D

F-Droid is the single biggest reason that Android is actually usable. And the only real reason Google aren’t getting sued for monopoly practices. If only ReplicantOS was more viable

DRM infected files mean that you as a consumer don’t own anything. As someome else can destroy it.

The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it

DRM violates this principle. Atreides forever

Yup, welcome to capitalism!

Pay peanuts get monkeys

No, maslows hierarchy of needs mandates a lack of savings equating with a lack of stability at lower tiers and hence your employees will fail to function at higher levels. So you need to pay more than minimum rates in every role, everywhere, if you want to actually have people and not worried as fuck drones.

Now, how much more depends on local factors - but here’s a quick rule: if they add value to your business pass on about 25% of that profit from that individual. Finding a profit for a person can be challening, this is why you get a HR person and accountants.

About fucking time

Yup, https://duckduckgo.com/?q=horse+gas+mask&t=fpas&iax=images&ia=images - loads of varities though I’m not sure on numbers deployed. Due to the rather static lines of defense I do believe the second world war actually saw more horses used! The nazis were always scrambling for oil and petroleum and thus they utilised stupendous amounts of horses

The thing about air: there’s a lot of it. Not many gases take that long to settle/dissipate. And a gas mask is pretty effective at filtering. I do imagine worst case scenario in the heaviest bombardment is a brief evacuation of current line of defense only, as this is what happened back in the somme. It was far more effective vs artillery: artillery regiments weren’t equipped as well and thus they were denied counter battery fire for enough time to allow front lines to cross no mans land. Which were backed up by creeping barrages, which I haven’t read much out in Ukraine yet

Gas in WW1 changed the battlefield for about 6 weeks whilst they scrambled for gas masks, but after this it didn’t have the effect either side thought it would. A stupid distraction that will earn Putin and his generals a trip to the Hague for sure

Wow, what’s the size limit going to actually be? 20MW is phenomenal from a single turbine, but what could we hit?

Too much wiggle room imo. If your business needs out of hours support: pay on call rates. Nobody should be contactable outside of office hours

Britain still had this until early 2010s I believe, early post and late post. Daily in the city, not Sundays, is the norm now. You still find prioriry post boxes which are collected twice a day too

Also, obviously no

100% this isn’t a lost technology, it “just” needs some machines built

We are all smart enough to be in MI6. Go have a read about their internal mole hunting

It isn’t. GZDoom has been doing this for years and years

For sure. Coat buildings with this and we all win

Far right now needing proscribed. The fact that they have so obviously infiltrated XR with spies (no doubt to father more children and fall in love with more youngsters) and then lock them up for 5 years, but saw just 1 arrest speaks volumes about our policing and MI5 priorities. Starmer with a chance to change this, bet he doesn’t though!