Prisons are always paid for by taxes. The difference is that in America someone is profiting from that…

Cool story bro.

I do this frequently. In many places the cashier has to print it, so instead if handing it over to me they just throw it in the trash…

You’re utterly delusional. If this system has done anything is to stiffle small, independent producers and consolidate power in megacorporations.

This is the kind of crap you’re defending: https://patents.justia.com/patent/12268585

This is a random, recent patent from P&G. Read that bullshit, and then tell if if what they’re describing isn’t the most generic design for a diaper or sanitary napkin ever?

“One permeable layer facing the wearer, then a semipermeable layer that tries to only allow liquid to move away from the wearer, then an absorbing layer, then an outer impermeable layer”

Oh boy, if it wasn’t for that patent, I’d be pumping 500 million dollars into building a factory so I can flood the market with my cheap fake products! - said nobody when they read that.

It’s hilarious how far removed from reality your ideal of patents is…

it costs millions of dollars to get a manufacturing process up and running and in a good enough state to where it can actually work out financially. Without patents, your competitor can just take all of that work and investment and just copy it with the benefit of doing it right the first time, so they’re able to undercut you on cost.

This argument makes no sense. Manufacturing lines are built all that time for unpatented products, plus a competitor can’t just “take all of that work and investment”, they will need to put in money to create their own product, even if it’s a copy they still need to make it work, as well as build their own production capacity.

They’ll be second to market, and presumably need to undercut price to get market share… This is a very risky endeavour, unless the profit margins are huge, and in which case, good thing that there’s no patents…

If the research is so costly and complex (pharmaceutical, aeronautical,…), then it should be at least partly funded by the government, through partnerships between universities and companies.

Patents are not a solution.

In what world is assembly more readable or easier to understand?

Companies already issue digital boarding passes. I have a government issued digital ID in a phone app. These are convenient.

But facial recognition? Hell no, f that.

Isnt that like all phone makers recently?

And I love impotent people.

Governments can and do target individuals, see sanctions on russian oligarchs. How is your memory so bad?

Plus, new tax rules are drafted every single year, to encourage or slap down specific stuff, why you acting like it’s impossible when it’s not even rare?

They are subsidiaries of US companies. You draft a list of wholly or majority US owned tech subsidiaries, and you tax them out of the wazoo, done.

I’m sure tax and trade experts can come up with better approaches.

25% on tech services is where you’ll see America panic.

You really don’t get it, huh?

People heard that shit last time, and they voted democrat, and Biden won. And ABSOLUTELY NOTHING changed.

At the end of the day, the rich got richer and the poor got poorer, just like they did with trump, and with Obama, and with every single president who has taken office in god knows how many decades.

And still you’re here yapping “oh noes the horrors, vote Dems”.

Bro, the Dems aren’t LISTENING! Get a Bernie up there, or an AOC, or anyone that the people actually believe will do anything other than feeding the same interests they have been feeding.

And if you’re too thick to realize that, at least you’re not alone, the whole DNC is right there with you.

A good phone.

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They should have all the specs, and very competent engineers. I could see a port of Android working on an iPhone…

Avgas (100LL) isn’t banned yet. What is banned, starting may 2025, is importing or mixing the lead additive (TEL) itself, so avgas cannot be produced in Europe.

This means that avgas will have to be imported from elsewhere, which should raise its price and provide an incentive to move away from using it.

This is a very soft handed approach, I’ll just say I’m very glad I don’t live close to an airfield…

Edit: jet fuel doesn’t contain lead. Only piston engine aircraft use this fuel.

Let’s Encrypt Expiry Bot just entered the chat.

“Can you explain some of the issues with the current administration?”

This guy: Hold my beer.

What a legend!

Solving problems the Excel way.

Technically he has more sides now. A lot more.

I presume OP works at a decently sized company, and they have magical people like PMs and CSMs that turn customer tantrums into neat little cards that he can push down the kanban.