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Comment Care packages? (Score 1) 168

Anyone have the jail address so we can send him care packages?

I know he'd love to receive some reading material, hygiene products, junk food... etc. I think there are lots of posts on prisonlinks.com that talk about what you can and can't send a prisoner in the USA but I'm not sure about Sweden.

Comment woah now (Score 1) 331

A human brain is best utilized for critical thinking, not data storage. Google Glass opens the door for obtaining data when you need it without committing it to longterm memory.

We should however keep Google on a tight leash. If they start to go a little evil over this technology, we should fight to jailbreak it so that it can be used for good.

Comment Re:I just have to wonder... (Score 1) 303

I imagine the first fusion-powered car will make it as well.

Fusion powered cars give me the weirdest boner. Like a car that could operate for a hundred years without any fuel... is just plain sexy!!! I could program my car to drive nonstop and I would never have to pay for rent as long as I stayed off toll-roads.

Comment "Model S" (Score 3, Interesting) 303

Did anyone else get the "Model T" reference? Like Tesla is taking a step back from the harmful environmentally dangerous combustion vehicles and redoing the whole thing. I have to admit this impresses me.

I bet we'll look back in few hundred years from within the confines of our brain jars and enjoy some very fine dream-inspired brandies and smoke about the wonders of the physical world and how foolish we were to think that was a good place to dwell for all eternity.

But until then let's enjoy these new environmentally friendly cars! To go from nowhere to nowhere for no reason other than your boss wants you to, and doing it all in style, without a bad environmental footprint apart from the scrap metal each of these will become one day.

Comment Re:IANAL (Score 2) 439

Well a living will executes demands and requirements from the perspective of the person, so the request is being made in advance by the person... not by a family member or anyone else.

For example, if I don't want to be resuscitated, I can put DNR in my living will. They cannot legally resuscitate me.

So it's the same if you put in a living will that if you ever become terminally ill and will die within 6mths, that you are hereby requesting the prescription to be given to you by a proxy.

Comment IANAL (Score 1) 439

Hey lawyers, could a "living will" work here? Would I be able to not proxy my dignified death to someone trusted when I was incapable of doing it myself? From my perspective if a person accepts that death happens to all of us, we owe it to society to leave the world sooner rather than leaving a huge bill to eat away at the inheritance of loved ones.

Comment I wish I didn't need Paypal (Score 1) 87

I use Paypal all the time on websites because of the "devil you know" philosophy. I know them. They are pretty evil, but at least I know to what extent they are evil. I'd like to sell stuff through them but well they are just too tough to deal with to make it worthwhile.

They have interfered with commerce on almost every level. Their API is pretty antiquated and full of obfuscated settings. By now I should be able to sign up to a website, give them my info, upload a virtual product, and collect money from whoever buys it.

I should NOT have to pay if someone tries to fuck them over. That's their problem. But Paypal totally ruins businesses that get targeted by chargeback scammers, to the extent that they SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED FOR FRAUD... because it's pretty likely that at least some employees in Paypal are fraudsters. This recent leak could have been an inside job.

If you ever need to dispute something with them just toss a coin. You'll never know if you'll win unless you have an agreement with them that is tested and works. But even then... who knows?

Don't try to do anything nice for anyone like collect charitable funds because you'll have a bad time.

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