Ideals dont just burst out of nowhere, fully armed and ready to go. Ideals require agreement. It doesnt help that there are two seperate protests (the anti-US imperialism is not the OWS protest. They just tend to both be leftwing groups, but have very little to do with one another.) Look at this as step 1. We cant just magic up some ideals and some decisions out of nowhere. That wont work. So now the only way to do so, what with the rightwing trolls and all, is to stop playing on the itnernet and meet face to face. Much harder to disrupt such things. Thats whats happening. Will these protests single-handedly solve everything? No. That would be astounding and kinda weird. But it got attention. If getting attention to your cause means anything, this has succeeded. If you want everyone to understand the twofaced rightwing attacks, this is bringing them into hte open. This wont be a gate-toppling revolution. But then that was never its goal. You see this thread, you see 800+ comments, on SLASHDOT? (not known for being overly political.) A resounding success from my point of view. What happens after this is important. And, sadly, im sick. So all i can do is observe from the balcony.

Sure. Why not? Capitalism did more harm when it collapsed than communism ever did. Hard to claim one is better than the other in terms of "Relative suckyness" but I just did and its correct.

Anything that gets my fellow 20-something formerly angsty peers out into the sun a bit more cant be bad. No matter the results, we should all end up a bit more sociable in the aftermath.

To get silly headlines. And they are coming. And it will be silly. Dear god the sillyness. Almost enough to distract from the evilness.

That is like the least obvious Venture Brothers reference in the world. Like, me and two other people, one of whom is you, got the joke. Hot Planet indeed.

Driving and War seem to actually be the causes of climate change. So by climate change now driving countries to war, we have entered a stage not unlike a panic disorder, where everything circles back around to cause itself, perpetually. Like panic disorder, I fear we may not notice this til we're too late.

I used to use my laptop there. But I have shakey hands. And trust me, it only takes one still on laptop joning you in the water before you never make that mistake again.

well sure, internal consistency is all you need to make a decent fantasy framework work. The trouble is most people cant remember what they had for breakfast today, let alone the complex interactions and contradictions in a fantasy world. And trust me, when your world involves 1000+ year old wizards who have only not destroyed their planet cause theyre way too interested in killing each other, you want consistency to distract everyone once you realise you accidently wrote a story about the Cold War with wizards and eventually a large amount of fail. (The fail comes at the end.)

You can also patent mathematical formulas (with varying degrees of success) and the DNA of lifeforms. Oh, and im pretty sure amazon patented forks the other day. I may be wrong.

The biggest problem I can see is that when military leaders order atrocities, it wont be the rank and file soldiers who get the blame; itll be the people who made the drones. Easier to replace technicians than frontline soldiers. Ultimate Military Result: Unchanged.

How many people who should be making advancements that, you know, actually arent stupid? I mean these sorta things arent easy, and theyre useful, but that doesnt mean they aren't stupid and pointless and temptng educated scientists away from more important matters to the replication of consumer goods. ...Actually, I had more to say, but I got this sinking feeling in my stomach after writing that. I suddenly became very depressed.

But we should be doing many of the things the comission said. But this is a good one especially. If we're going to have emergency services, why would we keep them on a line thats subject to being overwhelmed in the event of an emergency of catastrophic proportions? to superid: You wont be listening to any more radios, unless something along the lines of a massive terrorist attack happens. Then, with those radios being overwhelmed, you wont be left to stramble and make choices with anything but a local view of the immediate situation. Says right in the slashdot summary. Thats the major purpose of the network. Not so people who can already communicate well do, but to bring mor epeople on, without fear of the slew of services that manifest in the wake of a disaster being overwhelmed. Its really, really important if your night suddenly goes from "dehydrated kid with syncope" (by the way, who breaks into a small town EMT center in winter? Cold IV fluids certainly wake you up. jerk vandals.) to "level 5 hurricane" or "large fireball downtown" to be able to communicate in the now heavily used communications networks. Just sayin'

So we have a fair amount stored up? Why? Because in the first year I lived here, we had 50 weeks of power. You'll notice thats two less than 52.

is what we call it, not piracy. If you own the game, you can own the ROM. At least thats what the rom sites i certainly have never visited or downloaded in mass quantities tell me. At least, I assume thats what they tell me. I wouldnt know since ive never gone to those sites. Infact ive never even heard of this "rom" thing. You have to tell me if youre a cop you know! I CANT BE COURT MARTIALED TWICE.

Thats the place to be. I was there 20 minutes but when i came out, the world had gone from trains to airships to jets. Also your air smells funny.