Except, of course, when your neighbor has resources you need but don't have. Things like water, farmland, scarce minerals, etc. That's actually why most wars are fought.

My IMAP interface with gmail remains unchanged. I have never been infected with the desire to use any webmail, especially Google's. As long as they allow IMAP or POP connections, I will continue to use gmail, but not for anything important.

I see people doing a lot more than that. They use it to run office suite software for business purposes. They also use it to run Windows front ends for database applications. None of this really requires anything newer than Windows 98 or maybe XP.

Or Telegram.

Brown Bag Tickets is another good choice.

Or "Telegram" or "Signal", but with extra data charges.

Actually it was to have someone else do their job long enough to see if they were cooking the books. We had annual, independent financial audits, and not doing this would trigger an audit finding.

>I'm just gonna blame Slashdot. Because why not.

That would make an excellent sig.

>I worked for major financial institution for a long time and found that the salary budget was very limited but that they would, and could negotiate time off without adding to the budget.

I had a similar experience in the insurance industry. The last six years before I retired I had 22 vacation days and 13 paid holidays. I also required people in my organization to actually take their vacation. People in sensitive financial positions were required to take two consecutive weeks off at least once a year.

Agreed. I always felt claustrophobic indoors on acid. Can't imagine the tube.

I started not liking him as soon as he was appointed. I've since moved on to outright loathing. Anyone have his phone number?

The submitter write, "a mistaken bias against electricity in space continues to dominate conversations." What dominates conversations is a complete lack of credible evidence for this. It reminds me of the old days when Archimedes Plutonium invaded sci.physics and talk.origins.

Nothing like a financial institution's website that requires Flash to inspire confidence.

This its not a theory. Theories are supported by reproducible, publicly observable experimental evidence. This is barely an hypothesis. It's more like wild assed speculation. How is this idea experimentally testable? Positing an intelligence to fill in the gaps in our knowledge smacks of the old God of the Gaps fallacy.

I keep a Yosemite partition my MacBook Pro to run camera control software on my telescope. It won't run on El Cap and newer and newer versions of the camera control software dropped support for my perfectly good camera. Catch 22.