I totally agree. If you buy something from Amazon, their website is in one state, their corporate headquarters is in another state, the goods are shipped from a warehouse in another state, you're package arrives in another state. Where did you actually buy the product? Who gets the tax? All the local, state, and federal governments want is your money so they can spend it to buy your votes. If politicians are going to buy our votes then they should pay the damn sales tax. Every state makes deals with corporations to locate their headquarters, factories, and warehouses in their own state by giving tax breaks and other favors to create jobs which increases consumer spending which creates still more jobs which in the end creates more tax revenue. Then other states try to cash in by adding sales tax to goods bought from those corporations in their own states. States can not tax goods made and sold in other states.

The list is endless. I wrote a short story once about a future similar to King's Gunslinger where technology has failed and nature has reclaimed most of our roads and infrastructure and people travel on a road burned into the earth by a slowly orbiting solar reflector that scorches a trail across the world. Of course you gotta know when to get off that road!

Storing all your data on paper is even cheaper than hard disk. Of course access speed is a bit slower ;)

Why don't we just get a really long extension cord and plug it into the sun?

We've got scientists telling us the world is getting warmer while at the same time it's getting colder and now they're telling us that the planets might collide billions of years from now. If they can't even get the weather predictions right 5 days in advance what good are their long term predictions?

Freakin' laser beams! Flame throwers

This is horrible news! People can't see the stars at night! We need to demand that government stop these evil power companies from providing electricity after the sun goes down. And we need to arrest anyone driving around at night with headlights on or anyone using flashlights or candles. And all these tall buildings that block our view of the night sky need to be torn down immediately! It is our constitutional right to be able to see the stars at night. When I sit outside of my cave in the freezing cold I can barely see a single star at all. All these modern conveniences. Who needs 'em!?! It's time we gave up all these new fangled gadgets and went back to the old ways.

I remember my first 300 baud modem. Back then 300 was screaming fast! You could actually see the letters appear on your screen! Having to call your friends and agree on what baud rate, what parity, how many data bits, how many stop bits, and reminding them to put their modem on "answer" and remind their family not to pick up the phone, ah, what fun. I remember calling into sites at work and getting horrible transfer rates, and being pissed that I had to get in my truck and drive 4 hours to the middle of bum hole Kentucky to install an upgrade because you couldn't connect by modem. Fun times. Back then "wireless" meant the modem you were calling was not on an actual phone line but connected to a radio receiver on one or more repeaters from an actual phone line. The lag time was incredible! Back then the internet was called CompuServe or a local BBS. Love those 80's :)

Step 1: Dig a hole
Step 2: Climb into hole
Step 3: Bury yourself
Step 4: Earth saved!

Welcome to the 80's :)

but the discs cost 6 grand

female impersonator? Or was he that libertarian that ran for president?

that he's an idiot.

Trying to get people to agree on a standard for web development is like standing in the middle of the dessert screaming you want ice cream. Good luck with that.

If I have the machine in my hands I can do worse things than corrupt the boot process. I can take the damn hard drive out and do whatever the hell I want with it. Not much of a hack.