Get your logic out of here! I want to blindly hate the government and if the only way I can do it is by misinterpreting everything in order to push a narrative of inefficiency then so be it!

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The same people complaining about Valve instructing people do disable SELinux are the very first people to recommend doing exactly the same thing when someone online asks "How do I do [basic thing] in Linux? It doesn't seem to be working." There isn't a single message board dedicated to Linux that isn't filled with "disable SELinux" posts.

You probably don't own the land that the track is on, but you own the land on either side. You might want to recheck your documents and property in order to avoid paying tax on land that you can't use because it has an active rail line running through it.

> 2- it encourages brain drain. Since the repayment is through the tax system, the easiest way to avoid it while still earning good money is to move to another country where they won't care about it.

What the fuck are you on about? You know that you still have to pay taxes for the country in which you have citizenship, right?

At least it's a step in the right direction.

Obviously, there would be a limit on the amount of subsidized education you can get. Did you seriously think that this proposal was as simple as "pay for it with some taxes"? Use some common sense.

This is actually a really good idea. However, it does need some limits, particularly with regard to tuition prices. This proposal will give universities to raise tuition prices like mad. We need to place some serious restrictions on those.

You did not pass the EIT, you passed the FE exam. That's the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam. Because you passed it, you are now an Engineer In Training (EIT) or an EI (Engineering Intern). (Those terms both mean the same thing and are entirely interchangeable.)

That's yet another terrible analogy! Dynamiting a bridge is akin to an IT administrator sabotaging a system from within. That's also a terrible analogy, but at least it's closer than your comparison.

They never were. That was actually the code for what essentially amounted to a superfluous lock on the devices. There were still multiple layers of security, physical and otherwise, that prevented any kind of unauthorized use of, or access to, nuclear weapons. The idea that someone, armed with the code 0000000, could have done anything sinister with regard to nuclear weapons is beyond laughable and is well into the realm of nutjob conspiracy theories.

Interesting. I'd normally be all for this, there are way to many kickstarter campaigns that consist of "I have an idea for something, I need an amount of money determined by pulling a number out of my ass, I won't offer you any return on your investment, I might not even come through with the project, give me your money!"

On the other hand, there's no fraud here, no one on kickstarter is claiming to know what they're doing. Also, the job of the SEC is to prevent financial fraud, not to prevent fools from being parted with their money. If idiots want to throw their money at stupid things on the internet, let them to it without silly extra taxes!

The better solution is actually to digitize all that stuff. Paper is absolutely terrible for archiving information. You have to be in close physical proximity to read it, only one person can see it at a time, it's incredibly flammable, it wears out (there's a reason that you can't physically touch most old books and papers), etc.

Paper archives are of interest only for the novelty of seeing the actual piece of paper. The US Constitution is a great example. Even if the thing were destroyed we'd still have a constitution, it wouldn't suddenly cease to be law just because it was destroyed. Visiting the national archives is only good if you want the novelty of seeing the first copy ever made. Sure, It's interesting, but it's entirely worthless if you actually want to read the document. To see the constitution you have to show up during visiting hours and try to read illegible handwriting through 3 inches of bulletproof glass under incredibly dim light. It's far more effective if you just pull up a copy on the internet.

This goes for libraries everywhere. It would be far more useful if we just digitized all of this stuff. It's not hard. There are many commercial devices that are capable of digitizing books, maps, charts, and all manner of written material. The ONLY obstacle to this is the fuckwits responsible for turning copyright law into the clusterfuck that it is today. The only reason that books aren't digitized is because someone will sue whoever is doing the digitizing. It doesn't matter if the book is out of print and isn't sold anymore, whoever owns the copyright just wants to make a quick buck by suing someone else.

It's going to cost way more to replace the e-readers than it does to fix/replace books. For one thing, repairing an e-reader is almost impossible and, even when it can be done, costs about half as much, or more, as buying a new one. Books, however, can be rebound and repaired to a decent extent before they need replacement. E-readers are also way more fragile than books. Show me even one e-reader that can be dropped from 5 feet, pushed off a desk, thrown into a backpack, dropped again, have a stack of junk (pencils, other books, water bottles, etc.) dropped onto it without breaking and I'll eat my hat. And don't forget the chargers for these things. The cords will break and the chargers will go missing like crazy.

The only reason this idea might work is because Texas now sees it fit to classify failure to return a library book or e-reader as a crime! I'm sure that throwing people in jail for failing to return library books will be a great help to society.

> the application of space science technology and research to "basic necessities" of life – health, education, energy, food security, environmental management – is critical for the development of the continent.

If a country can't even provide clean drinking water to their people then how in the fuck do they expect to give them space-age technology? It doesn't matter what they might learn from space travel, because they can't even make use of technology, like water purification, that was perfected more than half a century ago!