And how does that annoying floating "Like us On FaceBook! Please! Someone! Anyone!" pay for servers?

You mean you don't want to see a week of ads for something you just bought? Philistine!

And pre-1913 we had no income taxes. When you get to todays world, let us know.

Do you remember the Internet before advertising? I do. It was mostly educational, and technical. It was also low bandwidth. The modern Internet is a lot of expensive to produce and deliver content. That money has to come from somewhere, and Universities are not financing it all like they used to.

The amusing part is that youtube know this and has not "fixed" it. I guess they realize we are not a receptive market for that crap.

Then you have something broken as well. I use adblock and never see the intro ads. And it looks the same since I am always surprised when they play on another computer.

From what I have seen, getting them to call is not the problem.

So, Plesk then... :)

They are always needed. Sometimes eventually, sometimes quickly, and sometimes right fucking now. But you can never just be OK with old versions for long.

In the sense that both are made by man and imperfect, yes. In the sense that patches come rapidly, no.

Or, they can install the solar everyone else is spending a fortune developing in the plentiful sunlight they have.

Which has nothing to do with a dome, and everything to do with Dubai... The reaction to the dome is unfounded panic. Dubai will separate the people because Dubai separates the people. Dome, or no dome.

I love companies like that! They give me a lot of consulting work when the ivory tower hits the real world.

You see any poor folk in the government? (Actually in government, not working for government...) rich / government are interchangeable terms.

They could be burning it with carbon for profit!