Not sure it is an oligarchy but the rest of this sentence is probably the correct answer ("...where the goal is to sell printers and then keep making money by selling single use cartridges.").

I needed a good laugh today. Thanks.

And then see that a solar eclipse was predicted for today.

At 9AM!

Anyone else read the subject as Toronto has a lot of haunted hotels?

No. Maybe if it was a reddit post.

Columbus is considered the midwest? It is North and EAST of Nashville.

Ohio is definitely considered the midwest.

Wow. Should we also say that people younger than 30 should not vote because they do not have the life experiences necessary to make rational decisions?

Or maybe children should vote, since they have all the future ahead of them. If there's a reason why education is ignored so much by governments it's because children don't vote

"as president, I will give free lollipops to every boy and girl who votes for me"

And with that, ladies and gentlemen, we've gone from "big tent" to "white van" politics.

I know, I was being facetious.

However, the bit on education I still believe it to be true

Don't worry, they're already opting out on their own[0]

[0] https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2017/comm/voti...

People aged 18 to 30 should vote.

I can confirm. We are having authentication issues as well.

The issue is with the chip. So, it should impact any OS running on the chip. This would include Windows as well as MacOS running on Intel chips.

I agree with your sentiment. I do not see a scenario where financial institutions would agree to put their transactions into a distributed ledger with copies of the data (even encrypted) held by their competitors. If the financial institutions limit the ledger to computers within their control, what would be the benefit over a clustered database environment (I am assuming that most large financial institutions already have these).

The problem is without blockchain you don't have a meaningless buzzword to sell bullsh*t to banks. Blockchain is a vital technology for this.

Cryptocurrency is the future but I've never talked to more snake oil sales people than when talking to "blockchain" companies. I marvel at people's ability to sell nothingness

I worked in a consulting-type company for a bit and the most valuable lesson was that, generally speaking, nobody knows anything about anything. The most valuable institutions in the world have completely clueless people managing their tech and the ignorance only gets worse as you go up the chain.

It all boils down to "nobody got fired for buying IBM". Your blockchain initiative is only to get you noticed enough to get promoted or hired to a better position somewhere else. By the time anybody realizes how worthless it was you're long gone.

"nobody knows anything about anything". Actually, somebody knows, but they work for someone else.

I don't know much about blockchain, but the salespeople of big consultancy firms like Accenture are master snake oil merchants.

When you combine the two it must be like a perfect storm of bullshit.

> what would be the benefit over a clustered database

With a blockchain, the database and the revision history would be part of the same artifact. Not sure how advantageous this is, however.