Or the Republican for that matter?

Unfortunately B&N seems to follow borders' game plan. Oh, and it be really nice if I could get full access to the Nook books I've bought like I used to (and which is the reason I bought into nook in the first place).

OK, it's still in the keyboard, but completely out of the way, in the 10 years or so I've used these keyboards, I can't think of any instance in which I've accidentally hit it (or even a case in which I used it on purpose). In the rare situation when I don't have my keyboard, I find myself accidentally pressing caps lock often. Yet one more reason I always have two of these keyboards in case one goes bad.

I'm still pissed off and sorry that Logitech bought Slim devices and then killed the tech. I love my squeeezebox family.

I notice in the website that they very clearly state that they are a not-for-profit service, which means they CAN make a profit (it's just not the goal of the enterprise), it does put limits to certain things (IANAL), but it's not as restrictive as a non-profit.

I feel the same way, though I still run my squeeze gear, I wish it had some of the more modern stuff... I've actually started writing replacement software (backend and front end) a couple of times for fun, but the protocols are really weird, the server actually tells the client everything that has to be displayed, screen by screen.

The likelihood that our two chemistries are compatible enough to eat one another is small, and even if they are, a species that can travel across light years, with all the power and tech that requires is likely to be able to manufacture their food much cheaply than what it would take to come down the gravity well just to get lunch.

I adore my typematrix keyboard, and it's thin enough to fit without a problem in my laptop bag and sits decently on top of my laptop, but I would love a laptop that incorporated it directly.

I've been running my Squeeze environment for years, I was really sad when Logitech bought them out and shelved it and though I'm happy it's still somewhat alive, I'm sad that no new major features are going into the server at all. It's one of those product lines that everyone who has one knows it's just right, their quality was great. And it's telling that the prices for used ones have stayed up even though they haven't released a new product in the line for years.

Seriously. I have kids, so my genes have been passed on, but what's so special about only my genes passing to the next generation? Why should I have a problem with having the product of our minds carry on our legacy? what if we could create a galactic empire made by our descendants, where our descendants are not biological but the products of our minds? That idea seems to me amazing and worthy!
I doubt that if AI ever took over it will get rid of biological life, but if it does, so what? other species have gone extinct, we will too. AI may be the worst event in the history of **our** civilization, but the best event in the history of **it's** civilization!

The Doctor is THE Doctor, the word doctor came from him, not the other way around :)

When I'm on the market for a new phone, I make it a point to send an email to the manufacturers of those I consider letting them know that I consider repairability a selling point. I also won't buy anything that scores below a 7 on this site: Repariability Score. I'm currently considering the latest Motorola phone to use on google fi, but I won't buy it until it's been rated.

I've slowly been making my way through NPR's 100 Science fiction books, I say slowly because even though I read a lot, I also belong to a book club, and the list is not just a list of books, but a list of book series, and if I like an author a lot I may read a lot by that author before I come back to pick up another in the list. I'm mostly NOT reading those that are fantasy, at least not for now, even though I've read some. I'm currently about 55 in.

As a Libertarian I'm a bit of an opponent of this "Taxation is Theft" meme... because technically it should really be "Taxation is Extortion" :)

It's one of the few things keeping some people on Windows... I second the comments above on Photoshop and AutoCAD... basically, anything that's preventing people from switching away from closed-source OS.