I would hope at least 10% of what Windows would have charged goes to the upstream developers (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, etc.).

How we wrote code before Minecraft.

Diamond Age is pretty optimistic in the efficacy of automated education yet is centered around the existential threat of print-at-home nukes. I feel like weʼll get the print-at-home nukes long before at-scale education of government-raised babies works out.

Looks like something the part in Atlas Shrugged Explained in Memes explaining Hank Rearden’s unwillingness to sell his steel foundries and secret steel recipe.

I wonder how many would rather nuke their own cities and deliberately salt their fields with radioactive waste before giving them up to a violent belligerent. Isn’t Ukraine’s primary value its agricultural fertility?

monkey paw finger curls You get free healthcare coverage and half minimum wage for each child just for existing. However, you and your child must renounce your citizenship, forfeit your passport, and accept indentured servant status until you can buy back your citizenship after repaying the government child support in full.

Private property is the smallest unit of warfare.

Also, if you stick a stamp on it and mail it… straight to jail.

Hallelujah

Hmm… Maybe instead of recruiting high school kids to go die in land grab wars the government should be recruiting them to become lawyers and legal clerks. Don’t wait for the upper class to produce educated literate people; the upper class don’t produce many kids because it’s far more profitable to park money into the stock market than to spend it raising children. Not enough educated literate kids? Pay educators more. Teaching should not be a fallback afterthought.

One of the primary criticisms of Atlas Shrugged is that the villains are so moustache-twistingly farcical in their incompetence and greed that all the workers of the world are morally justified in going on strike, killing most everyone.

The book is full of what I thought were ridiculous strawman stories like what happened to the Japan delegation.

I doubt the Library of Alexandria had permission from all rights holders to hold copies of many books. /s

Be careful not to agree to the monthly membership if you decide to donate money to change.org since change.org makes it seem like you’re reconfirming a one-time donation when you’re actually going to charge you a recurring amount (and at least double dipping even if you cancel immediately).

Its cities that are expensive

Cities have public transport which are much less expensive per capita than maintaining individually owned automobiles and the associated asphalt road networks. Additionally, electrical, water, and communication infrastructure are orders of magnitude less costly with higher density housing simply due to lower distances between service points; this is why federal grants are often required to pay for infrastructure like rural broadband: suburbs and rural towns are not cost effective to develop to the same degree as cities.

Ultimately, I imagine most people who say cities are expensive say so because they their personal comfort zone is measured in acres, not square feet.

Living in a city requires daily communication and coöperation with your neighbors; you can’t burn your trash, roll coal, park your half dozen clunkers nearby, litter your surroundings with pet droppings, or blast your music out your windows without risking getting lawsuits filed and your checking account emptied in retribution.

Here in Vancouver, Washington, the city shuts down nearly all public park restrooms and water fountains for 6 months each winter. Ostensibly it is for avoiding freezing water pipes, but I’m fairly sure it’s to increase land values of old single family housing that tend to be where parks are located by giving police an excuse to kick out homeless.

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Yeah, enjoy your block.

Spikes on benches, fees on library membership.

The only plausible reason I can see for bringing back coal is that it requires almost no education to make work compared to solar. It’s the fuel of an anti-intellectual society.

The Enterprise is at the Intrepid Museum in Manhattan.