Of course its just an estimate. I’m sure the “burn rate” will change between now and whenever it could be extracted, if that ever happens.

At the current usage rate, how long would 511 billion barrels last?

In many places, downloading is legal. It’s the uploading that’s illegal.

He didn’t take the movie/music from them. They still have it. It still exists on their tape/film/drive. If you are going to argue, at least argue in good faith, with words that mean what you are trying to say.

Is there any actual evidence that a change.irg petition gets anything changed?

Not true for “any for-profit business”, but true for “any publicly-traded company”.

Private corporations are beholden only to the laws of the land.

I think they should have made Israel from a piece of Germany.

It just seems ridiculous on its face. If the “rules” are the literal word of God, then how can men change them? If they can change them to suit their own purposes, why should other men listen to them? How do the followers not care?

If you can just get together and decide “OK, now rule X has been changed to rule Y”; how is anyone supposed to take any of it seriously? It is literally made up as it suits them.

If enough people quit buying ANY HP product because of their shitty printers, they would be incentivized to make it better.

…and it would look unappetizing. Nobody wants that.

There’s the problem. How about trying to make your food more appetizing. . .

Oligarchy is the word you’re trying for.

It’s not adding to the originally conversation, it’s starting a new one.

I hope live chat is not on the development roadmap.

You can do that on Boost. Also mark as read when voting. With the hiding read selection, your feed stays clean and new.

I agree. I frequently see posts that are months old using “new”. I don’t think that means what they think it means.

An actually really good Linux CAD program.

Trumps attorney: “Try not to break any laws on the way to the parking lot.”

I prefer the first 3 x-es. I find most of the combat to be more tedious than fun, but I haven’t played much new stuff since Civ VI came out, so I may be OOTL a bit.

A billion over a century is only 10 million per year. Does that exceed the birth rate?