There's that whole Snowden thing, for instance. The Guardian never should have printed any of it. It's just clickbait.

Yes, I am, because I find the idea that absolute freedom of speech does or should trump all other rights, freedoms and responsibilities to be dangerous, both in principle and in practice.

All of life is dangerous. What are these 'other rights' that are at risk. We need to discuss this further, obviously. Ideally without all the expensive words cluttering things up. Give an example of what you mean.

Most rural housing is, if anything, less ostentatious than urban housing.

People don't want to live crowded together in high rise housing.

Well, if they do, let them. Don't force them.

The Peaceful Atom wins again.

I remember the jingle about "Electricity it's Penny Cheap!"

Reddy Kilowatt sung it on TV.

Makes me wonder if WW2 could be won today with so many selfish wimps unwilling to make any sacrifice for the greater good...

Probably not, if the average Soviet Foot Soldier knew what a shitty deal he was in for.

Maybe YOU should offer up a subsidy like that. How big is your bank account?

I live along a rural county highway, about a mile from a prestigious small private college.

Cars whiz by all the time. I bet it's safer living here than where you are.

There is no crime here on my street.

The lawyers are already waiting in their cars out on the street.

They called the Insurance Company.

You think people who can afford to get the $10,000 subsidy for a Tesla are going to be willing to spend an hour eating at a truck stop?

Here in Indiana, I can buy a vintage Stanley Steamer if I want a coal fired vehicle. Or I can buy an electric car and plug it into the grid.

They charge at night, if you happen to own your dwelling and have a garage to base the charger out of. Or, I suppose, your landlord will smile and say "of course" when asked to put charging stations at each spot in the parking lot. For free! Or better yet, the taxpayers can pay for it!

And electricity is free, which is why there is no need for an attendant? I think if I lived in Japan, I would buy an old jalopy car that run on gasoline, load it up with batteries to charge at the 'free' charging station and park the old jalopy next to my house. Free electricity for my house!

There are bound physical copies of stuff like 'A Quarter Century of UNIX' that document Vint's work enough for him to survive posterity. And various 'Internet History' books.

It's people with their works of fiction stored on dicey old Commodore 64 diskettes who are screwed. Or worse: Macintosh 800K floppies. Does Apple even acknowledge they ever existed?

A long and twisty conversion path. Just like with Microsoft. You need Word for Windows 2.0 to read the Word for MS-DOS files. You need Word for Windows 6.0 (Office 4.3) to read the Winword2 files. You need Office 97 to read the Office 4.3 files. It's even worse with Apple, because they can.

You don't even have to reach that deep. You're fucked if you have stuff for the AT&T 6300, which was a MS-DOS machine. Or an early Sanyo PC Clone.