Should Be The New Literacy.

IF not, WHY not? Apple does it. WTF?

They will pay attention.

I'm 56. I learned how to repair all kinds of crap, including electronics. Just last month the power switch on my lamp broke, so I bought a new one and fixed it in about an hour, which included the time it took to go to the corner hardware place to buy the replacement part. But that's rare these days, and as others have noted, much electronics is integrated circuitry. Occasionally, yeah, a transistor might die, or a a capacitor leaks or fries up, bu that's very uncommon, and many things have such tiny parts that even if you could repair it, you need special tools.

So when my laptop fries up I can't repair it with my Snap-On collection of wrenches. So, when something like a laptop fries, I go buy another one. I never buy new - I buy used ones for cheap. I'm not going to fix my laptop or microwave oven or telephone. To imply that I should is stupid.

If that kind of throw-away society is suboptimal for the professor, then the problem is the *throw-away society*, not some deskilling operation.

You can get a used i3 Win7 box that would chew up the chromebook for breakfast for about $200. I bought a used i7 laptop for $560. Computers are cheap, and Chromebooks make no sense. You get a slow computer with a defective by design OS for $200+. You might as well get a real computer with a defective by design OS for $200+...

FUCK YOU.

No worries, Ariane 5 has huge cost overruns and Ariane 6 is so far behind schedule it's no longer considered a real option.

Because unless you're idiot you can't have missed that Harrison Ford is one of the most publicly stoned people in history.

Islamic countries routinely murdered polio vaccination teams. So it's a self correcting problem in the long run.

Catch on fire and whatnot.

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All is right in the world. Fight Da Power!

I mean it's about your online banking, yes?

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And then institute a downmodding scheme like /.

Or whatever the state equivalent of that is. Simply take everything unto the state, tax everything and 100%. Problem solved. By the way there's no way to hire a 'real' cab by me where the driver doesn't speak ONLY French or ONLY Spanish. So.....good going. That's fucking awesome.

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