... turn down the volume on all those hearing aid ads.

... you can hold a tunnel diode in your hand. And you can even buy them at Radio Shack.

Perhaps not for you. But I'd venture a guess that some other people following this discussion did do the search I suggested. And perhaps learned something. So, I win. Debates aren't about winning over your opponent. They are useful for convincing the audience.

I particularly liked the illustration used in one of the first search results illustrating one of the political positions: That of a dodo bird. Make whatever you will of that.

Ripping my own CDs.

We have them here in the USA too, especially in California. We use them both for rail and express buses. We need more rail, and more park & rides.

These are in fact already a thing, and as you surmise, a good one. It lets you only run catenary wires where they are convenient.

They did finish Debian to use a single init system, it is called systemd and it sucks. If you install another init system you have to do a shitload of work to un-systemd it, which is why Devuan exists. They do that work for you. Debian USED to use a single init system (init and compatibles, you could switch between them freely without having to do anything else) but then they added systemd support in the name of GNOME support, at a time when GNOME popularity was waning and while systemd was particularly terrible software. This was frankly insane. Many of the gigantic bugs in systemd have been fixed but many others are wontfix, like early boot logging which doesn't work and forces you to use a debugger to figure out why your system won't boot.

TL;DR: They did exactly what you wanted and it was a terrible decision that set Debian back years and led to the creation of yet another Debian derivative to restore it to do things in the Unix way.

I can't speak about iPhones. But my iPod has been running fine for almost 20 years without an account.

I agree with you. The only place roadway charging maybe makes sense is on interstates, but you have to build an awful lot of it to make it worthwhile. I also agree that it by far makes the most sense to put charging on parking lots, and I've been preaching that here for a lot of years. They are obvious places to put solar farms, and we should focus on parking lots until all the convenient ones are covered.

Newton spent his last years looking for something that doesn't exist and doesn't make sense
Nikola Tesla fell in love with a pigeon
Josephson seems like the least batshit of these so far, but he's had to retract claims he made about new kinds of energy made with the mind repeatedly.

Smart and capable people can fall for stupid bullshit and become obsessed with it.

Of course they are. Look at how many people are still defending him. You're betting against human stupidity, which is classically stupid.

Good thing Bill Clinton signed the TCA in 1996 and allowed Fox and Sinclair to do a media consolidation. That rapey fuck actually claimed it would increase competition, what a slimy piece of shit.

#inb4 some clown brings up the Fairness doctrine that never worked.

Carpentry 102: Guillotines
Mechanical Engineering 303: How to implement full-auto sears
EE 202: Designing face recognition attack quadcopters for fun and profit

I've been seeing a lot of people saying they ditched redhate recently, some of them even over their abuse of the GPL. I wonder what the numbers look like.

Glad I use Linux!