Damn fucking right! Several years ago, and I have only replaced toner once. There is a limit to what I will spend on "rented" product...

I assume you gave up your ink-jet printer for a color lasar?

hotels and airlines both adjust there prices constantly according to available supply and demand. There are many many other examples.

In Sydney, it was not the ride out of town that was expensive. It was getting someone to come back into town to pick you up.

But this is all different because it is "On The InterNet!"

Ticket scalpers will sell you prior art for $100 over face value.

Supporting the 4th amendment is pandering to pirates now? Because the media industry wants it gone from the Internet, or any electronic devices...

Surge pricing I would have thought falls under the obvious category. It is simply pricing for supply and demand. higher prices bring in more suppliers and reduce the buyers. most businesses don't do it because it is difficult to manage and can cause a lot of customer aggro not because they are not aware of the supply and demand models.

Probably not so much. It's long been suspected that much of North Korea's cyberwarfare activity is actually based out of China, which is why the U.S. asked China for help shutting them down. I'm going to guess that this is because it's hard to get sufficient bandwidth to operate a cyberwarfare division in North Korea, and because North Korea's limited connectivity makes it too easy to shut down and isolate a team based in North Korea in precisely the scenario we are seeing here.

And North Korea can't be doing this without China's cooperation. China has one of the world's most advanced cyberwarfare capabilities, up there with other cyber-superpowers like U.S., Russia, and Israel, and they closely monitor their internet. If North Korean agents are using China as a staging ground to attack South Korea and the United States, China knows about it and is turning a blind eye.

All scientific results are usable, to ignore results obtained through atrocities committed would be to make the lives stolen have even less meaning.

The guy who tripped over the modem's power cord? There can't be that much blame to go around when a network that size drops dead.

It also ignores the (not exactly minor) problem that, as their owners can attest, a boat is a hole in the water into which one pours money.

There are some commercially viable things done on boats (fishing, offshore drilling, etc.) and some recreational ones; but few things done on land get cheaper when done on water; unless you have in mind some straw man comparison between costs in some ultra high end urban center and the scungiest refurbed cargo ship you can get your hands on.

They are welcome to try, of course, it's their money; but I've yet to see a 'seasteading' plan that doesn't appear to be a fairly uncomfortable yacht club.

In the world where you get paid by adcash.com.

I shtink I've sholved the problem ... we had a working lunch and did some sh-sh-sh-shpit balling to come up with a creative sholooshn.

Moshtly we concluded you're a dick.

Shisherely, your shtaff.

How's that for "refined bitterness with a refreshing finish"?

Seriously, there's a massive amount of bad idea lurking in there somewhere.

What else am I supposed to do? Let him go right on doing it and wait for some teachable moment about not hitting the cat?

Does your cat have its claws? If so, the cat will provide his own damned teachable moment when it's good and ready, and when your kid doesn't expect it.

Though, in fairness to your two year old, I can see fifty coming up ... and I think throwing toy trucks at cats is an entirely reasonable thing.

Cats are evil, pointless animals to have as pets. :-P