ESPN is great if

1. You're a fan of the New York Yankees or Boston Red Sox
2. You're a fan of the New England Patriots
3. You're a fan of LeBron James

Otherwise, it sucks giant donkey dongs.

I worked with one of those for about 5 years. Loved it.

We were developing an artillery control system and used a Z8000 as the CPU. We did development on the S8000 under ZEUS.

The Z8000 was really a nice chip. Much nicer than the 286.

that the author is pointing out is that it'll be incredibly profitable to run these sorts of "schools". Sure, they won't work. But who cares so long as the money keeps flowing in. And what alternative will you have? Unless you're rich there won't be any. Sure, some of the /. crowd might realize that's morally wrong, but the rest of America will continue to blame themselves. It's something we do a lot of and goes back to that whole puritanical self flagellation thing that's been buries in our skulls.

our Constitution was written to keep these guys in power. That's why we have a senate & house instead of a parliament. But good luck changing that. Lots of people will agree with you until you suggest scraping the Constitution. They've had it pounded into them while they were young and defenseless that it's a sacred document and if only we just followed it none of this would happen. Nobody questions whether the deck was stacked from the get go...

Lots of thinking goes on at think tanks. It's just not the sort any decent person wants going on. You shouldn't underestimate your enemy. They are well organized, highly motivated and well funded. They're fighting the best kind of war: one where the other side doesn't know there's a war on.

but every single crack and hack has been because the hardware manufactures cut corners because the hardware wasn't fast enough. It gets faster every year ya know? Maybe this won't be the year, but give it 5, 10 more and it'll be cheaper to secure the content than not.

Or some of the Apollo astronauts. Gene Cernan spent about 9 days on or near the moon, 384000km above earth. He is 81, and since 384000*9/81*365) is 116 km, on average he lives 16 km above the Karman sphere.

it massively inconveniences them. Yeah, a lot of them are douche nozzles, but a lot aren't. A lot of them work hard to be good members of the community. They've got the time (and their parent's PC) to do it, just not the money.

Seriously. Go back and read some of the discussions from the time. Our entire system of gov't was built from the ground up to protect wealthy land owners. I say we let the damn thing burn.

No, I remember that Thufir drank the stuff, and the red lips were a trademark of the Mentat.

However, in the book, they drank it because they *BELIEVED* it helped (placebo effect). It was never explicitly stated that it did help.

you've got the right idea in a society whose job is to make the world a better place. In the real world though he messed with the investor class. He cost important people lots of money and face. You don't get the break the system those guys set up. They make the rules because they're the ruling class...

Just wondering. Though I do notice that here in America we've got lots and lots of laws to protect our investor (e.g. ruling) class and not so many for us slobs down in the working classes.

A star is rising in Uranus. That's why you can't see the obvious truth, that vaccines cause famine, pestilence, plague and death.

See? The science of Astrology explains it all!