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> But we can agree that it's not the nature of a corporation to pay more taxes than necessary? Think Different.

I take it that you weren't using the web in the era of webrings?

If they don't consider the software a good deal, then they simply choose something else. We're not talking about the bad old days of the Microsoft monopoly where you were basically…

> forced labor You're breaking a signed contract, not escaping slavery. The notice period is usually in the contract, too (or at least it is here in Australia)

This is simplistic libertarian nonsense. Pollution regulations have had obvious good effects. Workplace regulations have made the workplace a much better place for all than previou…

> I believe unions promote a corrosive us-against-them dynamic that destroys the esprit de corps businesses need to succeed. The divergence of who gets the money in a business over…

You might want to look at the concept of a Standard Operating Environment. The benefits you describe are not docker benefits, but SOE benefits. Docker image layers perform exactly …

Future generations will really appreciate that plugged shaft!

The first rule is that you don't break userspace, not that you don't make mistakes. Commits go through a process before being put into the kernel, and if yours is going to break us…

You need to work in a wider variety of workplaces, if you genuinely believe that. Perhaps put another way: were Jobs or Ballmer ever escorted out for their obnoxious behaviours?

Mate, you've contributed nothing to this conversation but "nuh-uh!". I've given you references AND pointed you to the parts of those references that you claim you can't find, even …

The connection has timed out The server at www.haproxy.com is taking too long to respond. Not the best advert for a high availability proxy...

Well, here you offer a prime example of the power of religion: you are being wilfully ignorant because you don't want something to be a certain way. You won't be satisfied unless t…

... the very first paragraph after the table of contents? If you check out the Middle Ages section, it shows that the theological debate that it wasn't physical alteration started.…

> No one has every believed that the eucharist literally turns to blood and flesh. Your taste buds would tell you otherwise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transubstantiation Plenty…

What's always missing from these discussions is that that patronising mockery and outright dismissal is how atheists and agnostics have always been treated by the religious - it wa…

Given that Catholicism (like other religions) has wholly retreated to and now lives only in the area of "questions that have no answer", yes, it has no basis in reality. Nothing in…

Well, disasters and foreign economic threats aren't due to a politician's policy, and the regulatory environment usually doesn't change straight away (that requires legislation, no…

Email lives on.

The first year of someone's term is very rarely affected by their policies. My particular pet hate is when politicians start bragging about how their policies are responsible for g…

How are we nearly a decade into the life of NodeJS and still suffering from problems with its package manager , which itself is up to version 5.x?

From working with a variety of ticketing systems, any veteran dev will be able to tell you just how painful it is to work with multiple fields. Entry is never zippy. The more field…

My city has a large, world-class Children's Hospital, but the administration there is ridiculously political, and the doctors will change nothing to make things more efficient. A c…

Way back in the 90s when I was doing my neurophysiology degree, one lecturer who worked with schizophrenia said that it was such a difficult disease to work with because it wasn't …

I think it's more about the friction of engaging a payment method. For me at least, there is a bigger gap between free and $0-but-fish-out-a-credit-card than there is between $1 an…