So, what you are saying is that the state should be punishing the people who can't afford to update in the first place.

Or do you think people would choose resistive, or whatever other than an efficient heat pump, do so because they want to spend more $ and fuck the environment just for fun?

Hey now, let's be reasonable here. If I don't waste my time on FB and /. during working hours, I'll have to do it on my own time. That's a hard pass. ;-)

It's like DP in porns.

I just did. Literally. (I am writing this just seconds after getting a reply.)

The answer was "That's just "African Americans" bitching for no reason." (With air quotes around the African American part.)

This comes from a genuine African American; born and raised in Africa, living and working in the US. I hang out a lot with him and his friends, and I often hear them referring to US-born blacks as nigg.rs.

BC has few Pakistanis and Indians???

Surrey would like a word with you.

Of course they have house numbers. It's just how you drill down to find the address is different. Oh, and how they come by their number. But they Do have numbers.

Whoa there. What kind of witchcraft are you bringing up???

> What's new here? Apps. There is an app for that now.

I take my laptop to the library, I rip the DVD in less than 30 minutes. I watch at home at me leisure.

Rinse repeat.

It's posts like this that make me wish for an "upvoting" system on Slashdot.

In a previous life I used to do the same. The "secret" to success is writing outstanding specs.

Yes, it's possible to get shit code, but it's a MUCH less likely possibility than the naysayers would have you believe.

I can barely program my way out of a wet paper bag, but I was the most productive in my section. ALL due to my farming out my bits to Roumania and Ukraine. (Yes, my bosses were aware, they only cared about the quality and quantity of the results, so, as long as I didn't involve the company resources in this, it was all good.)

In some markets, yes.

You say that as if there was anything but wasteland outside the USA. USA! USA! USA!

Have you not seen the number of reboots or remakes in the theatres recently?

Seems it's the same for wars.

> The bigger problem here is the possibility of losing the encryption keys to those backups.

QR code printed out and stored in my safe deposit box. Takes a few hours to get to, but it's always available. Perhaps not the best solution, but it's the best for _me_.