When you tell me to reduce the 'unnecessary', I tell you to get off my life.

Try the 'irresponsible' argument first. That one lets you pretend you have a higher moral ground.

"WFH was the right thing to do twenty fucking years ago when IT presented the concept of Remote Desktop and VPN."

In the 90s we were using Remote Desktop and VPN to enable a lawyer across the US to edit contracts, print them, solve the dilemma, close the deal, all while everyone at the meeting was on the phone typing to explain to their office staff so they could, maybe, fax something.

Not exactly work from home, but wortk where you are.

BTW, the first incident of this 'magix' lead to our outfit having to fly cross country to train the locals in how to make all this work. Was fun, would do it again. The next one made our client an international reputation.

Point is, these technologies were actually invented to address remote administration, then work in the field. WFH has done what such good technology does, solve problems that did not even exist when it was thought up.

You should follow through and explain that Islam is incompatible with western civilization.

Because that is the root problem.

No, they are not. Some preach, as their scripture, that unbelievers do not deserve to live. Some, remarkably, do NOT.

Not all religions are the same at all. And not the 'same type of cult' either. This is easily assumed by those who reject religion, and where i live that is permitted and even celebrated, but those who reject faith might not be well qualified to judge it.

"The admissions you are referring to occurred some four years after the US bailed."

But, by most accounts, Iran never stopped enriching uranium. For some of us that would seem to indicate the sanctions were not working well.

Iran has not always been honest about its nuclear programs.

As my brother told me once, after about 15 years as a programmer (COBOL, RPG, Java, and the necessary SQL/DB2/C-whatever to glue it all together, he is still working at all that), programming was great, except for the users... But he trained and employed many junior and novice programmers, and his employers benefited in measurable ways.

Forbid you help anyone succeed. Be the leader you should be, not a disappointment.

And my point - Not much of modern Linux is hampered by lack of funding. And the Linux movement has a long history of contributors who were essentially sponsored by their employers. NASA, for instance, had a few key contributors who took time form, full-time duties to make Linux much much better.

Would charging for access have stopped the work on Wayland?

Remember when you could, in System 6.0.7, and still in System 7, copy a file to a floppy (in MultiFinder), then from the floppy, then back to the floppy, and so on for a few minutes, and your Mac would hard crash. Remember?

As a tech I had a few tricks to crash Macs without any software. Just stupid Mac tricks. Not overflowing a disk, either, that was a stupid Windows trick.

Macs were not and are not yet infallible. They enjoy a huge advantage over Windows - control of the hardware. Windows suffers a multitude of hardware drivers, written by who-knows, and every significant attempt by Microsoft to insulate the kernel from bad driver behavior failed up to Windows 8. Mostly.

But it's sport to bash Windows. Has been since about Linux kernel 2.0, which if you were around then, you know was the pot calling the kettle black.

Windows has many flaws to hang your beanie on, but considering the requirements, it's remarkable. Not as remarkable as Linux, which somehow has become so despite (virtually) no paid developers. And I've used Linux since Slackware something like 0.9, which was not 'officially' distributed, and sort of worked. But it hooked me on Linux. Using Windows since the Mach 20 board and Windows 2.0, I've suffered but persisted. Felt bad for WordStar, WordPerfect for Windows, and some other software that never quite made it. Anyone remember Jazz?

Still, bashing Windows is easy. Anyone care to be similarly honest about X11?

Care to share actual metrics with us?

They dare not let you speak the truth, Rotsa Ruck telling the captives they are imprisoned. They were born there.

'en$(#@tify'
'overcharge'
'zero choice'
'rid myself of that filth'

Keywords that others use to excoriate the streaming services. Good luck with your fiber Internet service.

As if solar and wind plants are substantially easier/cheaper/longer lived than hydro.

Ignoring the cost/kWH of construction, wind generation requires more than a lot of maintenance, and solar similarly. The relatively massive upfront cost of hydro is offset (or amortized, I forget) by the longevity of most dams, associated infrastructure, and generators. Mind you, the hidden costs of hydro power include displacement of the people who lived in the impoundment, the other life such as wildlife, forests etc.

No enterprise of Man is without impacts, noticeable, hidden, and future, and the responsible equation is the cost-benefit equation. Real costs, real benefits. Forward-looking.

Yes. There are some who run on ARM64 and would use this.

It is the foundation of Communism that social and economic classes deprive the 'lower' classes of their rightful share of economic output.

It is the effect of Communism that, having been instituted, a new class is formed, that of ruler. And they operate to their own benefit, usually with little benefit for any other class.

Unlike Capitalism, Communism will resort to physical violence when the rulers are threatened. Capitalism has this interesting feature of self reinvention. New classes spring up where opportunity arises. Though in this context, 'classes' is more like ' members', since classes are generally not so fluid.

But it is an old trope, somewhat that the rich get richer. As old as the urge of Man to rule others, and such urge should resisted at every opportunity.