When I buy shit from Amazon, does Amazon also charge me for the increased infrastructure expenses required to deliver the stuff to me? Warehouses, drivers, trucks, all that?

No, of course not, that's something they figure into the price in the first place.

It is as bad as it sounds. If you triggered it at the right time you could cause a derailment as the brakes applied full across the entire train. This is only likely if the train is moving at relatively high speed on bad track, though.

Trains use an air brake system with glad hand connections so that if a coupler fails (or more likely, wasn't correctly secured) the pressure is released and the brakes set on the entire train. The device we're talking about, which is known as FRED (on railroads the F is considered to be an F-Bomb) replaced the caboose in the 1980s. It monitors brake system pressure to ensure that it is in the operating range, and can also release the system pressure from the rear. This is needed so that the train brakes more from the rear than the front, although there is not much difference in timing unless the train is very long because the hoses are fairly high diameter.

It really ought to allow the user to just add new currencies of their choice.

BTC does make sense for inclusion, though, since it is popular.

They have always run firmware. I don't think it was always Java, but it has been for a long time.

Lick harder, I see some leather left on the wealthy's collective boots. Surely they will reward you richly!

If he wanted to help me with that he could have made the phone call, which either also would not have helped or would have done. He also didn't offer to call when I told him what happened, he acted like it was my fault.

Yeah I'm aware he was a shit father but there's lots of those

It's bullshit advice in general anyway. My dad thought he was friends with some guy who was an exec who worked for Diversey-Lever (initials J.L.) and he gave me "his" number to call to allegedly get an interview. So I called up about it and got a receptionist who I couldn't get past, and never got a call back. People like that don't have friends, just people they can use, and they have people in between to protect them from people who think they are their friends.

They don't have the exact same upbringing, in particular first and second siblings are typically treated differently in a number of ways. They also are not the same person, and different people are able to take advantage of different opportunities for multiple reasons — not all people have the preparation to take the same opportunities, and not all people will have the same opportunities handed to them. So no, you are factually incorrect, they did not have the exact same upbringing, and even if they did that would only be partially relevant.

Logic, you fail it.

Oh look, more clown shit. The government provided more funding to those schools instead of offering predatory loans directly to students, so the tuition was a lot cheaper for the student, because so much of the cost was paid before they were billed.

You fail at facts, too.

Modern life as we know it is completely impossible without cooperation. Even the most trivial of finished goods require the input of hundreds or thousands of people. It is also be competitive, but it is inherently cooperative, and there's no reason not to make it moreso just to make the bootstrap pulling, boot licking crowd satisfied.

That's what you are now. They are called CEOs and politicians.

You used to be able to store phone directories on SIM cards, albeit not with very many entries. On my Motorola Triplets and RAZR phones (original RAZR obviously, not the ones where they reused the name) you could easily choose whether you wanted them stored on SIM or locally. Maybe they don't know how to process strings, though, only store them. Or did they remove that functionality? I haven't tried to use it in many years, so I wouldn't know personally. Looking around I see that sometimes even SMS was stored on them?

Yeah, I do have that same shit. It's not a driver problem though, it's a too much bullshit problem. The management agent on my PC sometimes goes rogue and starts using up CPU to an extent which not only causes the fan to throttle up, but actually causes perceptible performance degradation — Even the GUI itself is affected, perhaps exacerbated by the fact that it's an intel-based laptop with integrated graphics. (HP had the gall to sell this fucker as an Elitebook, which used to mean something. Not quality, but at least power. My last Elitebook had a core 2 duo and discrete Nvidia quadro graphics.)

Today the site is all goofy, at least on mobile. No comment count updates, comments are sorted incorrectly...

A lot of the advice is unsolicited. The parents are acting like the kids have something wrong with them because what worked for them isn't working for their kids.