The days where anyone can make a living off their work is relic of the 20th century.

Was that done with a Windows or a Linux calculator?

I found a MIMO UM-720S Touch Screen USB Powered 7 Inch Swivel LCD Screen Mini Display for $174.99 rather than the $87 quoted in the investigative journalism research article.
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So if they get those then they will lose more like $98 per Kindle.

And, I could sell them enclosures for $113, not the $11 they quoted.

Then Amazon could lose $200 per Kindle. Now that's a really big scoop.

By increasing taxes on those high earners, who are the most productive people in our society, they will be forced to be even more productive to recoup the lost earnings. We will have a productivity boom that will blow away all past statistics. Maybe.

But then, look at how hard those 40% work who pay 'no' taxes (If you don't count sales tax, SS tax, and all the other junk taxes.) People who pay 'no' taxes pay a higher percentage of total tax on their earnings than America's largest corporations paying 'no' tax (at the highest corporate tax rate in the world.)

When the length of EU copyrights increases by 40%, the respect for those copyrights drops by 40%

"The fences are down. It's a free concert, now." - A Woodstock attendee

Some changes make sense to contribute, and others don't.

Bug fixes and general improvements that you don't want to maintain need to be contributed. It's in your own, selfish best interest. You would be an idiot to try to maintain them forever.

Enhancements, extensions and additional layers which provide distinctive features to give you competitive advantage need to be architected so that they exist in your separately linked, proprietary code. You would have to be an idiot to give everything away, unless you are Stallman. But, maybe he is an idiot anyway.

Everyone should work during the same 9 to 5 times, so that everyone would work at the same time and sleep at the same time. It might be a bit dark for some, but it would synchronize everyone's day (or night (or whatever))

a few thousand others.

So, by the same logic, if rocks are found in space rocks, then rocks found on earth were created in outer space by meteorites.

There is absolutely no doubt that the US will always pay whatever and whenever due. They will make the payments in exactly as many dollars as they need to print.

Bond holders don't need to worry about how many dollars they will get, they need to worry about how many loaves of bread, barrels of oil or ounces of gold those dollars will buy.

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The problem can easily be heard in a modern 'Digitally Remastered' release which has been caught up in this loudness mess. You are much better off with an older non compressed version of a release at 320 than a lossless remastered version which has been compressed. The compression tosses out way more acoustical information than lossy 320 encoding. You would be hard pressed to hear the difference between the 320 kb version and the original, but lossless compression really sucks.

You really need to pop a few comparison tracks into something like Audacity to see how bad things have become. Saving things as lossless may seem like a big deal, but you need to compare new and old versions when you are replacing the old with the remasters.

a 50 year old 3 prong, grounded electrical cord which is interchangeable with all kinds of technology.

And, I traveled in asia with a descendent of the guy who invented the screw in light bulb.

Nobody has mentioned the absurd price of early ethernet implementations. There is good reason why it took forever to catch on. It took a cost plus military budget to afford it.

Buy the $129 Amazon 3TB drive and plug it into a USB port with a USB cable the same color as your carpet.

OK, it isn't really wireless, but most of the suggestions in the article aren't really a '3TB Wireless Time-Machine', either if you drop other '3TB Wireless Time-Machine' features.