What does that have to do with everything discussed so far? The posts you are replying to is talking about companies (defense contractors and a hypothetical chip manufacturing) suing a 3rd party agent for raising a false alert (which would most likely be dropped trivially). There is no mentioning of the government. Moreover, sovereign immunity, though an existing term, it is not a generic blank statement that the government (be it at the federal, state or local level) can pull out of its ass whenever someone has a grievance - not to mention that it is up to the judge to decide if a sovereign immunity defense (and the suit) has any merits.

Non sequitur. Why? Because:

1. What you said doesn't prove that paying for books is bad, and most importantly

2. What you said is not fucking true.

I can prove to you that what you said is not true by contradiction. If what you said was true (that no one tried to read the books in Project Gutenberg), then it has to the Epic of Gilgamesh, Sun Tzu's "The Art of War", Cervantes's Qixote, Shakespeare's Macbeth, Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations", Nietzsche's "Thus Spake Zarathustra" to name a few.

This is obviously not true since these writings have been the object of substantial reading through the centuries and ages, which predates free e-books. Ergo, your statement is false (in addition to being tangential), and you are an idiot for making it.

In neither of these cases the government steals. Though there is always the chance that an innocent person can have his wages garnished, the overwhelming majority of cases occur because the suspect has already crossed a threshold of unanswered warnings. This is particularly true when not paying your taxes (yes, you should pay them voluntarily, that's the law.) I really have no clue what the heck you are babbling about here.

Bro, you should, I dunno, teach economics or something. Your grasp in the subject is just awesome.

The risk of theft or loss with government-backed banks is the same; the thieves are just more organized. And if you consider inflation, the slow, persistent, and inexorable theft of your banked USDs is all but certain.

Well, switch to bitcoin. There is some truth to what you say, but you started to fail miserably when you decided to inject so much theft hyperbola in your argument.

This is how is done in good places (both public and private.) There are private shops that act as stupidly as bad public shops when it comes to insulating developers from the day-to-day management/inventory minutia.

Say what you want, this is the best venue for dating, a zillion times better than clubbing and getting hammered. Plus, on average, people engaged in trained dancing activities tend to have a higher level of education and income than the crowd engaged in clubbing and getting hammered. For me it was Salsa dancing. Dated a lot; have a lot fun; met more engineers that I could socialize with that way than at work; and where I met my wife.

Kids and man-kids will call it ghey. Men see it for what it is, a social activity.

You and I certainly operate with different moral compasses then. I've never hired anyone for minimum wage, but I certainly have had worked for minimum wage. It never crossed my mind to do the minimum required work just because I was getting paid the minimum wage, something to do with the way I was raised. That has served me well as I've climbed up the ladder.

It is not about doing what people (a minimum-wage paying employer for instance) expects of you, but what you expect of yourself as an ethical worker. There is a difference, the nuance is missed to most apparently. You either get it or you don't. Only you know.

That's not smart. That's dishonest. Nobody forces no one to take a minimal pay job. You take a job, and you accept the pay, you do the job (I talked from experience since I've flipped burgers for minimum wage.) What the hell is wrong with you people that you think your duty to do your job is a function of the hourly wage you so willingly accept?

Having worked in pretty boring cashier/salesperson positions, I call bs on it. People do not necessary act on it, but they tend to note discrepancies and alert management. Yes, there is always the emo kid who doesn't give a crap about anything, bored as hell behind the counter. But those are the exception rather than the rule, whether blue collar or white collar (I've been both.)