If, at this point, it's not being upgraded, it's because the users are demanding free labour.

Like I said, if it's important to you, it's a cost of business, and needs to be paid for.

Welp, then the users can pony up the cash to have the changes made.

If your embedded industrial systems are accessible by 'nation states,' the state of your patching isn't the issue, nor is it going to prevent exploits.

Oddly enough, the software already running on those controllers won't simply disappear, and the last working build will also still be available.

Yeah.

Fundamentally, you can take any living human being, and find something 'neurodivergent' about them.

That kid twirling their hair while reading? Stimming, clearly. That kid who would rather go outside and play than read a book? ADHD, clearly. That kid who'd rather read than play football? Social anxiety, obviously.

When I was a kid, 'autistic' meant you flapped your arms, and screamed when somebody turned on the lights wrong. Behavior that nowadays gets labelled as 'ASD' was..weird. Awkward. Shy. Introverted.

Honestly, I think we give too much accommodation in this day and age; kids don't get taught that sometimes, they need to manage their behaviors and bend to the expectations of the world, and they get rudely shocked when the real world doesn't bend over backwards for them.

Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child, and all that.

I'm not sure if you're agreeing with me or not.

As I point out, the importer brokers the fee, in that they're the ones that remit it to the government, yes. But they immediately pass that cost on to the consumer, as you say, rather than eating it as a cost of doing business.

So while the tax is assessed to the importer, it is a defacto tax on the consumer (specifically, to encourage them to buy non-tariffed products) rather than a cost to the foreign manufacturer, or to the middle-man importer.

Don't make daddy mad, you know daddy hurts you when he gets mad, and if you make him mad, it's your fault when he hurts you.

No.

A tariff is something that the consumer pays for the privilege of buying a foreign product, not something that the foreign producer, or the importer, pays for the privilege of selling it to you.

The tariff is assessed to the importer, sure, but the importer doesn't eat that cost; the importer charges that cost to the consumer.

If the importer doesn't think the consumer will pay, the importer won't bother importing.

Now, there was a bunch of stuff already in the shipping pipeline when the tariffs came down, and in a lot of cases, the distributer *did* eat that cost, for strategic reasons.

But now that the pipeline is empty? Those costs are 100% being passed on to the consumer.

"Lawful" means 'Follows the laws, tempered with a strong sense of morality,' not 'takes utilitarianism to an unhealthy degree.'

I'd say 'neutral good' would actually be more in line with utilitarianism.

It's also why billions of people think that a Jewish man named 'Yeshua Ben Yousef' looks exactly like Cesare Borgia.

but I seriously just don't understand why the source of the virus really matters

Because the future preventative measures and responses to that particular threat matter.

If your house burns down because of faulty wiring, we can improve electrical safety codes and teach people to watch out for such things. If your house burns down because of faulty natural gas piping, we can improve natural gas safety codes and teach people to watch out for such things.

If we just way 'well, houses burn down sometimes, who cares about the why?' then we can't really address the issue, can we?

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Correct.

I wouldn't buy a Macbook Air to use to read PDFs on, and I wouldn't buy an iPad to leave background tasks running and sucking down battery power.

In a city that is notoriously in the middle of a desert (and so, you'd expect, extremely vulnerable to water-supply disruption ; which any terrorist worth the name has long-since worked out), the problem with cement overshoes is ... ?

You'd have no problem being driven out to the middle of one of these deserts, and having your feet encased in concrete, then left there?

Nah.

"Despotism" will do just fine; Warlord Bob isn't going to bail you out when your crop fails, he's just going to order you beaten until morale improves.