That's completely orthogonal to my point. But thanks for playing.

Doesn't sound like cygwin has changed much in the last 10 years. Thanks for the trip down memory lane--I think. :)

Contractual clauses which violate US law are null and void in that country as well.

You can tell where the centre of *mass* is just by looking at it? Cool, wish I could do that.

And you're adding to the discussion exactly how? People are allowed to, you know, express their opinions and stuff.

At this rate, we'll see a story about the hypervisor floppy-disk vulnerability in... December.

Are you including checkin, security, bag drop/pickup, and getting to and from the airports? Didn't think so.

Even a stopped (analogue) clock is right twice a day.

Why is parent modded Off-Topic? It's spot-on.

The problem is that you do not have perfect knowledge, and neither do I.

Go watch The Century of the Self , and prepare to have your eyes opened.

To be fair, I wouldn't be much affected by the restriction, since I'm allergic to crustaceans.

Still, it's petty and mean-spirited and I hope SNAP users are able to hack around it in some way, just on GPs.

I just wish the taskbar weather widget actually displayed the temperature. I already know what city I'm in, thanks.

I suspected it was something like that.

Here in Sweden, like many if not most Swedish workers, I'm eligible for something called Rikskortet ("the national card"). It's a card that works like a credit or debit card that gets charged up with (in my case) about $250 (1600 SEK) every month. If you take the benefit, you're taxed on half the amount. You can use the card to make purchases of food and/or beverage at most places where plastic's accepted--café, McDonald's, grocery store, fancy restaurant--doesn't matter. No restrictions on what sorts of food or beverage that I'm aware of, either, other than that it can't be used to buy alcohol, which seems fair enough.

The longer I stay away, the more the US seems to be run by complete assholes.

Please provide some background or a link for your overseas friends. Cheers.