When I have long trips, I tend to rent a car for a week or two. For that period, you can usually find deals where it works out to about $6 a day. Then I take transit to the dealer and drive.

That's just me. I have no idea if this is unusual pricing or not, but it's worked out quite well for me.

Thus, owning an electric car makes sense, especially since electricity is both dirt cheap and green in Seattle.

mansions and yachts are vastly overrated.

We used to own a private island, and spent summers yachting around. My aunt competed in the America's Cup.

It's not that great. They didn't think they were rich, or my great aunt who lived on an entire floor next to the Louvre in Paris.

Can't say I miss that.

Half of all assets are owned by the 0.01 percent. You're working for them.

Rich can be defined either by assets (wealth) or by income (cash flow).

While it may be true that the rich, by reported income, work longer, it is not necessarily true that the rich, by assets or actual wealth, work longer.

Also, what do you mean by work? Some of my friends "work" by producing music, or by running a charitable foundation their parents created that has them doing what they want to do.

Other people might call that play. Especially the 20 hours spent on the golf course in Scotland, or the conference on their yacht in the Mediterranean, that looks like a giant pool party when you see it up close.

You can typically rent a gas 40 mpg car for about $6 a day if you need to travel far.

For everything else, electric rocks.

(caveat - the source of the electricity used determines the GHG climate change impact - if you use coal to make electricity, you better plug it into a solar or wind charge station)

Wait until you catch up to the top level research universities of the world.

Three 100 Gigabit/sec ports, and 40 Gigabit/sec campus-wide.

Mind you, not everyone can use that kind of power.

It's like an announcement that you guys have brand new shiny Vespas with 2nd gear and we're supersonic with fat pipes.

(mind you, Vespas are really cool)

Of course we don't have any more passkeys to the other doors, or to the service entrances to the hallway, or the crawlspace for the ventilation.

That's safe.

Trust us.

Oh, and don't you love those shiny new chips that are proprietary?

Who is the expected user here, and what did they gain by trying to hold on to an existing backdoor so shoddily as to have it detected again?

I think you hit the nail on the head. This is clearly meant to be a remote management backdoor for the ISPs, hence the need to secure it but not remove it. As dodgy as it is, the fact that it can now only be triggered by the local network and can't be passed over IP means that it's probably good enough by ISP and Sercomm standards, especially if it's treated as a little-used feature and not as a security concern.

The Man wants us to pay for power.

Free power.

Power from the Sun.

An unlicensed, unregulated nuclear fusion reactor that gives us free power.

Power from the Wind.

An unlicensed, unregulated energy distribution device that consists of air that respects no international or state borders.

The Man wants you to be Serfs.

And this is why Solar and Wind are dangerous.

Because Freedom.

Oh, and you should really trust all the encryption protocols since Reagan.

(under breath ... suckers ...)

that was what i concluded by reading wikipedia.

capitalism is a lie though.
straight from wikipedia.
"Capitalism is an economic system in which trade, industry, and the means of production are controlled by private owners with the goal of making profits in a market economy.[1][2] "

but subsidies are not permissible in a true capitalism system as it creates 'incentives' to price fix industry.

"Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets and wage labor.[3] In a capitalist economy, the parties to a transaction typically determine the prices at which assets, goods, and services are exchanged.[4]

america has accumulation, but the stock market is rigged to make it so that the computer executes trades based on what a outsider was considering doing, and consuming the trade before a human can click 'ok' in their software. the parties to a transaction do not set prices, the government does, through regulation subsudies etc.

"The degree of competition, role of intervention and regulation, and scope of public ownership varies across different models of capitalism.[5] Economists, political economists, and historians have taken different perspectives in their analysis of capitalism and recognized various forms of it in practice. These include laissez-faire capitalism, welfare capitalism and state capitalism; each highlighting varying degrees of dependency on markets, public ownership, and inclusion of social policies. The extent to which different markets are free, as well as the rules defining private property, is a matter of politics and policy. Many states have what are termed capitalist mixed economies, referring to a mix between planned and market-driven elements.[6] Crony capitalism, is a state of affairs in which insider corruption, nepotism and cartels dominate the system. In Marxian economics this is considered to be the normal state of mature capitalism, while in anarcho-capitalist theory it is considered a political distortion of capital and markets.[7]"

ah this passage says capitalism wearing a hat is called crony capitalism. but if the top 100 people in the world decides things that market forces are supposed to control can still be called capitalism even when it is wearing a hat of divine rights of the 'best' being in charge of things all traders are supposed to have control over.

"Capitalism has existed under many forms of government, in many different times, places, and cultures.[8] Following the demise of feudalism, capitalism became the dominant economic system in the Western world. Later, in the 20th century, capitalism overcame a challenge by centrally-planned economies and is now the dominant system worldwide,[9][10] with the mixed economy being its dominant form in the industrialized Western world."

tl;dr it says nothing.

"Different economic perspectives emphasize specific elements of capitalism in their preferred definition. Laissez-faire and liberal economists emphasize the degree to which government does not have control over markets and the importance of property rights.[11][12] Neoclassical and Keynesian macro-economists emphasize the need for government regulation to prevent monopolies and to soften the effects of the boom and bust cycle.[13] Marxian economists emphasize the role of capital accumulation, exploitation and wage labor. Most political economists emphasize private property as well, in addition to power relations, wage labor, class, and the uniqueness of capitalism as a historical formation.[6]

more tl;dr it says something about how to call 'socialism' as capitalism, i think.

"you don't know how to make your government serve."

nah i know how to do that, just get root on a nuclear silo send it to dc. the politicians will flee to their nuclear fallout shelters but they will get this. machines control the wealth, machines control the existence of life.

Actually, we find menses depends on the culture and biological constraints.

In some areas it's as young as 12, in others as late as 18.

Earlier births lead to more early births, later births lead to more later births.

Age of male partners historically has been much older in many locations, but is closer to age of female partners in most locations nowadays.

A friend of mine was a grandmother at 29, and she has a professional job. Other friends have had children at ages much later than 29.