I wonder what functionality WMI provides to Lightburn that can't be programmed around? Lightburn runs perfectly fine on macOS, which obviously lacks WMI. Unless there's some major feature I'm missing on macOS.

$50 would be bargain. Some outfit called "Paychex" (sic) charged my wife $100 for writing a fucking check.

Pascal's wager.

I'm more worried about getting it to my door in a single family house. In the example you describe, the DoorDash robot can pass it off to the resident robot, and the resident robot will take it to your room. This latter part is already working in some Chinese hotels from what I experienced, and presumably in other Asian hotels as well (I didn't see it in Japan, which is kind of ironic).

I won't have such a robot in my house.

VM Snapshots are simpler to manage anyway.

Don't they already do this? I worked for an American Fortune 10 company in China, and we had complete access to the corporate network, which included access to everything except sites that were corporately blocked, such as newly registered personal domain names. Everyone had access to Google, Youtube, Tiananmen information, and everything.

Second best thing I ever did was replace my WD NAS' OS with pure vanilla Debian. Best thing I ever did was replace it with a self-built server running Proxmox.

So the money they were spending locally at their own communities has now dried up, and it's all being sucked into Seattle city?

Isn't the Internet supposed to fall apart due to abuses like this?

So much this. It's usually adopted by reference, and that reference is to a specific version. It's not like municipalities are doing apt get upgrade every time there's a new NEC release.

Lots of exceptions for ethnic minorities, political favorites, or people that were simply able to pay the fine directly contradict the blanket statement that "It was illegal to have more than one kid in China," and thus "No, it wasn't. Don't let facts get in the way" is a perfectly valid retort, and not, in fact, an indication that "[He's] a goddamn liar."

My one-child-era Han spouse is one of four total siblings, for example, and is documented, has a hokou, and isn't an illegal child, for example.

So not everyone wants to live in high density urban areas? People value different things? And they're able to act on their values? Good.

Canâ(TM)t you just buy an AM radio if itâ(TM)s so necessary? Rather cheaper than an automobile.

I'm not okay paying for that, but remember, typical people aren't thinking about the incremental charge; they're thinking about the total fillup. The $13 plus $20 is still cheaper than my ICE vehicle. By a lot.

And I said it's cheaper than my ICE vehicle, which isn't an Avalon and is considerably larger. Which is why my EV is my daily.

From 81% to 100% is only an extra twenty bucks. It's still cheaper than filling my ICE vehicle, so it's not really much of a disincentive. The proposed 40 per minute surcharge isn't much of a disincentive, either. In fact, these kinds of things usually serve to make the abusers even more entitled. "After all, I'm paying for it, right?" Look up the Israeli childcare experiment, for example.