I wish they would focus on their phones. My Ascend P7-L10 has NEVER had an update. A once flagship phone is still running Android 4.4.2.

I don't need time travel. I need a reasonably up to date cell phone.

Capitalism's amorality is why we need a strong mediator (such as an uncorrupted democratic government) to mediate between the capitalist and the people.

Citing an Anonymous source (who declined to be named), said everything started going south when over 9k people hung Guy Fawkes masks on the rear view mirrors of their cars.

Phil Zimmerman and pgp in 1991

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann

"Corporations gain bargaining power by (allegedly) shareholders pooling capital. It's very hard to find someone who'll argue that corporations shouldn't act in their own interests. Why is it therefore wrong for labor to do the same? It isn't, and it's way past time for workers to figure that out."

My father (a college professor not a union member) put it this way when I was in my late teens in the early 70s: If companies can have 10 people sit around a table and decide what to pay the worker, the worker should be able to have 10 people sit around a table and decide what they will work for.

Unions are a special interest group just like AARP, AAA, NRA, etc etc.

Good thing these kids are not of Arabic decent.

BTW... do nuclear weapons fall under the 'right to bear arms' in the second amendment of the US Constitution?

It all comes together now. Google maps and a myriad of other information gathered by Google (and others) available to the US government.

Julian Assange covered this well in the book "When Google Met WikiLeaks". When Eric Schmidt met to interview Assange he took 3 other people with him. All with ties to the Department of State.

What could go wrong?

Is there any proof that the FBI gained access to the data on this phone. I've not seen any. And they have plenty of reasons to lie.

Once the government has a suspected terrorist in their sights, they can have the auto manufacturer perform an OTA software upgrade to the suspected terrorists car then when turned on will lock the doors, roll up the windows and autonomously suspected terrorist to the nearest police station.

Not only are many research papers federally funded (at least in part) but many are also funded at the state level. My father's work at Ohio State University is in large part behind paywalls.

Best trip I ever made. I do not miss the west one bit.

In 1999 I had a minor heart attack. Docs put me on cholesterol meds and beta blockers. This was the beginning of the end. Statins caused a lot of problems, cramps, constipation and likely memory loss to name a few. The beta blockers assured me I would stay in good shape through exercise because I could not get my heart rate up to aerobic levels. I worked in construction and this would cost me a couple of jobs over time as I could not do the work. I quit both statins and beta-blockers in 2008-9. But by this time I was up 30lbs and taking high blood pressure meds.

Fast forward. I retired and moved to Thailand. At age 60 I lost the 30 lbs, stopped taking high blood pressure meds and now I'm pretty damn happy living a relatively stress free life and walk most everywhere I go. 5 miles or so a day. Fresh food. The chicken I'm are eating was killed yesterday not 2 weeks ago. The mango was picked yesterday, not 1 week ago.

Best of all.... I have morning erections again.

Yea. Right

With this I tend to agree: As humans we have reached maybe the top of our evolutionary track. We demonstrated that we are simply not able to build any sustainable society and that we are destroying the planet who gave us birth. But I disagree that: a superior form of intelligence will make the system stable.

One could also say we have reached the "end" of our evolutionary track. There are some who argue that human intelligence is an attribute that might just make us extinct. Daniel Quinn the author of Ishmael is one.

Watch YouTube videos of Al Bartlett's ideas. As a physicist he sees the problem in simple arithmetic. Too many people and the notion that more growth is the answer. More technology is not the answer. Human technology has been developing since before fire.

In the future the global legal framework will be created and enforced by corporations. The nation-state will lose its sovereignty.

From the governments become more corrupted from representing their people to the privatization of military forces to Google and other corporations owning, paying for research that they can 'sell back' to consumers, your world will be controlled by corporations. Democracy, socialism and communism will no longer exist thanks to capitalism.

This is a good time to read "When Google Met Wikileaks" by Julian Assange