:-) thanks for the reminder

What? You didn't read the book did you? Galt "gave up" because he didn't want the owners of the company to take his idea. It had nothing to do with railroads.

Yeah. Another Slashdot circle jerk.

There was no Republican Southern Strategy. There was Nixon's Southern Strategy - which was his belief that Wallace would split the Democratic vote and that he could win states with less than 45% of the vote. Which he did.

You're proof of Goebbels big lie statement.

One senator cannot "forbid" anything.

I do much the same thing. Take a bunch of pictures and call it 2014-Christmas or 2014-10-Trip-to-NH and leave it at that. But I, as with the OP, would like to be able to search all the photos for people as opposed to remembering where and when I saw them.

Hmmm. The people who oppose this are called laissez-faire or free-market capitalists. Maybe there is something to limited government after all?

Yeah. Bigger and Better Government. /sarc

Maybe that's why bugs come out at dusk?

that's a good point. Assuming that the prices charged are marginal - meaning it's not worth the time to do (or pay for) a workaround - then this model will work.

Paid? Then it's not free. And won't people crack it or get around measures in the same way people do for everything?

And - if it's free then YOU are the currency in which they're paid.

It isn't?

Interesting. Give some examples.

Knowledge does not equal power. It equals potential power.

The singularity is not equal to sentient computers. It's the exponential growth of science and technology that leads to ... who knows what - including cybernetics of some type. Not Terminator type of cybernetics but synthetic parts (hearts) and "cures" for alzheimers and other diseases.

If we've been experiencing exponential growth since 1954 (the birth of transistors) and it's been doubling every 18-24 months then we've now doubled 30 times. One unit of processing power in 1954 is now 1 billion units and will be 1 trillion in 20 years. The capability of best computers in existence today will be trivial in 20 years.

We will have AI tutors / teachers that will radically transform education and many other fields.