> investment in advancing medical and safety technology result in shorter lifespans? Nobody made those investments in curing or preventing diseases. For-profit

> investment in advancing medical and safety technology result in shorter lifespans? Nobody made those investments in curing or preventing diseases. For-profit corporations made investments in medications that would be life-prolonging so their customers would give everything they had to get the meds so they could stay alive. This leads to huge spending that benefits the corporations. Funding research into cheap cures is something we should do. Funding meant to research prevention is diverted to angry anorexic people yelling at us to lose weight. Screw them, I'm going to get a burger. > Is it really progress if technological innovation degrades the listening experience, erases all the supporting information about the music, and impoverishes the artists who create the songs in the first place? The new technology could allow every artist to sell to a global market, with little friction. The problem is The Copyright Mafiaa. (That's spelled with 2 As, like RIAA and MPAA.) Try to release something into the public domain, as I do regularly. An attorney will copyright it and pretty soon your boss will tell you that you are guilty of piracy.