That goes back to the Eighteenth Century, or possibly earlier. The idea was to make sure that soldiers didn't have an easy excuse for being late for muster.

Have you also read the sequal, Escape from Hell?

Flat like a kid's movie - tall kid, smart kid, fat kid, dumb kid, bossy kid, rich kid, poor kid, ....

No, no, no, no, no: tough kids, sissy kids, kids who climb on rocks; fat kids, skinny kids, even kids with chicken pox...

copyright is just property law that distorts the concept of property and exploits "art" to protect rents, mostly those of big companies. and a convenient instrument for censorship.

If, as you claim, copyright is nothing other than a way for the rich to protect their profits, how do you explain the Copyright Clause? It does seem to me, at least, that it contradicts you in no uncertain terms.

...my fingerprint could be unreadable (some finger-losing or scarring accident)...

I'm in my mid 70s now, and my fingerprints are so worn down that when I turn pages in a book, I have to watch the page numbers to make sure I'm not turning more than one page. A few years ago, I found it impossible to set up the fingerprint reader on a new laptop because of that. I have no idea how that happened, because you'd think that as they get worn down they'd also grow back, but not this time. Are they so badly worn that they can't be used for ID? That I can't say because it's been decades since anybody has tried that with me.

... Enough to create doubt.

This, however would be a civil case not a criminal one. Reasonable doubt is only the standard in criminal cases. In a civil case like this, the standard is the preponderance of evidence. That means that the jury is supposed to judge for whichever side is more likely; 51% is supposed to be enough.

It's getting to the point that I'm beginning to suspect that there are only two people who actually understand Dark Matter and Dark Energy: Eccentrica Gallumbits and Dark Helmet.

Never leave a tip on the credit card line. I --always-- put $0 and then put cash on the table or in the card-folio.

Sometimes I'll do it that way, sometimes I put it on the credit line. However, there's one chain of coffee shops where I'll always put the cash on the table, because the lowest tip percentage available is more that I think is proper for a tip except for extraordinary circumstances.

That may or may not be true, but in either case it doesn't matter. What does matter is the fact that it's up to him to prove that billionaires are anti-capitalism, not me.

Yeah, one of the things I like about Claude (and Gemini 3 as opposed to 2.5) is that they really clamped down on the use of "Oh, now I've got it! This is absolutely the FINAL fix to the problem, we've totally solved it now! Here, let me write out FIX_FINAL_SOLVED.md" with some half-arse solution. And yep, the answer to going in circles is usually either "nuke the chat" or "switch models".

If you are too soul searingly stupid to use Google long enough to find the damage billionaires are doing to your life then frankly I do not know how it is that you've gotten this far without being eaten alive by puppies.

Sorry, but you're the one making the claim that billionaires hate capitalism, so it's up to you to provide the evidence, not me. And, even if you're right that they're damaging my life (And that's another claim that you need to provide proof for.) that's not proof that they hate capitalism.

Billionaires have dominated our economy and they do not like capitalism. They do not like it one bit.

You keep saying that, over and over without providing the slightest bit of evidence to back your claim up. But has it ever occurred to you that capitalism is what allowed them to become billionaires in the first place?

Yeah, when thinking of the typical air fryer market, think "working mom with kids who wants to serve something nicer than a microwave dinner, but doesn't have the time for much prep or waiting". You can get those mailard reactions that microwaving doesn't really get you, nice crisping and browning of the surface that you normally get from an oven, without having to wait for an oven to preheat. I don't think anyone disputes that an oven will do a better job, but the air fryer does a better job than a microwave, which is what it's really competing against. They're also marketed as easy-clean, which again is a nod to their target audience.

How costs build up is really staggering. I'm getting into the business of importing 3d filament. In Iceland, it currently sells for like $35/kg minimum. The actual value of the plastic is like $1. The factory's total cost, all costs included, is like $1,50. If it's not name brand, e.g. they're not dumping money on marketing, they sell it for $3 for the cheapest stuff. Sea freight adds another dollar or two. Taxes here add 24%. But you're still at like $5/kg. The rest is all middlemen, warehousing, air freight for secondary legs from intermediary hubs, and all the markup and taxes on those things.

With me importing direct from the factory, sea freight only, I can get rid of most of those costs. Warehousing is the biggest unavoidable cost. If I want to maintain an average inventory of like 700kg, it adds something like $5/kg to the cost. Scanning in goods and dispatching user orders (not counting shipping) together adds like $2,50. And then add 24% tax (minus the taxes on the imported goods). There's still good margin, but it's amazing how quickly costs inflate.

Your "junk" is someone else's "must-have".
Your "must-have" is someone else's "junk".