Perhaps Lem comes off less morose in jzyk Polski

Lem was critical of Government, of official bureaucracy - whether public or private.

He never singled out the US as a specific target, and could be construed as subtly/subversively anti-authoritarian, in ways that were passable by the Communist governments of Poland and USSR.

The US is now no different than those. We just have Nike Fuel bands, and two cars in front of our debt-bondage. Whoops! I mean home.

Wow. Thanks for maintaining attention span. :-)

Governments and corporations are fictional persons. They have no "moral consciousness" of any kind, outside of rhetorical and ideological fantasy.

So, this will not be a question of moral or immoral use. It will be amoral, in the hands of those who have advanced themselves through manipulation of the aforementioned ideological rhetoric.

You continue to believe that there is hope for this modern, post-industrial society. But there is none. We as people have increased the sophistication of our tools and our reach - just as relentlessly as we have avoided the refinement of our own beings.

In the end you don't get Star Trek. You don't even get Starship Troopers. You get Scanner, Darkly And hope there is Valis.

"I still can't allow you and Cmdr. Poole to jeopardize this mission, Dave."

Godism. Everything else falls short, and will end, sooner or later.

For people who can't handle God.

There are no virgins in Paradise. There is no literal "Treasure stored up in Heaven". There is no literal "Heaven".
Who cares about any of these things? They indicate a preoccupation with self-interest.

The manifestation of divine presence is something to overwhelm and drown every other thought, wish, perception and awareness.

Our very sense of ridiculous fables like "Islam" or "Christianity" will be less than meaningless. Their only use on this earth is to prevent totally corrupting the ability to respond to grace. They do not themselves confer grace, nor can grace be attracted through merit. Through those theological distortions God is a merchant, or a whore. But Love comes to us from God because it is mercy, not recompense.

In Ukraine we have achieving technological dominance again for one time more!

Announcing for world first time, biggest ever microchip. Ability to the processing power of more data is an explosive growth phenomenon.

Now it is Ukraine again the leader!

Fixed. :-)

Forgot how /. tag for URL differs from A HREF

Single atom says:
"Help! I'm trapped in the four-dimensional space-time string, isolated from the 12-dimentional multiverse!"

Gaseous? So it is an element. ARRGH!

I complained to the FCC....

I didn't see enough of Janet's breast to compensate for watching the Superbowl.