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Gouged: The End of a Fair Price—and What That Means for Your Wallet by Lindsay Owens became available today, and I have purchased ebook and will begin reading today.

I'm guessing it might be less easy to physically drive, though.

I'm sure the wildly circuitous routes generated will be useful for rhetorical purposes though.

It is however allowable to correct grammar nits if done in the midst of a prison riot, as in The Naked Gun.

I was angered and frustrated to find (the hard way) that some states have statutes which explicitly relieve storage companies from responsibility in the event of loss from theft.

The entity in the best position to know how to secure the premises is not liable to do so at all in some states.

Oh, and don’t get me started on ballooning but opaque rental rates.

I wanted to pay up front for 2-3 years of storage but most places “couldn’t” quote me what the rate would be beyond 3 months in advance.

Such a scammy industry.

| In general, stop trying to steelman the looters. Sometimes a con artist is really just a con artist.

Re-read my comment in the context of the message to which it replied.

Maybe even use the tariff proceeds to provide incentives to those very same domestic industries? (I am not an economist.)

“You think you’re better than me?”

We’ve got to be sure the manufacturers get a solid decade or two to profit off of these schemes, so that future manufacturers know it will be worthwhile perpetrating future schemes.

Even prior to that, how long is your commute?

I became interested in OpenWrt when I noticed that the cloud portal for my ISP reported to me the names and types of devices that were associated to my home access point/router.

Suddenly I want to put every IPS device into dumb bridge mode, and run my own damn router.

> Wouldn't you consider defining the schema doing the domain modeling?

To an extent, yes.

But to the extent that a so-called impedance mismatch exists, this is going to put your domain model on the faraway/difficult side of that impedance mismatch.

And will result in your domain model existing in an (on average) less expressive language which is more difficult to test.

I'm happy making one-shot payments for most types of media.

But I want to start a new bittorrent tracker for individual movies or episodes for which the provider requires you to create a recurring subscription, to rip off such content unabashedly.

Watched it. It reads interesting indeed. Makes me suspect that, at least during the Fitzcarraldo period, Herzog might’ve thought misery was valuable or even necessary to good filmmaking - misery in the form of stunts and geographic setting, and misery in the form of lead actor’s personality.

Best part of My Best Fiend was Herzog’s own thoughts (soliloquy?) on nature and the jungle itself. Those bits were some pure solid gold Herzog.