India, Brazil, Italy and even the UK have them. Brazil has over 100 since 1994 and all is well. It enables sane micro credit/lending to poor communities that actually benefit the community, as you can't buy nothing elsewhere with it i guess.

It's a fools errand to counterfeit "social money", as the term is know by economists since the early 90s -- But good luck finding this term on search engines with their crappy results for things that do not bring advertising dolars, and how "social" today is "mp3" of yesteryear SEO.

Here you can see a picture of the piece of paper used as money https://www.em.com.br/app/noti...

sd cards have the worst, shittiest pseudo-bullshit marketing self-governed rules, that the industry try to fool you it's a "standard" .

go on, read one of those standards.

they say things like "speeds of up to 3MB/second."

  and the full standard doesn't even outline measurements practices or process or even guidelines. they do mention lots of leeway in terms of percentage of production lot that must pass the arbitrary test, etc. reach 3MB/s in the first 2kb and you're good to slap that A+ grade of BS on your packaging.

"I'm an asshat who used all that free software and guarded all mine under lock and key" .

If your companies were not investor scams, you could have a profit or a big exit by having loyal users, who knows? but I guess being a parasite is easier.

nobody cares about enforcing the GPL2 because 1) companies already abused it enough to afford to write BSD/MIT alternatives (eg. llvm): 2) nobody ships anything physical anymore.

Now the figth for software progress is on online services! if you write code, figth for it to be GPL3. otherwise you are literally working for free against your interests.

what about vmware?

case in point: the guy hired by google to sell google's enterprise cloud storage to companies still stuck with samba clients, is affirming gplv3 is dead.

it is not that simple. the people claiming gplv3 was bad were all the people with vested interest in exploiting linux et all online.

think for a second, just how many companies today started at that time? how many were closed sources? how many run exclusively on linux servers?

yeah, there. you just found all those people saying gplv3 is baaaaad, hmmkay?

all that is the same as dual licensing! why the double speak?

just call it double licensed under gplv3 and whatever-that-is-not-gplv3

that was the exact same argument the bsd crowd had. see where their little consulting firms are now, and compare to companies that embraced gpl2 and are now cloud Heavyweights

> > in the US, and I've never been required - or even asked
> boss did require that all of us (whether local or remote) be on chat.

technically, if you live the US and use employer provided equipment, they can monitor every single thing you do each second without telling you. They were probably just being nice on the chat thing.

be sure to take at least 200 gin&tonics per day (yep, did the math)

unless those are patented by MIT already...

If you guys want something different, instead of just lamenting and then buying an apple-candybar-clone, but a blackberry.

It is as stock android as one can get. And have a keyboard. with keys and all. you get an android with Ctrl+x/c/v, even Ctrl+z works! ctrl+a... ssh client with ctrl+h/i to esc tab... it's a dream.

if you are buying a key2, note that there is a key2 and key2SE or something. The SE (or LE?) is the same phone with a cheaper CPU (and some say better battery life)

Whoosh.

it's equally absurd both entities caring about private sector profits, despite the fact that they do.

if they hire the same incorporation lawyers as scientology, they can be even more tax exempt after they add forced labour.