They didn't print an opposing and well written view by one of the leading voices in the scientific community on this issue. So the claim here is that the WSJ are biased. But you are right about the yawn. That WSJ article was preaching to the choir and there are plenty of other places to get the counter view.

Ya no shit. Store all your settings and access all these devices from the cloud. No thank you. Now the "Intranet of Things" interests me somewhat and most of the interesting stuff is happening in the do-it-yourself space. People are doing incredible things with RaspberryPi's and Arduino's and other variants and they are posting their code publicly so anyone can hack around.

Ya every goober out there is going to do this or send money to some shady guy in another country.

Lame reply to myself...... ....and I would just cancel my Netflix, which they know and is probably why they don't do that.

Netflix could just tie your account to a geographic region. No matter where you login from you get your country's content. I just think they don't really care and will not do this until they are motivated to. Want a US account then you need a US address. I don't know what the issue is. Seems easier than playing IP Range Wack a Mole.

And how will they do that? It is not an issue of price. The idea is that you would need to be using a US IP that is not through a VPN. There will still be ways but its not a matter of getting people to pony up cash, they already are.

It has little to do with "hoarding" of weath because wealth is not stuff - it's not food, it's not cars, it's not houses wealth is control of the means of production. And we benefit greatly if wealth is hoarded by people who are great at making investment decisions. Wealth is not what you seem to think!

So someone who owns million/billions in real estate, investments and all that other stuff is not wealthy? It is solely controlling the means of production? (which if you do you will probably have all those billions) If you are some trust fund baby with no clue but billions in the bank you are not wealthy? And you twist it around to say that it is good for you if the very wealthy and powerful remain that way because we benefit from their intelligence. Sounds a little like trickle down economics to me.

My initial point to everyone enjoying a life of luxury, where all of our immediate needs are provided so that we can focus on other pursuits to better ourselves, had to do with the paradigm shift that would be required. One that humanity itself could not do because we are not hard wired that way. We compete, we keep score. We want to be better than the next guy, either by pulling ahead or putting a boot to their throat to keep them down. I don't lament this, it is who we are.

One liners do not convey a point at all. I guess I could have elaborated. To have everyone live a life of leisure would require sharing of wealth by also foregoing future hording or it. Create and produce for the benefit of human kind so we can move on to more important things. We aren't wired that way and even a koombaya scenario would be boring to a lot of people and would most likely fail. But the 350K number is very interesting. I honestly thought that would have been higher.
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Oh calm down. Nobody is advocating stealing from anyone. Just a light hearted response that the 1 hour work week and all holding hands singing koombaya will never work. Take your free market trickle down dogma bullshit elsewhere. Happy New Year!

Just requires the obscenely rich to share their wealth.

I hear ya. I get annoyed now when people leave voicemails. Even worse is someone who cold calls me with a million technical details about someone and wanting an answer. Please just email me the issues and that will give me time to research it a little before touching base with you. Or IM me with a heads up that you want to discuss something.

No. You are paying for data and voice from your provider. Same as if you buy a PC, you pay some provider a monthly fee for internet. This would be like paying $10 month on top of your plan for IOS or Android to keep functioning. That doesn't sound so good.

I guess you can do something about it.

Heh, I could of written this comment. Time, the most precious resource.

If I am going to code anything on what little time I have you can be darn sure it is doing something that amuses me and has 0 politics attached to it. That means solo projects.

mmm yams. Meant ya.