Further resources here. The original argument suggests that British authors were paid but without copyright, This is mostly incorrect, as some authors with sufficient clout were paid a little but the vast majority got nothing.

That's absolutely incorrect, and US 'piracy' of publishing rights in the 19th century is well documented.

And there's the small issue of X v Wayland. Which desktop? LTS v today's hotness.

And systemd.

Linux is not the same as Windows, but it struggle with the same software complexities. Incompatible stuff, hardware support, UI complaints, really only viruses are much of a distinguishing trait, and well the recent Telnet debacle shows Linux is not immune to troubles.

Recommending Linux as a Windows alternative is disingenuous. Many valid reasons to not jump into the Linux world. Even Apple is an alternative.

I've put out a couple of albums and a few tracks in the past. They haven't shaken the earth and neither should they - they're ok, some tracks less ok and some tracks more.

Then suddenly one week I started getting played a lot. I had no idea why - hadn't released anything, I don't really promote...it's all just a hobby for fun. Turned out another track with the same name as mine had gone super-popular, and I was picking up the results of bad searches. (Annoyingly, it was also one of my tracks that..err...'could potential improve from a remaster'. ). Covers get you heard. Soundalikes get you on playlists. If you actually do want to promote yourself and you're an unknown bedroom writer, you need to do some covers and ideally create playlists of popular tracks that also have your own tracks intermingled. This is how you get started in a purely online world, leaving aside the obvious let's all pay for fake views and votes route.

... There are hundreds of Balkan clothing stores that need more stocks.

Air pollution control is incredibly expensive and I'm pretty sure nobody will pay for it given the cheapness of life in India.

This is a lie.
Covered in their FAQ (https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-satisfaction/consumer-reports-car-reliability-faq-a1099917197/)

"They use a weighted system that prioritizes issues based on severity, safety, and potential to cause a vehicle to be taken out of service."

I have a friend who is a big Rivian advocate and will talk your ear off about how awesome the brand is while admitting that his actual vehicle is an unreliable piece of shit.

I ... didn't know how important penile oxygenation was until you mentioned, and it appears to be so.

I will certainly be showing my wife this important research.

0.9, way way back, 1994. It actually worked, mostly, and i was hooked. At the time I was keeping 2 SCO systems working, despite the app vendor lock-in so deep you could not change printers without a new license. And, no, we never moved the clients to Linux, they abandoned the app and moved to a NT Server solution.

....so when I get home, I drive into the garage, come to a stop, car kills.
So I press the button to turn the car off 1 sec later, it restarts ... so it can then shut off.

ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT.

Here's an idea: let me, as a consumer, decide if that "energy savings" is worth my hard earned $0.000266 ?

I don't even think people would mind much if it was installed by default. It's the "automatically on whenever you start the car" that's bullshit.

But...ecomarxists know better than the rest of us.

Quick question:
I apologize for questioning a fundamental tenet of the eschatology, but if the majority (something around 90%) of earth's history has been SUBSTANTIALLY warmer than today, how will slight warming now "suddenly turn into a runaway process" ?

Routinely, over the last 5m years, about every 140k or so there have been rather sudden warming increases, with a general decline thereafter. Where did that mechanism go?

I am anti copyright and have been all my life. I have created things of value and always dump them into the public domain.

Copyright infringes our rights to use our brain and voice and hands and body.

Fuck IP.

"it's not socially acceptable to point out that Republicans are bad"
In what universe?
Link me 3 posts you've made in the last year that don't, somehow, outright blame Republicans for any bad thing or suggest it.

"Obama never lied"
Jesus Christ.
- "We have excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs"
- He promised, and then routinely claimed, he 'tried' to shut down Guantanamo Bay detention camp
- "You can keep your doctor"
- "Nobody is listening to your telephone calls"
- The Benghazi attack was the result of an internet video
- "Fast and Furious program was a field-initiated program begun under the previous administration."

So, ironically (but unsurprisingly) your post is...full of lies.

Misleading.
Largely those stats are the result of red states hosting military bases, and adding that military spending to "federal spending in that state".

But half-lies are more or less the propaganda machines' stock in trade.

Fortunately, half the US public doesn't belong to your religion.

Oh, wait, no, I've got this: "they're stupid, obviously I'm smarter than all of them". Am I right?