The writer does 90% of the work, yet the publisher gets most of the profit.

Sounds like you have never written and had published a book before.

from a publisher? yes.

from a writer? no.

most authors wold KILL to get $2.00 per book sold. everything else goes to the publisher that is whoring the writers

Funny, I find anything on a Macro Scale to be boring and predictable.

The job market is full of Experienced Linux and BSD admins.

No you cant hire them for $45,000 a year, you have to pay an honest wage around $65,000-$85,000 (midwest pay rates)

so what you mean is you cant find Linux and BSD admins at the bargain basement rates of today.

I can pay for linux support as well. RedHat offers good paid support as well as other companies supporting Debian. Heck you can even pay for BSD support if you want to.

So that argument is /dev/null.

The problem is that those that make the decisions are not educated in the subject that they are in control of. I have yet to Meet a CTO that is capable of even maintaining his own laptop.

"-gravity is not a constant vector force downward. It is a radial force inward toward the center of the Earth, and its intensity varies with altitude."

for any calculations on a scale less than 10 miles, assuming a constant will give you the same answer within a margin of error that is outside the ability of any store bought calculator.

I was doing advanced Geometry and Algebra at age 8, yes I'm a slow fool compared to this kid. but it's mostly the quality of teachers (his dad) and the willingness to keep giving a kid what they want and challenging them.

The american school system is designed to DISCOURAGE this. Smart kids are told to be happy with the A they got without trying. If they challenge their teachers knowledge they are told they are wrong. Mostly because Grade-High-school education in the USA is simply following a lesson out of a book and not teaching it from an expert. the Gym teacher teaches computer class, The English teacher teaches Chemistry, and all of it creates a ho hum boring as hell experience for the children.

Here in the USA we do NOT want geniuses, we want good factory and office workers. Mediocre will not challenge authority.

yes I am jaded at the education system here. I was one of them that got bad grades because the teachers were idiots. I challenged my math teacher who could not believe that a kid can do multiplication and simple geometry in his head. I proved it on several occasions, but I was given failing grades for not doing the busywork of writing it all out. Plus I refused to learn his technique. It sucked and was harder than what I was using that came from college text books. So I ended up being a pissed off moody kid hating the education system because all I saw was idiots and morons trying to tell me they knew more than Me and I knew that they were wrong. I was reading at a 14th grade level when I was 12 years old. I read 1984 and understood the concepts and hidden meanings. I was devouring Vonnegut with a passion. I was told that the books were "too grown up for me" Everyone talked down to me and all it did was piss me off.

Sadly I did not have rich parents, so I had to suffer through the waste of time that the American Public School system is. College I slept through and aced it, at least they were not morons requiring me to turn in worthless busy work. It was in college where I ran into real education, educators that actually knew what they were talking about and would actually hold a discussion with me and help me learn more.

This is the problem here in the USA. If you are smart, you have a sack put over your head to slow you down to match the rest of the other students.

:"Why would any consumer want a third party to get between themselves and the merchants they buy from? All the third party does is aggregate and sell purchase information."

You may live in a fantasy world utopia, but those of us that live in the USA,Canada, and Europe have that third party shoved right in there all the time.

If you use anything but Cash, you are paying someone to use your plastic card. and most people use the plastic card and do not carry cash. It's exactly how the banks planned it.

He got ahold of it by using a square reader. It's not hard, but it's also not "DANGEROUS"

I am guessing you dont know how most card readers work. It's the exact same thing. the audio level signal from the reader head is sent to the chip to decode. All card readers have worked like this for decades.

they bought a junk one. Square can charge and swipe at the same time.