Or the viewing terminals run Windows and the PrintScreen key hasn't been snapped off.

Except in the most general way, your rant has absolutely nothing to do with the GP.

Don't forget Iraq. It's in the brand-new US-installed Neocon-approved Iraqi constitution!

So what was that year of revisions, compromises, and goalpost-moving?

Well, what SHOULD they use? I'm actually asking; I don't know.

Actually, the clusterfuck that ended up being the ACA was an attempt to get republicans on board. The actual sickly-sweet loving liberal version is single payer, like, you know, the rest of the developed world. And small business owners should be first in line to ask for it (perhaps only after large corporations with large retiree healthcare expenses), but somehow they've all been convinced it's anathema.

While I hear what you're saying, government entities, and especially the military, are also subject to legal requirements that they not do things in certain ways, or have unique requirements not accounted for in a 'best practices' system.

They're suing within the statute of limitations for infringement that happened before the patent expired.

Utility providers? Has your state not deregulated electric/gas service? Or do you really want 9 different sets of 3-phase wires on every pole?

I think it had to do with Standard Oil's hegemony and breakup being in the recent past at the time, and a desire to ensure that local businesses got a slice of what was clearly shaping up to be an immense revenue stream. They didn't want middle America turning into one big company town owned by detroit, and they wanted to ensure competitive pricing on cars rather than 'whatever the manufacturer wants to charge'.

30 years ago I spent a LOT of time at the mall. There were very few mom-and-pop stores. In fact, the only one I can remember was the first dollar store anyone in my neck of the woods had ever heard of. For mom-and-pop stores (and the mom-and-pop arcade), you had to leave the mall and go downtown.

I don't know how a city water system works, but I know how to plunge a toilet, how to shut off a hose bib for cold weather, and how and when to close the master water valve in my house and call a plumber for problems I can't handle.

Many users are at the level of being unable to pour themselves a glass of water, or tell the plumber their pipes are meesed up when they plugged the kitchen sink and left the water on all day.

I'm not aware that anybody is proposing that drivers who converse with passengers in the same car are unsafe, though; so I think that argument needs to be deepened.

At age 2, my son loved to drive a toy stroller around the house, but if a doll was in the seat he'd throw it out first. My daughter at the same age won't drive the same stroller unless it's occupied by a doll. Other than that detail, the game looks largely the same.

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