Comment Re: Shouldn't have to run oil by rail (Score 1) 199
I really doubt there are many people in dorms with 5 digit
I really doubt there are many people in dorms with 5 digit
Again, that oil specifically isn't necessary.
Not necessarily that oil.
Shouldn't run oil by rail or pipeline. Leave it in the ground.
In that you choose which rules to follow, and which to ignore, subvert, avoid, or not even bother learning about.
So, you seem to be saying this business model transfers wealth from the idle rich to those building things.
You seem to have some sort of objection to this, but I don't understand it.
What exactly were you smoking?
Taxes are what the rich pay for the privilege of staying out of the guillotine.
Repurposed plasma screens are just that; you're making use of a huge supply chain designed for providing TVs to provide for a special purpose application. It would cost rather a lot to produce 30" eink displays, and there aren't many people to spread the initial costs around.
They'll give you a "discount" for using cash or debit.
There are more people using Baidu. Who cares if it works on Windows Phone or not?
But if they push too far, Google has the option to close them and nope itself outside of their jurisdiction. They'll still be able to sell and display ads to Europeans, safely on the other side of the internets.
They shouldn't have been issuing certificates trusted by default anyway. Pare down the CA list included by default in browsers since so many of them are no more authoritative than self signed certificates anyway. If someone wants to trust TURKTRUST, let them import them themselves. The vast majority has absolutely no reason to.
Both of them?
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