You can't "copy" cigarettes, but you can (but not legally in most cases) with digital media.
If said digital media has a "tax" on it, and someone makes a copy, then could that be made into an additional crime of tax evasion?
Sunspot activity obviously has a lot to do with "global warming"...
A co-worker has one, in my department, in the office adjacent to mine.
I think he gets something out of how makes him sound busier by clicking at double his typing rate...and as a programmer, looking busy (vs actually being busy) is of the utmost importance!
His isn't the old IBM style, it's like a wierd hybrid of a ergo and an old flat - it has the split, but it is a flat keyboard.
When it dies, I wonder if I'll miss it...knowing him, he's probably got a spare...lol
If we had WW-III on our hands, those ships would be out of mothballs and put back into service within a few weeks/months. There are a few "retired" battleships that are basically floating museums now that fit that criteria.
All consentual sexual relationships are a form of prostitution when you get to the basics of it...be it money, food, protection...
What about the wife that won't have sex with her husband until he does some chore?
Isn't that prostitution?
Real Programmers don't eat quiche. They eat Twinkies and Szechwan food.