I think we can really fuck with them. Chaff, deception traffic...

Let's get started on making more hay for their stacks, people! Hell. You'll run a client for SETI, why not run one to preserve your intelligent life, here on Earth!

It depends on what you need to do, and what you know about it.

If you are not willing to walk away from it, on short notice? Then buying nothing is wise.

The trick about big financing is that you don't own a house - a bank owns you. Your on their plantation.

If you didn't barter or pay cash, you are on Massah's rules, Massah's time.

Yes. Enjoy 15-30 years of BEARABLE slavery. But you OWN something... Just ask the taxman.

You have Stockholm syndrome - and don't recognize it. You should read about Edward Bernays, some time - before lashing out in pseudo-moral rage against a proposition who's arguments you fo not actually comprehend.

We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden

The tyranny of location! Don't worry. They have a fix for that with TPP and TTIP. ;-)

One law to rule them all, one law to bind them...

Perhaps Lem comes off less morose in jzyk Polski

Lem was critical of Government, of official bureaucracy - whether public or private.

He never singled out the US as a specific target, and could be construed as subtly/subversively anti-authoritarian, in ways that were passable by the Communist governments of Poland and USSR.

The US is now no different than those. We just have Nike Fuel bands, and two cars in front of our debt-bondage. Whoops! I mean home.

Wow. Thanks for maintaining attention span. :-)

Governments and corporations are fictional persons. They have no "moral consciousness" of any kind, outside of rhetorical and ideological fantasy.

So, this will not be a question of moral or immoral use. It will be amoral, in the hands of those who have advanced themselves through manipulation of the aforementioned ideological rhetoric.

You continue to believe that there is hope for this modern, post-industrial society. But there is none. We as people have increased the sophistication of our tools and our reach - just as relentlessly as we have avoided the refinement of our own beings.

In the end you don't get Star Trek. You don't even get Starship Troopers. You get Scanner, Darkly And hope there is Valis.

"I still can't allow you and Cmdr. Poole to jeopardize this mission, Dave."

Godism. Everything else falls short, and will end, sooner or later.

For people who can't handle God.

There are no virgins in Paradise. There is no literal "Treasure stored up in Heaven". There is no literal "Heaven".
Who cares about any of these things? They indicate a preoccupation with self-interest.

The manifestation of divine presence is something to overwhelm and drown every other thought, wish, perception and awareness.

Our very sense of ridiculous fables like "Islam" or "Christianity" will be less than meaningless. Their only use on this earth is to prevent totally corrupting the ability to respond to grace. They do not themselves confer grace, nor can grace be attracted through merit. Through those theological distortions God is a merchant, or a whore. But Love comes to us from God because it is mercy, not recompense.

In Ukraine we have achieving technological dominance again for one time more!

Announcing for world first time, biggest ever microchip. Ability to the processing power of more data is an explosive growth phenomenon.

Now it is Ukraine again the leader!

Fixed. :-)

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