You misspelled "flood a road away" The height of moving water is quite insignificant to the speed at which it moves. An 18" tsunami may get your feet wet, or may take you and your car across the suburb destroying quite a lot in its path.

The question is one of momentum. Very shallow water can be insanely destructive depending on how it moves. Just a few inches of expected moving water is required to have engineering considerations for foundations to prevent them being undermined.

Providing you don't double dip there's nothing wrong with that. The concepts are different for an asset disposed of at end of life vs an asset that is kept for its value. You'll find that in the accounting world no one (who isn't committing fraud) is depreciating real-estate. They are depreciating the value of the buildings (39 years, not 30 years), while the realestate itself is kept as an asset on the books. The IRS would have some very interesting things to say for you if you attempted to depreciate the property as opposed to the things built on it which do in fact wear out over time and require renovation.

You've missed the point. They are pushing out the depreciation time beyond the usable life of the product. That is fine as long as they take an impairment charge, but the whole point being made is that it artificially inflates their profits *today*.

If you don't understand why this is a problem in a time of an AI bubble where tech stocks are trading at ludicrous values then I can't help you.

What you're talking about is the opposite of the problem at hand. What is being discussed here is pushing out depreciation cycles despite replacing hardware with new cutting edge stuff to spread out the tax benefits. I think businesses should be forced to use equipment at full capacity for the duration of their depreciation period.

If they want to give it up early, fuck them let them take an impairment charge.

Bonus points if for every piece of hardware that doesn't meet the estimated timeframe an accountant's pubic hair is plugged out with tweezers.

Working and performant is relative to the task at hand. You may not need cutting edge, but when cutting edge is the difference between making money in a new market and not making money in a new market then the hardware ceases to be usable long before it is end of life.

By all means keep your server from 2012 if it works for you. As long as my painfully slow laptop is replaced next year when it's 3 year cycle is up.

Will they? The point of depreciation is that the device is deemed to be past life and replaced over that period. That's what the write-off is all about. I'm with you by the way, I think the cards should remain in use, and I think companies should be forced to utilise them at full capacity for the entire duration of their write-off period.

They want to claim they will be used continuously over that time, then let's force them to stick by their accounting trick.

People who reap the benefits of the spoils of crime aren't "innocent".

Most houses will not have a charger just go in without some form of renovation to the house. You would be pretty lucky to have a breaker panel in your garage with a spare circuit.

I call bullshit, you may have no issues with X11, but you definitely had issues with the "setup". I have never managed ever on any distro with any device to get X11 to correctly identify multiple different resolution / refresh monitors correctly.

I've always gotten it to work... except for the refresh issue, but the reality is X11 is very poor at this. Bonus points if you need to scale across one monitor only. That I've never gotten to work.

Last time I used X11 I switched away from it out of frustration and haven't looked back. Network transparency isn't worth the hell of trying to use X11 as a modern desktop. It was great back when hardware was static, but on a laptop with different docking stations, maybe connected to a TV sometimes to watch movies it is simply amazing that X11 hasn't made my put my fist straight through the screen on multiple occasions.

No issues? Man I bow before you oh master hacker. You are truly a god amongst us mere mortals.

Do I sound pissed? Yes, X11 has pissed me off in ways Wayland hasn't (yet).

You may think so, but even you are susceptible to marketing. That's the great thing marketing doesn't want you to know: It works even when people think it doesn't. You may not want cheap junk, but that doesn't make you immune from all of it.

A large portion of your life is dictated by what you know about the world, and a significant portion of that is delivered via marketing. You almost certainly are surrounded by stuff you wouldn't have otherwise bought were it not for marketing, even if you didn't do it consciously. If you lived a life only replacing the broken stuff that you need you wouldn't be reading this on a computer (or smartphone). Those "needs" are ultimately created through marketing.

As long as you cover all options then sure. I am all for signing PDFs on a touch screen or via digital signature. My mother, not so much.

"Worse" is a matter of specification. Worse in what regard? There's no reason it needs to be specific to all metrics, it can be to just some. E.g. cost, speed, care, coverage. Objectively all private systems are worse in coverage due to a legal obligation to deliver to all postal addresses. That doesn't mean that someone else can't turn a profit while meeting the other three requirements.

Where I live the local post office is slower and the same price as DHL - a for profit service.

Because you only have people send you garbage? Bulk mail is a form of communication. The way it is used varies. That you are using it poorly doesn't mean it should go away.

No I make no assumptions on the validity of data, in fact the corruption of data is often the root cause of a bluescreen. What I'm making an assumption about is the possible failure modes and how a logical partition can correct for them. And the simple answer is, it can't.

You either write to %windir% or you don't. Having Office or Photoshop installed on D: partition instead of C: doesn't change that. You either write to the pagefile or you don't. Having that pagefile located on a different logical partition also doesn't change anything either.

Having it on a different physical device may change something, but then the root cause of the problem was a device corrupting data in flight, not the location of the files on the said device. The partition part of this makes no sense.

Clearly you don't understand how the EU works. Germany was a core player in this, and has been for a while. This letter is rather irrelevant, there's been a discussion in the EU about relaxing these rules for well over 6 months now spearheaded by Germany at the behest of their industry. The thing that is irrelevant here is the letter itself.

Invested but never pushed. BMW also had a H2 car, but none of these cars were proudly telling investors that this is the future of mobility. That was very much a Toyota thing.