While I concur with your hesitation, my first reaction on hearing about the fee was "Didn't they say you couldn't fly without a realid? Why am I able to fly without one then?" The idea that they may not be able to bar you without one jives with how this is playing out. Another commenter in this post also mentioned flying without id, which I also thought wasn't possible.
I stand corrected, at least in Pennsylvania (1). I misremembering the issues surrounding requiring Id to vote. The law that was struck down did provide a free id that would have been suitable for voting; however, that isn't required and no longer exists, and there was no mention I could find of if it would have been realid compliant.(2)
Since you can index expressions I wonder if that's because you essentially emhave to store the value in the index anyway and that wouldn't be expected for a virtual column?
I've used them for common transforms such as timezones (e g. data comes in as uutc and we query everything in Chicago time) just to make querying easier.
My point is that it's not. Mostly stale doesn't mean there is never something outside the norm. As such, I do not believe I am missing your point, but that you are willfully and incorrectly assuming that everything is always an absolute.
You can say the same thing for every food truck or small restaurant you've ever passed. The simple act of ordering food from one place instead of another risks putting the other out of business and that family out on the streets.
At some point we need to fix societal issues instead of worrying that not consuming goods or services is harmful.
And maybe that's a societal problem we should be addressing instead of expecting people to give money to silicon valley companies.
Don't get me wrong. I've used and use these services at times. I'm not morally opposed to them. I just think that saying that telling someone by not using them they're hurting immigrants is just a whole lot of backwards.
I've been using a little multifunction brother laser printer and convinced my sister to do the same in college and those are the only printers I've used in a long while that don't give me issues.
The only other printers I used that never gave me issues were the high end laser printers at University.
Wasn't a lot of the "payment" to the railtoads for the transcontinental railroad giving away land to the railroads to later sell to people (who'd take their trains out there to claim it)? You'd need to factor that in to the payment as well.
I should try to find some hard data, but it always feels like construction costs outpace inflation. I don't know if if it's regulation, labour costs, or what.
Because historically, and I would argue should still, refer to very limited hardware, in terms of memory, processing power, and energy.