Way back in high school wrestling, we used to do stairs, and it might've been 18 or 20 steps, actually - basement to first floor - so we did them over and over. And over and over. Ugh. 40 years on, I still take the stairs instead of escalators, if I can; to the annoyance of my wife, but she gets over it.

Incorrect. Taxes are paid on profits, which is revenue minus costs. Costs of production are passed on to consumers; and even those costs are typically written off, to reduce tax burden. Higher taxes means less money back to the shareholders, but that's not a direct cost of business.

Ours is circa - eh, 2010, maybe? Might be even earlier. Even with a single pixel column out of action - probably a loose or wrecked capacitor inside of the case - I'm not interested in buying a new TV. As you said, it's good enough.

Plausible; but in that case, you would do what you could to avoid using that platform for "sensitive" data, right? Mundane stuff, sure; no big deal. Confidential stuff: no.

You're being intentionally obtuse, and you know it. If you called up the president of Deutsche Bank and asked for an appointment for lunch, tomorrow, do you think he'd take your call? Likewise, if you called either senator, or your congressperson, do you think you'd actually get to speak to them? "The rich" is a club, with additional perks, and the vast majority of us ain't in it.

They have tools that are unavailable to the rest of us. We can't just walk into a bank and ask for a line of credit based on our estimated assets. We can't even ask questions of our elected officials at town halls - they screen them ahead of time - let alone meet with them for lunch, or outright buy them off to bend laws to fit our desires. So what tools are available to Joe Average? Our AR-15s? Is that what you're suggesting?

If we didn't, they wouldn't exist. McDonalds that don't make money go out of business. Have you seen many of those?

It depends: Are you a friend of Trump's? Then it's fine. Are you a cyber-currency pusher who donated to Trump? Then it's fine.

I'll tell you why: because he's afraid of Lola. If you're old enough, you've heard the song Lola by The Kinks. It's a song about a person "who walks like a woman, but talks like a man," and Republicans are afraid - terrified - of falling for a guy in drag, because that would mean they're gay, and that's bad, m'kay? So if women are clearly women, and guys are clearly guys, then they don't have to worry about getting suckered into kissing someone they wouldn't normally kiss. Hence, culture wars focused on disproportionately stupid things.

They don't have to finesse this: nearly a third of the voting public *wants* to be surveilled. If Trump says he's for it, so are they. This is a cult that will shit their pants in public to stand in solidarity with their cult leader. Even if the remaining 2/3rds of the population protested in the streets, the Republicans in Congress have absolutely no spinal column to resist whatever Trump says. If this regime wants to spy on us, they'll fkn spy on us.

Don't take this slander, Woz! I'd bet you could beat up Gates back then, and probably now, too. I'll go as high as one dollar.

If she'd only complied.

Ya know what would cure crime 100% in 100% of all cases? Preemptively killing everyone. We can justify it using your logic.

I think the trope demands that emacs incorporate systemd. You access it via ctrl-e ctrl-s or some such. (Don't flame me for that; I use vi, and don't know any emacs ctrl- keys.)

Not if systemd has a say in things. Give it time.