Hehe. Imagine managing your house in the cloud, and suddenly there is no heating, no light, all the “smart” appliances don’t work anymore, and the shower only produces cold water, because the shower thermostat got a “0” as return value when asking for the preferred temperature…

Writes the one who has learned grammar in Twitter school.

Many people would, but I think I could rig something to have a sufficient amount of power in the house.

I can still read books and manuals, and i do have those books and manuals in paper form.

I have a book titled “Generation Doof” (Generation Stupid), and yes, this book got it right.

I’m afraid that most people under 30 would simply cease to function if the internet suddenly went away.

I know about our living costs here.

And no, it is still the same argument. One person should only work a limited time in order to study and finish university. So it makes sense to put a certain ceiling to the amount spent on working.

The other person is a highly skilled engineer who has nothing to do besides the job, and limiting this person to the lower amount tax bracket would limit him to 15 to 20 hours a month.

And helps concentrating the wealth even more. Exactly what Europe does NOT need.

No, income is. Imagine a student doing a job that earns him €2000 a month. How many hours will this take? This will be nearly a full time job. Is this person still a student then?

He is not the smartest, but this is one of his dumber ideas.

Well, he has a high skills job, in which he literally has decades of experience. Any student jobbing will probably take longer to earn the 556€. And this work time will be distracting from the main job: studying.

My coworker is happy about that. He is 70, single, healthy, and having a halftime office job keeps him busy, happy, and close to his coworker-friends. I can’t imagine him sitting at home, twiddling thumbs. That would probably kill him, or at least drive him insane.

… or to funny looking specimen. Radioactivity no longer required.

I did not switch to Linux. I simply never did Windows. I use Linux since the old days of Slackware where you really had to compile ones kernel. That was with kernel 0.97.

That’s not how the law works.

If push comes to shove, you can still use Notepad++ under Wine. It works.

I use Kate for my editing needs, fast and good regexp work, which is important for me.

For every quad-core A57 ARM produced in Taiwan just make a 74LS00 in the US, that is something the American chip industry might just about manage.

Amazon is making it impossible for me to consider a Kindle.

Only after supporting the murder of thousands of people.

Just a few years too late. I wonder how many people, not just terrorist, but civilians, men, women, children have been murdered with the help and for profits for Microsoft.

OK, so kindle is off the list of potential readers.

Any recommendations for a good reader that can do epub, PDF, and maybe even html with CSS?

Very interesting development. Especially that it can be deployed in disaster zones to provide energy - if there is a strong foundation to anchor it, probably.