It would be a shame if the IRS Audited you.

For Apple, the genericization of the term iPad is a double-edged sword. It waters down the trademark, while at the same time pointing everyone back to the source. It is one of the reasons I believe AppleWatch is not an iWatch. In fact, the whole "i-Thingy" is probably dead now. As for the NFL and Surface, that is gonna be a long term problem. The term "Surface" is an actual word, used beyond computers. It is really a dumb name to use for trademarked device.

And a Surface is nothing more than a crappy overpriced under performing laptop that wants to be a tablet. Either that, or an expensive Tablet that also wants to be a laptop. You need a laptop, you'll buy a full laptop for less than the cost of a Surface, and have a better machine. AND if you need a tablet, you buy tablet for less than a Surface. And if you need both, you get both, and use them both.

You also used to be able to TXT from the US to anywhere in the world. That too disappeared. It was quite useful form of communication to people in other distant time zones.

Landlines are going bye-bye, regardless of what regulation/law says about them, because they are too expensive, and too limiting. The regulations that apply to them either have exceeded their usefulness or no longer make sense in a world of Cell service.

And this is the problem with regulations, because once we are beyond the usefulness of them, the regulations remain, and you can't get rid of them. Stale laws and regulations should be cautionary tales of intrusive governance. But rarely are.

My solution would be simple. Confiscate their wealth. ALL of it. Even the stuff squirreled away in Trusts and whatnot. People should not be able to hide illgot gains in trusts. Their kids and grandkids should make it in the world just like all the other kids that aren't trust babies.

That is not the ONLY difference. All of Europe is about 1/2 the size of the US. Size matters.

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Not all of us think that. Some of us think "Puny European Countries". Have you seen an overlay of Europe verses the USA?

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The Problem with Europeans is that they have no idea how big the USA actually is, relative to their entire Continent. What is "easy" for Europe is harder here simply because of scale.

Two quick points 1) A good System Admin would know that default settings suck. 2) Change settings based actual needs.

TL;DNR version:

Default settings suck for just about everything, but are usually for "common scenarios" that aren't common any longer. I see people still setting up Linux as if it were for a 384 MB RAM server running on a single HD (or RAID0), when the new system is running Multi GB RAM, SSD SAN, etc. Not only are the original assumptions are wrong, the whole thing is screwed because there is NO tuning what-so-ever. I actually expect to see more servers running TB RAM very shortly, and having multi-tiered long term storage spanning several different classes of storage. This is going to take static configurations and basically toss them out the window, because no two servers will be setup the same.

BUT, on the flip side, nobody is going to be compiling GENTOO on every server either. This means the next best Distribution will have adaptive configurations that change on the fly, based on what the whole platform dictates are.

"Global Warming is Proven Science" -Today
"Global Cooling" - 1970s

Which "consensus" is right? Then or now? Or is it just another "immature fields of study" that needs more funding?

I'm 6'5" ... and former swimmer (broad shoulders).... Airline seats suck.

Here is the deal, criminals are criminals. Period. All the rules and regulations in the world won't prevent them from being criminals.

IF you're making the case that regulation prevents crime, you're simply in error, it does not. Oftentimes it doesn't even prevent the crimes it was designed to prevent, it just adds an extra step in the criminal behavior. All the rules and regulations designed to prevent money laundering hasn't even put a dent in money laundering, it simply made it slightly more difficult. Meanwhile, it affects everyone who has legitimate banking transactions, costing everyone a little.

In short, Regulations rarely match the intended results.

How about being angry at those that perpetrated the myth, namely the scientific community, rather than getting angry at those that had no say in the matter?

I have no problem with Science. I have a huge problem with scientific fraud, accepted on FAITH by large communities that want it to be so, only to get caught with their pants down in the end.

Science, when done right, doesn't have the problems that were present in the years that Universities taught Evolution on the basis of fraud. The problem is, you're mad at the wrong people.

My point was that Consensus is often wrong, and glaringly so. Any amount of scientific experimentation would have proven it a hoax, but it was accepted on the basis of consensus for a long time.

Science is about provability, consensus is about getting majority or even a plurality of opinions. These two things are mutually exclusive.

Piltdown Man was once "consensus". We know how that turned out.

Science doesn't take sides. It is not evil nor good.