My favorite hardware store (Wallys, Sumter, SC) is near a Walmart, a Lowes, and not far from a large Simpson's hardware store.
It THRIVES because the provide good, personal service. The proprietor WELCOMED the newer arrivals years ago because they drive massive traffic to his location.
"However, that means that a hydrogen-burning vehicle can't use biofuels, at least not without losing massive amounts of efficiency."
If your powerplant is a turbine that trims-to-temperature it can efficiently burn both and mixtures thereof. Capstone turbine-powered hybrid buses work just fine, and other turbine styles can do it too.
I no longer install Firefox on older Windows machines. Chrome is much faster.
The purpose of Firefox is to run the useful add-ons. For those who don't need them or have the ones they need available elsewhere there is no reason to bother with it.
Old servers often have excellent floppy drives with almost no use. If you can find someone giving away or parting out an old server, bag the drive.
In your case I would do what I used to do, which is use Winimage to image my floppy collection. It was a great way to keep a floppy image collection on CD, and you can create bootable floppy images to make floppy emulation bootable CDs.
Once the wealth is ALL at the top, there is no logical reason not to take it back by any means necessary.
The tacit agreement in ALL societies is that the MASTERS allow the SERFS sufficient that the serfs don't kill and eat them. The fiction of "moral" obligation not to eat them is nonsense. The divine right of kings is now regarded as fiction, and it is to be hoped religion itself will follow for it is a lie to perpetuate self-enslavement,
I expect to be paid off. So should the rest of us. The rich OWE us nothing, and we OWE them nothing. The relationship is one of power, so act with power to intimidate them into paying for their mastery. They can remain masters, but they can feed the cattle too.
He DOES pay for upkeep via the MANY taxes on trucking businesses including the fuel tax. There is a fair-sized "tax and permit compliance" industry required to keep operators legal. Lots of software involved too, unfortunately all Windows-based.
I'm not disagreeing with your premise, but that example is worthless.
Now if you take issue with where those taxes go after collection, that's a different issue!
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"When you need to remember a phone number, do you not mentally punch it into an imaginary phone? "
No, I grew up with DIAL telephones, so I "see" the number sequence as area code and telephone number.
There is no reason to care about what happens to HP any more. The old HP is long dead, and the current HP sucks.
Die soon please.
The processes dealing with standard deaths are integrated into the economy.
You are referring to emotional disruption. I'm referring to social and economic disruption.
Dispersed death isn't a threat to national economies. In fact, industries exist to cater to every stage of dying.
...into space. We have a thousand years, two thousand, ten if we like.
Send few humans and many probes. Our supporting, non-space-exploration tech will progress too.
If it's a SWITCH or jumper, Bubba and LaQueefa ain't cracking the case.
I'd rather they leave it on hard disk, the better to facilitate dissection.
They'll HAVE to cater to users who want remote imaging.
My favorite hardware store (Wallys, Sumter, SC) is near a Walmart, a Lowes, and not far from a large Simpson's hardware store.
It THRIVES because the provide good, personal service. The proprietor WELCOMED the newer arrivals years ago because they drive massive traffic to his location.
"However, that means that a hydrogen-burning vehicle can't use biofuels, at least not without losing massive amounts of efficiency."
If your powerplant is a turbine that trims-to-temperature it can efficiently burn both and mixtures thereof. Capstone turbine-powered hybrid buses work just fine, and other turbine styles can do it too.
Coal-related death is not socially disruptive.
Humans have all sorts of accepted casualties, usually those which the system is evolved to process. I
Death is not a problem. We ALL die. DISRUPTIVE death is a problem.
While I enjoyed getting an "incentive ride" in the F-16D I crewed, I'll observe that Gs themselves aren't pleasant.
Wanna croak? OD on opiates. A large syringe of Fentanyl should do the trick nicely.
"They do need an option that is better than putting a gun to the head."
Massive Opiate Overdose.
I've had great results from their filter since 1999 on my "spamdump" Yahoo addy, let alone the others.
Of course, if enough of your contacts are compromised your email addy will be exploited by more people.
That's why I USE their email service (viewed via Thunderbird to dodge their annoying site design).
I have a spamdump account with Yahoo I've used since 1999 and hardly get ten spams a day. My "regular" Yahoo accounts get even less.
If you want to spam people, don't use a Yahoo account.
Nothing to see here. The spam filtering even on my spamdump Yahoo account has been excellent for the eleven years I've used it.
"Abolishing the public police would be good for the liberty and economics of this country."
Citation very much needed.
The Firefox team has aggressively demonstrated they don't want you as a user.
When someone tells me "fuck you", I work AGAINST them, not for them.
I no longer install Firefox on older Windows machines. Chrome is much faster.
The purpose of Firefox is to run the useful add-ons. For those who don't need them or have the ones they need available elsewhere there is no reason to bother with it.
It would be smart to image it first. Winimage works nicely.
Old servers often have excellent floppy drives with almost no use. If you can find someone giving away or parting out an old server, bag the drive.
In your case I would do what I used to do, which is use Winimage to image my floppy collection. It was a great way to keep a floppy image collection on CD, and you can create bootable floppy images to make floppy emulation bootable CDs.
"Nothing like humiliating women for the ethical treatment of animals."
Feminism is dead in the US, with the beneficiaries taking its gains for granted and its opponents completely dominating religion.
Cute critters remain popular across the political spectrum! Even /b/ likes cats.
This will backfire like bra-burning, and be lulzworthy into the bargain.
Without Stallmanites sticking to their convictions, there would be little or no Open or Free software, THAT'S FUCKING WHY.
"Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. The words 'to make money' hold the essence of human morality."
No prior art on this one, nope, none at all.
Silly pandering cunt....
Once the wealth is ALL at the top, there is no logical reason not to take it back by any means necessary.
The tacit agreement in ALL societies is that the MASTERS allow the SERFS sufficient that the serfs don't kill and eat them. The fiction of "moral" obligation not to eat them is nonsense. The divine right of kings is now regarded as fiction, and it is to be hoped religion itself will follow for it is a lie to perpetuate self-enslavement,
I expect to be paid off. So should the rest of us. The rich OWE us nothing, and we OWE them nothing. The relationship is one of power, so act with power to intimidate them into paying for their mastery. They can remain masters, but they can feed the cattle too.
He DOES pay for upkeep via the MANY taxes on trucking businesses including the fuel tax. There is a fair-sized "tax and permit compliance" industry required to keep operators legal. Lots of software involved too, unfortunately all Windows-based.
I'm not disagreeing with your premise, but that example is worthless.
Now if you take issue with where those taxes go after collection, that's a different issue!