We could just import dehydrated water. I hear the transportation cost of water, once dehydrated, is minimal. Its an obvious solution.

The primary issue with java applets at the same (if you assumed a world where it was preinstalled and where version management didn't matter, bringing it in line with JavaScript), was complexity and startup time.

Doing something simple took too much code, and it took forever for a page with it to start. It would have to go in a very different direction than where it was going to have been different.

If you bought a PC with a legitimate version of Windows and you don't have a product key with it, you more or less got screwed.

Even then, assuming again that its legitimate, you can recover the product key and reinstall with it from a vanilla disk. The OEM product keys have been legit for installing with any other ISO/disk for a long time now.

Yup. And guess what license Uber Black drivers have?

Oh, "But we were talking about UberX!!". That's an issue with these discussions....everyone seems to imply Uber ONLY does UberX. Hard to have a balanced discussion.

Except those are generally requirements if you want to run a taxi service that can be hailed on the street. Services where you have to call have existed since FOREVER, legally, without any issues (ie: In NYC they have been very common). Those laws didn't apply to them because you couldn't just hail one.

Second, taxi services have historically been one of the most corrupt thing ever, both on the companies side and the drivers. So basically all of those rules are broken on a daily basis, and getting them enforced is hard.

So in many cases, Uber was totally legal (as the former), but taxi lobbies just interpreted the rules very creatively to try and get the taxi rules (which should not apply) to Uber, while they themselves do not follow them.

Thats a big problem.

Some problems in IE were from implementing things before the standard was complete. Other browsers did this as well, but the other browsers would usually change their browser to match the standard when it was complete. Microsoft would not change to the standard to keep backwards compatibility with pages made specifically for their non-standard implementation.

More recently it got to the point where whatever Firefox, and then later Chrome did WAS the standard, like IE once did.

That being, if Firefox broke the standard, the standard changed to match Firefox. Or if IE matched the standard but other browsers didn't, IE took flack for "implementing a stupid part of the standard".

Its just silly now. All hails the W3...Webkit/Blink.

Everyone knows that rich people don't deserve anything because of how priviledged they are. DUH.

That's fairly similar to the point system in the west, give or take. Have X amount of points, speeding makes you lose points, when you're at zero you're screwed.

Markup fail. I meant "Less than $100"

You're reading it wrong. Its not 50% of their daily income. Its 50% of their calculated disposable income.

So you take their yearly salary, minus some estimate of their cost of living, then divide the result by 2.

Using the same math as the rich people example above, the fine here would be $100

There hasn't been much value in writing code in a LONG time. You still need someone to do it, and it is somewhat time consuming (enough that people that do it aren't competing with bugger flippers...), but really, 95% of the value is between the time someone thinks up of a problem with a solution and its implementation design, until they open the text editor and start typing. After that point, a monkey could do it with a bit of support.

Oh, that strategy does work to some extent for sure. Though Apple's success has a lot more to do with their godly beyond comprehension marketing department than anything about the actual product. SOME of their product decisions don't hurt either, but its far from the main reason they're so popular.

No. If you're using the extract, then its not homeopathy. Time to read up.

You are not only confused, but also being duped. The only kind that would be considered homeopathic are the "highly diluted" ones. And by highly diluted, it means potentially thousands of times (ie: there is virtually no trace amount of the original ingredient in). That is the definition of homeopathy.

Homeopathy is when you take an active ingredient, put it in water, then dilute hundreds or even thousands of times until all the active ingredient is gone. Then by using a concept often referred to as the "memory of water", the nearly distilled water left is supposed to be more powerful than the original compound that contained the active ingredient.

If you have a non-trivial amount of active ingredient, then its naturopathy or even just "medicine". Those are often mislabeled on purpose, so that the real homeopathic treatments (which, being water, are impossibly cheap to produce), get traction.

As people mentioned already, that's not homeopathic. There's actually an active ingredient in there. Anything that isn't virtually distilled water is NOT homeopathy, and is generally naturopahy. If I can take your homeopathic remedy, analyze it, and easily find something that isn't pure H2O, then its simply not homeopathy at all. BY _DEFINITION_