You don't need to be a careful shopper for this; just turn off detection while you're playing these games, or tune the punishment algorithm, or patch the game. Just because the developer won't doesn't mean you can't; there's plenty of 3rd party binary patches for games.

I assume they force packed their structure and it's poorly aligned, but x86 doesn't fault on unaligned access and Windows doesn't detect and punish split locks, so while you probably would get better performance with proper alignment, it might not be a meaningful improvement on the majority of the machines running the program.

Eh, not really. In my previous house, I redid the master bath twice (because the first contractor did a bad job). They both qualified to increase my cost basis when they were done, but the first time no longer qualified after the second... That's theoretically trackable through some seriously invasive purchase recording, but realistically, not so much.

Citizenship is also trickier than it sounds. There's no full and complete register of US citizens to compare with. Better to have someone declare they are, and jail them if they vote and it turns out they aren't.

Both sides get a great boogie man to denounce. Save a bunch of money on arms if they're mostly fake. Once you learn about the Van Allen Belt, you call over on the red phone and say hey guys, we know we can't send people, but think about the ratings? Maybe we send you a case of Pepsi and we're good?

Profitability comes from three prongs: many policies are canceled before a covered event, premiums are often collected for many years and have time to be invested before a covered event, and bundling with inappropriate investments.

For examples of inappropriate investments, you can look at whole life and variable annuities. Most people would be better off spending the same amount on term life + a stock index fund; assuming access to stock index funds, which is probably not a given in many African countries.

It's not a question of if they're a common carrier or nor; they don't need to be, and typically, they don't try to be.

Voting has eligibility requirements (citizenship, felony status depending on jurisdiction of offense) and registering someone in error could induce them to vote while inelligible, which is a serious offense.

Automatic tax filing might be nice for easy situations, but there's lots of things the IRS doesn't know and can't realistically know. Like how much capital improvements did you do on your house, and maybe even how much did you pay for your house ... whenever the IRS doesn't know the cost basis, they helpfully assume it is zero and send you a big tax bill... Still for w-2 + 1099s with cost basis reported, it could be easier.

Would a bluray look better? Probably. Does streaming look better? Often, but not always; streaming likes to measure quality by resolution, but more pixels doesn't help quality unless it comes with more bitrate and/or improved codecs and/or improved encoders... And sometimes streaming has pretty low bitrate.

You're right though, that municipalities often waive taxes to woo big projects.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition defines arbitrary as

> Determined by chance, whim, or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle.

But the choices seem to be based on reason or principle.

Wikipedia says:

> What Russia Should Do with Ukraine" (Russian: Что Россия должна сделать с Украиной, romanized: Chto Rossiya dolzhna sdelat s Ukrainoy),[a][1] is an article written by Timofey Sergeytsev and published by the Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti.[2] The article calls for the full destruction of Ukraine as a state, as well as the full destruction of the Ukrainian national identity in accordance with Russia's aim to accomplish the "denazification" of the latter.

Sounds like Wikipedia describing an Russian source. I can't read Russian, can you? Is the description of the source inacurate? Is the summary inacurate?

> “I have said many times that I consider the Russian and Ukrainian people to be one nation. In this sense, all of Ukraine is ours,” Putin said, according to Sky News.

Ukraine certainly could have chosen to accept Russia's demands, but the demand was essentially the extinguishment of soverign Ukraine, and the extinguishment of Ukrainian identity. At least, those were the demands I saw.

Not a lot of diplomatic room. Also, Ukraine had engaged diplomatically with Russia in the past, but it turns out there's no mechanism for Ukraine to enforce treaties that Russia signed.

Alan Cox relevant to Mac is Alan Cox, professor(+etc) at Rice and well known FreeBSD contributor; no connection to Swansea, Wales, AFAIK. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=z28ApZkAAAAJ&hl=en

I do see some networking stuff on there, but much after Apple forked tcp. I don't know that Apple took much memory management from BSD either. Most likely, neither Alan Cox is relevant to Mac.

That's what the wiki says anyway: [1], and a publication with his name is about huge pages [2]

[1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/AlanCox

[2] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/osdi02/tech/full_papers...

Of course, my internet is only 1g/1g unless I want to pay to upgrade the munifiber's equipment, and they use good telecom grade equipment, so I don't.