The everday public benefits from not having to think about fractional degrees, which can't even be felt on the Fahrenheit scale.

Really its only benefits are that the numbers are convenient for us to think about in everyday use while not doing a lot of mathematics with them. But those are benefits.

Meanwhile, why not switch over to K?

Sometimes the best approach is multiple small units. Sometimes it's one big unit. We don't put two engines in cars because it's stupid. Actually, we do sometimes, and it's stupid. TDIs get better mileage than hybrids at a lower production cost. One engine, two engines. Well, two motors. And prop planes with two engines are less reliable than prop planes with one engine, and prop planes can usually glide decently; but jets with two engines are more reliable than jets with one engine, and jets usually can't glide for shit without any engines at all.

Why aren't clusters of supercapacitors used now, because that doesn't work either. The real problem is that no one has yet demonstrated a broadly commercially viable supercapacitor of any size or capacity. They can make one, but they can't make it good/cheap enough.

It does, though, go a long way toward explaining the excellent utility and stability of the Linux kernel.

Not everyone shares your goals. I want stability more than shinies.

You can get a minor kernel patch in without a lot of experience, as others in this thread have done. A major kernel patch should come with a lot of scrutiny.

It works fine, but it makes no real improvements over the original in terms of the game itself. Primitive economy etc etc. It could use a boost.

Yes, the court records will hold a public record of IRS' unwillingness to provide any facts, and the government's willingness to support this.

It takes programmers being convinced that a program needs proper documentation for it to get it. Then the programmers will hopefully write bad but correct documentation, and then someone else can bash them into useful docs. Unfortunately, the prevailing situation with most FOSS projects with no (or effectively no) documentation is that a non-programmer cannot write the documentation, because only a programmer can understand what it should say, by reading the code. And if the code is confusing (I will avoid using the term "crap" here, though I very much want to use it) as it so often is, then it can be horribly difficult to figure out what it actually does even if one is a programmer.

Programmers need to take documentation into account early in the process, not as an afterthought. If you can't write at least useful documentation, then you're lacking. It doesn't need to be good, someone else can massage it. It does need to be correct and you do need to make time for it.

We're talking about GPRs here, in 32 bit mode it uses less of them. There are other differences, but it's still using all the functional units in 32 bit mode, which makes your argument laughable at best.

You don't pay for any of the Android stuff, you pay for a device which can run it and then you get it. Sure, you can easily pay for software, but you're not paying for the basic functionality. All of that is gratis. At worst you go to goo and get the gapps for your device, and maybe twiddle build.prop such that you can actually use the store, and then google will happily treat you the same as any other user.

Since you're not paying for Android, Android is not a consumer product. It's not like Windows where you can get it free or you can pay for it; you can only get it free. Perhaps there's some for-pay Android-on-PC efforts by now, I'm not sure. But community replacements for official software stacks are generally donationware and nobody has harassed me for money yet.

I'm substantially more upset about the Mycon, who are occasionally hostile no matter what you say to them. Watch those spores...

We're operating on borrowed time with this many unemployed.

It was perfectly innocent on that front until you suggested it might be otherwise. There's no shortage of men who love to throw money around. Were you going to mention shoes or something?

The problem with the "spirit" of the law is that now you have two sets of rules - the law, which everyone agrees on, is codified and available in big books, and then you have the "spirit", which some people agree on some of the time, isn't codified, changes from week to week and government to government, and cannot be looked up.

Which is why the "spirit" of the law is nothing but a load of bollocks - if you want someone to not do something, say so in the rules, don't make some extra-legal fluffy bullshit up that you also expect people and companies to adhere to.

Let's take a look at why that is not smarter. You are throwing away the energy density and quick charge properties, and increasing complexity by adding, most likely, another entire charge controller. As well, there is absolutely no need to use an array of supercapacitors, because supercapacitors are the solution to the problem of needing an array! They have fast charge and discharge, they already act wide and not just deep.

You're throwing away energy density by wasting space on having two power systems, and you're throwing away quick charge by including a power system without quick charge. You'll want a separate charge controller for the separate power system, and that means still more efficiency loss and still more cost. It just doesn't make sense.

I've been following this whole shitfest in the UK quite closely for the past few months, and one amusing thing has consistently struck me - the government are trying to be the goody-goody party in all of this, claiming that the companies involved are being evil and ethically corrupt when it comes to "fair share" taxation, while at the very same time flat out refusing to acknowledge that those companies are not doing anything illegal under the current tax regime.

The government also has ruled out changing the tax law to prevent the current behaviours,because then they lose the trivially easy PR they get from "taking the companies to task" infront of Parliament and the media.

It's time to admit that the current tax law doesn't work once you are above PAYE (that's the government standard taxation for employees - normal people in the UK do not have to do any filings because it's all done by the HMRC for them and tax is taken out of their pay checks each month).

Setting up a company in the UK costs about $40. Doing annual returns for that company costs about $350. By working for that company for no wage, and taking out directors dividends, you save serious amounts of money through not having to pay income tax as the Corporate tax rates are significantly smaller than the income tax rates. This scheme is so heavily and widely used, even MPs in all parties got shamed earlier this year when they were named using it - but it's still completely legal.

No one should be expected to voluntarily pay more tax than they legally are required to, and no one should be shamed for not paying more tax than they are legally required to - if you want someone to pay more tax than they are legally required to, then legally require them to pay more tax! Don't beat around the bush, change the fucking law.