US, mid thirties, and I not only drive a manual transmission, I go out of my way to insist upon it. For example, I own a truck and an SUV made in the '90s because it's difficult to find newer ones without an automatic.
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instead of bending over for unreasonable shitheads in your party.
Why do you think he'd be inclined to do anything other than bend over for himself?
Huh, that's the kind of thing that would just make me start visualizing how many I could fit in there.
Not for long if Lennart has anything to say about it, I'm sure.
I agree with you even though I'm only guessing at the episode you're talking about and I have no idea which of the two Vortas he was.
(It's the Ferengi hostage exchange episode, right?)
Sure, regulations such as carbon taxes are necessary to contain negative externalities, but if there’s a demand for cheap products there will be a lowest bidder that will take all market share.
If the taxes are accounting for the externalities well enough, even the lowest bidder will be sustainable.
According to the Open Source Initiative (the folks who control whether things can be officially certified as "open source"), it basically is the same thing as Free Software. In fact, their definition was copied and pasted from the Debian Free Software guidelines.
he also gave $5MM to Sea Shepherds
Enough to get an entire ship named after him!
Less than a week until Dragon*Con!
Edit: wait… return ! 0 ; wtf
I mean, returning non-zero exit status on error is just good practice. It even managed to evaluate to the same numerical value as EXIT_FAILURE when I tested it on my machine (gcc 11.4.0 linux x86-64), although I'm not sure if that's always the case or if it's undefined behavior.
This cursed code is quite well-written.
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Housing shortages are caused by bad government policy: namely, low-density zoning. Direct your anger towards the entity that deserves it, and make them fix their fuck-up.
(Note: I'm not making some kind of Libertarian "all government is bad" argument here. I'm saying that in this specific case, the laws need to be changed.)