There are lots of things that aren't evil that are beyond a kids comprehension. Curiosity and sexuality are part of the human condition. They also require a certain level of maturity to be properly expressed.

+1 Irony between your comment and your sig.

I have a hard time thinking of anything stupider then voice control. It's a great niche for the disabled, but I fail to see the need, or "cool factor" in shouting at my electronics.
I blame Gene Rodenberry, what a dick.

Yeah, overuse like putting it in every day hand soap.

I agree, inflation hits everyone, rich and poor alike. However, it is very beneficial to a select few. Those are the ones pushing this policy.

Yes, but the poor are often reactionary, by necessity. They don't have the time, money, or energy to shape policy.

Theoretically, it means when we encounter an issue outside our area of expertise we collaborate with experts in those technologies.

FTFY

I'm a sysadmin / network admin who has traditionally made my living in a windows environment. At the size of companies I worked for LInux networking and system monitoring tools just made way more sense then anything in the MS ecosystem. I started learning Linux because I like to learn and I can deploy it to test without cumbersome licensing issues. I also dabble in system forensics and Linux is an obvious choice for your toolkit.

WIthin the past couple years I've transition to mostly LInux system administration. I find there are less jobs out there, but the wheat to chaff ratio is much better. Employers respect and pay Linux Admins better, and the average Linux Admin is, IMHO, more likely to have the love of learning and curiosity that differentiate between the good and the great.
I still get dragged into the windows world, because I understand both and I have alot of citrix experience, which translates into a pretty good understanding of AD and GPO.
I only see Linux growing, more companies seem to be embracing a mixed environment, even if they start with unpatched virtual appliances.

Most of what I've read about DU compares it to lead. When you vaporize it, or fragment it; it pollutes the environment with a known neural poison. Vaporization and fragmentation are common when used with munitions. I haven't seen any other references to problems with DU. These are comparable to problems with lead. I sure wouldn't want either being spread around my neighborhood.

You bull*#@! post collapse housie example shows nothing but a blip in the market. I agree that a violent revolution is bad for everyone, and I hope our system will repair itself without need for one. I'm not sure people like you will allow it.

You also talk about "standard of living" as if bread and circuses really matter. Just because the poor have better cast offs from the rich doesn't mean their lot is really improving. Your like the guy that gives his old gucci jeans to a homeless person and pats himself on the back because they are so much better then the wranglers he was wearing.

That's an excellent point. Nothing to lose and idle rich don't make for a good democracy.

Your adjusting for inflation, which is what makes things more expensive to the person earning the same money year in and year out, like your earlier example. Inflation is built into our system and it's designed to funnel money to the capital holders at the expense of the labor. You can't just wave away inflation, which means a real dollar difference in what things cost people.
Even small managed inflation causes rent seeking to make sure your money isn't eroded away. Your economic theory is sound, but your real world experience is slanted...

hmmm... $30 a month for a "private" connections, which in the fine prints, isn't that private. Or, $40 / year for a vpn. Which should I choose?

Sure, and we'll all fly to moon colonies with our jetpacks.

For example in one year you could have $20,000 being defined within the scope of middle class, and then the next year it could be defined as poverty, even though the person making $20,000 a year has not become less wealthy.

Yes, they are poorer. everything is always increasing in price. Mainly due to the rent seeking our capitalist system encourages. Alot of people think it's due to the lack of a gold standard, but it's an inherent flaw in the system. Look at cost tables from centuries ago and you see that the cost of a chicken was the same for generations. Now the cost fluctuates wildly, but always creeps up slowly. There are people alive who remember nickel candy bars. Vending machines carried them for 50 cents when I was little and in a decade or two they have doubled in prices.

This is 90% due to rent seeking of those with capital. They have money and they need to make it grow.