at 17? I'd be surprised if half of my friends agreed with me, and then even more surprised if they help the exact same views two years later.

Since We American's only learn geography when we're at war with someone, this will atleast be educational. I'm tired of learning about the middle east! Now we'll all get to learn that Denmark actually owns Greenland :-)

I don't disagree with anything you said, but, I don't think you understand addiction.

Any professor who makes you do more than a 5 input K-map, and doesn't teach QM is a sadist.

to me, it is that Door Dash advertised specifically that "TIPS goto the drivers", but then, kinda of covertly, decreased driver pay when they got tipped. So yes, the tips went to the drivers, but, the drivers didn't actually make any more money unless they were tipped more than minimum wage.

there is a great blog on this somewhere, but I'll try and summarize: 90% of workers will do their job well/badly w/o tips ( this are different than bonuses ), so why is it you think the service industry should be different?

But prices for PC games are as low as ever. With the ability to buy older games at a discount in all but the AAAA cases. I get 3/4 of my games on things like "steam sales" less than a year after they come out.

I agree but, I'm angry that we didn't really get a say. When shopping at different airline sites none of them actual gave us the chance to vote with our $$$, none of them advertised the comfort of their standard/business class. I've always been faced with cheap economy, or double the prize for first.

You missed my point. WHAT had red hat extinguished ? This is 99% OSS. They aren't stopping you from using anything.

The key part of the negative For Embrace-Extend-Extinguish is the Extinguish part. Coincidentally that the only part you didn't specifically say anything about for Red Hat. Red Hat, the biggest company extend linux into the corporate world. Who else employed consultants to say, "Tell me the one thing linux doesn't do for you, and we'll fix it for you so you can embrace it".

Do you realize that Redhat release 100% of it's source code for public projects, so, even if they don't use the software in their distribution, it is out there- they don't kill anything.

I feel like you don't realize that _ALL_ our energy, 100 % of it, came from a sun.

I deny it

the best way would be to train them to not be criminals, most people in jail today didnâ(TM)t wouldnâ(TM)t have commit a crime if circumstances were different.

locking people up is a doubly tremendous waste of a countryâ(TM)s resources: the cost, and the people themselves

Your point is lost when you apply a specific complaint to the whole. Some taxes, some fees disproportionately hurt poor people. We should look more into fixing that.

But we know in general that rich people donâ(TM)t take care of poor people out of the goodness in their heart. So we form groups, we form governments. The government is not just some asshat. It is a system of people. It takes real work and leadership to change it for the better.

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Well, that is the entire debate right there. That there is increasing amount of evidence that some people have trouble choosing not to even when they should. This is what is means for an action to be addictive; that in the face of unhealthy consequences, some peopleâ(TM)s brains wont let them do it in moderation.