There certainly were apps, but app was short for application. It's only been in the past ten years or so that the term was stolen from us.

I welcome you to blow up a transformer or two and then be stupid enough to touch it.

And you obiously don't know much about power infrastructure: there is very little copper used these days. There isn't enough to make it worth it. Aluminum? It's going to be way too much effort to get it, and someone WILL catch you before you have grabbed enough to cash out.

Inaccurate. There are practical limits to profiting. At some point, you are tired of earning and want to go spend your money. Even the Ferengi take a break from time to time and spend a few slips of latinum on a lobe massage.

It's a market because there is a buyer and a seller and an exchange made. Again, read the definition.

This is in the same vein as regulatory capture, where the Wall Street megabanks own the SEC and FINRA, or where the drug company megacorps own the FDA and the CDC.

Remember the Kids For Cash Scandal?

Ever picked out a lobster at a fine restaurant?

If you're Chinese and from a privileged class and need a transplant, look no further than the Chinese prison system. Remember how the Falun Gong practitioners have been persecuted for years upon years? Too many people were joining together to do yoga that the government feared that there could be an uprising, so they imprisoned a bunch of them. What's fresher than organs from a 20-year-old athlete? Nothing. Take your pick. Plus, they have been known to strap people to a table and rob their organs while they're awake. Yeah, China has nothing on the USA!

Market (n): A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of buying and selling (as cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week; a farmers' market. [1913 Webster]

There is a market, and it is controlled by the prison-industrial complex. Don't get me started about trying to pay for a shirt for a prisoner or try to bail one out of jail. 25-95% of the cost of everything is "fees."

You have a low UID, so let me ask you. Did you ever use NoteTab? I've been using it frequently for 20-25 years. I never paid for it, and to this day, it doesn't nag you. Granted, I'm still on Win7, but you get my drift.

First reply, I just broke this threads hymen.

Anyone else who posts after me is getting my sloppy seconds, my leftovers.

Just remember that the first reply is the most special reply and you'll never experience this thread the way I did and this thread will never feel the way it felt about me about you.

Its over, you might as well just go post on r/slashdot and talk about how much of a "man" you are for replying on a thread that I pumped and dumped. Have fun with my scraps, cucks

So what you're hinting at is that the Linux Foundation has become politicized. I wonder whether any big donors have shown up as of late.

This really bothers me. This has nothing to do with Linux, and it means that to some degree, Linux is going to be drawn into this whirlpool.

WHO is classified as an NGO...for now.

This statement explains a great deal about your first posts.

A pharma mega-corp's wet dream. No regulations. Bypassing the regulations under the guise of "helping people." They are paying for an ad campaign to create a normalcy bias that this is OK. They bought the "social media buzz" creation that the parent of Slashdot sells (look at their website).

These people have no ethics. They certainly have no morals. They will stop at nothing to get you hooked on the next thing and have no liability for it.

This gayfer did the same thing to me. "He" is doing it for attention. "He" is probably a paid troll himself, going back some time. Look at his post history. Probably a Soros/CCP/whatever paid shill.

Jizz-on-u: Please do everyone a favor, and open a few cans of Zyklon-B in the bathroom, and close the door. It certainly will take hours to kill you if it kills you at all--and it probably won't even in a sealed room--but look at your lips in the mirror and laugh at the cyanosis as you slowly pass away and never lose consciousness. Then pour out the depleted contents of the canister and see how much of it was (((diatomaceous earth))) adsorbent that cost nary a sheckel to produce.

We get our marching orders from the World Economic Forum these days, peon. Now eat zhe bugs!

So my girlfriend has this personal massager she really likes. It's overmolded silicone so she can use it and leave it in the bath tub. It's lasted her the better part of a decade and has held up to the wetness for that long. So now we should be forced to buy things with battery compartments that would get wet with this kind of usage? The law of unintended consequences shrieks bloody murder here.