Which is all that Cloudflare seems to be doing. Checking to see that I have Javascript turned on (and ad blockers off) so that their clients can serve me garbage and track my movements.

Javascript has f--- all to do with level 3/4 attacks.

Missed. Hit nothing but white space.

Rabbit ears.

Since the government can just print money, why must I pay taxes?

One of those cases being the instance that was requested (but not approved) to remove a tab from a Kconfig file.

Implying that there has been one there in the past. And unless the "third party parsers" referred to in TFS are brand new, they must have been handling tabs correctly in the past. Now they crash. Someone either jumped the gun with a change to their parser code. Or they are trying to force the issue by crying that Linus "broke my stuff".

I imagine that Linus is trying to prove one of two possible points: 1) Learn to implement changes that involve dependencies correctly. Or b) Don't fight the tabs vs spaces battle with his kernel.

Sometimes the lyrics are equally unintelligible to an American ear. As others have pointed out.

But (with a few exceptions) I don't have to register my private contracts with a government agency. Or make sure it complies with some government regulations. If they violate some law, they just won't stand up in court. As long as all of the parties involved are satisfied with performance, it never makes it to court and the government doesn't even need to know of the existence of the agreements.

I may be a bit off the mark here, but crypto currencies are a framework for recording and executing contracts between pairs of parties. And so are equities, futures contracts, various securities, etc. So if you can regulate the latter, then why not crypto as well?

So now we are coming pretty close to regulating and tracking any agreements between two parties. Nope. I don't want to go there. If the various regulating bodies can figure out how to handle crypto without sticking their nose into every last type of association between two or more people AND the crypto people can't figure out how to reclassify their products/services as one of the remaining exempt private deals, go for it.

Effectively, yes. Washington State is a proud, blue state.

You will hire our Party members. But not make them show up for work. You will not fight the unionization of your workforce. Who will pay dues, part of which will be skimmed off to support the Party's agenda and campaigns. You will do business with the Party's friends. And not their enemies (we have a friends/enemies list right here). And you will give the Party elites steep discounts.

Have I forgotten anything?

Just fine as long as they offer a fast lane for torrents as well.

You've got that backwards. The party elites lean on your CO-OP and credit union to support their political agendas. Or your states auditors and regulators (probably populated by party apparatchiks) will begin the investigations.

That is essentially how whistle-blowing is done. The problem is, the cognizant government organization would begin to conduct an investigation to collect evidence for their case. At which time, management would begin their own investigation to find the rat.

Not every whistle-blowing complaint is justified. Some are just blackmail. But until the gov't establishes te veracity of the complaint, the company hopes to find and discredit these parties.

OK. So all Boeing's board of directors would have to do is to mandate that middle and lower management implement real quality improvement measures. Any resistance would be "pushing back". Resulting in the termination of those managers.

Yeah, right. You don't understand how Boeing or any other companies internal politics work. Middle management would just band together to resist change and protect their peers. And production would effectively shut down.

It takes years or even decades to turn company cultures around. Or a Chapter 7 bankrupcy, followed by a buy-out by a more enlightened company. Even then, they would have to go through and find all the cockroaches left behind, hiding under pallets.

Capitalism is based on entering into agreements with others based on mutual benefits. With no external coercion. Socialism is about using that coercion to obtain benefits for the party elites. If you want to become an elite, just have something to offer that others wish to buy.

Carbon tax rebates are just one method the ruling class uses to maintain the complacency of the ruled. Panem et circenses.