
>>>>>>>>> makes no sense why this should be so.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Various possibilities. For example, the Crowdstrike glitch could have 
>>>>>>>> affected the boat's navigation computers, the company's ticket buying 
>>>>>>>> and checking system, etc.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Just wait till we all have chips in our heads that can be disabled (by 
>>>>>>> disabling a server they must connect to) by something like this. Won't 
>>>>>>> /that/ be fun!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> You first !  I will be the last and they will have to catch me first.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I don't really expect to see that day, being 77 and all.
>>>>> Well, unless it's part of Project 2025 and a certain D Trump gets
>>>>> elected.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> The awesome "The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047" by Lionel Shriver 
>>>>>> has>the entire population in the USA getting a money transaction chip 
>>>>>> at the>base of their skull connected to Starlink in 2040 and cash money 
>>>>>> is>outlawed.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://www.amazon.com/Mandibles-Family-2029-2047-Lionel-Shriver/dp/006232828X/
>>>>> 
>>>>> I haven't read that, but that doesn't mean I didn't encounter the
>>>>> concept of embedded chips somewhere -- oh, wait: /The President's
>>>>> Analyst/ had it.
>>>> 
>>>> There are quite a few fools who have had chips implanted into their 
>>>> arms so they can do checkout tap-n-pay, open security doors, etc. 
>>>> without having to go to all the "difficultly" of taking a card out of 
>>>> their pocket / lanyard or using a smartwatch.
>>>> 
>>>> There have also been a few people with disabilities that have trialed 
>>>> brain implant chips to allow them to regain some abilities. I don't 
>>>> think any have been fully successful, but some have worked better than 
>>>> others (Elon Musk's Neuralink trial "malfunctioned" ... unsurprisingly, 
>>>> just look at his failures with his rockets, his Tesla cars, etc. to 
>>>> know how much of an idiot he is and rushes things out to suit his own 
>>>> looney ideals).
>>> 
>>> Only by failing can one find the right path to success.  Nothing was 
>>> ever invented without failures leading the path to it.
>>> 
>>> Thomas Edison tried over 8,000 materials before he found the right 
>>> element for the first light bulb.
>>> 
>>> Musk is the most successful rocket launcher ever.  He just had his 
>>> first failure in over several years of weekly launches.  He has sold 
>>> almost ten million electric cars.  Find me a single person or country 
>>> that even meets ten percent of his records.
>>> 
>>> Lynn
>> 
>> I find it interesting how many people complain about Elons 
>> incompetence, yet, they have not managed to create several billion 
>> dollars companies themselves.
> 
> He hasn't.  He invested money in existing businesses.

And some of them want to get rid of the drugged-out idiot, or at least 
wish he'd keep his big mouth shut.



>> One might agree with his ideology and ideas, but one thing he is not, 
>> and that is incompetent and stupid.