We are rapidly reaching the point where our technology will mean that nobody who doesn't want to will have to work in order to live. By many measurements we could be there now if not for systems designed to permit luxury yachts instead of permitting sharing of improvements in productivity. If you're at that point, it's reasonable to place responsibility for credit on the creditor. If you don't want to lend credit, you can start a business with your money yourself, or otherwise invest it. Is that not an option? Or are we wed to our currently-failing system of mercantilism?

No, they both matter. The problem with a list is that it can be abused. If you don't make the list, it can't be abused. If you don't need the list, don't make it.

And I might flap my arms, and fly to the moon.

I poked around and it seems to be an obsolete product. 9-14 khz frequency, though.

I'll bet you a dollar that if you can show me a new device that doesn't retain, I'll show you a device with a connector which is out of spec. That's not the fault of the spec.

So just to be clear, you complained that the cables have poor retention, which is bullshit, but you don't actually care if the cables have poor retention, you just wanted something to complain about so you made something up? Got it.

Well like I said it was mini-USB, because this was quite some time ago, we're talking about a RAPH110 here. But you could plug an ordinary mini-USB connector into it. For the purposes of this conversation, it's the same thing.

In any case, all a manufacturer needs to do in order to get the same meaningful functionality as Apple (drop-into-dock support) is to put their connector[s] right next to the mandated connector. Including a typical headphone jack among them is a great way to get centering.

It doesn't matter how much money you have riding on your $100 router, it's serious if it's all your money. Which for many people is just a few hundred dollars in a bank account (if that!) which they need to feed their family. But if they don't participate in the internet, then they're not a member of modern society and their situation may well worsen. How much do you propose someone in this situation spend on a home router? Remember, your arrogance will be recorded for posterity.

What idiot told you that? And why on earth are you repeating it? No successful government ever pursues just one goal. Everything must serve multiple purposes. Those are all very much intended consequences. The fact is that profit is also an intended consequence, not the only one.

What about the poor dumb fucks who believed what their government told them, the government which you've been paying for by the way, and were sadly misled as a result? You've paid for them to be misled, why don't you think you should pay for the results? It's easy to say that they should have listened to some better advice, but the curriculum and the media and the laws are all written by the same gang of assholes, so the amount of better advice is lost in a shitstorm of the bad stuff. And you've been merrily signing the checks and sending them off to pay for more of this abuse and deception, but now you don't want to sign the checks and send them off to pay for the cleanup.

The preservative that was falsely blamed (but which may well be dangerous anyway, because there is substantial disagreement about its breakdown products) is still being used for multiple-injection vials, which were used for child flu shots well after the ban citing "necessity", which actually means "cost" and "availability". They had the stuff sitting around and weren't just going to throw it away, so they claimed they couldn't make more in time (or perhaps just delayed until that was true) and then used the old stuff with the thimerosal in.

If I were less lazy, I would dig up the links. If you search slashdot long enough, you will find a post I made in the past which contains them. They were all links to govermnent sites, mostly CDC.

And who's going to make this determination? Will it be the CDC or the FDA? I might be inclined to listen to the CDC. I am not inclined to listen to the FDA.

Thanks for that link. I just posted it to Facebook to see if they would censor it, since it apparently shows unnatural behavior for primates

You were so close. The US' healthcare is worst among industrialized nations because of the nature of our free health care. Only emergency services have been free until now. That is what leads to the situation you describe. If there were no free health care here you'd have what we had before we made ER visits free for people with no money. Well, you can still be charged and such, but so far you can't be imprisoned for failing to pay.

Like so many of our institutions, it seems designed to maintain the populace in a state of poverty. Most of our entitlement programs are like that. If you start to save money to get yourself out of your situation, you won't be eligible for assistance any longer. That's why poverty is a trap. Even worse, it is functionally illegal to be poor in the USA. It's functionally illegal to be homeless. Some people up in my corner of the world have made the BLM land their home, and they just sorta roam around shooting pigs, which are always in season because they are a sort of plague. They cause damage to basically everything; crops, livestock, whole ecosystems as they root around killing plants, increasing erosion. Unfortunately, the shutdown meant a lot of people kicked off of those properties, which supposedly belong to all of us...

The biggest problem in medicine is capitalism. Charging whatever the market will bear, in this case, means endangering the health of everyone below the baseline.

And now I'm wondering if my renter's insurance covers damages due to failed christmas lights.