I'm too uneducated. If 92 antiprotons end up annihilating themselves in collisions with matter, how much energy is released? Is it "did you hear that?" or, "I found the driver's femur!"

And would Uber apply a surcharge?

Americans are predisposed to use energy wastefully. They aren't alone, of course, but when national symbols include huge homes and big trucks, and their president hates windmills, non-incandescent bulbs, and low flow toilets and showers, their collective behaviour won't change until a plea to conserve comes with financial pain and an honest-to-goodness shortage.

Watch how a populace fields a request to not water lawns in a drought region to see how they move.

One of the primary ways that the population can try to find fairness, redress, and compensation for wrongs incurred is through the justice system. By putting a blanket stop to that, they are doing an end run into what is really the only tangible power the people have.

No matter how you feel about the rest of this complicated matter, wiping away legal accountability en masse is a terrible precedent.

Well, yeah. That's what it says on the tin. :)

But there's a suggestion that some people did have safety incidents, we just won't mention them. I wonder how many, and of what nature. Were their errors understandable, and have steps been taken to correct the possible misuse, or at least the documentation?

"...no safety incidents have been reported for customers who used the panels as instructed..."

When I read a phrase containing a built in caveat, I always wonder what's tucked inside it.

I don't think that's a sound assumption. Big companies often outpace their contract pipeline. Some so it by design. Having staff "on the bench" is anticipation of work to come.

Atlassian derives the bulk of their income through subscriptions, not contracted projects. That's my assumption, but I think it's defensible.

I think if your point were true for them they would, as you suggest, keep consuming that project queue. Nobody company doesn't want revenue. But since they're looking at the other side of the ledger, I suspect they're not oversubscribed.

Of course if somebody wants to chime in and say "I tried to give atlassian money to get work done quickly and they weren't interested" I'm open to being proven wrong. :)

That only works if your company has access to "more work". If your contracts are being fully serviced, and your bottleneck is demand, "paid work" isn't on the table. Just "make work". And that is not efficient.

Finishing projects early only makes you more profitable if your project queue is oversubscribed.

For some reason I'm struggling to identify the stand you are taking. Are you washing over the arbitrary or insupportable detainments by saying that sometimes they get it right? Or that game devs from other countries might be smuggling drugs or supporting terrorism? What, exactly, do you mean?

If it's that these border guard behaviors are fine with you, then say that. Not judging... just looking for clarity.

If you paid the tariffs as a line item on the invoice, you could probably pursue it. If you just paid a list price without breakdown, it seems unlikely. But IANAL.

That's fair. I rescind the part about punishment. I stand by the point about making those with legal standing whole.

That money shell game doesn't make sense. Otherwise every penny that vanishes into general coffers is untouchable and lost, no matter the circumstances under which it was collected. "Your honour. I can't pay back the money I stole, because I spent it on food and babysitters. That money is gone. Other money is not the same." Not a valid argument.

Like it or not, the people who directly paid the tariffs have legal standing. The people downstream of that, unless they have itemized receipts stating the tariffs as a separate line item, can't draw the lines cleanly enough.

That's no reason to let the government off the hook. They need to be punished.

It's better than nothing. A lot of companies ate those tariffs as losses because it was not clear they were anything but temporary. Sure, some passed the increases to the consumer. But not all. And the worst outcome is letting the perpetrators of the problem profit by it.

And I am not proud of the fact that a good portion of me is engaged in schadenfreude.

"this" is taking it to a completely different level?

The US is so far gone that I've abandoned feeling anxiety about it. I'm just enjoying watching them dig the hole deeper and deeper.

"The cost of supporting additional platforms is next to nothing unless you have no fucking clue what you are doing."

Do you believe that the cost to support the Windows platform is anything like that of fixed-hardware platforms? Really?