I think you misunderstood the use of psychology. Psychology tries to explain the behavior of the individual. Sociology tries to explain the behavior of groups. On the other hand psychology has it's purpose and will not be replaced by neurology. The similarity is like chemistry is to biology, the former serves to enhance and explain the later. Psychologists will more and more base their work on neurology and biochemistry, but in the end many problems can be resolved by talking about them and doing an effort the change one's mindset.

Don't forget social safety net.

In every US city I was I know one area that nobody would dare to drive through. I have never seen something like that in almost all of west Europe and even worst of Marseille outskirts pale in comparison. Interestingly this has allot to do with perception than fact. I drove through "the bad parts" of Austin TX and almost laughed by ass off; yet people would rather die than drive though there. (I know Austin is not Detroit, but that is not the point I am trying to make.)

My wife was appealed at the behavior of US security personnel (US Consulate), but that is how LEO are trained in the US. They are trained to be "aggressive" to ensure that they have the upper hand and that is all based on the fact that they are all scared shitless.

The environment of fear in the US is depressing. Half of it is envy, half if it is fear of loosing everything. This leads to an environment of egoistical behavior. I don't want social security! I don't universal health care! I need to defend myself! And yet they are worse off than those societies that have reasonable safety systems. The US is one of the most paying in health care without receiving better care. They have an astounding low social mobility. They have appalling homicide rates. And the last thing liberty and freedom also goes down the drain.

Go USA!

I don't know... Elon Musk seamed to put the money to go use. But then again, unfortunately there are really few creative billionais out there and the only thing they do is try to up one each other.

I don't know about you, but if I was in that position, I would pull an Elon Musk. Sure Notch is millionaire, but 10 mil (or whatever) is not 2 Bln. I would not sell out unless they offer me sufficient cash so I could try out some of my "non virtual" project ideas. (e.g. moon base/mining/research) Notch is sort of close to that position right now, what he makes of it is an open question.

If you want a more nuanced vision and a fun one you can read http://wattsupwiththat.com/. It sits square in the middle of "we are all going to die" and "what global warming?" and looks critically at both sides. Real charts to debunk political campaigns and often fun to read.

On the subject at hand: Monday mirthiness – 97 hours, 97 opinions, 97% consensus, 100% cartooned climate science

After reading some more about it, the case actually is cut and clear. There are not really thee bits of software, but only two. There is bukkit that is distributed under GPL and there is CraftBukkit that is distributed under GPL. So far everything is simple and clean, the GPL is not violated. There is one minor problem, CraftBukkit contains the decompiled source code of the Minrecraft server. Since CraftBukkit is released under the GPL, that part of code is released under the GPL too;as asserted by the CraftBukkit developers. (Any claim otherwise disregards the GPL.) The only valid infringement of copyright / licensing terms are against the developers who decompiled the mincreaft server and added it to CraftBukkit, in favor of Mojang. The put's Wesley's assertion the GPL was violated as completely erroneous. Mojang's copyright was violated, but they seem to be ok with it.

You can change the license of a work when you get all copyright holder to agree, that includes GPL'ed code. If you get all but Wolfe's agreement, all you need to do is (cvs|svn|git) blame and remove each line that is attributed to Wolfe. After that you can make is "all rights reserved" if the copyright holders agree.

I think I get the distinction he is trying to formulate. Red Hat focuses their products around their GNU/Linux distribution, that is without GNU/Linux they would not have a product. Rackspace on the other hand have a product that would exists even without OpenStack. Their primary gains in reduction of development costs, since other individuals and companies are contributing to the effort.

Basically these are the two vectors commercial companies have with free software. Either they provide ancillary services to existing software, that is they are basically consultants; or they copyleft some piece of software that is not their in business model and as a result reduce costs.

The funny thing with this is that, since the half life of most posts is something around one or two hours, the system will remove any offending post before the DMCA can be processed. I expect that 99% of all DMCA requests can be forwarded to /dev/null. So yea...

s/4chan/ebaumsworld/

But that is really Elon Musk's genius, he has the cash to spare and the vision to pull it through. This something that bugged the hell out of me, why do the Donald Trumps of this world not establish lunar or asteroid mining missions. They have the cash and the return will be huge, the only downside is the return will trickle down at best in a decade.

In addition the real marvel of SpaceX is not their technology; it is not really advanced, but their operational costs. Boing and Lockheed Martin are just milking government contracts; they don't really care about innovation. SpaceX is beating them hands down, because they wand and need to be on the leading edge and in the end this may be their ticket to market domination. Maybe Boing and Lockheed Martin will step up their game, but it will definitely not be easy shifting gears.

What?! There are "flying cars", it is a solved problem. The normal term is Helicopter, but if you wish can call it a Flying Car. Just because you can't afford one or the maintenance of one, does not mean it doesn't exist. The myth actually is that everybody will be able to afford a "flying car", which misses the point of how much energy is required to maintain flight.

DAFUQ did I just read?! The "Arbeit macht frei" was a sick joke that was put over the Auschwitz internment camp main entrance. The Calvinists/Huguenot is nowhere near that term. To refresh your memory the "protestant work ethic" is has it's roots in Calvinist Protestantism and that has it's roots in France. It later also had a strong movement in the Netherlands. Germany was marked by Lutheran Protestantism with had no work ethic attached to it at all. Trowing these two terms together is just a sick perversion of history!

Actually the "Internet of Things" is a term coined in the 90s, by engineers. You know in the 90s the Internet was Kool! What begs the question, why is such an old term suddenly a buzzword.

All the murder suspects say that. Now, where did you hide the bodies?