Even before I became a Buddhist, I believed that it is never right to inflict harm on other beings except in self-defence against an immediate grave threat to one's own physical safety. So if you come at me with a knife, I've no compunctions about grabbing my cricket bat and taking a swing or two in order to stop you.

But inflicting harm on a defenceless and possibly restrained subject is right out.

(And if you don't believe that existence isn't moral, then you've got the wrong morals. Karma isn't just a neat idea; it's how things really work.)

I use a French press, beans, and a grinder. Zero waste other than the grounds (and if I had a yard, I could compost them). The grinder's a hand-cranked model, so the only power used is to heat the water.

I've been making coffee this way for years, but never thought about the fact that it's also very conservative of resources until now.

And I despise the capsule-style makers on general principles; as for Keurig--if I won't accept DRM for my music and video, I sure am as fuck not going to accept it for my coffee.

I read halfway through the first paragraph: "WTF? This guy's an idiot. If I didn't know any better... Naaahh, it can't be... Who sub---OMFG, it is him."

I agree with everyone and his brother who's going to point out that Bennett's proposed hashtag anti-gaming system will be gamed in a bit less time than hashtags have been.

Naturligtvis inte. Men jag räcknade endast inkomstskatten där.

You're an idiot. Just so you know.

I have always respected your opinions but if you think I had any of what I have handed to me on a silver platter then you are very much mistaken. I've had opportunities and even a bit of help along the way, sure, and I'm grateful for these. In particular I'm grateful to a couple of folks I met online who encouraged me and even gave a chance to prove myself, way back when. But I'm the one who put in the work to take advantage of those opportunities. I'm the one who spent 3-4 years sleeping on other pepole's floors and living on ramen and PBJs, and keeping my nose to the grindstone 70+ hours a week to make it happen.

I had other, easier opportunities when I was younger, which I wasted. Had I been a little wiser then, things would have been much simpler later on. Well, paying for that fuckup was part of the overhead, but I pay for that I did.

The really good part about it is that I can look at what I've got now and know that I *earned* it, and even if I end up homeless again tomorrow, that fact is something that nobody can take away from me, not even the All-Knowing Jedidiah.

Just because someone doesn't piss and moan constantly about the adversities they've faced doesn't mean they've not had them.

Cheers.

Iamaswedishtaxpayer and I don't think it's "delightful" at all.

Sorry, Ø is Norwegian and Danish--Swedish uses Ö. Monty Python jokes about "møøse" notwithstanding.

My tax kronor, you mean, I'm sorry to say. About 200,000 of them last year, dammit.

Did you actually bother to read what you responded to?

He said... wait for it... absolutely NOTHING... about open-sourcing your closed software.

And plenty of businesses make perfectly good money creating and maintaining Open Source software. I think I'm qualified to make this statement, since I work for one of them. In fact, it's one of the top half from this list of the world's 10 largest vendors of software. And they don't pay me in play money, either.

Don't make the statement if you're not prepared to address rebuttals. You don't get to cherry-pick your facts and pretend that other facts don't exist.

BTW, you said previously,

That sounds very much like how I had to live for several years whilst getting started in my present career.

Evidently you don't actually know how much a writer of documentation gets paid. Hint: It's not nearly as much as what a programmer with commensurate experience gets.

That being said, I write because I like to, and because I've found ways to get paid enough doing it to keep a roof over my head and coffee beans for my grinder.

Wow, APK managed an entire post without bolding or all-caps... Colour me surprised.

No need for a USB port. I have a wife for that sort of thing.

Bullshit. Devising a counterexample is so utterly trivial that I leave it as an exercise for the reader.