That the country/s that introduced the number system that we all use would do this.

Which I likely wouldn't do, myself, I'd keep the license and run it in a VM. I was suggesting it as a fix that'd keep the regulators quiet, I suppose.

Never really thought of aluminium (alloy) as being a heavy metal.

Not so much the rock itself, there's many similar rocks with similar minerals. It's all about the mining infrastructure you build there. Or about portable infrastructure that does the mining, for convenience lets call it a spaceship. Now if I was building such an object, it'd have a lot in the way of defence systems on it, to ensure that the blood shed would be someone else's...

Isn't it silicon based? (etc etc silicon overlords)

Ship it with Windows for 'most people' then, and have a revocation at activation time that refunds the OEM OS cost. And stops Windows running after 15 days or whatever. More red tape, but it might keep both the 'most people' and the Linux / etc users happy. And the court system. Mac/iOS/Android appear to have solved the issue in their own way by making the OS free. (as in beer)

Cue "baby in a blender" jokes.

You're putting bacon in landfill?? Heretic!

Password fields and this.

Neil Diamond once sang about this. Or something like it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

A pity, that.

Nah, we'd detonate them at range

Soldier 1: Well, simple! They'd just use a strand of creeper!

And Congress has a good working knowledge of wasting money, after all.

A satirical satyr?