You pay for access to the network of your provider and this has nothing to do with the provider - supplier communications.

In the real world suppliers pay for delivery and trucks cost more than bicycles to deliver larger goods, the costs are baked into your purchase.

I agree with only one argument: there shouldn't be any government subsidies from anybody to anybody, but of-course there shouldn't be any income related taxes either, any government projects beyond minimal protection of individual freedoms.

You must an individual freedom to own and operate private property without government stealing it from you and throwing you to jail or murdering you. Everything else must be purely a function of the market, if you don't get it, then it is you, who is an idiot.

- it's not their 'tollbooth', it's their road. On a road you can charge different rates for different types of vehicles, this is the same situation. An eighteen wheeler can cause more damage to the road that requires more maintenance than a motorcycle, this is the same thing: a movie that needs to be streamed a million times takes up much more capacity and energy and basically uses the system much more than millions of small individual requests do.

See, I even used an appropriate car analogy.

I post an ad, you call, first I want to hear clarity of voice and ideas. I ask you to come by to meet and to see the place.

When you do, I ask you to tell me about yourself. Then I tell you about the company and the projects and technologies we use. I tell you what I am looking for in an employee. Then I ask you to ask me questions. Then I let you go ask a few questions to the current team members.

You come back, I tell you to think about it and send me a message.

Since I hire people with very little upfront experience, I don't expect them to be able to know much, I train the people and I tell them this upfront. I also tell them right away that they only start getting paid when they become productive team members, which means that they start contributing tangible code to a project that ends up used in the project. Until they become productive team members they are not paid, they are unpaid interns.

I have to like the person and they have to like the place and the projects. If this clicks we start. There are no 'gotcha' questions, there is not much technical interview at all. I tell them about the tech we use and the projects we run and I let them think about it.

OTOH when I need specialised help of an experienced developer/manager I always get a contractor that I am either familiar with or that somebody that I know can vouch for.

Wait, didn't you know that you are submitting your tax data to IRS on VOLUNTARY basis? As in, if you ask them whether you must submit the data, if it is forced upon you, they will tell you that it is voluntary?

But good luck to you if you try to exercise voluntarism and not submit that data...

/etc/pf.conf

.....
#SSH
pass in log inet proto tcp from any to $ext_if port ssh
pass out log inet proto tcp from any to $ext_if port ssh
pass log quick proto tcp from $SSH_ALLOW_IPs to $ext_if port ssh \
        flags S/SA keep state
pass log quick proto tcp from any to $ext_if port ssh \
        flags S/SA keep state \
        (max-src-conn 15, max-src-conn-rate 5/3, \
          overload <bruteforce> flush global)
.....

just saying...

- sure, sure, 'foreign'. Maybe they can do it in a foreign country, maybe they can't, but you can be damn certain that is what they are doing in the USA.

Don't be a douche and at least acknowledge that this theft is done upon somebody's death upon money and property that was already taxed (stolen from) by the likes of you many times over, and it is a death tax.

None of your fucking business what I buy and how much I pay. You don't like a particular type of a device, don't buy it. If you like a device and it doesn't do what you want, get a competing product or get an adapter. Also fuck off, if I want a device with a UNIQUE (as in one off, no other than mine has it) charger connector, I MUST BE ABLE TO HAVE IT.

I must be able to have a device with an connector that nobody else has on purpose. Somebody steals it, at least they have to get a non-existing adapter or even modify the device and it must be MY CHOICE to buy a device with a completely non-standard equipment and none of you, motherfucking collectivist cocksuckers, can dictate what equipment I can and cannot buy, and to avoid stupid questions, yes I mean anything at all, including nuclear materials, plans, equipment and bombs if I wanted to.

Between their mothers and the fuckers of their mothers, these motherfuckers don't know which end is up and how to get their collective heads out of each other's collective asses.

What a bunch of useless, time wasting, circle jerking, cocksucking, cum swapping pieces of stink.

Forcing people to STOP INNOVATION, forcing people to have a particular MONOPOLISED idea of a product, PREVENTING COMPETITION, destroying choices, preventing consumers from having choices..........

