Their share is defined by law and only law, not some nebulous metric of "goodness".
Don't like the law, change that, but unless and until they are found guilty of lawbreaking they are indeed paying their fair (as defined by law) share.
"What's wrong with getting a bit old fashioned - volume control know, tuning knob, slide controls or dials to control the heater (back to the '80's anyone)."
Styling trumps ergonomics and tactile feedback. If people cared about that stuff, car "cockpits" would look, feel and have controls and switchology like aircraft cockpits (suitably guarded to reduce flail injuries in a crash).
I harvest the sweet, sweet magnets and scatter them in handy spots around my shop.
If you slide a couple of magnets inside a Zippo between the wadding and the inner case, your lighter will stick to your tool box, cabinet, etc.
Don't pry the magnets off their keepers as they are brittle. Heat them slightly over a stove or lighter and the glue will loosen whereupon you can slide them off.
I don't go over handwritten documents with a fucking eraser to re-use the paper.
Take a hammer (nearly everyone has one of those) and smash the hard disk to destroy the platters. Hard disks are cheap enough to be expendable if they have "classified" or confidential information on them.
HIPAA should mandate drive destruction when the drive is no longer needed.
"That idea is pure, unadulterated, marketing evilness."
I approve. The more non-Free software enforces a painful user experience the better.
Apple should offer this for generic PCs and make it a free download. There are tens of millions of old PCs out there needing a refresh. It would still suck less than Windows.
In other news, archaeologists have discovered an ancient Mayan textile depicting ritual sacrifice of "neckbeards" to placate the volcano god, Slashdopetl.
I don't agree with the War on Some Drugs, but it does bear reminding that most of those incarcerated chose to do what they did knowing it was illegal. You literally can "just say no", even though Prohibition is horribly toxic in many ways deserving of many other threads!
The cops could ALWAYS run you in for giggles, but rubber hose interrogations are somewhat less fashionable and can be grounds for massive lawsuits. Even the infamously corrupt New Orleans police department isn't "above the law" as convictions for recreational plinking of blacks after Katrina demonstrate.
Public discourse is MUCH FREER now.
Corps no longer hire Pinkertons to kill you for advocating workers join a union, though they certainly have other tactics.
Religious prejudice (though religion is prejudice against non/other believers) is much reduced. Even the Bible Thumpers are massing behind (gasp) a Mormon Presidential candidate.
[quote] the United States now has the largest prison population in the entire world [/quote] Not entirely a bad thing. NEVER forget the US is not a unified country, but a heap of competing groups with nothing in common except (decreasingly!) language and geographic location. Our de-facto open border policy (unless you fly in....) and deliberate policy of "giving a share of the US to anyone who wants it" by non-exclusionist immigration policies ensures perpetual competition and disunity. (That's not saying "immigration is bad", but that removal of pressure to assimilate means new arrivals can bring the very social mores which trashed the countries they fled from and not be challenged.)
In societies without SELF-discipline borne of COMMON social mores, there must be IMPOSED discipline to keep order. The US is not Switzerland or any other of the nice orderly European countries, and it no longer gets significant immigration FROM them since World War II and its aftermath fixed most of what was wrong with Western Europe.
"Money has replaced God, even in churches where the preacher stands in a 1000 dollar suit asking for cash"
That presumes it was ever different. (History, read it. Faith, question it and require proof instead.)
Religionists are famed for their greed for power and wealth throughout history. Even a Crusader wearing a hair shirt under his armor didn't hesitate to butcher those who were obstacles to Papal lust for power.
Now it is safer to question the witch doctors (unless one is Muslim, they still kill apostates) so more people do so. There is no god. _Prove_ your Sky Fairie exists right fucking now and I'll recant and bend my knee before him/her/it's Noodly Appendage.
"Yellow journalism (on both sides) is almost completely based around the idea of making us dislike and not trust our fellow humans. "
No, it's based on drama.
Reading HISTORY is ample reason to dislike and not trust our fellow humans. That's HEALTHY. I grew up in the "transition era" of the 1960s when the US became drastically less conformist.
Things are MUCH FREER now. Contention between idea and uncertainty is scary. So fucking what?
We should question everything. We should "kill our Gods" and reject superstition which has been passed on by UNTRUSTWORTHY "fellow humans".
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"I say it does have value beyond scrap, in the form of a museum exhibit."
Good. Now pay for that, too.
Times are hard and it's tough enough to fund exhibits of historic ships such as those from WWII.
Such a reflex. What "shame" ?
It served it's purpose and may be discarded like lathe turnings or milling machine chips.
"And if it's a "failed experiment" why the requirement to dismantle?"
Because reasons do not exist to let it loose. It's a bit like a used hard drive. When in doubt, destroy it.
Scrap metal is high these days so it's valuable.
"If we didn't tax corps then I think it would be easier to ban political speech by corporations."
Doesn't work very well for motivated "churches", and corps can afford better lawyers....
Their share is defined by law and only law, not some nebulous metric of "goodness".
Don't like the law, change that, but unless and until they are found guilty of lawbreaking they are indeed paying their fair (as defined by law) share.
"I'm using Debian now, "
What happens if Ubuntu orphans Debian and you are out in the cold again? (runs)
"What's wrong with getting a bit old fashioned - volume control know, tuning knob, slide controls or dials to control the heater (back to the '80's anyone)."
