Square doesn't help me any. 16 high by 9 wide suits my needs reasonably well. Almost as good as the Apple monitors we had back in the 90s for publishing applications.
Oh, God, I said something positive about Apple.

I have had similar experience. Not only do the batteries wear out down to zero in about a year, but several of the ones I have had have failed to provider proper power to the computer even with the power up, resulting in my computers unexpectedly going offline during normal operations. I have had everything from the little bricks to 4U rack units and it just ends up being cheaper to back up your data offsite and buy new equipment if the built in PSU somehow lets a surge through. In most cases, the PSU absorbs the blow and that is all you end up having to buy.

At least Helium is something that the U.S. has a natural resource that somebody else wants.
I doubt the Arab nations are as freaked out about depleting their oil as we are about depleting our helium.
This kind of reminds me about a time at work where we had 20 terabytes on a SAN, most of which was unused. One of my projects was using about 300 GB on the SAN and IT was freaking out about it. "The storage costs $10,000 per terabyte!". My thinking is that it costs $10,000 per terabyte to leave it sitting there unused as well. What did we buy the system for if we are not going to let people use it?

Which English? When I see "Swap Foo for Bar" that means wherever I see Bar, I replace it with Foo.
When I see "Swap Foo with Bar" that means wherever I see Foo, I replace it with Bar.

In other words, it works for commodities. It doesn't work for cell phone contracts, software licenses, utility companies, etc because they are not commodities. You can't turn around and choose from 100 different cell phone plans because you don't like the one offered. There are maybe 10 to choose from and they all have colluded to offer the same anti-consumer clauses.
Employees are also individuals. You can't just say a Software Engineer is worth $75k, take it or leave it. No two Software Engineers are alike, and they should be paid according to their contribution to the company, not according to a standard wage. If there is no benefit to outperforming, then the trend will lead to performing just enough to not get fired, if I may borrow from "Office Space".

I could agree to this. I hate when I waste my time looking over a job advertisement and spend an hour of my time filling out an online application only to find out that they are only hiring H1-bs.

Because person by person is how you hire people. I would think that the last thing we would want would be "take it or leave it" job offers. Look what it has done to cell phone contracts, EULAs, utility contracts, heck just about anything.

Zero visibility fog, huh? And your dad was going 40 mph? Sounds like your Dad and the Rocket car were both driving far faster than conditions allowed.

And the landing didn't work because the regenerative braking failed.

Ah, so it is like an IT project, where you need X amount of computing power, and request it, management gives you half of X and you go ahead and try to make the project work anyway, and it will fail and the company will be out the money and have no project. And you get fired and everybody on the internet says "why didn't he use X instead. Everybody knows it takes X to make that work."

Uber isn't fast and loose with their customers. They are fast and loose with the law. They claim that their business model is such that they don't require taxi licenses. But all of the reasons they cite could just as easily be cited by the taxi services.

Well, what good is a solder and a fancy gun (which I assume to mean a solder gun) to Bob. If John is a Geek, he probably knows how to use a solder gun and can offer to build some electronics or at least a coconut radio in exchange for rent on the island.

We should also have armed guards on the outside with orders to shoot anyone who tries to exit the White House grounds. Only then will we be safe.

here is one example.

No, and neither do the administrators. They start a little bit before school starts, to prepare for the upcoming year (as do the teachers). They work a little past the end of the year (as do the teachers). During the summer, some of the administrators work, but most do not. Also, the administration building at my school district is open until 5, but the doors are often locked long before that, and you can see people in there, but they won't come open the door for you.