. If they were about public safety, bad driving would result in required remedial driving training or similar - not a ticket.
Newsflash: in the more developed parts of the world, they do. It's just you american - government is bad m'kay - view talking here.
This rotation delivered the best working screen space on what looks like a 32:9 aspect ratio monitor [...] no longer need to worry about that pesky 80-column limit."
If a 32:9 aspact ratio monitor (which is probably not a 17" with VGA resolution) gives you worries about an 80-column limit, then I think you need to look somewhere else to solve your problems then tilting your monitor.
the inability of the USA to build big infrastructure
All recent nuclear power plant projects were or are over budget and over time.
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