Hahaha, too stable and boring… Do you use OSs as a form of entertainment? No wonder why people can’t take Linux enthusiasts seriously.

In corporate world, where I think MS makes most of the money, windows is the standard (unfortunately).

Exactly, it’s a ridiculous example because it sounds just as ridiculous as saying US and EU are in principle the same type of union.

I was being hyperbolic with my last sentence so you can see how ridiculous your statement sounds to me.

True, but my point is that if a country decides not to follow one of the directives, they can just leave if they want, they are agreements that they want to be part of, they are not merely imposed by EU. Nothing like the US and their federal government.

This is like saying that marriage and a double match of tennis are the same type of union or follow the same principle, no, they are not.

Sure dude, EU and US, same principle, same as united nations, united airlines and IUPAC. Same principle, they are a union of things, if you mean that as “principle”, sure.

EU doesn’t have rules that everyone has to follow, they have agreements, that are often very specific between nations. UK was part of the EU with their own currency for example. So no, it’s not the same type of union, unless you simplfiy it to "union of things"which of course is the same principle.

Also any member of the EU can leave unilaterally (like the UK), not so much for the US. I don’t think they follow the same principle, again, unless you think of it just as a “union of things”

“not much unlike”? They are both nothing alike, except that they are some sort of union.

I mean, if you say that in real life to anyone who is half aware of how the government works, they would laugh at you.

What no… What are you talking about? EU is not even close to the government structure of the US. Starting that each EU country has their own military, and the EU president has absolutely no power on each of the EU members military.

Any answer would be hypothetical by definition… Not sure what’s your point there.

How does that comment invalidate the previous one? If anything it actually reinforces it. Are you just looking for an excuse to shame someone?

It doesn’t matter though, he’s not the president and is not involved in any politicalmatters. Sure, he should be investigated if he did something wrong, but why is that relevant?

You were the one who quoted that wage theft is a form or fraud, so I’m not sure what’s your point. Yes, some theft can be fraud… but still theft.

Stealing services doesn’t necessarily have to do with copyright infringement.

My point is that OP over simplification of theft is not even worth considering, from a legal or personal point of view.

So salary theft by employers is not really theft. Got it.

So you can say Yucatan is Mexico, the same way Ubuntu is Linux. Or the same way people say Windows, instead of Microsoft Windows NT.

OP is technically correct, but that’s not how people express themselves in real life, there’s an unspoken understanding in the community that when someone says Linux (when talking in a general sense), there’s no way they are referring to the kernel only.

You can have something similar to what music streamers are doing. Sure Spotify has a majority, but you still have perfectly fine competitors.

I had not pirated music for more than a decade now.

Beamer has a very high steep learning curve, especially when you just want a few slides to show preliminary results. In PowerPoint you literally drag the image, resize, and that’s it.

Also I feel that beamer pushes the user towards the “bullet point” presentation, which sometimes can be very boring.

For documents, I love latex, but I actually prefer LibreOffice or onlyoffice when it comes to presentations.

Because all your colleagues and collaborators use it because it comes free with the company…

That reminds me of a discussion with someone who thought Hispanics can’t be white, I was like, have you ever seen seen a Spaniard?

It’s an option, but if “none” wins then there’s no shared knowledge of anything. The question really is, do you prefer to cause genocide but have new tech, or keep old tech with no genocide.

I think you misunderstood, if Elon were to be taken seriously I would definitely accept it, but are you really sure he will go though the deal? That guy is a clown, can’t be trusted a bit.