So if tomorrow somebody comes up with a new type of a device and they had an idea to provide a different type of a charger that is not based on the same technology, now they cannot.

Fuck them, the corrupt pieces of shit that they are. Good intentions can go fuck themselves. People are not supposed to be slaves of these dictator rulers, as they perceive themselves. Let's just wait for the inevitable economic demise of that conglomerate.

Ok, Hitler, and how are you going to achieve that exactly? Papiere bitte?

- won't happen even if they tried, that is because once there is a rush of buying in any particular industry, the supply of the mines would be going down with this constant demand, the prices would quickly rise to many times 50 Billion. Beyond that new supply would immediately be created in order to satisfy this demand. There would be MORE coal mines, not less, because people would see it as an opportunity to make money on this sale.

Clearly environmentalist have no clue about economics.

(same user, backup account)

Wrong, there is no solution in tariffs, the solution is in completely open markets and absence of government intrusion into business and money. This will eventually be imposed by the market, as the government will finally finish the economy off, and then you'll quickly find out that in order to buy something that is produced locally you first have to create the production facilities for it and you don't have them. In order to have production facilities, the real productive infrastructure you need sound money and you don't have that either of-course, and as you said, USA will default on all of its debts (by inflation) and thus nobody will lend USA money at low interest rates, making it impossible for USA to get hands on real investment capital.

Socialism is the end of the road, inevitable or not, it finishes off the productive class and causes massive poverty until the productive class is allowed to restore itself by reducing the government enough that it no longer matters and is no longer a barrier to free market capitalism, which is what in fact grows economies.

Absolutely, unregulated currency does rock! Except that this currency have no value unlike for example real money, which is gold.

Gold does not need to be regulated, yet gold can still be stolen.

If you want insurance for your gold, buy it in the private free market capitalist system, there is no need for any government involvement in gold, but it happens anyway because government wants to steal your gold, steal your purchasing power, destroy real money.

You think THIS is bad? How about the fact that US dollar has lost over 99% of its value (purchasing power) since the Federal reserve was established? How about the fact that USD is just a piece of paper without any value behind it, JUST LIKE BITCOINS. The only difference is, you have a corrupt monopoly system (government) constantly increasing the supply of the USD (and I can absolutely include every other fiat currency on the planet that is governed by central banks).

The only real money is gold and it can be stolen and government shouldn't be either providing any form of fake insurance, which is simply a moral hazard, nor should it be involved with trying to define what purchasing power of gold is in the first place. If there one role for government in the money department, it can be standardization of size of a specific type of coin, something that is easy to recognize, but EVEN THERE there is actually no need for government involvement! This can absolutely be done by private companies and it is.

"Robber baron" is an honourable title for a person who started entire industries that satisfied demand of entire new markets with completely new products, something you couldn't do even if you were to tax every single human on this planet until the end of time.

(same guy, backup account for such cases were I can no longer leave comments with my primary account, you know, /. moderation and all)

- I hope you do mean the customers, right? The BUYERS of the product, because the market (in this case being IBM) RESPONDS to customer demand. If IBM could increase its market share and thus sell more units of whatever by RAISING prices on their goods, they would.

IBM, like any other company, responds to the desires of the market and it is trying to serve as much market as possible, and clearly IBM (and other companies, but not you) realises that to do that it needs to LOWER prices, or at least (in the age of huge government created inflation) by not raising prices as much.

So the "greedy shitbag motherfuckers" are the clients, people who buy the products. You disagree? Do you ever buy a MORE expensive product rather than a LESS expensive product if you can discriminate that way? Do you shop on Amazon? Do you go to stores on sale days? Do you shop at WalMart or really any store that imports goods rather than selling American made (ha, find me that)?

So it is YOU, who is a "greedy shitbag motherfucker", but I don't blame you for wanting to pay less, I actually agree with that, I am ALSO a "greedy shitbag motherfucker", I want to pay less. I want to save money, I want to use it to grow my business or maybe to buy more stuff.

But of-course you don't really think before you put that garbage into comments, so don't worry about it, it's not really directed at you, I am just generally replying to nonsense, I guess cause somebody has to do it.