I decided 0.

To the submitter: link or it didn't happen.

He bragged about being the second largest Dem donor, and claimed (with no evidence) that he gave to the GOP anonymously or something like that. Which, doesn't exist. He bought Democrats, which is what wealthy people do.

It's because the government has decided that basically every punishment besides prison is "cruel and unusual", so prison is it. It's insane, really. Nobody benefits from someone like him being in prison and there are other ways to punish him. Release him to the world, make him work a menial job with no computer access (not even a cell phone) for the rest of his life, have the court take all of his paychecks and give him enough to eat and pay rent, with any excess going to his victims. He can then be an actual productive member of society instead of a burden, and there's no chance of him reoffending.

He's not technically a prisoner at all in the sense of being convicted for something. He's only in custody because he cannot be trusted not to do a runner if he loses the legal process.

I'd be sceptical that you could boot and run DSL off a floppy disk drive given that they only go up to about two and a bit megabytes.

Question: could this update also have affected other programs running on Windows? Saw complaint elsewhere about some irreplaceable legacy software that just now stopped working, following a Windows update (presumably Win10) -- and that seems a bit too coincidental.

Classic Shell still works in 10 and 11.

So does WinAero Tweaker (and is the easy way to get your 11 context menu back; it's the first thing you see when you run it).

True. But it used to be more or less assumed that if you did the stupid, you paid a penalty and learned better. (Bet you never touched another hot stove. And learned a valuable lesson about impulse control.) Now we're protected from the penalty, so there's no downside to stupid, so there's a perception that we must be protected from stupid...

It used to be normal to learn, quite young, that some stuff was not ours to fuck with. We could look at it, maybe (depending) handle it, but it was not to be eaten, played with, dismantled, or anything else. We were then trusted to have the sense the gods gave a turnip, and abide by those rules. I expect the teaching and the trust are much the same element.

Even dumb kids learned that much, so I won't buy that kids have declined so much that they can't understand the rules.

That's not good enough. They all need to fly on their own planes every day.

There's a difference between passing a pilot as fit to fly and passing a new aeroplane as fit to fly. In the former case, the only thing that rides on it is one person's career and you could argue that it is in the airline's best interests that its pilots know how to fly its planes. In the latter case, the financial wellbeing of an entire huge company might be at stake. There is no way a plane should be certified by employees of the company that makes it.

A lady of taste and discernment. The usual-nowadays bucket or fitted seat enforces a particular position, which I find tiring in the extreme. Bench seat... can move around to however is comfortable at the moment. And sleep on it, cone the need (I actually prefer this to a motel). Back in the day I'd thought I'd like bucket seats... then sat in one for a while. Ugh. NO.

I carry a little MP3 player, and regular PC speakers on an inverter. Entertainment aplenty. Prefer paper maps, tho I see the point of GPS if you're in Where-Da-Fuck?, or have no location sense. -- My sister has a newish tricked-out Audi -- she loves it; I find it both unattractive and uncomfortable.

Yeah, I actually do not much like the "modern amenities" -- it's for getting me and some load from point A to point B, it's not a mobile entertainment center. Also greatly prefer bench seats, and dislike how front wheel drive handles. Narrows the options. Curmudgeon? Me?? :)

I really don't give a flip one way or the other. Drive what you like. But don't try to dictate what I should drive -- that's where I start having a problem with it.

And don't come whining to me, or worse to the gov't, when whatever you choose isn't suitable for the environment.

And, right, I have absolutely no use for an EV. I drive an F350 because that's what I need, it's paid for, and it's reliable. For all of last year I only drove three hundred miles (the wonders of living a mile from the feed store) but I still need it.

I am looking for a little run-around truck that's 4x4 and up on legs (we get enough snow there's good reason for more clearance, and yeah, the -40 now and then) and older, because suits me better, but thanks to the wonders of the EPA, they're scarce as hen's teeth.

The difference is that with ICE engines we can do reasonable things to get them running. (Tho I've never had to do anything more complicated than a block heater, and the '63 Olds would start without it, even at -40. With the block heater, I got into a warm car.)

What do I do when an EV says -40 is fuck-you temperatures?