my condolences

Heh.

The next step is to read it via google translate, which does not look very promising. With the Cambridge book due to come out soon, and coming from the original Greek (as opposed to the the Latin translation), i may try to get a copy of that, if i could somehow afford it. I'll probably try to borrow it from the library, if available.

I'd enjoy arranging my categories of menu folders, and disc directories

I once did that to the Windows directory, and shortly found out why you shouldn't. :) In Linux, ,most directories annoy me, but i guess i got used to it.

I find it funny, that few companies withstand the test of time, and you just pick your favorites. I probably found them here on slashdot anyway.

You can probably sign up and then not use the credit, or only use it for a short period of time. For whatever reason, i got a credit some years ago and use it as needed.

It is 2018. We now have to justify "illegitimate" protocols. "Illegitimate" because they work better, take so much less electricity, and are utterly democratic. Because the tiny book, movie, music, and TV industries didn't like it.
We nuked the protocol because it worked too well and it couldn't be easily surveilled.
We are idiots led by liars.

Canada has as many volunteers as they need. The have opposing sides witness the count. No mistakes get made with that many jealous eyes locking their lasers on that counter.

Somehow Canada manages a manual pencil-check paper ballot They have counters from opposing sides witness the manual count. Works fine and is done very quickly, and it can be recounted at any time. No way to cheat. No electrons necessary. If you suspect one side has figured a way to infiltrate both witnessses, increase the number of counters. No limit on the number of eagle eyed buggers that can watch.

And addressing the 2000 fiasco, that was one party intentionally sandbagging the audit, dragging it out so that the Supreme Court could find a way to kill the recount. Hanging chads weren't the problem. It was hanging Republicans challenging everything and anything - there was no penalty for false challenges.

Simple regulation is all that is needed, and what we can't get.

It was the free market at work in Adam Smith's time as well, as he observed. A free market always leads to emergent or direct collusion to fix prices as high as they can be. Applecart economics doesn't work at a macro level. The market is a pack of ruthless buggers who will steal your teeth when you're sleeping. This is why we have regulations, or we used to.