Yeah yeah, dupes of sharks with fricking lasers in orbit changing orbits times a zillion...

Haven't seen this thing, but to me it seems like they're basically adapting comics to computers and imo there's huge amount of prior art in games already.

Or you don't care about playing Leisure Suit Larry.

If I understood you correctly you claim having to pay interest on loans is the cause why people default on their them, unless of course the central bank continuously loans more money to cover the "gap". I'm saying this doesn't take into account the fact that most of the time economies themselves grow and increase the wealth associated with them that is then used to pay the loans. Although the economy can't print money it can offset the "gap" by growing.

Money comes to existence when it's borrowed from _central_ banks and the interest paid to the central bank ensures that the money has to be invested. As for the idea that it's a pyramid scheme I think it's a bit ridiculous, it's like saying the ever increasing production of goods and services in the economy itself isn't real and the only thing that is real is money.

The value of money comes from the fact that it's the legal currency and people are allowed to themselves value it as they wish. I'd hate to think what would happen if we wen't back to gold standard (or something else); the amount of gold it'd require to "backup" the economy would hurt industries that actually use the stuff, central banks couldn't do squat in resessions and everything would hinge on this one element.

Note to self from the future: invest in stealth casual wear.

Silk gloves for fingerprints, beekeeper suit so as to not shed DNA in the wrong place, mask to obscure facial recognition and a wonky shoes to evade gait detection... Michael Jackson may have been sent from the future.

I think you need to read the history of Tetris to understand the irony of the situation.

The stash is on the south pole and I'm assuming that's less than optimal for solar cells:
- wouldn't the tilt that causes winter and summer on the earth mean less/no sun half of the time there?
- a large array of panels areawise would be more difficult?

Never have had to think about solar cells on the moon's poles :)

Afaik Linus Torvalds has admitted on this topic that proprietary is better than nothing at all so try again, I think he's asking for simple co-operation.

Now you tell me, I already enrolled Schrödinger's cat... not because I care about this overused meme, but because I've got money on the outcome.

I'm reading these "ideas" and starting to think that /. should have a urin test for posters.

I don't like the kind of crap where I login to gmail and then have google's search show "btw, we know who you are" so as a small mutiny I've switched to using chrome for gmail and for everything else it's opera or firefox.

The current recession was effectively created by the financial sector, otherwise it'd be over already. What they did was they leveraged some crappy loans into a global crisis and then they insured themselves by betting against those loans. The biggest heist in history was the fact that bailing out the insurance companies was basically the same as bailing out the institution who'd caused everything.

Atm. you cannot trust the financial sector, that's why we're still in this mess.

You've just summed up Google's whole business model.