ISP's seems equally as greedy as the MPAA, do you really doubt they won't find a way to charge them for letting people download the movies?

did you forget about comcast and verizon charging netflix so they can stream faster to customers?

so...to paraphrase, what you are saying is that tax law is excessively more complex than it needs to be and should be simplified greatly.

i mean no offense to you, but taxes should be simple enough so that people like you aren't needed for the majority of people to complete their taxes. and for that matter tax software shouldn't be needed either.

since when has taxes ever had any relation to how much the government spends? (at least for the US)

never in my memory, they have been talking about the budget deficit since at least the 80's

every abandoned car on earth would have an alternator. just need to rig something to spin it and you have electricity, say make a windmill.

heck all the cars also have batteries i would have to imagine at least some of those would still work as well.

electricity wouldn't be too hard to get.

part of defending a network is understanding how it can be attacked. so you can develop countermeasures to mitigate the attacks.

so it helps when defending a network if you are also good at attacking one.

really what they are saying is that a universe could arise from fluctuations in a quantum vacuum.

which is basically the lowest known energy state of anything. and is about as close to "nothing" as we have ever found in nature.

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This is being developed for the millitary, it doesn't every really have to be commercially viable. it just has to be viable enough to allow extended operations while reducing need for resupply to be be considered viable.

oops sorry i guess i was mixing miles per hour and gallons per minute in my units

about 2.3 miles per gallon? not bad, much better than i thought it would do.

better than some super cars

who taught them this? certainly not congress.

i suppose you are a member of peta? people for the ethical treatment of apostrophes

but i like eating tasty animals in pita's you insensitive clod!

with it's C-x M-c M-Butterfly command, emacs just breeds lazy programmers.

oracle still has a useful product that people want. (not sure why) but because of this they might survive. people would be willing to trade other resources to them for their product. which requires specialized skill and knowledge to produces, and this creates value.

a company like Apple on the other hand is potentially screwed. simply because they hold so much money in the bank all of which would be useless now, so they would lose nearly all their value. the only value they would have is whatever products they currently have in a warehouse, and their manufacturing abilities, which much of that they purchase from other people and don't do in-house. however they would have some intellectual value in their developers.

i don't agree with all you are saying but some of the tech companies would possibly be screwed.

Intel might survive as they still own most of their foundries and their product takes a lot of specialized skill and knowledge to produce.