Please, try being a Pastafarian. I get cursed with a terminal disease at least once before my morning coffee. Considering our vengeful god, it is amazing any of us still alive.

Partially due to above circumstances, on a long enough scale, Pastafarian mortality approaches 100%.

I purchased couple L-Prize winning Phillips LED bulb when they first came to market many years ago and they are still going. Under heavy use. YMMV.

>>>"I like and believe very much that we should be able to take the contents,"
 
Do you also believe in the Santa Claus?
 
In closing, fuck you. No.

Turn out, all our water is greywater .

I disagree with this line of thinking. People are not poor by choice. Almost always there is some underlying condition, sometimes outside the control of the individual. This underlying condition will also impact ability to help themselves.

Just consider how feasible would it be for a single mom juggling two minimum wage jobs to also find time, motivation, and capacity to learn how to fix the car. I am sure there are super-humans out there that could pull this off, but such people never stay poor for very long.

>>>People who got NINJA loans were a prime reason for the mortgage crisis.

Not quite. People who gave out NINJA loans to people who had no hope of repaying these loans and then proceeding to misrepresent these loans as AAA were the prime reason for the crisis.

Learning anything is hard. If it was trivial to fix your cars, only rich would pay others to do it for them. Just like cutting grass or doing your laundry. Unfortunately, modern automobile is much more complex device than ether your laptop or smartphone, with mechanic, pneumatic, hydraulic, electrical systems interfacing in whichever way.

Is it possible to maintain your own car? Well, yes, but you have to be intelligent and motivated, something that highly correlates with high income and status that generally enables you to pay others to work on your car.

This indignity is a symptom of a larger issue - hardships that have to be endured by poor. We should be asking how we can make sure they can afford transportation instead of getting outraged at sausage-making that is going on at the "no credit" used car lots. Perhaps we could invest into better public transportation and affordable housing in proximity to transportation hubs?
 
With that said, the choices here are likely a) much more expensive cars for at-risk debtors due to significant risk premium b) this indignity of being subjected to such devices and much lower costs. I am sure both options are available at the same time.

I think you are factually wrong on Canadians and H1B. Under NAFTA any Canadian with a college degree can get a 'no questions asked' work visa at the border. The same applies to US folk wanting to work in Canada.

Corporations want infrastructure, rule of the law, and educated workforce that comes with doing business in US while paying third-world wages and hiding income in tax shelters. You can't have it both ways.

I also highly doubt that Canada, for example, going to look any more favorable on work visas. If they move to Canada, they will have to hire Canadians (or people eligible for NAFTA visas). That won't be 25K/year PhDs from India.

I have been playing since 1998, made to Diamond in Season 1 and 2 and still think that competitive SC2 game play is highly formalistic and largely a miss. As a result I did not purchase expansions.

Watching other play, I think SC2 is actually more fun at Silver-Bronze level, where there isn't skill level to instantly identify right strategy. Anything above that level becomes a repetitive exercise in doing one thing over and over and over again.

No, you can thank Robert "the packaged goods" Kotick that sacrificed fun at the altar of profit.

Star Craft 2, at competitive level was about executing a single optimal strategy with as much polish as you could. As such, entire gameplay devolved into timed pushes instead of actual strategy.

As to single player SC2, it was mildly entertaining with Blizzard Cinematics. Maybe they should turn into animation studio if their key (and arguably the only) strength is cut scenes.

Ultima Online is still around with people still paying subscriptions. It turns that prolonged death spiral with minimal investment is more profitable than trying to replicate poorly-understood success. It would have been highly ironic if Blizzard failed to clone WoW with Titan.

It turns out, even Blizzard doesn't understand its own success enough to replicate it.