between selling, and exploiting someone's voluntary data. not all needs are voluntary - the young, the old, and the mentally ill also use fb.

and so the concentration of bitcoin into a few rich hands goes forward.

well, when i say 'I', its more of a consensus decision.

funny thing about the books - there really should have been way more Autumn!

Spock wouldn't have screwed up as much as Kirk. But it would have been a much less interesting show. Maybe there is a place for Atheism with a heart?

our memories and attention spans have gotten noticeably worse over the last century, though our quality of life has increased immeasurably. he may be right. solving our economic needs who wouldn't want to focus on feeling better?

There are plenty of angry young idiots who will exult in it - let's not give them the pleasure.

Roll Up, Roll Up,
To Look Away,
As A Cockney
Betrays the UK.

Journalist or Spy?
He Didn't Have To Die
All Fanatics Lie
While Families Cry.

Rest In Peace, Our thoughts are with the family.

Or is very soon about to, he has access to one of the top lawyers in the country (who also happens to date George Clooney) and wouldn't make this announcement if it could be easily repudiated. I guess this is his way of testing the waters, and calling the banners before he sets out...

apologies; thank you for the correction.

history has officially jumped the shark.

Excellent point; if only humanity could invent programming technology BEFORE reaching light-speed.... :-)

It would be awesome to visit the super-massive black-hole in the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, and if done at near light-speed the journey would feel like the blink of an eye. Actually that's not a bad way to travel if you don't mind solitude. A blink, and earth fizzles away but you're in another galaxy... I wonder how many fantastic sites or blinks you could have before the universe ended? Failing any of that the only other place I can visit in the blink of an eye is my own town.

With Lambda expressions in the last release, and the renewed focus on mobile - Java is awesome. For a language which forced Microsoft to up it's game with C#, and with Linux has stormed into taking over most of financial services - it's as least as alive as COBOL. Which - like Sarah Palin - cannot be killed and will not go away. Java has the Colbert of Languages. Wildly successful, despite being in a suit.