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by zipwitch 11y ago
A decent future for humanity is not compatible with a profit-driven world. The solution is to end the profit driven world in a way that will lead to a better future, because like it or not, the profit driven world IS ending.
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by zipwitch 11y ago
There is no evidence that the NSA is any good at its job. It ought to be eliminated. This is an easy decision, because its programs or odious or undemocratic, but because it is a useless waste of taxpayer money.
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by zipwitch 11y ago
People are ALWAYS dying. Far more from preventable accidents, disease, and war than from terrorism. That does NOT make terrorism any less despicable. But those who use fear of atrocities to push their own oppressive agendas are little bette
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by zipwitch 11y ago
Parts of the US are turning into Third World conditions. But don't tell the elite that. They're doing fine, and they have numbers that tell them how great everything is. Orwell meets pre-collapse USSR, with homages to a number of
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by zipwitch 11y ago
"On any list of the top 50 universities on earth, the US will routinely take the top 40 or 45 slots." Do you by any chance have a handy link to such a list, that was not compiled by Americans?
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by zipwitch 11y ago
Space exploration of this sort has a long lead time. We're reaping the fruits of year and years of labor with most of those. Cassini started in the Eighties and launched in 1997. New Horizons was greenlit in 2001 after a decade of work
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by zipwitch 11y ago
I've never been able to understand the appeal of the ultra-light, ultra-thin laptops. That it comes at the cost of user-serviceability just makes it that much more incomprehensible.
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by zipwitch 11y ago
No, they're about connections with the appropriate in-group first, administrative / executive ability well below that, and technical ability or common sense will actually disqualify you.
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by zipwitch 11y ago
It won't be a problem - Alphabet will just "make them an offer they can't refuse" and within a year, RedTube will re-direct to Youtube Red. (The offer being, let us buy your domain name for a reasonable price, or we&#x27
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by zipwitch 11y ago
No. Rolling Stone's coverage of Wall Street isn't slanted, it's honest. That's why it makes Wall Street look so bad.
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by zipwitch 11y ago
Indeed. "Uber Raided By Dutch Authorities, Seen As 'Criminal Organization'" http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/09/29/2328232/uber-raided-b...
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by zipwitch 11y ago
It's too challenging and bleak. Beneath the light tone, it mercilessly drives home the truth that all of modern society exists in a temporary historical juncture that is not stable over a timespan of mere centuries. Instead of the sm
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by zipwitch 11y ago
I'd guess you got downvoted for a number of reasons. People do dislike the program. The F-35 has been hyped and sold as a good dogfighting aircraft. That dogfights are now obsolete and replaced by missiles is the exact claim made befor
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by zipwitch 11y ago
If it was a dozen aircraft, which is where the Russian 5th Gen fighter program is presently, then that might be it. But the US military is ordering over two thousand of them. That's a little much for keeping the skill and knowledge bas
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by zipwitch 11y ago
Every time I hear "dogfighting is obsolete" or "the F-35 will kill its opponents at range with missiles", I wonder. What happens when two stealthed 5th Gen fighters with good ECM try to kill each other with missiles?
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by zipwitch 11y ago
The police here in the US would doubtless love these things. A "scientific" reason to search anyone you feel suspicious of? Sign them right up! It's merely a less baroque version of "drug-sniffing" dogs (who cue fro
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by zipwitch 11y ago
Hey now. Gold is useful as an electrical connector, as a dye, as an EM reflector, in dentistry and electron microscopy... gold has lots of uses! Out of all the naturally occurring elements, proactinium probably takes the "most useless&
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by zipwitch 11y ago
From my purely anedotal evidence, it's both. I've spent the last 10 years in the American West and Mid-West. There are plenty of malls that are literally being torn down, are half-empty, or have low-prestige businesses (exercise a
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by zipwitch 11y ago
Whenever I see a relatively respectable source, singing the praises of blood-thirty, ego-driven maniacs, I start to think that maybe the crazies who go on about giant conspiracies controlling everything might be onto something. (Either that
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by zipwitch 11y ago
NPR: quietly polite apologists for the status quo.
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by zipwitch 11y ago
Ditto. Idk what I'll do when I eventually need to upgrade.:(
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by zipwitch 11y ago
Which is a polite way of saying they're the equivalent of crystal balls and tarot.
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by zipwitch 12y ago
I hate gravity.
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by zipwitch 12y ago
“You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us” ― Sappho, The Art of Loving Women
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by zipwitch 12y ago
The Air Force. The biggest limitations aren't practical, they're political.
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by zipwitch 12y ago
It won't solve the fuel problem, but for metals, junkyards are pretty easy to dig up.
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by zipwitch 12y ago
America's post-facto bribery and sinecure system will ensure that politicians who lose their office for efforts on behalf of their corporate overlords will be well cared for.
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by zipwitch 12y ago
Unimportant, because they neither provide useful intel nor prevent terror attacks. Or very important, because they have lots of blackmail material?
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by zipwitch 12y ago
As a non-bitcoin user, it seems to me that the value of the system as a medium of anonymous transaction is mostly irrelevant to the current price. As long as its stable enough for that, the only "problem" with the bitcoin price cr
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by zipwitch 12y ago
I had better (in terms of both cost and quality) internet living in rural southeast Asia five years ago than I do now, living in a million+ metropolitan area in the US. From my perspective, it realistically can't get worse.

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