If the wealth created is captured by the rich.

I'm not a liberal. I'm a socialist. Big difference you anonymous cunt.

Come and get me you anonymous coward.

Sure that's fine until you want to see how big your directories are - still epic fail on some thing Mac has done since forever. My hybrid dream OS: Linux kernal, MacOS UI modified by Win7.

How about we also remove all those oil subsidies, and see how cheap that car really is? Oh, and also the cost to the environment from burning fossil fuels - let's see, how much will it cost to move everyone out of Florida? Anf how about all the carcinogenic bullshit that comes along with it - all those health costs need to be wrapped into it as well. Oh gee - look! It's actually more expensive to run fossil fuel vehicles than some flimsy govt subsidy for an electric car.

I'd call you a troll, but that would overstating the case, and it's possible you're something stupider, like a republican.

People are so damn stupid, I see precious little natural intelligence in this world as it is, I would argue it doesn't really exist. So making an artificial version is meaningless.

Ad blockers are not immoral. The "economic realities" to which you obsequiously collapse before are.

Best keyboard I ever owned - built like a truck and cost me - I dunno - $65? The two previous keyboards died after about couple years each - with the money I pissed away on them, I could have bought the unicomp...

Oculus Rift is this years flavour. No one really cares that much about 3D. I predict it will no longer exist in 3 years.

about a product that shouldn't exist.

That says it all.

No we won't trust you on that. We trust rational reasoned discourse, not bigoted race baiting bullshit artists.

Fuck - people were hiring Indians since the 1990s to avoid paying local American wages. I've worked in I don't know HOW MANY companies that do that. My wife works for a giant corp that does that now - she manages teams of programmers located all over the world. And here, in 2015 "a bipartisan group of U.S. senators has asked for an investigation into whether companies are firing American workers and replacing them with foreign workers for the sake of cutting costs." Like it's fucking news.

1. Despite its recent official classification, Is internet addiction a real disorder?

Yes. Any activity performed in such a way that it inhibits a person or makes them unhappy can become a disorder, a very real disorder. The exact behaviour is not relevant. It could be counting your steps - people do it obssessively and it gets in the way of their lives and makes their lives difficult - then its a disorder.

2. Or is it a red herring masking depression and escapism?
It can be. It can also be an OCD of its own.

3. And to make things more indeterminate, Isn't more and more time online the inevitable future?
Depends on how you determine "the online". If your fridge is phoning home every time you open the freezer, then you are online, but you don't notice. You drive down the street and your cellphone is tracking your moves and phoning home. You are online. Gluing yourself to a chair to spend all day on Facebook is not the only way to be online, so while "more online time" may seem inevitable, how it is expressed in social practice is something else altogether.

My cellphone has more storage and processing power. You would think a PDP8 would be worth little more than scrap at this point.