Re: Why All Software Should Be Open Source

On 10/10/24 19:56, CrudeSausage wrote:

On 2024-10-10 5:32 p.m., bad sector wrote:

On 10/10/24 17:13, rbowman wrote:

On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:25:47 -0400, bad sector wrote:
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The survival of society cannot be left to bean-counters so anything that
is essential infrastructure should be cost + $1 if not free (state run
in other words).

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That would presume a much more effective state; the current ones couldn't
run a church picnic. Where they probably could rise to effectiveness is in
censoring anything that doesn't have the state's seal of approval.

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That's a good place to start!
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Since electricity was nationalised in Quebec it's being offered at cost plus profit, the total for domestic consumption is 1/6 or 1/8 of the rate in Arizona (I forget the exact ratio) while shaving enough off to finance development. We do have hydro resources but even if we were generating with fuel the ratio would still be rather embare-assing. That's what I mean by vital infrastructures.

 I'm in Quebec too and have to say that Hydro-Quebec is rather embarrassing.

You should try Arizona!

For a state and company that both want us to move to electric cars, they're sure bad at keeping the grid up. We've had several outages here already.

Chickenshit, mostly caused by whining wokes who threw civil-right fits every time the service trucks tried to trim branches off trees under lines. THAT's changing BTW, they called me last month to get my permission and politely informed me that I have a right to refuse (and assume responsibility for any outages caused by my tree branches).