I'm stealing this.
This was before my time, but I'm pretty sure that television nose-dived when pay-per-view came along. The television market was devised as radio + pictures, a one-way ticket as far as content. Computer networks were devised as tiers of peers, and once it's on my box, it's not yours. Pay-per-view functions, but it's fundamentally illogical. The content providers have to go through DRM acrobatics to sustain it at all. Premium channels overall make little sense. But online content is starving. Why can't we just pay artists, journalists, and FOSS programmers decent amounts of money? It's because of the seersucker clad golfbag toting used car salesman marketing drones, because some people are aggressive about making lots of money despite lacking skills that are actually useful, and I let them walk on me sometimes.

I really really don't think this is true.
"...smelting, soldering, annealing, electroplating, sintering, alloying, low-wax casting, and many other metallurgical techniques independent of any Old World influences", ..., zero, ... incredibly accurate calendars (and not just in Mesoamerica), many of the commonest vegetables at the market, lots of useful animal breeds in general, not just rubber but vulcanized balls, sandals, balloons, rubber syringes, bigger cities than Europe, canals, lots of agriculture... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Western European belief systems, by and large, gave the okay on all sorts of conquest (for god and salvation), whereas native American mythos by and large speak of a relationship with nature. That's not to say that there wasnt plenty of millitant behavior in the pre-Columbus Americas. But it looks like overall, the natives of North and South America were more interested in making lots of food and medicine than making bigger weapons and ships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

So I understand the free speech libertarian if-it-gets-comments-we-run-it thing, but the comments on this article, while numerous, are 90% paraphrasable as "Why the @#$ is this on /.?"
So... ?

BS. The #1 reason pot was scheduled was racism. If we cared about 'cognitive decline' in teenagers, we'd be really scrupulous about keeping teens away from binging on alcohol and encouraging regular sleep patterns.

Hawaii?

I dunno, I think that all surface water would be gone pretty quickly, and without water I don't think that life would exist even deep in the earth for more than ~300 years (given what I remember about aquifers).

The green one always fixes my neuralgia. They say nothing in it does anything, but I think it's the green dye.

Yesterday I had to saw off a Kryptonite U-lock. I tried to start it with a regular 24 tpi hacksaw blade, stopped, licked my thumb, and rubbed it. Not a scratch.
The moral is, if you want good armoring, plates of silicon carbide are the way to go.

does not suggest a damn thing.

I hate to say it, because I love Being Right On the Internet, but there's already a great explanation of all this malarkey* on the glorious Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
and the problem of 0/0 = anything doesn't go away just because a progam finds it in an array operation. It's meaningful.

* here' I'm using malarkey in the proper mathematicly rigorous way

They're 2D

I use a laptop with an i3 and 4 GB of RAM, wih old Nvidia graphics. But what I wanted to say that I learned from comments seems blindingly obvious but I never considered how important it is: having tons of RAM is great because then your OS is not constantly overwriting data you might use again. I am definitely going to use waaay more RAM in the future (64+ GB). coooool

How are bicycles going to be registered? If it's going to be a placard on the frame, what if I switch all the parts to a new frame? Some people do this all the time. Maybe after TPP is law, and people aren't allowed to work on their bikes any more, we can ban all of the cyclists who don't have new bikes that they have to take to the Schwinn Center to change an inner tube. Or maybe we should make every cyclist wear a number on their back, because there's nothing dystopian about that. Frankly riding bikes has made me into much more of a libertarian (but NOT a US Libertarian).

Snow is fine; I like riding in the snow. Ice can be bad though. I have slipped on ice, and I have ridden thousands of miles just in the last few years. However, most people are completely deterred by even a little rain, especially if it's cold out.