It's Burning Man. The people who attend have fried their brains so the obvious dichotomy of the situation is lost on them.

Trader Joe's does the same thing. One big line, many registers.

Funny how efficient it is compared to many lines for many registers.

Which still sounds odd to me. I'm running Gentoo on my main desktop (Mint on my laptop) and have never installed systemd. I've decided to stick with OpenRC. GIMP works fine here and I do have dbus installed.

It seems this dbus dependency is not an unsolvable problem.

Considering how much a 12 oz box of Cheerios costs, these guys must have a direct line to a consistent source of funding.

I just steal them from The Pirate Bay.

Who are these people who think they should get paid for their work? This is 2014. Get with the times.

It's that proprietary nature that makes this a concern at all. If it weren't proprietary then it wouldn't matter if Adobe themselves decided to release it for a particular platform. The community would produce a version that would run on just about any widely-used system.

Somehow I happened to see a commercial for it. I say somehow because I no longer have a cable connection so wouldn't normally see commercials.

Anyway, I watched the commercial for this new show and instantly recognized it was a complete and utter disaster, on multiple levels.

Just the preview alone showed the execs were trying much too hard to make a show with suspense and/or cuteness. It's one thing to have someone be able to fool people. It's quite another for someone to deduce which hard drive to pull from a bank of hundreds to stop the explosion/traffic jam/whatever from occurring.

However, one small bit I did like was as the lead character and someone else are racing through the streets, she, the driver, makes some comment about not using seat belts because the car has air bags. Scorpion replied to the effect, the air bags would make things worse at their speed. Therefore, drive faster.

Aside from that, suspension of belief was impossible for anything the commercial showed.

where we are not the highest corporate taxed country on earth.

Except we're not the highest. Chad and the UAE have the highest.

Also, to make up for the loss of revenue, we would have to raise the personal income tax. We could be like Germany with a 45% personal income tax, Norway with 47.2% or Japan at 50.84%.

Oh wait, you thought by lowering corporate taxes things would work themselves out. Now I see the problem.

A comparison of corporate and personal income tax rates

It's also sparsely populated, which should increase cost of infrastructure deployment.

So use Montana, North or South Dakota or even Wyoming as substitutes. Large states, comparable in size, which are sparsely populated.

What's the excuse for them not having good internet service?

Yeah, yeah, one data and all that.

My 2010 Hyundai Elantra claims it will get 29/40. The first time I took it on an extended (highway) trip, I got exactly their 40 mpg figure (actually a fraction above).

As to local driving, I filled up yesterday and the calculation gave me 32.22 mpg though I don't drive what one would consider true city driving such as in New York or LA, more a hybrid of stopping and starting with some distances in between. That is comparable to my usual number with has been as high as 35 in this hybrid city driving.

Obviously winter driving kills your mpg but every car I've driven for the past several decades have all been these types and I have consistently gotten above what the manufacturer says. And no, I'm not doing hyper driving or anything like that. Just common sense driving such as not flooring it to the red light then slamming on the brakes, heavy acceleration off the line and related driving maneuvers.

is the on-screen keyboard, which is unbearable.

So it's like the keyboard on an iPhone?

Typing on an iPhone is like being in a pile of naked people in a dark room. You know you're touching something, you're just not sure what.

And then the online world becomes customized, just for you.

Fuck that, just give me the information. I don't need no customization. There's a reason AdBlock exists.

It's bad enough we have to put up with shitty web sites 'designed' by people trying to show off how shiny, but unusable, things can be, we don't need ads trying to predict what we want adding to the damage.

. . . if we would pare down the population to 2 billion.

If we let the current Ebola outbreaks take their course, we could reach that goal fairly quickly rather than the 60 years you propose.

Unfortunately there are those who might think allowing this to happen would not be the most efficient way to get us to that population level.

You drive 400 miles, each way, 3 times a week? I'm presuming you're a trucker or something similar and not a masochist.

Her ego is big enough it shouldn't be hard to track from space.

Her ego? Have you seen how fat her ass is? Her ego looks like a pimple next to the ostrich egg which is her ass.