Styling trumps ergonomics and tactile feedback. If people cared about that stuff, car "cockpits" would look, feel and have controls and switchology like aircraft cockpits (suitably guarded to reduce flail injuries in a crash).
I would like that, but most folks would not.
I harvest the sweet, sweet magnets and scatter them in handy spots around my shop.
If you slide a couple of magnets inside a Zippo between the wadding and the inner case, your lighter will stick to your tool box, cabinet, etc.
Don't pry the magnets off their keepers as they are brittle. Heat them slightly over a stove or lighter and the glue will loosen whereupon you can slide them off.
More people own hammers than know Unix.
The problem is not a geek problem.
It's an outrage.
No child should be fondled without benefit of clergy.
"That also includes the bread in your kitchen"
Thank you for this insight! Ergot leads to ergotism which can lead to psychedelic experience which might lead to questioning authority.
Bread should become a controlled substance.
I use Linux because I'm lazy and it works fine and is easy for me to use as a primary OS. Free is also nice.
Windows makes me pocket money and barter fixing it when it breaks. I don't need such hassles at home.
That would increase what I pay for hard disks.
A shot with a hammer is cheaper than postage. Boom, done.
I don't go over handwritten documents with a fucking eraser to re-use the paper.
Take a hammer (nearly everyone has one of those) and smash the hard disk to destroy the platters. Hard disks are cheap enough to be expendable if they have "classified" or confidential information on them.
HIPAA should mandate drive destruction when the drive is no longer needed.
Not at all.
OLD vagina is far easier to access since the container has depreciated over time.
Of course one should have standards. ABC (Airway, Breathing, and Circulation) work for first responders and are a good place to start.
Happy hunting!
"That idea is pure, unadulterated, marketing evilness."
I approve. The more non-Free software enforces a painful user experience the better.
Apple should offer this for generic PCs and make it a free download. There are tens of millions of old PCs out there needing a refresh. It would still suck less than Windows.
"I'm still struggling to figure out how a live, well run network could be in danger."
Keywords: "well run".
"If eating is going to kill me, I choose to die by the steak."
If eating is going to kill me, I choose to die by the vagina.
I used to think that, but I've been reloading PCs for friends kids and they've had plenty of malware, without porn in the browser history.
Change is Progress!
In other news, archaeologists have discovered an ancient Mayan textile depicting ritual sacrifice of "neckbeards" to placate the volcano god, Slashdopetl.
"Protect our aryan princesses now before it's too late!"
More like "protect the brothas FROM the "princesses". :-)
You must not get out much, and no matter how hard those "princesses" are "protected" I expect you still won't get laid.
If you have time to post "Stormfront" shit on Slashdot, that bespeaks serious social problems....
I don't agree with the War on Some Drugs, but it does bear reminding that most of those incarcerated chose to do what they did knowing it was illegal. You literally can "just say no", even though Prohibition is horribly toxic in many ways deserving of many other threads!
The cops could ALWAYS run you in for giggles, but rubber hose interrogations are somewhat less fashionable and can be grounds for massive lawsuits. Even the infamously corrupt New Orleans police department isn't "above the law" as convictions for recreational plinking of blacks after Katrina demonstrate.
Public discourse is MUCH FREER now.
Corps no longer hire Pinkertons to kill you for advocating workers join a union, though they certainly have other tactics.
Religious prejudice (though religion is prejudice against non/other believers) is much reduced. Even the Bible Thumpers are massing behind (gasp) a Mormon Presidential candidate.
[quote]
the United States now has the largest prison population in the entire world
[/quote]
Not entirely a bad thing. NEVER forget the US is not a unified country, but a heap of competing groups with nothing in common except (decreasingly!) language and geographic location. Our de-facto open border policy (unless you fly in....) and deliberate policy of "giving a share of the US to anyone who wants it" by non-exclusionist immigration policies ensures perpetual competition and disunity. (That's not saying "immigration is bad", but that removal of pressure to assimilate means new arrivals can bring the very social mores which trashed the countries they fled from and not be challenged.)
In societies without SELF-discipline borne of COMMON social mores, there must be IMPOSED discipline to keep order. The US is not Switzerland or any other of the nice orderly European countries, and it no longer gets significant immigration FROM them since World War II and its aftermath fixed most of what was wrong with Western Europe.
"Money has replaced God, even in churches where the preacher stands in a 1000 dollar suit asking for cash"
That presumes it was ever different. (History, read it. Faith, question it and require proof instead.)
Religionists are famed for their greed for power and wealth throughout history. Even a Crusader wearing a hair shirt under his armor didn't hesitate to butcher those who were obstacles to Papal lust for power.
Now it is safer to question the witch doctors (unless one is Muslim, they still kill apostates) so more people do so. There is no god. _Prove_ your Sky Fairie exists right fucking now and I'll recant and bend my knee before him/her/it's Noodly Appendage.
"Yellow journalism (on both sides) is almost completely based around the idea of making us dislike and not trust our fellow humans. "
No, it's based on drama.
Reading HISTORY is ample reason to dislike and not trust our fellow humans. That's HEALTHY. I grew up in the "transition era" of the 1960s when the US became drastically less conformist.
Things are MUCH FREER now. Contention between idea and uncertainty is scary. So fucking what?
We should question everything. We should "kill our Gods" and reject superstition which has been passed on by UNTRUSTWORTHY "fellow humans".
More of that is happening. That's GOOD.