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Those criteria seem pretty good. All those companies should be broken up and required to make certain divestitures until they no longer to-big-to-fail, oligarchical, anti-competitive etc.

Can you clarify if you mean "tailored" or if you are making Taylorism into a verb "taylored"? Since it appears so close in your comment to "mass manufacturing" I'm having difficulty distinguishing the meaning.

What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do.

- Arthur Jensen (Network, 1976)

I believe the offer is for anyone you’ve distributed the program to. So if it was Bill who shared a copy of the program with the random teenager it would fall upon Bill to provide him with the source and not you.

I had a script to de-DRM books from VitalSource. It “printed” each page one at a time to a PDF and then concatenated the individual PDFs into a single file.

$100 bills generate close to 0 profit for the United States Treasury as they are sold to the Federal Reserve Banks at manufacturing cost.

However coins are sold by the United States Treasury to the Federal Reserve Banks at face value and can generate a profit/loss based on the difference between the face value and the cost of manufacturing.