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I rebooted after upgrade and found myself dropped in a console-only environment. Turns out the (proprietary) drivers for my video card are not supported anymore. Now I'm on nouveau and it sucks.
My fault for having an Nvidia card, I guess, but an AMD equivalent is on its way.
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You can do it in an automatic, you just have to force it to select a lower gear using the gear number options (1, 2, 3, 4) or using the tiptronic mode. The lower gear means the engine will displace more air in the same amount of time, increasing the rate it pulls energy from the wheels.
People think you can't do it in automatics because they try very hard to keep engine RPM low where the effect is diminished.
In any case, corporations benefit from airports / roads / ports / law enforcement / defense / education / etc... which are funded by local / federal governments. So corporations have a moral duty for to contribute to these expenses by paying taxes.
(But it is only a moral duty, and not a legal obligation. So corporations end up paying nothing, or next to nothing.)
Hypothetically with zero corporate tax, if the corporation paid zero salary, zero dividends, and shareholders never sold anything, the corporation could amass ridiculous amounts of untaxed wealth. But this never seems to happen.
I mean personal income taxes, plus capital gains taxes, taxes on the individual -- I am in favor of; not on the corporate entity.
They basically use something like a weed whacker fed down the pipe, except it uses a short bit of chain instead of trimmer line, and will pulverise any intruding roots.