Good lord. In College I could NOT stop playing Twilight Zone Pinball!

Rummikub used to be my family's go to game for vacations. Now a simple game of dominoes is it,

Yes, it is.
Taken from the famous case, "Swedish Chef v. Wusthoff cutlery (1982)"

I find it interesting that white rice always gets the blame laid on it, but there are literally billions of healthy people who eat white rice almost three times daily.

"running around your house on a gasoline powered vacuum cleaner destroyer bot."
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

So the suggestion is, have stringent environmental demands on the appliance and then have someone buy two? I bet you flush your low flow toilet four times, don't you?

You do realize that all the countries that have nukes DO have nukes pointed at their capital cities, right?

He's probably trying to type it on a useless Windows 8 tablet. Everything I attempt on that monstrosity ends up like that.

Ah yes, the golf war. We barely made it out of the bunker alive!

"yes, yes, we did it on Accident, yes sir! And, believe you me, once we knew what we'd recorded, we recoiled in horror, deleted the calls,and burned the devices they were recorded on! Plus, we vow NEVER to do it again!".

You're a glutton for punishment, aren't you?

you do it BEFORE they block all your traffic.

It's a silly song from the old "Dr. Demento" radio show days.

"cash in hand jobs done as a teenager"..
Perhaps "cash-in-hand" would better explain your point. Unless you had a tough teenage job career.

We laugh, I but I remember making precisely these calculations when normal Hard Drives went through the same process.

As long as China continues to maintain an exponential growth in the standard of living.
People accept that tradeoff: freedom for increased prosperity.
Where it breaks down is in the eventual slowdown of exponential growth, which WILL occur.
At that point, the agreement weakens. Why maintain the line if the old promises no longer apply?
That's when things get dicey, and why the Chinese leadership is so paranoid.
Unfortunately, cracking down will, long run, just fuel the fire.