That definition of "programmer" makes the term pretty much meaningless. I certainly wouldn't call someone a programmer just because they can type two commands. If you would, I certainly hope I never have to work with any of your "programmers".

And you needed to be a programmer to buy the floppy drive? My grandfather who bought it for me wasn't a programmer as far as I know, and I was a little kid.

I guess it must have really changed between the time you bought yours and when I got mine. All I had to do was put in a floppy disk and type a couple commands, and I could start playing games.

Different from fees. I blame my phone's auto-screwup.

That post said "total price with all fees". I guess that most people consider sales tax to be different from frees.

That wouldn't require changing the rule. ISPs don't have to itemize any fees that are included in the advertised price.

State and local taxes, being a "charge... mandated by a government", are specifically exempt from the rule. The average person is aware that advertised prices don't include sales tax and, perhaps more importantly, a person can find out from a different source (e.g. the government) what the sales tax is, so there won't be surprising extra charges.

I think "self-made" just means that the person didn't inherit the money from their parents.

Aww, did South Park hurt you in the feel-feels? Poor snowflake.

It's cute that you think conflicts of interest matter anymore.

Except that it's basically one fairly small sector, and if you take it out, the economy isn't growing at all.

"Depreciate" means the monetary value of something goes down over time. For example, after you buy a new car, it's worth less one year later than it was when you bought it.

"Deprecate" means a feature that's planned to be removed.

So is not knowing the difference between "depreciate" and "deprecate".

/oblig

That is pretty obnoxious. The IRS also uses ID.me, so I wonder if my login for that would work.

Slashdot has a long and glorious history of both not understanding how patents work and not RTFA. The combination of the two leads to posts like this, where everyone starts yelling about how stupid a patent is based just on the abstract.

On the other hand, I did look at the claims, and, well, it does seem pretty stupid. The independent claims don't actually have much more than what's in the abstract. The file history might be interesting, but not enough for me to bother digging though it.