If it isn't profitable enough for private enterprise to do it, it's not worth doing. End of story.

Of course, that's true of everything.

In a few days of spare time, I added an RSS Aggregator to my blogging engine. Only tracks a single list of feeds per blog, and only works in Lisplog, which is currently not easy for non-wizards to get bootstrapped, but it serves my purposes.

  https://billstclair.com/blog/aggregator/
  https://lisplog.org/aggregator/

Lisp has been supporting this for over 3 decades.

I think this is the first time I've used the Emacs m-x rot13-region command.

The parasites are ever thinking of new ways to extort more money from the productive. Atlas gonna shrug.

Good sound doesn't have to cost a lot. I first upgraded my computer sound a little over a year ago. Bought some M-Audio AV40 powered monitors for $150. There are lots of choices in that price range, all much better than the cheap speakers you get from your computer dealer. The next important thing is to replace your compressed music with FLAC or ALAC. That means buying CDs and ripping them, or downloading from HDTracks or one of a few other places that sells uncompressed downloads (there are also plenty of FLACs available as torrents, if you swing that way). I've been accumulating CDs since 1984, so I already had plenty, and just had to re-rip them without compression. Once you've done that, you can make a third improvement by buying an external Digital-to-Analog convertor (DAC). I use the NuForce Icon uDAC, for $100 (or a little more for the HD version), but there are lots of choices there, too. An external DAC routes your music through your computer's USB port, routing around the cheap DAC inside most computers. That $250, plus ripping time, brought my computer music up to very near the level of the $2,000 system I bought in 1984.

The next step up is to buy $400-$500 speakers, an HD (96KHz/24-bit) DAC, and HD music (from, e.g. HDTracks.com). But most people won't care enough to go that extra step. That made my computer music much better than I ever had in the eighties.

Reminds me of a certain fruit-logo company, who hired a soft-drink marketer as CEO in the nineties. He tied employee profit sharing to market share, instead of, well, profits. Nearly ran the company into the ground. Until the wunderkind who made the mistake of enticing the soft-drink marketer returned and realized that no matter your market share, if you're profitable, you get to stay in business.

We could certainly use that money better. Give it back to the people who earned it, from whom it was taken by extortion (taxation).

I guess if you count all the photos at each location, you might get 43, but I can see the lady and her dog from only 5 locations. Start at Anonymous Coward's Direct Link, back up a couple of steps, go north on Cooks road, rotating to look south, and back up a couple more steps. The cop car keeps following for a little while, but the lady disappears.

Another way to save trees would be to make paper out of hemp. But darn, it's illegal to grow hemp, even the non-psychoactive industrial variety, in the US. Bunch of neanderthals.