Amazingly enough some people are able to count higher than 10.

Amortize that factory out over 20 or 25 years.

Don't forget to account for corporate taxes paid @ ~6.5%

And that is not counting the social and economic benefits of having many people employed in stable jobs, spending money to support local businesses, having families, buying houses, etc.

There is also the added bonus of indirect job creation. That factory will require power and water and garbage collection, all of which they will need to pay for. The plant will require office supplies from paper clips to toilet paper that will all need to be purchased somewhere, likely a local retailer.

Of course, several thousand people need to eat and shop locally, so they will support local grocery stores, restaurants, movie theatres... All of the amenities that might attract other businesses to an area with an available pool of infrastructure and employable people.

get the point yet?

You, in fact, are part of the problem.

You are asking for technology to solve a job that should be handled as a parent.

By relying on technology to enforce your rules, you are failing to teach your child self-regulation, responsibility and the value of trust.

And seriously: Your kid really needs 2 hours of screen time every day? Teach your kid to read a book, build a model, paint a picture, play a board game, go for a walk, fold laundry, bake some cookies, be creative...

I have a couple of those "ceramic" pans too, and I just can't help wonder what sort of nasty chemistry that involves--especially after reading this: http://www.salon.com/2016/01/0.... Did they just switch to another just-as-toxic or even-more-toxic chemistry?

That said, I will just stick to good 'ol cast-iron or tri-ply from now on.

Considering TCP/IP was actually a BSD development, it's pretty fair to say the " infrastructure for the entire internet" is actually a result of BSD, not the GPL.

Since this basically destroy the false premise of your argument, the rest of your argument is pretty much bat guano.

The BSD license succeeded exactly where the GPL failed. It makes knowledge available freely and unrestricted. Because if this, it is much easier for a commercial entity to adopt. Once adopted, it is often advantages to help develop major architectural changes upstream, benefiting the entire community.

While I'm generally with you on this, I have found myself getting frustrated with apple lately.

In the 10+ years that I have been working in OSX (through 4 or 5 macbook pros), bluetooth has always been a bit sketchy, and little details, like the fact that you can ONLY control iTunes with your bluetooth headset controls is just fucking stupid. There are lots of little examples like that where apple tries to corral you into their market place, and it seems to be getting worse.

That being said, winning by not losing, is still winning, right? I have found that OSX just sucks less than any of the other options.

Someone seriously needs to bury systemd, Why are we turning Linux into a monolithic slab? Is that part of a Microsoft sabotage campaign?

Ticket sales are way more complicated than that for most musical acts.

It's spelled out pretty well here:

http://www.today.com/news/why-...

To use the FBI's terminology, the national "clearance rate" for homicide today is 64.1 percent. Fifty years ago, it was more than 90 percent.

...or is that because police recognize that there is a preponderance of evidence required to arrest someone today than there was 50 years ago.

If you are that concerned about your ergonomics, you should probably have a real keyboard to work on anyway. The built-in laptop keyboard is about as ergonomic as a sack of bricks.

Isn't that the old Sun keyboard layout? I wonder if I could resurrect one of those with a USB interface...

Except that it doesn't appear to be the battery itself that is the problem so much as the controller, or a fundamental design problem with heat dissipation.

Seriously, everyone is talking about the features of a good cinema or how annoying all the teenagers are, but Nobody has even touched on the fact that all the movies running these days are just complete shit. There is nothing original happening. Everything is either the nth sequel to some shitty film that never should have had a sequel or it's a remake of a film that was good the first time around and is still just as good today.

Personally, I don't go to the cinema any more because I would rather sit at home with a good book. In fact sitting at home with a bad book is preferable to 3 hours of shit like Batman vs Superman. I would almost prefer spending three hours sitting in the emergency ward with multiple stab wounds.

I think you are looking for fark.

So I can just walk into an apple store and grab an adapter from the bucket on the counter with the big "free" sign on it?

No?

I didn't think so.

Then, they are not free.

Is there anything dumber than a bag of hammers?

I couldn't agree more. Certainly a criminal investigation involving 5300 employees should be able to provide enough evidence to prove that the managers were involved, or at least cognizant of the crime, enough managers should be able to point fingers up the stack as well, and bring some serious penalties against the senior management.

All of these people should be doing time, and/or should be banned from employment in a position of trust. The higher up the stack should also involve some hefty fines too.

So does that mean speaking, writing or otherwise commenting on a copyrighted subject is now a violation of copyright.

It's the same thing.