No what sad is that companies have not kept up with inflation but living costs have.

I didn't say once that everyone should have a living wage. What I am saying is that the government should take action if there are people trying to live on jobs that are below living wage. Basically if you put in full time all year and that is the job you are using to support yourself or a family then living wage should be possible. Otherwise you have starving people.

I don't fear for civilisation in the slightest. Knowledge builds on knowledge to stay current. I don't need the original design documentation for the first ever wheel to know how how to make a modern one. We have lost countless things over the eons. We're not sure how the pyramids are built, we don't have design documents for the first aqueducts, we just know they existed but are unsure of how they figured out how to make them, we didn't know the Roman formulation for cement.

Yes civilization here has surpassed those losses of knowledge in every way. We've built bigger buildings than ever before, we've advanced sanitisation and water management in ways the Romans couldn't imagine. Even now we're using advanced computers with modern Unix kernels without any knowledge of what the source code to Unix V4 looks like. This is an archeological curiosity but not something that underpins our civilization in any way.

By the time we lose collective knowledge we've typically already surpassed needing it.

Using more smaller ships affects logistics capacity. You've now created a queue at ports, a queue at maintenance yards, a high requirement for shipping staff, etc. Economies of scale apply.

This is a great example of people's priorities not being aligned. No I think there's a million things they should do instead of this. I already have several PDF renderers on my PCs for various other reasons, I wonder why it has a Save to PDF function in the first place.

I'm with you. I was just countering your view that this was a Linux only thing.

False. As soon as your login screen is up you can get to the desktop within seconds even on the most rubbish hardware. If your computer is taking longer than mere seconds then the problems is *you* or your IT department. One of you broke something.

For the record I'm partially with you. It takes ages to for my work PC to get to the desktop, but I know exactly whose fault that is, and it has nothing to do with Microsoft. Incidentally our company issued Macs also run like dogshit.

No Windows boots in under 30 seconds on the cheapest nastiest computer you can buy. You don't need a decent anything to get Windows up. It will however run like dogshit as soon as you open Teams.

I'm surprised Elon isn't saying that we will have quantum computing in every Tesla by the end of the year and that if you buy a car today it'll be worth more next year.

What kind of attention seeking whore writes things for Google searches in the first place? I write things for myself and I don't care who reads them. This just gives me yet another reason to stay away from social media. I already knew it was full of whores.

Ok just don't order anything that comes by plane ever and we have a deal. Also you are only paying $18 off my vacation. Do you have health insurance? How do you feel about paying for people's healthcare?

Ok yes I see what I did wrong. But it is still raising the price of a ticket. I don't feel I want to pay 20 more. I'm already packing things into one carry on because I don't want to pay 50 for a bag.

My point is that you are holding everyone to the same bar, while everyone's life is different. You may have had a life of entitlement but don't hold everyone to the same bar. And Christ, the last thing I want to be is a manager. I never understood why people go through computer Science just to become managers in the end.

28,800,000,000 divided by 16,400,000 is 1756.097560975609756. is it ok that I rounded to 1756? Would you prefer 1756.10? Money doesn't split easily into thousandths. If math works differently in your world so that you are right then there really isn't any point talking to you or addressing your word salad. The fact that 55% of flights are passenger flights doesn't matter when calculating the average per flight. You must have gone to Trump university, where they teach you 5k + a caddy = winning at golf.

When did I say 60 miles? The actual charge is going to take 30 minutes. So even if the charger is 5 minutes away and one is free when you get there, we are already at 40 minutes out of your day.