You are a higher class of worker, not lower. This is not always the case, as I said above.

In some countries, "contractor" is a lower class of employee without any benefits. It's not necessarily a privileged relationship dictated by the contractor.

Little people depend on the stability of banks, large corporations, and others. We all interdepend on that shit.

I take it don't you don't live in England where English is spoken natively.

Wait, you think cat food costs too much, so you mix it with ground beef intended for human consumption??? What else is fucked up in this world today I wonder.

Tell us what you know about Gouda. No Googling.

I'm paying £45/kg for beef tenderloin at my local butcher. I think the price for cryovac whole tenderloins at Smithfield Market was in the low 20s. These are british beef (Scotland).

What I don't get is, how to you point to a high price and demonstrate that as an indication the market has collapsed?? I think it would be the opposite. The market is collapsed when people are throwing beef away, or burning it because it's cheaper than firewood.

The Canadians DID invade, sacked Washington and burned down the White House.

One of the reasons I reboot is that OS X has a virtual memory file (kind of like the buffer cache) that grows but never shrinks again until a reboot.

OS X has a lot of headaches, but not as many as Windows, and I like it better than Linux. I never compile device drivers or wonder which version of $FOO is more stable than the other.

I agree, the window manager is one of the bugbears in this OS. I do a lot of window management and filesystem manipulation with trackpad gestures now... this lowers my stress level considerably.

...and as far as the mystery reboots, I am fairly certain these are due to security updates that Apple doesn't tell us about. Not that I think that's a terribly good idea, but you know... the amount of headache I get from Apple Computer, in terms of preventing me from being productive, is actually pretty slim compared to the equivalent from Microsoft. And I think that's significant considering how locked down the Apple OS is. To be fair, I'm including Mac Office and Windows Office in with Microsoft Windows....