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Comment Re:Only in America (Score 0) 870

There is an absurdly strong Puritan ethic running through America. You must work hard and feel pain to be close to god. Pleasures are STRICTLY forbidden. Leisure time is the work of the devil.

When there is no work to be had, the ovens of Nazi Germany will be brought back into use to deal with those evil, lazy, shiftless people. The prisons are already overflowing from this outlook. There will absolutely need to be a Final Solution.

When will it occur? I have no idea. It is coming though.

Comment Re:You Will Be Surprised (Score 1) 870

We need access to space, AI, roboticized labor, and the endless energy the sun is currently wasting as it goes out into space largely untapped - and everything that makes those things come faster are good things.

Unfortunately, there is no "we". Your existence is suffered right now merely as a convenience. Soon, you will not be needed or wanted at all. Enjoy the ovens as the robots push your body into it to be turned to ash. The Final Solution indeed.

Comment Re:Oopsie! (Score 1) 154

It's not "wackos" that are preventing the waste being used, it is the cost. What people like you don't understand is just because on paper you can build some cool piece of technology to deal with it doesn't mean it makes commercial sense to do so. ... If you can find someone willing to invest tens of billions in building one of these things and getting regulatory approval/certification, and taking on the risk of some problem developing during its lifetime that costs a fortune to fix or writes it off... Well, go ahead and build one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...

Wikipedia seems to agree with you somewhat about the economics; but I would have to ask if the economics of waste disposal are being factored into non-breeder reactors. I suspect it is not and for political "wacko" reasons.

Comment Re:Capitalism at its finest (Score 2) 137

Capitalism is free market, all the player are free to interact as they please, might it be by competing or by cooperating.

No. Once they start cooperating, it is no longer Capitalism. Capitalism is defined by competition. Freedom of interaction is something you are adding... incorrectly I might add.

Comment Re:This might sound crazy... (Score 2) 405

... police officers are also there to protect you from those who might want to take your money or otherwise commit a crime against you.

No. No they are not. They are there to fill out the paperwork concerning your dead body. They have no requirement to actually protect you AND you have very few legal options to protect yourself.

Obligation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...

Second Amendment rights being abrogated are evidence of the latter.

Enjoy

Comment Re:So you say you want a revolution? (Score 1) 259

I do not think you understand. I DO NOT WANT A REVOLUTION. I am saying that I am seeing it as inevitable. There is nothing you or I can do to stop it.

Will it be painful and dreadful? Certainly. Will it become a less democratic military junta? I am not so sure. Sometimes, it can turn out better, like it did in 1776. Is the outcome predictable? No. The cynic in me agrees with your assessment of the upcoming revolution.

Creepiest CAPTCHA ever, "sagittal".

Comment Re:So you say you want a revolution? (Score 1) 259

Read my .sig some time.

For some reason, there is a portion of the population that wants liberty for themselves and are willing to cooperate with other people. For some reason, there is a portion of the population that wants freedom and are unwilling to cooperate. There are other types of people but it is not necessary to discuss them at this point.

For some reason, when there are groups of humans, there is a need for leadership. The larger the group, the larger the need. For some reason, these leaders always want liberty for themselves.

When leaders who want freedom are willing to cooperate, we see things like the founding of America. When leaders are unwilling to cooperate, we see things like current America, or Russia.

For some reason, in a society where the leaders have freedom but the general population does not, a general consensus will occur amongst the population. When this consensus occurs, protests can result and it may even lead to revolution.

Occupy Wall Street was clearly a consensus. It was successfully broken with an intensive psyops campaign but it was still a clear and unequivocal consensus. The message is clear, the amount of liberty that the general population wants is not even close to what they have. More specifically, the economic shackles are too tight.

With the Snowden revelations, we are seeing some of the tools that are being used to prevent liberty amongst the general population. What is funny is that those tools have been used against the leaders who authorized those tools. That indicates to me that revolution is closer than it ever has been. When the leaders of a group begin to feel their liberty threatened, they will act... and it will be ugly.

That is what we are facing right now.

The federal government actually provides many useful and needed services. As long as these services are being performed adequately, there is still little chance for revolution, despite everything that I said above.

The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was a confidence killing event. There can not be many more of those types of failures or revolution will be ignited.

In short, the seeds of revolution have been sown (as they always are). Water has been poured on them (Katrina is an example (cute at that)). The ground has been fertilized (OWS). And finally, the sun is shining (Snowden). What do you think the results will be?

What I want and what you want is irrelevant. We are neither leaders nor significant players. The situation is deeply complex and incredibly subtle in numerous ways, so exact prediction is difficult. I would rather a transition back to the Constitution be a smooth and peaceful affair. Knowing what I know of human nature and knowing what I know of the situation, I am not entirely certain such a transition is possible.

Comment Re:buffer overflow in printf ... great for securit (Score 1) 134

Unlike some projects, we fully disclose bugs that might be relevant to security.

Thank you. As a security guy, knowing that the disinfectant of sunlight is illuminating your project, I am willing to spend more time examining and using your project. I hope your project becomes the default libc everywhere.

Submission + - MtGox finds 200,000 missing bitcoins in old wallet (bbc.co.uk) 3

strikethree writes: BBC — Bankrupt Japanese firm MtGox said in a filing that it has found 200,000 lost bitcoins.

The firm said it found the bitcoins — worth around $116m (£70m) — in an old digital wallet from 2011.

That brings the total number of bitcoins the firm lost down to 650,000 from 850,000.

MtGox, formerly the world's largest bitcoin exchange, filed for bankruptcy in February, after it said it lost thousands of bitcoins to hackers.

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