CSS alone is insanely more flexible. Things like virtual units (several different kinds of virtual unit, lol), calculations, etc. Your browser has to support all of this, and get the same answers as the big boys, to have any hope.

No one guy in his basement is doing all that - unless it's by wholesale using parts of chromium, say.

Also, 10 years ago was 2016. You'd probably have to go 20 years back to get to a real market of multiple usable open source browsers.

Yep. Modern browsers have to be ridiculously complex.

Because modern HTML, JS, and CSS are ridiculously complex. They do ridiculously cool stuff, so I'm not saying that they shouldn't be. But they are, and therefore the browsers have to be as well.

Make sure you all meet in one place to discuss it some more ...

We also have the PhD system that literally requires coming up with novel new things, or at least pretending to.

And that's where we get our education grand poobahs from ...

lol what?

You do know that Americans were better readers before there ever even was a federal Dept of Education, right?

But ... but ... the all caps was so convincing!

Hmm, I have one newer than that. and my imported ebooks are there and persistent.

Not necessarily easy to find though - the UI is horrific.

(also, I think I used the "email it to your special Kindle email address" method rather than USB cable to get them on there)

I download all my books DRM-free from bittorrent.

My ebook reader is an ancient Sony PRS-650, it still works fine and it has no trouble reading files that haven't been messed up by Amazon. What a concept eh?

"What about the book's authors who aren't getting paid when you download their stuff for free?" I hear you say:

Yes, I wish I could pay for what I downloaded. But I can't. The best option I could find was to buy the paperback as well, so some of my money would trickle back to them. But that's mighty stupid and totally not environmentally-friendly.

I did try to pay an author directly once (the late Ian M. Banks) but he send me an angry email back saying even if he got money from me, I was robbing his editor and distributor, and I should just buy his book normally - which I would, if that didn't entail leaving an undeserved cut to effing Amazon.

So there we are: there's no mechanism to legally buy books that aren't hamstrung by DRM. So honest people who value their consumer rights can't be honest.

Wood burning is very much alive - both old-stylee polluting open-fires and stoves, and ultra-efficient pellet, wood-chip and wood dust burning in power stations. And it's renewable. Try visiting any nordic country some day...

Also, just because burning wood has downsides doesn't mean it has to be ditcheds it entirely. Solve the downsides instead...

Eh ... Teams works fine for meetings. And basic chats. It's chat *search* sucks.

Yeah, exactly. It's not like it's all that hard to just put up your own website. It's just not something most writers can do, or want to do.

So ... oh the injustice! - they have to pay someone else to do it.

If it's just a "tax" and you get no value from it, then go ahead, create and maintain your own website. Since it's so easy that it should be free.

If it did, and if you applied that evenly, then all living ex presidents would do time.

So ... you are just spewing random political nonsense. And you know it.

(And if your valuable stuff were stolen from a car, you'd be calling those mean old police, and you'd be hoping that the thief would do time.)

Actually, at the extreme scales, which is the total volume of the observable universe, the universe is quite homogeneous. As I recall, to the order of 1-in-10000 variance. This is why Inflationary cosmology was developed, to explain the distinct lack of lumpiness in the universe, which is what we would expect if the Big Bang alone were responsible.

I would hope so. Why shouldn't you do time for theft?

All this nattering about licensing and we haven't yet had one comment -